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Industrial Advisory Board
The Department of Electrical Engineering is pleased that the following individuals have agreed to serve on our Industrial Advisory Board, effective 2007-2009.
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Murat Bilgic, T-Mobile
Murat Bilgic has received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada in 1992. He worked as a Systems Engineer for Netas (Norteljoint-venture) in Istanbul, Turkey between 1992 and 1994. He was also an adjunct professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Bosphorus Universityin Istanbul, Turkey in 1993. He joined Omnipoint Technologies in Colorado Springs, CO as a Systems Engineer in 1995 where he worked on PCS, wireless local loop, and wide area packet networks. His research activities at Omnipoint Technologies resulted in 11 US patents. Since 2000, he's been working for T-Mobile USA at various capacities. His work at T-Mobile USA included the design and the launch of T-Mobile's nationwide HotSpot network, and buildout of a nation-wide IP backbone. He obtained his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara,Turkey, in 1988 and 1986, respectively. He enjoys hiking, snow-boarding and thrilling adventures with his young children.
Curt Flory, Agilent
Curt Flory received the B.S. degree with distinction in physics from Stanford in 1975, the M.S. degree in physics from the University of Washington in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley in 1981. From 1981 until 1984 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Linear Accelerator theoretical physics group. In 1984 he joined the Physical Sciences Laboratory in the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. In 2001 he was named a Fellow in Agilent Laboratories. He has been active in the areas of atomic frequency standards, acoustics, acousto-optics, ion optics and mass spectrometry, microwave resonators, quantum structures, opto-electronic devices, and nanopore technology.
In 1993, he was a co-winner of the American Institute of Physics Industrial Physics Prize for work on Hewlett-Packard's cesium beam atomic clock. In 1995 he was a co-recipient of the UFFC's Outstanding Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the IEEE.
James R. Hellums, Texas Instruments
James R. Hellums received the B.S.E.E.(highest honors, 1976) and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. In January 1978, he joined MOSTEK as an integrated circuit design engineer where he worked on MOS analog IC's for telecommunications. He left in August 1981 to co-found Nova Monolithics where he was involved in consulting and custom mixed-signal IC designs. He joined Texas Instruments (TI) in May 1984 as a senior IC design engineer. He was elected an MGTS in 1987, an SMTS in 1989, a DMTS in 1996 and a TI Fellow in 1997. He presently works on Standard Linear catalog IC's. During his career he has designed 64 analog and mixed-signal IC's, has authored or coauthored 33 papers, given 19 conference/seminars talks, and holds 32 patents. Dr. Hellums is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of the American Physical Society, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Alpha Chi.
Xuedong Huang, Microsoft
Dr. Xuedong Huang is General Manager of Incubation at Microsoft Research.
He joined Microsoft Research as a Senior Researcher to lead the formation of Microsoft's Speech Technology Group in 1993. From 2000 to 2004, he served as General Manager of Microsoft's Speech Platforms Group responsible for research, development, marketing, and business development of Microsoft speech technologies and products. He led Microsoft developing and marketing Microsoft's speech technologies and products, including the award-winning Speech Server 2004.
Prior to joining Microsoft, he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Sciences and directed the effort in developing CMU's Sphinx-II speech recognition system. He is an affiliate Professor at University of Washington. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers and is a frequent keynote speaker in numerous industry conventions. He has co-authored two books: Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition (Edinburgh University Press 1990) and Spoken Language Processing (Prentice Hall 2001). Huang's professional awards include: National Education Commission of China's 1987 Science and Technology Progress Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1992 Paper Award, Allen Newell Research Excellence Medal, and Top Ten Leaders in the speech industry award from SpeechTek. Huang holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from University of Edinburgh, a master's in Computer Sciences from Tsinghua University, and a bachelor's in Computer Sciences from Hunan University. Huang is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Tim Hunkapillar, Discovery Biosciences
Dr. Hunkapiller received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in Molecular Biology, and most recently has held a Research Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington. Dr. Hunkapiller's research focus has included molecular immunology, evolution, computational genetics, comparative genomics and he is an expert on the genetics, genomic organization and functional diversity of the immune system. He has also been involved in bioinformatics, algorithm and database development, and experimental process optimization, for 20 years. While at Caltech, Dr. Hunkapiller originated the model for the automated, fluorescent DNA sequencer. The manifestation of this idea in products such as the ABI 3700tm and the MD Megabasetm sequencers catalyzed and enabled the completion of the first drafts of the Human Genome. He continues to work with Applied Biosystems on improving the throughput and quality of data from these instruments and their associated chemistry. Dr. Hunkapiller also developed the first operational special-purpose computer hardware to accelerate the analysis of biological sequence information. This work led to the development of the world's fastest sequence/profile comparison engine, the Paracel Genematchertm. This instrument is in place at major pharmaceutical, biotechnology and genomics companies that work in the target discovery and validation process. His group is currently working to integrate the signal processing power of the Genematcher with new high-throughput MS technologies aimed at the emerging proteomics arena. Dr. Hunkapiller has served as an advisor to a number of biotechnology companies as well as technology companies servicing the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. These efforts range from helping with SNP association studies for target discovery in breast cancer to the application of novel computer technologies in intelligently searching very large, unstructured text sources to improve intellectual property analysis.
