Throughout his 30-year academic career, Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini, an IEEE and OPTICA Fellow, has developed analytical and simulation tools for evaluating the performance of radio-frequency and optical wireless communication systems. He has also designed and optimized innovative technologies for emerging wireless networks.
Professor Alouini, a co-founder of KAUST’s ECE program, inspires future engineers through his pioneering work in wireless communications. His integrated space-air-ground networks, spectrum sharing schemes, and optical wireless communication systems research shape connectivity’s future and embody KAUST’s scientific excellence and global impact.
Professor Alouini has published numerous conference and journal papers and co-authored the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels, published by Wiley Interscience. A former editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, he also served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal. He was also a series editor for the IEEE Communication Magazine’s Optical Communication and Networks Special Series and the founding field chief editor for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is now the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the Nature Partnership Journal (NPJ) on Wireless Technologies (since 2025) and an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems (since 2022).
Professor Alouini has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society (2016-2017), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2018-2022), the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2023-2024), and the IEEE Photonics Society (2025)
“Neuroengineering is the fusion of neuroscience and engineering. Emerging innovations and technologies from this unexpected fusion are making profound impacts on our way of life, providing new tools and solutions for the industry, medicine and the like.”
Jagadish received the B.Sc. degree from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India in 1977, the M.Sc(Tech) degree from Andhra University, Waltair, India in 1980 and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delhi, India in 1982 and 1986, respectively. He was a Lecturer in Physics and Electronics at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, during 1985-88 and worked at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, during 1988-90 as a post-doctoral fellow. He moved to Australia in 1990 and established a major research program in the field of optoelectronics and nanotechnology. He is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, the Australian National University. He was the Founding Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group (1993-2024), Founding Director of Australian National Fabrication Facility, ACT node (2007-March 2020) and Founding Convenor of the Australian Nanotechnology Network (2006-2020). He holds honorary positions at Oxford University, University of Tokyo, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, University of Hyderabad and National Taiwan University. He has served as Vice-President and Secretary Physical Sciences of the Australian Academy Science during 2012-2016 and as the President(2022-2026). He has served as the President of Australian Materials Research Society (2016-19), IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2008-2009) and IEEE Photonics Society (2018, 2019). His research interests include compound semiconductor optoelectronics, nanotechnology, photovoltaics and neuroscience and neurotechnology.
Jagadish has published more than 1080+ research papers (800 +journal papers), holds 8 US and 1 Australian patents, co-authored a book, co-edited 15 books, guest edited 25 special issues of journals, edited 13 conference proceedings, authored 13 book chapters and 26 review articles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, International Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, International Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Member of US National Academy of Science, US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Royal Society of New South Wales, an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of India, European Academy of Sciences, Andhra Pradesh Akademy of Sciences and Foreign Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of IEEE, APS, MRS, AAAS, OSA, SPIE, AVS, ECS. APAM, AIP, IET, IoP, EMA, CCS, COS, Honorary Member of MRSI.
Jagadish received Peter Baume Award (ANU’s prestigious and highest award) for excellence in research and research leadership. He has also been awarded Australian Federation Fellowship (2004-2009) and Australian Laureate Fellowship (2009-2014) by the Australian Research Council and Distinguished Professor position (2009-2024 )by the Australian National University. He received 2000 IEEE Third Millenium Medal, 2010 The Quantum Device Award from the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS). He has been awarded IEEE Photonics Society 2010 Distinguished Service Award, 2011 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Service Award, 2010 Top Supervisor Award for excellence in research student supervision by the Australian National University, Peter Baume award from the ANU, 2012 Electronics and Photonics Division award of the Electrochemical Society, Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics in 2013, 2015 IEEE Pioneer in Nanotechnology Award, 2015 IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award, 2016 Silver Jubilee International Award from Materials Research Society of India and 2016 Distinguished Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative. He has been appointed as Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) by the Governor General of Australia as part of 2016 Australia Day honours “For eminent service to physics and engineering, particularly in the field of nanotechnology, to education as a leading academic, researcher, author and mentor, and through executive roles with national and international scientific advisory institutions”. He has received 2017 Welker Award from ISCS, 2017 IUMRS Somiya Award, 2018 UNESCO Medal for the development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies, 2018 AVS Nanotechnology Recognition Award, 2019 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal from Australian Academy of Science and Golbal Leadership Award from the President of University of South Florida. 2019 W.H. (Beattie) Steel Medal from the Australian Optical Society, 2019 IEEE Education Award of Electron Devices Society, 2023 Thomas Callinan Award of the Electrochemical Society, 2023 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from the Government of India, presented by the President of India and 2026 IEEE Photonics Award. In 2024 he has received honorary doctorates from the University of Surrey (DUniv) and the Nottingham Trent University (DSc).
