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Three ECE faculty members elected to rank of IEEE Fellow
Drs. Narasimha Reddy (left), Jose Silva-Martinez (center) and Steve Wright (right) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University recently were elected to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Reddy, a professor in the department and area leader for the Computer Engineering group, is cited "for contributions to multimedia storage and network support." Silva-Martinez, an associate professor in the department, is cited "for contributions to Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor transconductance amplifiers and continuous-time filters," and Wright, also a professor in the department and area leader for the Biomedical Imaging and Genomics Signal Processing group, is cited "for contributions to parallel magnetic resonance imaging methods and systems."
With the addition of these three professors there are now 24 faculty members in the department who have reached the rank of Fellow. This is considered a significant honor since the number of IEEE members who may be advanced to Fellow grade in one year is 0.10 percent of the total 300,000 Institute membership.
The IEEE Directory describes the honor as "one of unusual professional distinction conferred only by the [IEEE] Board of Directors upon a person of extraordinary qualifications and experience." To be considered, candidates must have made an outstanding contribution to the electrical and electronics profession.
Reddy, the holder of the J.W. Runyon, Jr. '35 Professorship I, joined the department in 1995 as an associate professor. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in August 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 1987 and August 1990 respectively. During 1990-1995, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose.
Reddy's research interests are in Computer Networks, Multimedia Systems, Storage systems and Computer Architecture. Reddy holds five patents and was awarded a technical accomplishment award while at IBM. He has received an NSF Career Award in 1996 and he was a faculty fellow of the College of Engineering at Texas A&M during 1999-2000. His honors include an outstanding professor award by the IEEE student branch at Texas A&M, an outstanding faculty award by the electrical and computer engineering department, a Distinguished Achievement award for teaching from the former students association of Texas A&M and a citation "for one of the most influential papers from the 1st ACM Multimedia conference." Reddy is also a member of ACM.
Silva-Martinez joined the department in 1999. He received the M.Sc. degree from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla, México and the Ph.D. degree from the Katholieke Univesiteit Leuven, Leuven Belgium in 1992.
From 1981 to 1983, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, INAOE, where he was involved with switched-capacitor circuit design. In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, where he remained until 1993; He pioneered the graduate program on Opto-Electronics in 1992. In 1993, he re-joined the Electronics Department, INAOE, and from May 1995 to December 1998, was the Head of the Electronics Department; He was a co-founder of the Ph.D. program on Electronics in 1993. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Analog and Mixed Signal Center) Texas A&M University, at College Station, where He holds the position of Associate Professor. His current field of research is in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits for communication and biomedical application.
From 1981 to 1983, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, INAOE, where he was involved with switched-capacitor circuit design. In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, where he remained until 1993; He pioneered the graduate program on Opto-Electronics in 1992. In 1993, he re-joined the Electronics Department, INAOE, and from May 1995 to December 1998, was the Head of the Electronics Department; He was a co-founder of the Ph.D. program on Electronics in 1993. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Texas A&M University, at College Station, where He holds the position of Associate Professor. He has published over 78 and 130 Journal and conference papers, respectively, 1 book and 8 book chapters. His current field of research is in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits for communication and biomedical applications.
Dr. Silva-Martinez has served as IEEE CASS Vice President Region-9 (1997–1998), and as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems part-II from 1997-1998 and 2002- 2003, Associate Editor of IEEE TCAS Part-I 2004-2005 and 2007-present, and currently serves in the board of editors of other 6 major journals. He was the inaugural holder of the Texas Instruments Professorship-I in Analog Engineering, Texas A&M University (2002-2008); recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Professor Award by the ECE Department, Texas A&M University, co-author of the paper that got the RF-IC 2005 Best Student paper award and co-recipient of the 1990 European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award. http://amesp02.tamu.edu/~jsilva.
Wright, who holds the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship II in Engineering, has joint appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Radiology in the Texas A&M Health Science Center. His research interests are in the areas of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and antenna theory. He established the Magnetic Resonance Systems Lab, which aims to develop instrumentation and techniques to improve magnetic resonance imaging and to train students in MRI, radio frequency, applied electromagnetics, and image and signal processing.
Prior to joining the Texas A&M electrical & computer engineering faculty, Wright was a research engineer for magnetic resonance imaging at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., and an adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Wright is also a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.