New IEEE Fellows

Each year the Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the full members to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made by Senior Members or by Fellows and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society, the nominations are forwarded to the Fellows Committee of the Board who then recommend a list of candidates for the Board's consideration. The NPSS is pleased that the following members were elected by the Board this year and extends its congratulations to all of them.

Grant T. Gullberg

Grant T. Gullberg received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Seattle Pacific University in 1966, M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1971, and Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. He worked as an Engineer at the Boeing Company from 1967 to 1971, as a Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1972 to 1980, as a Senior Physicist at GE Medical Systems from 1980 to 1985, and as a Professor of Radiology at the University of Utah from 1985 to 2002. He was Director of the Medical Imaging Research Laboratory in the Department of Radiology at the University of Utah from 1989-1997. He is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

His research interests involve the study of inverse problems with application to medicine and biology that involve the use of positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), acoustic imaging, and magnetocardiography (MCG).

Currently, he is involved in the application of converging tomography to improve cardiac SPECT, the investigation into determining whether tensor tomography can improve magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging, the use of dynamic cardiac SPECT to better diagnosis cardiac perfusion defects and evaluate cardiac viability, the study of the relationships between cardiac function and cardiac deformation by fitting gated SPECT and cine MRI data to mechanical models of the heart, and the investigation into methods for determining unique solutions of cardiac electromagnetic inverse problems in magnetocardiography.

He is presently a member of the AdCom for IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society as a representative from the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Technical Committee. He has previously served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and as Program Chairman for the 1999 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference.
Dr. Gullberg's Fellow citation reads "For contributions to medical imaging technologies."

Grant Gullberg can be reached at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road MS55R0121, Berkeley, CA 94720, Phone: +1 510 486-7483 ; Fax: +1 510 486-4768 ; E-mail: gtgullberg@lbl.gov

Erik H. M. Heijne

Erik Heijne has been elected a new fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to semiconductor detector systems and radiation tolerant detector readout electronics."

Erik H.M. Heijne is an instrumentation physicist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. In 1971 he received a degree in experimental physics at the University of Amsterdam where, in 1983, he became Dr Rer. Nat. (Ph.D.). His thesis, the basis for the degree, was “Muon flux measurement with silicon detectors in the CERN neutrino beam.” In 1980 he led the introduction of silicon microstrip detectors for use in particle physics. After visiting IMEC in Leuven in 1984, he created a microelectronics design group at CERN to develop readout chips of segmented silicon sensors. Between 1988 and 1999 he directed the team that worked on monolithic and hybrid pixel detectors and on ideas to deal with severe radiation in CMOS. He has 200 publications and has edited five conference records. He is a member of several IEEE societies, aiming to combine expertise from several areas to develop innovative instrumentation. He is an elected member of the IEEE NPSS AdCom and chair of its TransNational Committee.

Erik Heijne was named Fellow "For contributions to semiconductor detector systems and radiation tolerant detector readout electronics."

Erik Heijne can be reached at CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, SWITZERLAND, Phone: +41 22 767-3946; Fax: +41 22 767-3394; E-mail: erik.heijne@cern.ch.

Spencer S. Kuo

Spencer Kuo received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan R.O.C. in 1970 and 1973, respectively. After he received the Ph.D. degree in 1977 from Polytechnic University, he began his career in a Research Associate position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the Elmo Bumpy Torus (EBT) fusion program. He returned to the Polytechnic University in September 1978 as Research Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and was promoted to full professor in 1986. He initiated and ran a “summer research program for college juniors” in the EE department from 1985 to 1991. A similar program has since then been adopted in many universities and national laboratories.

Dr. Kuo’s research activities cover several areas including microwave plasma interactions, ionospheric and magnetospheric plasma physics, plasma sources, and plasma aerodynamic effects on shock waves. He conducted a novel experiment using rapidly created plasma to up-shift the electromagnetic wave frequency. He also showed analytically and experimentally that an added spatial-periodic distribution in plasma density could trap a wave by downshifting the wave frequency. He originated the instability idea to enhance the efficiency of a virtual ionospheric antenna to generate ELF/VLF waves for underwater communication and for the exploration of the magnetosphere. He has patented a plasma torch module, which can be used to form an array of plasma torches as a large-volume atmospheric-pressure plasma source. This module was installed on a wind tunnel model for on-board plasma generation to study the plasma aerodynamics in a Mach 2.5 supersonic flow. The experiment showed that the shock wave appearing normally in front of the model, which resembled a supersonic vehicle, could be eliminated totally by the on-board generated plasma. The experimental discovery paves a new way for solving aeronautic problems of sonic booms and severe wave drag in supersonic flights.