Jagadish served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001-2005), as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology(2003-2008) and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology (2011-2018) and an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters (2008-2014). He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Reviews (2020-present) and has served as EIC of Progress in Quantum Electronics (2016-2019), an Editor of the Journal Semiconductor Technology and Science (2009-2023). He chaired many conferences (Program Chair of IEEE NANO2003, San Francisco, Co-Chair ICONN 2006, Brisbane, ICONN 2016, Canberra, Co-Chair, IEEE NMDC 2006, 2008, General Chair, IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting, 2010, Co-Chair of Materials Research Society Fall 2012 Meeting) and served on many international professional society committees. He advises high tech industries in Australia and overseas in the field of photonics and nanotechnology and collaborated with researchers from 30+ different countries.
Jagadish and his wife Vidya have established The Chennupati and Vidya Jagadish Endowment to support students and early career scientists to visit ANU Physics upto 3 months to carry out research and develop collaborative linkages.
Adam Dunkels, PhD, is an independent consultant and a pioneer in the Internet of Things area. Many Internet of Things products run software he has developed, including the Contiki operating system, the uIP and lwIP TCP/IP stacks, and the protothreads programming abstraction.
In the past decade, he has built over 30 IoT products with over a million units shipped in total with both multinational industrial companies and startups.
The MIT Technology Review named him a TR35, top 35 innovator under 35. He has also received the ACM SIGOPS EuroSys Roger Needham award and the ERCIM Cor Baayen award. He is a co-founder of the IPSO Alliance together with a group of major IoT industry vendors. He has authored and co-authored over 80 scientific papers and has served on many top-tier program committees. His book, Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP – the Next Internet”, was co-authored with JP Vasseur and with a foreword by Vint Cerf.
Erika is the current President of the IEEE Engineering Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS), a role she assumed in 2025. As President, she leads a global community of about 14,000 bioengineers across 100 countries.
In addition, Erika is Head of Clinical at Neuralink, a company founded by Elon Musk and pioneering brain computer interfaces to restore neurological function and enhance human cognition. Previously, Erika was Vice President of Global Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality at ONWARD Medical, a neurotechnology company focused on developing neuromodulation therapies for spinal cord injury. The company’s first therapy received FDA approval in December 2023, with plans to seek approval in additional global markets in 2024.
Previously, Erika was the Director of Clinical & Applied Research at Abbott, where she oversaw the development of neuromodulation research strategies, focusing on emerging healthcare trends and technologies. She worked to create next-generation treatments for chronic conditions like Parkinson’s Disease and chronic pain.
Before joining Abbott, Erika was the Neuroscience Director at Cala Health, a Stanford Biodesign-incubated startup developing a non-invasive, digitally enabled neuromodulation solution for Essential Tremor patients. She played a key role in the company’s growth, leading the development of their digital health architecture and commercialization efforts.
Erika’s earlier career included serving as Assistant Professor of Neurologic Surgery and Deputy Director of the Surgical Device Innovation Accelerator at the Mayo Clinic. There, she developed innovative neuromodulation and surgical solutions to address unmet patient needs and collaborated with physician and healthcare professional entrepreneurs. She also led neuromodulation research as an Investigator under multiple DARPA-funded neuroplasticity training projects.
Erika holds a BS in Biology and Neuroscience, an MS in Molecular Biology from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Neural Engineering), with a focus on Deep Brain Stimulation, from the Mayo Clinic.
Prof. Fang has been working in the MEMS field for more than 20 years. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) in 1995. His doctoral research focused on the determining of the mechanical properties of thin films using MEMS structures. He joined the Power Mechanical Engineering Department at the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) in 1996, where he is now a Chair Professor as well as a faculty of NEMS Institute. From June to September 1999, he was at California Inst. of Tech. as a visiting associate. He became the IEEE Fellow in 2015 to recognize his contribution in MEMS area.
