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2008 NPSS FELLOWS
Ilan Ben-Zvi
Ilan Ben-Zvi, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been recognized
as an IEEE Fellow.
Ben-Zvi heads the superconducting accelerator and electron cooling
group at BNL's Collider-Accelerator Department, where he is pursuing
the development of state-of-the-art superconducting radio frequency
accelerator elements and high-current, high-brightness electron
beams.
As director of Brookhaven Lab's Accelerator Test Facility (ATF)
for 15 years, Ben-Zvi saw it develop as the premiere advanced accelerator
physics facility in the world. Working at the ATF, Ben-Zvi developed
devices and techniques for improving free electron lasers, instruments
used to study a wide variety of materials and chemical reactions,
and devices for more efficiently operating accelerators for physics
research.
After earning a Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute of
Science, Israel, in 1970, Ben-Zvi went to Stanford University, where
he helped develop superconducting linear accelerators. In 1975,
he returned to Weizmann and founded a cryogenic technology laboratory.
From 1980-1982, Ben-Zvi was a visiting associate professor of physics
at Stony Brook University. He helped to establish an accelerator
at Stony Brook, and he invented and developed accelerator systems
now used throughout the world.
Ben-Zvi joined Brookhaven Lab as a visiting physicist in 1988 and
rose through the ranks to become a senior physicist in 1997. He
served as head of Brookhaven's Accelerator Test Facility from 1992
to 2007, and he is currently the associate chair for superconducting
accelerator R&D at Brookhaven's Collider-Accelerator Department
as well as an adjunct professor of physics at Stony Brook.
In addition to becoming a new IEEE Fellow, Ben-Zvi is also a Fellow
of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and the American Physical Society. He is also the recipient of the
IEEE Accelerator Science and Technology Award in 1999 and the IEEE
Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award in 2008. He received
Brookhaven Lab's Science and Technology Award in 2001 and the Free
Electron Laser Prize in 2007, sponsored by the International Free
Electron Laser Conference. He has served in leading roles in many
scientific meetings and panels, including the National Academy of
Science and FEL'95 PAC'99 and FEL'01 international meetings. He
is the author or coauthor of over 375 publications.
Citation: For leadership in superconducting accelerators, high
brightness electron sources and free electron lasers.
Ilan Ben-Zvi can be reached at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Dennis B. Brown
Dennis. Brown received his ScD from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1967 and was a long-term employee of
the Naval Research Laboratory where he served from July 1967 to
February 2006. At the NRL he specialized in the use of electrons,
Co-60 photons and X-rays for testing and analysis of materials and
devices, calculation and measurement of the output of radiation
sources, and the measurement and understanding of damaging effects
of electrons and radiation on devices.
He has published on the following subjects: the time and energy
dependence of irradiation effects, dose enhancement, the kinetics
of interface state generation, annealing of trapped charge, and
mechanisms of low dose-rate effects in bipolar devices. In addition
to radiation effects work, his research interests include: study
and modeling of x-ray generation, x-ray diffraction, x-ray film
sensitivity, electron transport, and radiation energy deposition.
From July 1998 through February 2006 he was assigned from NRL to
the National Reconnaissance Office where he managed technology development
in radiation hardened components, RF and optical technology, and
inflatable-rigidizable space structures.
Dr. Brown retired in 2006 with over 40 years of US Government Service.
Citation: For contributions to radiation effects in semiconductor
devices for space microelectronics.
Dennis Brown can be reached at brownden_1@yahoo.com.
Cor Claeys
Cor Claeys received the electrical-mechanical engineering
degree in 1974 and the Ph.D. degree in 1979, both from the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. From 1974 to 1984 he was
a Research Assistant and Staff Member, respectively, of the ESAT
Laboratory of the KU Leuven and since 1990, a Professor. In 1984,
he joined IMEC as Head of Silicon Processing Group. Since 1990 he
was Head of the research group on Radiation Effects, Cryogenic Electronics
and Noise Studies. Recently, he became as Director Advanced Semiconductor
Technologies responsible for Strategic Relations. He is also member
of the European Expert Group on Nanosciences. His main interests
are in general silicon technology for ULSI, device physics, including
low-temperature operation, low-frequency noise phenomena and radiation
effects, and defect engineering and material characterization. He
coedited the books, Low Temperature Electronics and Germanium-Based
Technologies: From Materials to Devices and wrote a monograph on
Radiation Effects in Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Devices
(in 20008 translated into Chinese). He also authored and co-authored
eight book chapters and more than 800 technical papers and conference
contributions related to the above fields. He has been involved
in the organization of a large number of international conferences
and edited more than 40 Proceedings Volumes. He is an associated
Editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. He had short
stays as Visiting Professor at the Queens University in Belfast,
Ireland, and the University of Calabria, Italy.
