NEW IEEE NPSS FELLOWS

Ed. note: Each year IEEE NPSS honors its new Fellows by presenting their biographies in the Newsletter. In the March Newsletter we included those nominated and elevated through NPSS except for Edward Petersen. His biography is included here, as well as those of two other NPSS members nominated through other societies. Dr. Harrison Barrett was also elevated to Fellow for contributions to medical imaging, image processing and optics. We are very proud of our Fellows and again congratulate the entire class of 2005.

Edward Petersen

Edward Petersen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Oregon State in 1954 and 1956, and his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from UCLA in 1966. From 1963 through 1969, he taught at San Fernando Valley State College and Oberlin College. In 1969, he joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) cyclotron branch as a research physicist. He has 25 publications in nuclear physics. In 1980, he transferred to the NRL Radiation Effects branch as a research physicist. He was a section head of the Satellite Survivability Section from 1983 until he retired in 1993. Since that time, he has continued to be active as a consultant.
As Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) (now the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)) program area reviewer for Single Event Effects (SEU) Research from 1983 to 1993, he gained a broad overview of radiation effects research. Dr. Petersen led efforts under DNA sponsorship to impart importance of single event phenomena to the space community and to the VHSIC manufacturers in 1982 to 1985. During the peak of the SDI efforts (1985-1992), he was program manager for research in Neutral Particle Beam Radiation Effects in Electronics for the Survivability and Lethality Programs. He was also an advisor to the VLSI Radiation Hardening Program. He was program chairperson for the semiannual SEU Symposium from 1982 to 1994. Dr. Petersen was guest editor of a Single Event Upset Special Issue, and for two issues of the HEART Conference proceedings, for the Journal of Radiation Effects R&E.
Dr. Petersen has primarily attacked the engineering problem of estimation of upset rates in proposed satellite systems. This enables system designers to determine the severity of the error problem, and the necessity and choice of error toleration or elimination techniques. He has performed several critical reviews of the problems of both proton and heavy ion upset rate predictions and originated or studied various calculational approaches. His work has shown that measurements of space-upset rates are consistent with predictions based on laboratory experiments. He has presented general recommendations for data requirements in ground and space experiments. He has over 30 papers on radiation effects, the majority dealing with various aspects of the single event problem.
Dr. Petersen has been active in the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Conference (NSREC). He has often served as a reviewer and has served as session chairperson and on the awards committee. He was an elected member at large on the NSREC Steering Committee from 1990 to 1993. He presented Single Event Effect Tutorials at the NSREC Short course in 1983 and 1997. Dr. Petersen was awarded the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Radiation Effects Award in 1998.
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of upset rate calculations for microelectronics in space environments.
Edward Petersen can be reached at 17289 Kettlebrook Landing, Jeffersonton, VA 22724 USA. Phone: +1 540-937-6231. E-mail: epetersen3@earthlink.net.

Jeffrey Fessler

Jeff Fessler received the BSEE degree from Purdue University in 1985, the MSEE degree from Stanford University in 1986, and the M.S. degree in Statistics from Stanford University in 1989. From 1985 to 1988 he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Stanford, where he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1990.
From 1991 to 1992 he was a Department of Energy Alexander Hollaender Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Michigan. From 1993-1995 he was an Assistant Professor in Nuclear Medicine and the Bioengineering Program of the University of Michigan. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Division of Nuclear Medicine of the Department of Radiology.
He is an IEEE Fellow, a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and a current Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. His research interests are in statistical aspects of medical imaging.
Citation: For contributions to theory and practice of image reconstruction.
Jeff Fessler can be reached at the University of Michigan, Dept. EECS, 1301 Beal St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 USA; Phone: +1 734 763 1434 ; E-mail: fessler@umich.edu.

Douglass E. Post

Douglass E. Post has been developing and applying large-scale multi-physics simulations for almost 35 years. He is currently the Chief Scientist of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program and a member of the senior technical staff of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. He also leads the multi-institutional DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems Existing Code Analysis team. Doug received a Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University in 1975 in experimental molecular physics where he held Fellowships from the NSF, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. He was a principal research physicist at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory and led the tokamak modeling group there from 1975 to 1993. He was the US physics and impurity control delegate to the International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR) Project from 1980 through 1987. He served as head of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Joint Central Team Physics Project Unit (1988-1990), and head of ITER Joint Central Team In-vessel Physics Group (1993-1998). More recently, he was the A-X Associate Division Leader for Simulation at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1998-2000) and the Deputy X Division Leader for Simulation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001-2002), positions that involved leadership of major portions of the US nuclear weapons simulation program. He has published over 230 refereed papers, conference papers and books in computational, experimental and theoretical physics and software engineering that have received over 5000 citations. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Nuclear Society. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers this year “for contributions to fusion science and modeling, and related software engineering.” These included the development of computational tools for predicting the behavior of tokamak plasmas and the radiation losses from plasmas, leadership of fusion projects (especially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor physics project unit from 1988 through 1990), leadership in the simulation of nuclear explosives, and the development of software engineering and software project management practices for large-scale computational science and engineering projects. He serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the joint AIP/IEEE publication Computing in Science and Engineering. His current research interests focus on software engineering for large-scale computational scientific and engineering projects.
Citation: For contributions to fusion science and modeling, and related software engineering.
Douglass E. Post can be reached at DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, 1010 North Glebe Road, Suite 510, Arlington, VA 22201; Phone +1 703 812-8205; Fax:+1 703 812-9701; E-mail: post@hpcmo.hpc.mil.