Technical Committee Chairs
Edl Schamiloglu

Edl Schamiloglu was born in the Bronx, NY in 1959. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics (minor in mathematics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 1988. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and directs the Pulsed Power, Beams, and Microwaves Laboratory at UNM. He lectured at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School, Harvard University, in 1990 and at MIT in 1997. He coedited Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2001) (with R.J. Barker) and he has coauthored High Power Microwaves, 2nd Ed. (Taylor & Francis, New York, NY, 2007) (with J. Benford and J. Swegle). He coedited the July 2004 Special Issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE on Pulsed Power Technology and Applications. He has authored or coauthored over 65 refereed journal papers, 120 reviewed conference papers, and four patents. His research interests are in the physics and technology of charged particle beam generation and propagation, high-power microwave sources, plasma physics and diagnostics, electromagnetic wave propagation, pulsed power, and complex systems and infrastructure surety.
Dr. Schamiloglu has received the Sandia National Laboratories Research Excellence Award as part of the Delphi/Minerva team in 1991, the UNM School of Engineering Research Excellence Award twice (junior faculty in 1992 and senior faculty in 2001), the titles of UNM Regents’ Lecturer (1996) and Gardner-Zemke Professor (2000), and the Lawton-Ellis Award in 2004. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an EMP Fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation), a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and has served on a National Academies Panel on Directed Energy Testing (2003-2004). He had previously served one tour of duty on AdCom as an elected representative for the Pulsed Power Science and Technology Standing Technical Committee. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, and he was the General Chair of the IEEE PPPS-2007 Conference – the combined 2007 IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference and 2007 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science - in Albuquerque, NM in June 2007.
Edl Schamiloglu can be reached at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, MSc01 1100, Albuqueque, NM 87131-0001 USA; Phone:+1 505 2774423; Fax: +1 505 277 1439; E-mail: edl@ece.unm.ed

Charles C. Watson

Charles Watson (M’87, SM’03) is a Scientific Advisor for PET Science and Technology at Siemens Medical Solutions Molecular Imaging in Knoxville. A native of Tennessee, he received his BA degree from the University of Tennessee, and his MS and PhD (1980) degrees in physics from Yale University. Following a post-doctoral fellowship in physics and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the Nuclear Science Department of Schlumberger-Doll Research in 1982, where he engaged in Monte Carlo simulation of gamma ray and neutron transport, developing a novel algorithm for the direct calculation of differential sensitivity functions. He eventually became Program Leader for Nuclear Modeling and Signal Analysis at SDR. In 1993 Charles joined CTI PET Systems where he focused on issues related to PET tomograph performance and data corrections. He is the primary author of a widely used algorithm for scatter correction in clinical 3D PET. He also served as the Project Leader for the development of CPS’s first commercial PET/CT scanner. In 2005 he joined Siemens following its acquisition of CTI. He continues to work on the development of new PET technology and is the lead author on numerous patents and peer-reviewed research articles in medical imaging science. He belongs to the SNM and AAAS in addition to the IEEE, and serves as a referee for a number of journals in the field. He has been a member of the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council of the NPSS since 2005, and currently serves as its Chair.
Charles Watson can be reached at Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Molecular Imaging, 810 Innovation Dr., Knoxville, TN 37932-2562; Phone: +1 865.218.2419; Fax: +1 865.218.3000; E-mail: charles.c.watson@siemens.com