Prof. Claeys is a Fellow of IEEE and of the Electrochemical Society.
He was the founder of the IEEE Electron Devices Benelux Chapter,
was Chair of the IEEE Benelux Section, was in the period 1999-2005
elected AdCom member of the Electron Devices Society (EDS), and
was EDS Vice-President for Chapters and Regions during 2000-2006.
Since 2000 he has been an EDS Distinguished Lecturer. In 2006, he
was elected as EDS President-Elect and became EDS President in 2008.
He also received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. Within the Electrochemical
Society he has served on different committees and was Chair of the
Electronics Division (2001-2003). In 1999 he was elected as Academician
and Professor of the International Information Academy. In 2004
he received the Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical
Society.
In the field of radiation he has focused mainly on radiation effects
in electronic devices (CCD’s, image sensors, deep submicron
CMOS, Gate-all-around devices, strained-engineered technologies,
FinFETs, Ge and III-V technologies, etc) and was involved in several
European Space Agency (ESA) Projects. He will be the Program Chair
of the 10th RADECS meeting, organized in September 2009 in Bruges,
Belgium.
Citation: For contributions to semiconductor device physics,
defect engineering, and low frequency noise characterization
Cor Claeys can be reached at IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven,
Belgium; Phone: +32 16 281328; Fax: +32 16 281214; E-mail: c.claeys@ieee.org
Gerald Cooperstein
Gerald Cooperstein received both his BS degree in
physics in 1963 and Ph.D. degree in experimental high-energy physics
in 1968, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His first
two positions were with EG&G and Ion Physics Corporation in
Massachusetts. He joined The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in
1971 as a section head in the Plasma Physics Division where he was
responsible for intense electron beam research on the Gamble I high-voltage,
pulsed power generator. He is currently the head of NRL’s
Pulsed-Power Physics Branch, which is responsible for research in
intense electron and ion beams, intense x-ray sources, electromagnetic
launchers, plasma opening switches, and inductive energy storage.
Dr. Cooperstein has an exceptional record of achievement for over
three decades in the technology and applications of high-voltage
pulsed-power with emphasis on intense electron and ion beam generation.
His most distinctive contributions started with understanding the
role of ions in self-pinched electron beam diodes which led to the
first experiments on generation, focusing and transport of high
current (~0.5 MA) ion beams in the mid 70’s. This work helped
spawn light ion beam Inertial Confinement Fusion research at Sandia
National Laboratories and in several countries around the world.
More recently, he and his group are using these intense ion beams
to generate intense pulses of characteristic gamma-rays and neutrons
for the detection of special nuclear material. In the 80’s,
he contributed to the first demonstration of power multiplication
using both short- and long-conduction-time plasma opening switches,
offering the promise of compact, inductively-driven pulsed power
generators. Again, this work spawned numerous research efforts around
the world. His most distinctive contribution is the development
of the rod-pinch diode where his research efforts and managerial
leadership over the last decade have led to major improvements in
the intensity and spot size of intense pulsed x-ray radiography
sources.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987.
He was a guest editor of an IEEE Transactions of Plasma Science
Special Issue (December 1987), devoted to plasma opening switches,
and one devoted to pulsed-power science and technology (April 1997).
He was co-chair of the 1992 BEAMS conference in Washington, DC,
technical chair of the 1995 Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) in Albuquerque
New Mexico, and chair of PPC97 in Baltimore, Maryland. He also served
as co-editor for all three conferences proceedings. He received
the 1999 IEEE Peter Haas Pulsed Power Award, and the 2007 NRL Sigma
Xi Applied Science Award. He has authored or co-authored over 150
publications on the subjects of high-voltage pulsed-power, intense
electron and ion beams, intense x-ray sources, and plasma opening
switches.
Citation: For contributions to pulsed power and intense electron
and ion beam technologies and development of x-ray sources for pulsed
radiography.
Gerald Cooperstein can be reached at the Naval Research Laboratory,
Code 6770, 4555 Overlook Ave SW, Washington, DC 20375; Phone +1
202 767-2290; E-mail: cooperstein@nrl.navy.mil.
Francis Dawson
Francis Dawson (S’86-M’87) received the
BS degree in physics and the BS MS and Ph.D degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Toronto in 1978, 1982, 1985,
and 1988, respectively.
He worked as a process control engineer in the pulp and paper, rubber
and textile industries during the period 1978-1980. From 1982 to
1984 he acted as a consultant on various projects. Development areas
included high-frequency link power supplies, power supplies for
specialized applications and high current protection circuits. Since
1988 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Toronto where he is engaged in teaching
and research.
His areas of research interest include static power converters and
their applications, signal processing in power engineering applications
and device or process modeling. He has also participated as a Consultant
or Project Leader in several industrial projects.