Dr. Kuo has authored more than 150 journal papers and more than 60 proceedings articles, and holds one U.S. patent. He was an associate editor of Radio Science from 1993 to 1996. He received an outstanding research award from the New York Chapter of the Sigma Xi in 1990, and was a recipient of the 1997 Tamkang Chair from Tamkang University, R.O.C.

Dr. Kuo's Fellow citation reads, "For contributions to the understanding of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas."

Spencer Kuo can be reached at the Polytechnic University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 6 Metro Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201-3840 USA; Phone: +1 718 260-3143; Fax: +1 718 260-3906; E-mail: skuo@duke. poly.edu.

Jean-Luc Leray

Jean-Luc Leray is currently Director of Research at CEA, the French Atomic Energy Commission.He earned an Engineering degree in 1978 at Ecole Centrale de Paris with a specialty in physics and then a Doctor es Science - State Doctorate in Physics, University of Paris. In 1978, he joined the CEA as a Research Engineer in charge of qualifying the first radiation-hardened technology industrialized in France (CMOS on Sapphire). He has held various positions such as senior scientist, and as section head he managed many studies and applications in fields of interest: space, front-end electronics for high energy physics and military electronics. As Group Leader and Section Head, he was responsible for the development of radiation hardening for many generations of CMOS/SOS, CMOS/SOI and BiCMOS/SOI technologies from the older 8 µm to more recent 0.25 µm technologies within his Agency and at several European microelectronic manufacturers.

Meanwhile, in the course of preparing his thesis entitled “Contribution to the study of the phenomena induced by ionizing radiation in silicon and gallium arsenide field effect structures used in microelectronics,” he undertook basic studies of the effects of process-induced defects on radiation degradation of microelectronic technologies such as modeling of radiation effects from the material/process level to the device level and as a result, the development of radiation hardened Silicon On Insulator technologies (SOI) which eventually replaced SOS. Dr. Leray promoted the simulation of charge trapping in MOS insulators. This led to the first self-consistent modeling of radiation damage in MOS/SOI transistors, including the effects of parasitic structures and scaling. This code, unique in enabling treatment of 3D problems of charge trapping in devices, can be used for radiation effect studies in deep submicron SOI technologies, and is commercially available. He has published more than 140 papers, including over 80 in IEEE transactions and records. He has contributed to 7 books or textbooks in which his works on radiation effects and radiation hardening, as well as Silicon On Insulator technologies, are synthesized.

He has been instrumental in opening the national and European radiation technical communities to the international community, in the spirit of the IEEE commitments. He has been active in establishing the European Radiation and its Effects in Components and Systems (RADECS) Conference. In 1993, he served as the RADECS Technical Chairman and Guest Editor for publications in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. He has also been active in the IEEE SOI Conference as an invited speaker and many times as a paper contributor. Dr Leray has been proactive in the development of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, by founding in 2000 the French Chapter. He also serves the IEEE community in Conferences and NPSS technical bodies (French Chapter, Transnational Committee), as well other Societies (SEE, RADECS) and Working Groups. He shows special interest and success in linking IEEE and other technical institutions of academia or administration or industry at the French, European or overseas levels.

One of his present interests is in the effects of atmospheric neutrons on electronic components and systems which have been recognized for more than 10 years to be similar to those induced by the action of solar and cosmic rays on satellite electronics. Considering the trends of future electronics technologies, the sensitivity of components and systems to atmospheric neutrons is bound to increase drastically. Within the RADECS Conference, Dr. Leray organized the first short course on this subject in Europe in 2001. In 2002, Dr Leray promoted the creation of a joint IEEE French NPSS Chapter/RADECS Society Working Group named SECSTAN, devoted to the “Susceptibility of ElectroniC Systems To Atmospheric Neutrons.” Now it becomes more and more interesting, as copious high energy neutrons fluxes will be produced in the experimental area of new physics instruments such as the Large Hadron Collider LHC (CERN, Geneva), the U.S. and French Thermonuclear Laser Fusion Facilities (NIF, LMJ) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER, which are under construction or planned to come to operation in the next two decades.

Dr. Leray has been instrumental in basic science, applied science, technical development and project leadership as well as in education, in the field of radiation effects on electronics. For these activities, Dr Leray has been awarded the national prize: “Grand Prix de l’Electronique Général Ferrié” by the French Federation of the Electronic Industries (1994) and the national medal: “Chevalier des Palmes Academiques” by the French Minister of Research and Education (1995).

