Members-at-Large 2018-2021

Current

2018 - 2021

Marco Parvis

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Marco Parvis

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Biography

Marco Parvis was born in Italy in 1958. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering cum laude in 1982 from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Metrology in 1987. He is now full professor of Electronic Measurements at Politecnico di Torino. He is the Past Dean of the Second Faculty of Engineering and Fellow Member of the IEEE Society on Instrumentation and Measurement for contributions to distributed data acquisition systems. In the same society he was chair of the TC 25 on Medical and Biological Measurement. His main fields of interest are: intelligent instrumentation, application of signal processing to measurement, biomedical and chemical measurements. At present in cooperation with the Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering he is working on new sensors for mechanical and physical quantities, based on surface modification by plasma sputtering. He is author of more than one hundred thirty five publications. I&M AdCom (2018-2026); He is chair of the Fellows Evaluation Commette of the I&M; He was VP Technical & Standards Activities (2020-2023); He is on the I2MTC Board of Directors (2016-2024). He was I2MTC 2017 Conference Chair. He was IEEE Systems Council- Society Representative in 2016 and 2023.

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Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Current

2018 - 2021

Gourab Sen Gupta

Massey University

New Zealand

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Gourab Sen Gupta

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Biography

Prof Gourab Sen Gupta received his B.E. (Electronics) degree from the University of Indore, India, in 1982, Master of Electronics Engineering (MEE) degree from the Philips International Institute, Technical University of Eindhoven, Holland, in 1984 and PhD in Computer Systems Engineering from Massey University in 2008. Since September 2002 he has been with Massey University, New Zealand, where he is currently the Academic Dean (Food and Engineering) and Deputy Head in the School of Food and Advanced Technology.

His current research interests are sensors and instrumentation for robotics and automation, sensor applications and embedded systems. He has published over 150 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He has authored 5 books and 13 book chapters. He has been a guest editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA), and Studies in Computational Intelligence by Springer-Verlag. He has served on the organizing committee of several international conferences. He has been invited to deliver keynote addresses in several international forums on robotics and automation. He is a senior member of IEEE since 2005.

I&M AdCom (2018-2021); VP Conferences (2019-2020); Conferences & Meetings Committee Chair (2019-); SAS Steering Committee Chair (2018-2019); I2MTC 2019 Chair; I2MTC Board of Directors (2018-2020); IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee Member (2018-2019); Systems Council Rep (2017-2018); SAS Steering Committee (2016-2017)

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Massey University

New Zealand

Current

2018 - 2021

George Xiao

National Research Council

Canada

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Current

2018 - 2021

Sebastian Yuri Catunda

Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

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Sebastian Yuri Catunda

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Biography

Sebastian Yuri Cavalcanti Catunda graduated in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (1993), achieved M.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Paraíba (1996) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2000) and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications - ENST, Paris. He was a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) from 1998 to 2011. At UFMA, he chaired the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering from 2005 to 2011. In 2011 he joined the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal, where he is currently a full professor of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation.

With the Brazilian Society of Automation (SBA), he founded the Instrumentation Committee in 2007 and was the society’s secretary of institutional relations from 2015 to 2016. He is Senior Member of IEEE since 2013. He founded in 2013 and presided until 2017, the Joint Chapter IEEE IMS / CASS of Bahia Section. He is a titular researcher, level 1D, in the Microelectronics area of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and member of its Advisory Board from 2012 to 2018. His research interests focus on instrumentation and microelectronics including the topics of sensors, analog and mixed circuits, embedded systems, and data acquisition systems, in which he has published more than 120 conferences and journals papers.

Curriculum Vitae

Affiliation(s)

Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at Natal

Brazil

Incumbent(s)

Marco Parvis

Gourab Sen Gupta

George Xiao

Sebastian Yuri Catunda