Members-at-Large 2014-2017

Current

2014 - 2017

Lee Barford

Keysight Technologies

United States

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Lee Barford

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Lee Barford is Master Scientist at Keysight Laboratories, the research arm of Keysight Technologies. His responsibilities include leading research to identify and apply emerging technologies in software, applied mathematics, and statistics to increasing the accuracy and speed of new and existing instruments for electronic, chemical, and biological measurements. Previously, he managed a number of research projects at Agilent Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, for example in visible light and X-ray imaging systems, calibration methods for non-linear and dynamical disturbances, and fault isolation from automatic test equipment results. His work has been used to improve R&D productivity and reduce manufacturing cost in leading companies in the computer, telecommunications, networking, aerospace, and transportation industries. He is the author or co-author of over 40 peer reviewed, international publications and inventor or co-inventor of approximately 60 patents in the US and other countries. During his time at Agilent and Hewlett-Packard, Lee has given invited talks at universities, national laboratories, and research institutes worldwide.

Lee's service on boards includes eight years as president of a charity that provides reduced-cost housing for hundreds of low-income seniors and membership on the blue-ribbon commission for ending homelessness in Silicon Valley.

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Keysight Technologies

United States

Current

2014 - 2017

Max Cortner

Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

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Max Cortner

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Biography

J. Max Cortner earned a BSEE from Iowa State University and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota. After eighteen years as a Test Engineer in defense division of Sperry Corporation, Max moved to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division of Guidant, now the CRM Division of Boston Scientific. Boston Scientific CRM manufactures medical electronics including pacemakers and defibrillators. Max is currently a Senior Fellow Engineer in Test Engineering, a group responsible for automated electronic testing of components, subassemblies and final product in manufacturing. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, a Certified Project Management Professional, and a Senior Member of IEEE. As an active member of the IEEE Twin Cities Section since 1972, Max has held offices in the Computer Society including local chapter chair and area chair. He worked with a group of activists who organized and successfully ran a five-year series of multi-week technical symposia covering hot topics such as computer graphics and artificial intelligence. Max was among the founders of the Twin Cities Chapter of the Instrument and Measurement Society. He helped organize numerous local test conferences and served as General Chair for the IMTC 1998. In 1999, he served on the committee of the IEEE Sections Congress that was held in the Twin Cities. Max was Co-Chair of I2MTC held in Minneapolis in 2013. He now serves on the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administration Committee in the role of Education Committee Chair, I2MTC Board Chair, and Industrial Relations Subcommittee Chair.

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Boston Scientific Corporation

United States

Current

2014 - 2017

Ferdinanda Ponci

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Current

2014 - 2017

Shervin Shirmohammadi

University of Ottawa

Canada

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Shervin Shirmohammadi

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Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and after spending 3 years in the industry as a senior architect and project manager, joined as Assistant Professor the same University, where since 2012 he has been a Full Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the Discover Laboratory, doing research in machine learning-assisted measurements, especially vision-based measurement, IoT measurements, and multimedia and network measurements. The results of his research, funded by more than $28 million from public and private sectors, have led to over 400 publications, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, 30+ patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and four Best Paper awards. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement from 2017 to 2021, the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine in 2014 and 2015, and is currently on the latter’s editorial board.

He has been an IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) AdCom member since 2014, currently serves as its Executive Vice President, and was a member of the IEEE I 2 MTC Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements”, and recipient of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, the 2021 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award, and the 2023 IEEE IMS Technical Award “for contributions to the advancement of machine learning-assisted measurements”.

Affiliation(s)

University of Ottawa

Canada

Incumbent(s)

Lee Barford

Max Cortner

Ferdinanda Ponci

Shervin Shirmohammadi