Dr. Dawson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers
of Ontario.
Dr. Dawson’s primary contributions are the advancement of
multi-physics modeling for the design of arc source systems and
the advancement of algorithms for series arc fault detection. He
is one of the first investigators to (a) develop a design methodology
for a high pressure dc arc lamp that allows lamp designers to couple
the physics of the cathode sheath and glass enclosure to a multi-species
plasma governed by the species continuity, momentum balance and
energy balance equations, (b) to develop procedures for designing
pulsed dc sources for high pressure arcs (c) to propose and validate
an algorithm that can detect series arc faults reliably without
false detection.
Citation: For contributions to modeling of excitation and detection
of electrical arcs.
Francis Dawson can be reached at the University of Toronto, Dept
of Electrical and CE, 10 King's College Rd., Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4,
Canada; E-mail: dawson@ecf.utoronto.ca
Lars Eriksson
Lars Eriksson got his Ph.D in Nuclear Physics at the
University of Stockholm, Sweden in 1973.
His career has spanned the entire history of PET, beginning with
his work at UCLA in the mid 1970s working on the first generation
PET system with the first images emerging in April-May of 1976.
He then developed a higher resolution system consisting of a single
ring of NaI(Tl) detectors with co-workers at the Karolinska Institutet/Hospital
in 1976-1978. His and his colleagues’ development of a second-generation
system was done in collaboration with Scanditronix with multiple
rings of high efficiency BGO-based detectors in order to achieve
the higher sensitivity needed for clinical applications. Higher
spatial resolution was achieved in the mid-1980s using an innovative
approach of dual scintillator GSO/BGO phoswich detectors, also with
Scanditronix. This design was used in a whole body scanner delivered
to the Cancer Clinic in Heidelberg and a brain scanner delivered
to the NIH in Washington, D.C. In the following years, 1985-1987,
Eriksson’s collaboration with Scanditronix led to the development
of the modified BGO block detector concept, and then a fourth generation
system in 1988-1989 with block detectors and a large axial field
of view. This model, originally ordered by the Max Planck Institute
in Cologne, was later used as a template for the General Electric
Advance system following GE’s purchase of Scanditronix in
1990. Since 1997 Dr. Eriksson has worked at CTI (which merged with
Siemens in 2005) on the design of numerous PET systems. This includes
the phoswich panel system of the High Resolution Research Tomograph,
the leading PET scanner for brain research, as well as a SPECT/PET
panel design based on a combination of NaI(Tl) and LSO(Ce) block
detectors. Image results from this design received the Image of
the Year award at the Society for Nuclear Medicine meeting in Toronto
in 1998. The quest for higher sensitivity in PET systems has continued
and resulted in several IEEE presentations and in presentations
at the Imaging 2003 and Imaging 2006 conferences in Stockholm.
Citation: For development of instrumentation and methodologies
for molecular imaging.
Lars Eriksson can be reached at lars.eriksson@siemens.com.
‘Henry’ Sung-Cheng
Huang
Dr. (Henry) S.-C. Huang is a pioneer in the development
and application of positron emission tomography (PET). He got his
BSEE degree from National Taiwan University in 1966, and did his
graduate study at Washington University in St. Louis, where he received
his Doctor of Science degree in electrical engineering and biomedical
engineering in 1973. He was a vital member in the early development
of PET at Washington University, and had an important role in the
early CT development at Picker Corp. Since 1977, he has been with
UCLA nuclear medicine. He has applied engineering principles and
methods to advance the biological quantitation of biomedical images
and has made distinguished contributions. In the 70’s, he
helped advance the tomography reconstruction for the PET scanners
that Drs. Mike Phelps and Ed Hoffman developed. He helped devise
photon attenuation correction schemes for PET. He has also addressed
a series of quantification issues in PET imaging. He further used
kinetic modeling to convert radioactivity measurements of PET to
biological information to provide images of biological parameters,
such as cerebral metabolic rate of glucose, cerebral blood flow,
oxygen utilization rate, neuroreceptor density, . . . etc, in terms
of absolute units. His work has demonstrated the in vivo quantitative
functional imaging capability of PET that continues to be recognized
as a unique characteristic of PET. He has constantly advocated biomedical
imaging as a rigorous measurement tool/science.
Dr. Huang led the way in using compartmental models to describe
the kinetics of radio-labeled tracers in local tissue regions that
are measurable by emission tomography. His early work on FDG has
shown that regional tissue metabolism can be measured, in absolute
units of mg/min/g, in vivo in man. His work has shaped how glucose
utilization rate in local tissue is measured in vivo with imaging
today. He has also developed models and study methodologies for
many other PET tracers. Many of these models and associated processing
methods are still used routinely, in research and in clinical settings,
for quantification of various biological functions. He continues
to develop methodologies to make the extracted quantitative kinetic
information to be clinically relevant.