As Vice-Rector for Research at NOVA, she led a structural transformation in the university’s research support system, established the Strategic Council for Science, created the NOVA Science journal and NOVA Science Day, and restructured the Research Support Office to focus on scientific strategy, project management, and research information systems. During this time, she also championed gender equality, coordinating the SPEAR project and founding the Office for Equality and Inclusion.
She served as Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, providing direct scientific advice to EU Commissioners and coordinating strategic studies on technologies for carbon capture and sustainable mobility within the EU’s Scientific Advice Mechanism.
Scientifically, she directed the Associated Laboratory i3N, a European reference in advanced materials, sustainable electronics, and nanotechnology, which has secured twelve ERC grants, hundreds of international projects, and dozens of patents. Under her leadership, i3N became the most prominent research institute in Portugal in Materials Science and Nanotechnology, pioneering the first national PhD program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies.
Her achievements have earned her over 50 national and international honors, including the Pessoa Prize, the European Commission Horizon Impact Award, the Human Rights Medal of the Portuguese Parliament, and recognition as one of the 27 most inspiring women in Europe by the French Presidency of the EU.
Beyond her scientific contributions, she is a passionate advocate for science education as a driver of social and economic development, promoting STEM fields, gender equality, and the training of new generations of scientists. She regularly participates in international conferences, forums, and science outreach initiatives, affirming science as a tool for inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability. Her vision integrates research, innovation, science policy, and civic commitment—reflected in a career of real, transformative, and lasting impact in service of society.
Professor Gao’s primary research interest is in the development of novel bioelectronic devices for personalized and precision medicine: wearable and flexible biosensors that can analyze the various biomarkers in body fluids for real-time continuous health monitoring and early diagnosis, and synthetic micro/nanomachines for rapid drug delivery and precision surgery. His research thrusts include fundamental materials innovation as well as practical device and system level applications in translational medicine.
2026 IEEE President-Elect
Jill I. Gostin is a Principal Research Scientist Emeritus at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), where her work focused on sensor systems and software. She also served as the systems engineering, integration, and test lead in the software engineering and architecture division. Her publications, service and technical awards, large program management, and leadership of groups including industry, government, and academia have contributed to her career success.
She has served IEEE extensively, including three years on the IEEE Board of Directors, as 2023 IEEE Vice President of Member and Geographic Activities and 2020-2021 Region 3 Director. She is a former chair of the IEEE Atlanta Section and the IEEE Computer Society’s Atlanta Chapter. Gostin served on the IEEE Computer and IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems societies’ boards of governors and was the vice president of finance for the Sensor Council’s Executive Committee. She has also led or been a member of several IEEE organizational units and committees, locally and globally.
Her leadership has been recognized by being named 2016 Woman of the Year by Georgia Women in Technology and receiving the 2025 IEEE Women in Technology & Leadership Award.
Roger T. Howe is the William E. Ayer Professor, Emeritus, in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He earned a B.S. degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and 1984. After faculty positions at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1984-1985 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1985-1987, he returned to Berkeley where he was a Professor until 2005.
His research interests include micro electromechanical system (MEMS) design, micro/nanomachining processes, and self-assembly processes. A major focus of his research from the early 1980s until 2010 was technologies for integrated microsystems, which incorporate both silicon integrated circuits and micromechanical structrures. From 2010-2020, his research shifted to nano electromechanical systems (NEMS), for applications ranging from chemical sensors to relays and logic devices. Prof. Howe has made contributions to the design of MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes, electrostatic actuators, and microresonators. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1996, was co-recipient of the 1998 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2005. In 2015, he was co-recipient of the inaugural IEEE Electron Devices Society Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems Award for his contributions to MEMS processes, devices, and systems, as well as the 2015 IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award. He was a co-founder of Silicon Clocks, Inc., which commercialized poly-SiGe integrated MEMS-on-CMOS for timing applications, and which was acquired by Silicon Laboratories, Inc., in April 2010. In December 2015, he co-founded ProbiusDx, based on research in his group on label-free biomolecular sensing platforms.