Dr. Leray was named Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the implementation of radiation hardened silicon-on-sapphire and silicon-on-insulator technologies."

Jean-Luc Leray may be reached at CEA, B.P. 12 BRUYERES-LE-CHATEL F-91680, France, Phone: +33 169 267 926; Fax: +33 169 267 064; E-mail: jean-luc.leray@cea.fr.

Patrick G. O'Shea

Patrick G. O’Shea is Director of the Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics, and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was born in Cork, Ireland, and received his B.S. degree in physics from University College Cork. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1986.

His early research was at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986-94) on particle accelerator projects. He was the Chief Beam Physicist, and Launch Pad Chief on Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket Project (BEAR), the first rf accelerator launched into space to explore the propagation of ions in the earth’s magnetic field. In 1990, he was appointed the Project Leader of the APEX Free-Electron Laser Project where he led the construction of the first photoinjector linear accelerator, and the first linear-accelerator-driven ultraviolet free-electron laser.

Later he worked at Duke University (1994-98), where he supervised the construction of the 300-MeV linac at the FEL Laboratory.

Prof. O’Shea’s current research is in the area of space-charge-dominated beam physics, free-electron lasers and applications. He is exploring intense beam physics on the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dr. O'Shea's Fellow citation reads “For contributions to charged particle accelerators and free-electron lasers.”

Patrick O'Shea can be reached at the Energy Research Building/ Bldg. 223, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742-3511 USA; Phone: 301 405-4977; Fax: 301 314-9437; Web: www.ece.umd.edu/~ poshea

Michael B. Silevitch

Michael B. Silevitch is currently the Robert D. Black Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. His training has encompassed both physics and electrical engineering disciplines. An author/co-author of over 65 journal papers, his research interests include laboratory and space plasma dynamics, nonlinear statistical mechanics, and K-12 science and mathematics curriculum implementation. Avocations include long distance hiking and the study of 17th Century clocks and watches.

Prof. Silevitch is the Director of the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC). Established in September of 2000, the mission of CenSSIS is to unify the methodology for finding hidden structures in diverse media such as the underground environment or within the human body. An intrinsic part of the CenSSIS 10 year strategic plan is to create research and education advances to enable progress on important societal problems such as living cell structure, reliable breast cancer diagnosis, coral reef health, and humanitarian demining.

Dr. Silovitch was named Fellow of the IEEE for "leadership in advancing interdisciplinary subsurface sensing and imaging techniques."

Michael Silevitch can be reached at Northeastern University, ECE Department, Rm 302 ST, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02215-5005; Phone: +1 617 373-3033; Fax: +1 617 373-8627; E-mail: msilevit@ece. neu.edu.

W. T. “Bill” Weng

Wu-Tsung, Bill, Weng was born in 1944 in Taiwan. He received his BSEE degree from National Taiwan University in 1966, MS in Physics from National Tsing Hua University in 1968, and Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974. He spent two years at the University of Arizona in Tucson from 1974 to 1976 as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in 1977, beginning his accelerator physics career in the then Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) Department working on the fast extraction system and the beam transfer line to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). He moved to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1983 to work on the construction of the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) project where he made major contributions to the beam optics and magnet measurement and field quality analysis of the 1000 combined-function magnets and to the Arc system. He moved again in 1987, back to Brookhaven, to assume the position of the Project Head of the Booster Project to lead its design and construction, which was completed in 1991. The Booster accelerator is crucial for both the AGS and RHIC to be able to accelerate heavy ion species with masses higher than calcium, to allow the AGS to accelerate protons more than 70 trillion particles per pulse which is a factor of five increase for the AGS and a world record since 1995, and finally to accumulate sufficient numbers of polarized protons for collision in the RHIC Collider. To satisfy the many conflicting physics and technical requirements to achieve those three functions in one accelerator is a great challenge to the accelerator designer.

Dr. Weng served as the Accelerator Division Head from 1991 to 1994 to work on the upgrade program of the AGS accelerator. Due to the success of the AGS high intensity proton operation, he was tapped by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1996 to lead the design and construction of the Accumulator Ring and Beam Transport system of the Spallation Neutron Source project. The accumulator ring is required for the conversion of the one millisecond linac beam into a one microsecond short pulse for physics research in the materials science, biological, and pharmaceutical fields. He served as the Senior Team Leader from BNL for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) from 1996 to 2002 as one member of the six-lab partnership in the construction of the SNS. He was appointed as the Head of the Center of Accelerator Physics at BNL in 2002 to coordinate the lab-wide accelerator R&D efforts and interface with other national laboratories and government agencies on accelerator affairs.