Hardev S. Juj, Seattle City Light
Hardev Juj received his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from Washington State University and is licensed with the State of Washington as a Professional Engineer. He has over 27 years of electric utility experience and has successfully directed, managed, and engineered projects, both capital and maintenance. He possesses extensive technical knowledge of generation, transmission, and distribution functions, including the secondary network (mainly the power delivery side). His expertise is in load flows, system protection, commercial and industrial design, secondary network, metering, substation design, transmission and distribution capacity planning, interconnection standards, testing and diagnostics and system structures. He has instituted reliability indices and tied them to feeder upgrades and budget priorities.
His professional affiliations are: Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Northwest Power Pool; Member, Non-Wire Solution, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); Co-Founder and Member, Northwest Transmission Assessment Committee; Member, Infrastructure Review Team, BPA Budget Authorization; and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Stan Kaveckis, Tektronix
Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Intel
Lakshman Krishnamurthy is a Principal Engineer in the Communications Technology Lab where he leads research into multi-radio platform integration as the manager for the flexible radio platform initiative. Previously, he led research projects in sensor networks and mesh networking. The sensor network effort has resulted in a deployment of sensor networks with BP on an oil tanker, a network in Intel’s fab, and protocol stacks that take advantage of heterogeneity. Additionally it also produced a gateway platform and a Compact flash mote NIC. The 802.11 mesh efforts have led to deployment trials and standards contributions. Lakshman was an architect of Intel’s digital television stack, where he contributed to the first nation wide interactive TV broadcast trial with PBS. He serves on the ACM SenSys’05, ACM MobiHoc’05, and IEEE Secon’05 TPCs and co-chaired the WinME’05 and Emnets-II workshops. Lakshman also serves on various NSF panels and on the industry advisory board of the University of Washington EE Dept. He received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Mysore, India and the University of Kentucky, respectively.
Chung-Sheng Li, IBM
Chung-Sheng Li received the BSEE degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1984, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He has been with the Computer Science Division at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member since Sept. 1991, and is currently the Associate Director of Computer Science at IBM Research Division.
His research interests include bio-surveillance and activity monitoring, event driven architectures and applications, broadband and wireless applications, which include digital library, information and media marketplace, content-based retrieval and adaptation of images and image sequence, knowledge discovery, and data mining. He has initiated and co-initiated several research programs in IBM on fast tunable receiver for all-optical networks, content-based retrieval in the compressed domain for large image/video databases, federated digital libraries, and bio-surveillance. He was the principal investigator for a environmentally related digital library funded by NASA and a bio-surveillance project funded by DARPA from 1995-2003.
Dr. Li received an Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM in 2000 for his leadership and major contribution to the IBM/ NASA digital library project, a Research Division award from IBM in 2001 for his major contribution to the Websphere Transcoding Publisher as part of the Content Adaptation Framework, and 1995 for his major contribution to the tunable receiver design for WDMA, and numerous invention and patent application awards. He was an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction on Multimedia from 2000-2003 and currently an associate editor for the Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 journal and conference papers and received the best paper award from IEEE Transactions on Multimedia in 2003. He chaired the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee from 2000-2002 and co-founded the Life Science Systems and Application Technical Committee in 2003 - both within the IEEE Circuit and System Society. He was on Board of Governors for Communication Society (as Member at Large) from 2004-2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Circuit and System Society, the Laser Electro-Optic Society, the Communication Society, and the Computer Society.
Alan Lippman, Redback Networks
Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin
Jyou-Min Shyu, Industrial Technology Research Institute
Jyuo-Min Shyu is Executive Vice President of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the primary research and development institute for industry in Taiwan. Currently, he also serves as Executive Director of Taiwan's National Nanotechnology Science and Technology Program, and as President of the Taiwan Nanotechnology Industry Development Association. He joined ITRI in 1988 and has been involved in various R&D as well as technology transfer projects for the development and advancement of microelectronics and flat-panel displays industries in Taiwan. During his 17 years at ITRI, from a researcher to the current position, he initiated many high-impact R&D programs and took the lead in exploring new microelectronic technologies.
Dr. Shyu received his BS and MS degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department of National Taiwan University, and his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley.
Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT
Yoshinobu Tonomura, Director, NTT Communication Science Laboratories.
He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and Ph.D. degrees in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto. In 1981, he joined the Electrical Communication Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (now NTT), Tokyo, Japan. His research interest covers visual communication systems, advanced video processing technology and services, and communication science. He was a visiting researcher at the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987-1988. He is a member of the ACM, and IEEE.
Edward Vertatschitsch, Calypso Medical Technologies
Edward Vertatschitsch received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. His research interests included design of optimal phased-array antenna configurations and commensurate signal processing with application to tracking targets in a multi-path environment.
Ed joined the Boeing Company in 1987 and was Chief Scientist of the Phased Array Systems Organization that developed military and commercial satellite communications phased array antennas. Earlier, he managed a Sensor & Signal Processing R&D group and contributed signal processing algorithms for fiber optic position sensors related to Boeing's 'Fly-by-Light' initiatives.
He joined the 3COM/US Robotics/Palm in 1996 as the Manager of Hardware Development when Palm had approximately 35 employees. Seven Palm Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) products were developed by his team, beginning with the Palm III, Palm VII, and through the Tungsten W series. These products contributed to the fastest adoption of computer technology in history - selling over one million units in the first 18 months following commercialization.
Ed joined Calypso® Medical Technologies, Inc. in 2003 and is VP Engineering. Calypso is a privately held medical device company dedicated to improving the delivery of targeted cancer therapies. The company received FDA clearance for it's platform in July, 2006 and is now installing them throughout the United States.
Todd W. Zarfos, Boeing
Todd Zarfos is currently Boeing's Vice President for Product Development.