From December 2009 through September 2017, he was the Faculty Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) and was the Acting Faculty Director from May 2020 through September 2021. From 2011-2015, he was the Director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). From September – December 2018, he was a Visiting Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. In April 2023, he became an emeritus professor and was recalled at halftime through March 2025.
Stanford University, USA
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Rakesh has a distinguished semiconductor industry career, is an entrepreneur, and an educator. He is the founder of two start-ups and has made many technical and leadership contributions at Cadence, Unisys, and Motorola. He has developed leading semiconductor technologies. As VP and & GM at Cadence he built a successful Silicon Technology services business championing the integration of silicon, design and EDA in chip and system design. He enabled the Fabless industry revolution and authored McGraw Hill’s “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, was inducted into the Technical Activities Hall of Honor. His many IEEE contribution include Chair of the President’s Data AdHoc & Roadmaps Committees, Co-Chair of DataPort, Past-President of SSCS, TA Chair for 3 Sections Congresses. He teaches Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego.
He received the EE Ph.D. and M.S. from Univ. Rochester (1974, 1971), BTech. from IIT-Delhi (1969), and Executive “MBA” from UCSD (1989.)
Prof. Lumelsky holds Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, 1970, from Institute of Control Sciences (ICS), National Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and BS/MS in Computer Science from ITMO University (former LITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia. Prior to moving to USA in 1975, he held academic positions with ICS, doing research in pattern recognition and automatic control, and teaching as adjunct professor at Moscow Institute of Radio-Electronics & Automation. Thereafter he worked in USA industry, academia, and federal government, holding research and faculty positions with: 1976-80, Ford Motor Co. Scientific Labs, Dearborn MI; 1980-85, General Electric Co. Research, Schenectady NY; 1985-90, Associate Professor, Yale University; 1991-2004, Chaired Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with joint appointments at Mechanical Engrg, Electrical Engrg, Computer Science, and Mathematics departments. In 1999-2001 Dr. Lumelsky held the administrative position of Program Director at National Science Foundation and NSF Representative at USA South Pole Station. In 2004-2012 he worked as senior resercher at NASA-Goddard Space Center, leading the space robotics laboratory and doing research in flight dynamics; concurrrently he was adjunct professor, University of Maryland-College Park. He held visiting professor positions at Tokyo Institute of Science, Japan (1987), Weizmann Institute, Israel (1998); Weston Visiting Professor, Math & CS Dept, Weizmann Institute (2014-2015). Dr. Lumelsky is currently Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and independent consultant. He has been consulting widely for industry, NSF, DoD/DARPA, European Commission, other countries, and as technical witness/expert in court litigation. Dr. Lumelsky has authored over 250 publications (books, journals, conferences, reports); is Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Sensors Journal; served as President of IEEE Sensors Council. He is Fellow of Rockefeller Bellagio Center, and IEEE Life Fellow.
She was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and of Computing Now, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. She has contributed to numerous IEEE international cConferences/Symposia/Workshops/Summits/Meetings as General/Program Chair/Co-Chair (19 times), technical program committee member (more than 100 times), and keynote/invited speaker/panelist (more than 50 times).
She has published (more than 200 papers) in international journals/Proceedings of international peer-reviewed conferences on test and test-oriented design of electronic circuits/systems, on reliable, safe, secure and fault-resilient electronic circuits/systems, on circuits/systems for Artificial Intelligence (AI), on fault tolerance techniques, on error-correcting codes, secure communication protocols, photovoltaic and energy harvesting systems, emerging technologies. Her research has received public and private funding (e.g., from the EU, the Italian Ministries MISE and MIUR, and from Industries such as Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics, Alstom Transport, Thales, etc.) at national and international level.
She is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, and a member of the IEEE Honor Society IEEE-HKN. She received two Meritorious Service Awards, eight Certificates of Appreciation, and the Spirit of the Computer Society award from the IEEE Computer Society.
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Dr Anil K. Roy is a Visiting Professor at Plaksha. He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee, and earned his PhD in Physics from IIT Delhi in 1993. Prior to joining Plaksha, he was with DA-IICT, Gandhinagar for 22 years where he taught courses such as Introduction to ICT, Engineering Design Workshop, Engineered Materials, Electromagnetic Theory, Solid State Devices, and Optical Fiber Communication. He has also worked at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and later at the Optical Fiber Group, IIT Delhi.