Dr. Huang has collaborated with biologists/physicians to demonstrate
the value of quantitative biomedical imaging and to advance our
understanding of the biological changes in many diseases. His collaborative
work with nuclear cardiologists showed that the combined use of
FDG and N-13 ammonia PET could differentiate ischemic from infarct
myocardium. His collaborative studies with neurosurgeons showed
that metabolic alteration after brain trauma is different between
gray and white matter. His current collaborative work continues
to make major impacts on other disorders, such as Alzheimer Disease.
Dr. Huang continues to work on the quantitation of mouse PET images.
His research group is developing non-invasive methods to derive
input function in mouse PET studies, techniques (e.g., image mapping
to ROI template) to automate the quantitation procedure, and systems
for easy integration of biomedical data/information from multiple
sources.
Under the tutelage of Dr. Huang, many graduate students and postdocs/fellows
in biomedical physics, biomathematics and nuclear medicine are now
prominent international scientific leaders or investigators, who
are making key advancements in kinetic modeling, PET, molecular
imaging, and biomedical engineering education.
Citation: For contributions to kinetic modeling and biological
quantification in positron emission tomography
Dr. “Henry” S.-C. Huang can be reached at hhuang@mednet.ucla.edu.
Ravindra Joshi
R.P. Joshi received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology
in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He received his Ph.D., also in Electrical
Engineering, from Arizona State University in 1988. From 1988 to
1989, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Center for Solid State
Electronics Research at Arizona State University. In 1989, he joined
Old Dominion University, and is currently a Professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion. He has been
a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, AFRL Laboratory,
Motorola and NASA Goddard.
His research broadly encompasses modeling and simulations of bio-electrics
and bio-physics; charge transport in semiconductors, liquids and
gases; non-equilibrium high-field phenomena including breakdown
physics, and bio-cellular mechanisms such as apoptosis and signal
transduction. He has used Monte Carlo methods for simulations of
high-field transport in bulk and quantum-well semiconductors, and
Molecular Dynamic approaches for bio-cellular responses to high-power,
ultrashort electric pulses. He has one patent and over 120 refereed
publications. He served as a Guest Editor of two Special Issues
of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on Nonthermal Medical/Biological
Treatments Using Ionized Gases and Electric Fields (August 2004,
and August 2008). He has been on the Executive Committee for the
IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena
(2008 and 2009).
Citation: For contributions to bio-electrics and simulation
of cellular responses to pulsed power excitation.
R. P. Joshi can be reached at Old Dominion University, Engineering
and Computational Sciences Bldg., Norfolk, VA 23529-0246; Phone:
+1 757 683-4827; Fax: +1 757 683-3220; E-mail: rjoshi@odu.edu.
Mounir Laroussi
Mounir Laroussi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1988. After a Post-Doc
and few years of teaching, he joined the Microwave & Plasma
Laboratory of the University of Tennessee as a Research Assistant
Professor from 1995 to 1998. He then joined the Applied Research
Center of Old Dominion University (ODU) in 1998 as a research scientist.
From 2002 until 2007 he was an Associate Professor in ODU’s
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In January 2007
Dr. Laroussi became the Director of ODU’s Laser & Plasma
Engineering Institute (LPEI) and in 2008 he was promoted to Full
Professor in the ECE Department, ODU.
Dr. Laroussi’s research interests are in the Physical Electronics
area and particularly in the physics and applications of nonequilibrium
gaseous discharges including the biomedical applications of nonthermal
plasmas. He has more than 100 publications in journals and conference
proceedings, and holds 4 patents. He served as an elected member
of the Administrative Committee (2002-2005) and the Plasma Science
and Applications Executive Committee (2005-2007) of the IEEE Nuclear
and Plasma Science Society (NPSS). He has also served as a Guest
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, as session organizer
at the International Conference on Plasma Science for many years,
and as a Guest Editor of “Plasma Processes and Polymers.”
Dr. Laroussi was the recipient of the 1996 Advanced Technology Award,
from the Inventors Clubs of America, the recipient of the IEEE Millennium
Medal Award, 2000, the recipient of the Excellence in Research Award
from the Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion
University, May 2005, the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching
Award from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Old
Dominion University, June 2006, and the recipient of the Excellence
in Innovation Award from the Hampton Road Technology Council, May
2006. In January 2008 Dr. Laroussi was named as an IEEE-NPSS Distinguished
Lecturer, and in November 2008 he was elevated to the rank of IEEE
Fellow.
Citation: For contributions to biomedical applications of low
temperature atmospheric pressure plasmas.
Mounir Laroussi can be reached at mlarouss@odu.edu.
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