He served as the chair of the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology committee of the NPSS from 1991 to 1994. During his tenure as the Chair, he played an important role in bringing the IEEE/NPSS and APS/DPB together for constructive interaction, which culminated in the joint sponsorship of the Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC) by both organizations in 1995. This is necessary, since accelerator physics and technology are a thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavor that involves many subfields and people associated with both the IEEE and APS. He was the Chair of the 1999 PAC conference that was held in New York City and drew more than 1300 participants from all over the world. He has been on every Organizing Committee of the PAC from 1991 to 2005. He has frequently given lectures in the US Particle Accelerator School for the training of young scientists. He received the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Y. T. Lee Foundation in 1995, is a fellow of the American Physics Society and now of IEEE. He has served frequently as technical consultant for many DOE-sponsored accelerator program reviews and as a member of the Machine Advisory Committee for several projects in Canada, Europe, China, Japan, and Taiwan. His current interest is in the design of a Super Neutrino Beam Facility at BNL. His specialties in accelerator physics are in nonlinear beam dynamics, space charge effects, and high power proton synchrotrons.

Dr. Weng's Fellow citation reads "for leadership in particle accelerator development."

Bill Weng can be reached at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg 911A, Upton, NY 11973-9999, USA; Phone: +1 631 344-2135; Fax: +1 631 631-5954; E-mail: weng@bnl.gov.

Habib Zaidi
2003 Nuclear and Medical Imaging Sciences Young Investigator

Dr. Habib Zaidi was recognized with the 2003 Young Investigator Nuclear and Medical Imaging Sciences Award “For contributions to the development and better understanding of Monte Carlo simulation tools, improvement and quantitative analysis of attenuation and scatter correction algorithms in PET imaging, and publication of textbooks.” The award was presented to Dr. Zaidi at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Portland (Oregon) last October.

Dr. Zaidi is senior physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroscience Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital. He received a Ph.D. in medical physics from Geneva University for a dissertation on Monte Carlo modeling and scatter correction in positron emission tomography. He is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for biomedical research and clinical diagnosis in addition to lecturing graduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics and medical imaging. His research centers on modeling nuclear medical imaging systems using the Monte Carlo method, dosimetry, image correction, reconstruction and quantification techniques in emission tomography as well as statistical image analysis in functional brain imaging, and more recently on novel design of dedicated high-resolution PET scanners in collaboration with CERN.

In his brief career, Dr. Zaidi has already made substantial research contributions relating to Monte Carlo modeling and image correction for positron emission tomography (PET). He developed an evolutive Monte Carlo simulation package to generate data sets corresponding to the geometry and actual size of most commercial and prototype cylindrical PET scanners, which was successfully implemented on a high-performance parallel platform consisting of several PowerPC processors. He also developed a new PET scatter correction technique and a robust segmentation tool for short transmission scans in whole-body PET based on the fuzzy-clustering approach. More recently, he developed an original method for determining the attenuation map in brain PET imaging using coregistered MRI, and made an exhaustive comparative evaluation of the effect of the attenuation map on absolute and relative quantification in functional brain PET imaging using clinical data.

Dr Zaidi has been an invited keynote speaker at several international events, and is the editor of two textbooks on therapeutic applications of Monte Carlo calculations in nuclear medicine and quantitative analysis in nuclear medicine imaging. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by the medical faculty of Geneva University, which elected him to become Privat-Docent (PD) this year.

He recently joined the Computed Imaging for Medical Imaging (CIMA) collaboration hosted by CERN to work on novel designs of high-resolution, parallax-free Compton enhanced PET scanners based on long scintillation crystals readout on both sides by hybrid photon detectors with integrated readout electronics.

Despite his brief carrier, Dr Zaidi has an excellent academic record and a strong research aptitude and skills. His career has already shown an evolution of logical and powerful ideas related to fundamental issues of image quantification, which merited him the Young Investigator Nuclear and Medical Imaging Science Award for 2003.

Habib Zaidi can be reached at Geneva University Hospital, Division of Nuclear Medicine, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; Phone: +41 22 3727258; Fax: +41 22 3727169; E-mail: habib.zaidi@bcuge.ch.