Dr Roy is a senior member of IEEE, a member of Optica (formerly OSA), and a member of the Optical Society of India. He currently serves as the President-elect of the IEEE Sensors Council (2024–2025), the largest technical council within IEEE. He has also served as Chair of the IEEE Conference Publications Committee (2019–2020).
His honors include the 2019 IEEE India Council Section Chair Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2017 IEEE Sensors Council Meritorious Service Award, the 2012 IEEE MGA Leadership Award, and the 2010 IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer
Bassam Saadany, CTO and co-founder of Si-Ware Systems. Bringing MEMS products to market, at Si-Ware his group developed the world’s first single-chip FT spectrometer. With more than 25 years of experience in photonics and semiconductor industry, his background includes R&D as well as business management. Bassam is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications and holds more than 50 patents.
He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and the PhD in MEMS and Nanostructures from the University of Paris XI, France. Bassam is the principal inventor of SiMOSTTM technology enabling micro fabrication of optical systems on a single chip.
Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and after spending 3 years in the industry as a senior architect and project manager, joined as Assistant Professor the same University, where since 2012 he has been a Full Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the Discover Laboratory, doing research in AI-assisted measurements, especially vision-based measurement, IoT measurements, and multimedia and network measurements. The results of his research, funded by more than $28 million from public and private sectors, have led to over 400 publications, 4 Best Paper awards, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, 30+ patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and a number of awards. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement from 2017 to 2021, the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine in 2014 and 2015, and is currently on the latter’s editorial board.
He has been an IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) AdCom member since 2014, currently serves as its Executive Vice President, and was a Board of Directors member of IMS’s flagship conference IEEE I2MTC from 2014 to 2016.
Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements”, winner of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, winner of the 2021 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award, winner of the 2023 IEEE IMS Technical Award “for contributions to the advancement of machine learning-assisted measurements”, a Senior Member of the ACM, a University of Ottawa Gold Medalist, and a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario.
Nobukazu Teranishi is a specially appointed professor at Shizuoka University. Since 1978, he has developed image sensors at NEC Corporation (1978 – 2000) , Panasonic Corporation (2000 -2013), University of Hyogo (2013 – 2022), and Shizuoka University (2013 – Present). His leadership and image sensor technology development, including the pinned photodiode invention, were honored by the government organizations as well as societies; He won the National Invention Awards, Commendation by Minister of State for Science and Technology, Niwa-Takayanagi Award from the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE), IEEE EDS J. J. Ebers Award, a Fellow of the ITE, and a Fellow of the IEEE, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, an Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award. He co-founded the IISS and was its 2nd President. He has authored and co-authored 46 journal papers and holds 46 Japanese patents and 21 US patents.
Nobukazu Teranishi
Shizuoka University, Japan
Nobukazu Teranishi is now Specially Appointed Professor at Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University. He has been developing CCD image sensors and CMOS image sensors at NEC, Panasonic, University of Hyogo and Shizuoka University for 48 years. He is the inventor of pinned photodiode technology, which is used at almost all CCD image sensors and CMOS image sensors to achieve low dark current, large saturation, no image lag and low noise. Under his leadership, many image sensors have been developed, which are for movies, digital still cameras, mobile phone cameras, medical use cameras, broadcast cameras and so on. He is a laureate of Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Purple Medal from the Emperor, IEEE EDS J. J. Ebbers Award, Emmy award. He is a founder of International Image Sensor Society (IISS) and served as the president of IISS. He also served as guest editors for special issues on image sensors including IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He has authored and co-authored 47 journal papers and holds 46 Japanese patents and 21 US patents.
John Paul Verboncoeur is an American electrical engineer and computational plasma physicist. He is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computational mathematics, science, and engineering at Michigan State University, where he also serves as senior associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Engineering.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for contributions to computational plasma physics and plasma device applications.
Verboncoeur is the author and coauthor of the MSU (formerly Berkeley) suite of particle-in-cell Monte Carlo (PIC-MC) plasma simulation codes, including XPDP1 and XOOPIC, which have been used by more than 1,000 researchers worldwide.[3] He has served in senior leadership roles within the IEEE, including as president of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (2015–2016), IEEE Division IV director (2019–2020), and vice president of IEEE Technical Activities (2023).
