TIM Editor-in-Chief

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Ruqiang Yan

Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

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Ruqiang Yan

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Ruqiang Yan received the M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007.

He was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2006-2008 and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China from 2019 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. His research interests include energy-efficient sensing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence for the condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and prognosis of large-scale, complex, dynamical systems.

Dr. Yan is a Fellow of IEEE (2022) and ASME (2019). His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award in 2022, and Technical Award in 2019, and multiple best paper awards. Dr. Yan is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and Editorial Board Member of several other journals.

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Xi'an Jiaotong University

China

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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”.

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University of Ottawa

Canada

Past

Alessandro Ferrero

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Alessandro Ferrero

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Alessandro Ferrero (M’88–SM’96–F’99) was born in Milan, Italy, in 1954. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1978. In 1983, he joined the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano, as an Assistant Professor of electrical measurements. From 1987 to 1991, he was with the University of Catania, Italy, as an Associate Professor of measurements on electrical machines and systems. From 1991 to 1994, he was with the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano, as an Associate Professor of electrical measurements, where he has been a Full Professor since 1994.

His current research interests include uncertainty evaluation, the application of digital methods to electrical measurements and measurements on electric power systems under nonsinusoidal conditions.

Prof. Ferrero has chaired the Italian Association for Electrical and Electronic Measurements for the three-year term 2004–2007 and he has been the President of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurements Society for the 2008 – 2009 term. He is the recipient of the 2006 Joseph F. Keithley IEEE Field Award for Instrumentation and Measurement.
As an AE for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement he covers the areas of Digital Signal Processing and Measurement on Power Systems. IEEE I&M Society President 2008-2009; TIM Associate Editor|| Fellows Evaluation Chair (2017)|| Associate Editor-in-Chief, TIM (2017)|| I&M AdCom (2017)|| Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2012-2016)|| I&M Magazine Editorial Board (2014, 2015, 2016)|| VP Publications (2007)

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Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Designated Editor for OJIM Conflict-of-Interest Papers

Past

Reza Zoughi

Iowa State University

United States

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Reza Zoughi

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R. Zoughi received his B.S.E.E, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (radar remote sensing, radar systems, and microwaves) from the University of Kansas where from 1981 until 1987 he was at the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL). He is the Kirby Gray (Battelle) Chair in Engineering and a Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) at Iowa State University (ISU). He is also the Director of Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at ISU. He served as the Schlumberger Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) from January 2001 to August 2019. Prior to joining Missouri S&T and since 1987 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University (CSU). He is the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award, the 2009 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Research Award for Sustained Excellence, the 2011 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement and the 2020 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Career Excellence Award. In 2013 and 2020 he and his co-authors received the H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). He is also the recipient of the 2023 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture Award. He has twenty issued US patents to his credit (in addition to several issued abroad). He has served the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE in various capacities.

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Iowa State University

United States

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Milton G. Slade

Retired

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Stephen A. Dyer

Kansas State University

United States

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Stephen A. Dyer

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Stephen A. Dyer holds the B.S. in physics, the M.S. in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. in engineering, all from Kansas State University, Manhattan. He has spent most of his career in academics, receiving his first faculty appointment at the age of 23, and has held faculty positions in physics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering. In addition, he has taught courses in entrepreneurship, as well as segments of courses in physical chemistry, flight dynamics, anatomy and physiology, and creative problem-solving. Having had appointments at five different institutions, Steve currently serves at Kansas State, where he was promoted to full professor in 1989.

His research has spanned a number of areas, notably instrumentation and measurement, spectrometry, digital signal processing, and communication theory. His contributions to stationary-mask Hadamard-transform multiplex spectrometry—in particular, the design and development of spectrum-recovery methods and fast algorithms to improve performance at low signal-to-noise ratios—were cited in his elevation, in 1997, to IEEE Fellow. In all, Dyer has more than 125 technical publications, including his edited book, Survey of Instrumentation and Measurement (Wiley, 2001).

Dr. Dyer has had connection, as well, with industry and the public. Before he started in academics, he worked in engineering positions, writing software and designing semi-automatic test equipment. For the past 30 years, he has acted as a consultant for about 40 companies and institutions, doing analysis, product-design, or forensic work in various areas, including instrument design, signal processing, electromagnetics, and optics.

Steve has also helped make students aware of IEEE through his on-campus service, having served as IEEE Student Branch Counselor at the University of Kentucky and at K-State. He was also the co-founding faculty advisor for the IEEE EMBS Chapter at K-State.
Dyer has been active in the I&M Society since the 1980s, and has been on the AdCom continuously since the beginning of 1992, serving the Society in various capacities, including Past President in 2006-2007 and 2000-2001.

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Kansas State University

United States

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Edwin W. Richter

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Fred Liguori

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Andrew (Andy) R. Chi

Biography

Mr. Chi was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement from 1978 to 1983. He received a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Western Maryland College, Westminster, in 1944, and an M.A. degree in physics from Columbia University, New York, in 1946. He continued graduate studies at Columbia University until 1947.

From 1946 to 1953 he was an Instructor in Physics at the Cooper Union School of Engineering, New York. In 1953 he joined the US Army Signal R&D Labs, Fort Monmouth, N.J., as a Physicist doing research in the fundamental properties of quartz. During 1957-1963 he was employed at the US Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C., where he was engaged in research studies of atomic resonance devices and precision frequency standards. In 1963 he joined NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, M.D., and became Head of the Timing Systems Section, responsible for planning and coordinating all programs pertaining to frequency and time for use by NASA's worldwide satellite tracking and data networks. He was the principal investigator of a joint experiment between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration on precise time transfer via a synchronous satellite. As such, he planned, developed, and coordinated time synchronization techniques for NASA users.

He was an IEEE Fellow, a member of the American Physical Society, and a past member of the American Association of University Professors, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Research Society of America, and the Philosophical Society of Washington, DC. In addition to the Distinguished Service Award which he received in 1965, Mr. Chi was awarded the Scroll of Appreciation of the Secretary of State for his contributions to CCIR (1967), the Apollo Achievement Award (1969), the Skylab Achievement Award (1974), and the 1978 Moe I. Schneebaum Memorial award for his significant contributions to the establishment of an international measure of frequency stability.

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