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H. Joel Trussell
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
H. Joel Trussell received his B.S. in Math from Georgia Tech (1967), M.S. in Math from Florida State (1968), and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico (1976). He worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1969 to 1980 in image and signal processing. During 1978–79, he was a visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, working with both the university and with industry on image processing problems. In 1980, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, where he is now a professor. He was Director of Graduate Programs (2002–2010) for ECE. During 1988–89, he was a visiting scientist at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, USA. He was visiting scientist for Color Savvy Systems in 1997–98. He was a visiting fellow commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK (6 months, 2007), and Visiting Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA (6 months, 2008).
Derek Abbott
University of Adelaide
Derek Abbott obtained his B.Sc. in Physics at Loughborough University of Technology, UK, and completed his Ph.D., with recommendation for distinction, in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He worked for nine years at the GEC Hirst Research Centre, London, on infrared and visible image sensors, requiring discipline in VLSI design, optoelectronics, device physics, semiconductor noise, fabrication, and testing. He has worked with both novel and standard technologies including nMOS, CMOS, CCD, SOS, GaAs, and vacuum microelectronics. Since emigrating to Australia, he has worked for Austek Microsystems, Technology Park, SA; has been with the University of Adelaide since 1987; and is a lecturer within the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is a founder member and Deputy Director of the Centre for High Performance Integrated Systems and Technologies, Adelaide, instituted in 1987. He has been consultant to various UK and Australian defense and industry organizations. His current research interests are in the areas of VLSI, GaAs, photodetectors, smart sensors, imaging devices, device physics, and noise. His most recent contribution is the discovery of a new photovoltaic self-biasing internal gain effect within planar GaAs MESFETs.
Tulay Adali
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
Tulay Adali received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 1992 and joined the faculty at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, USA, the same year. She is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC. Her research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, machine learning for signal processing, and biomedical data analysis. She has published more than 300 refereed articles, 100 of which are in journals, and a book in these areas. She has been very active in conference and workshop organizations and has served on numerous editorial boards as associate editor and advisory board member. Prof. Adali is a Fellow of IEEE and the AIMBE, recipient of a 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and an NSF CAREER Award. She is an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2012 and 2013.
Silvio E. Barbin
University of São Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silvio E. Barbin received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 1974 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the same institution. He worked for AEG-Telefunken in Germany and Brazil and served as CTO of Microline RF-Multiplexers and Deputy Director of Center for Information Technology RenatoArcher from the Ministery of Science and Technology in Brazil. He was a research scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, and a research professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. He has published more than 90 papers in conferences and journals. In 1987 he joined the Telecommunications and Control Engineering Department at University of Sao Paulo, where he is a Professor in Electromagnetics and other related subjects. His research interests are in the areas of cognitive radio, reconfigurable and smart antennas, microwave circuits, and electromagnetic modeling. Dr. Barbin is a co-founder of the Brazilian Microwave Society and a member of several other scientific societies. He was honored professor for a number of times at his university. He is a member-at-large of the Products Services Publications Board and an Associated Editor for Antennas Wireless and Propagation Letters.
Sankar Basu
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA, USA
Sankar Basu is a permanent member of NSF scientific staff and is a program Director. He came to NSF from the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center at the beginning of fiscal year 2003. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, he served on the faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology, where he taught and conducted funded research (Air-Force, NSF), and for a brief period was with the Naval Underwater Systems Center, CT, USA, as a visiting senior scientist. He has visited the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (MA, USA) for extended periods. At NSF his primary responsibilities include Design Automation for Micro and Nano-Systems, which includes VLSI CAD, micro-fluidics, mixed signals systems and nano-computing architectures. Dr. Basu's past research interests had been in the analytical aspects circuits, signals, and systems. At IBM, he worked on statistical learning, speech, and multimedia data retrieval, and has extensively published on filter synthesis, image processing, nonlinear modeling techniques.
Jón Atli Benediktsson
University of Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland
Jón Atli Benediktsson received the Cand.Sci. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, in 1984, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He is currently Pro Rector for Academic Affairs and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iceland. His research interests are in remote sensing, biomedical analysis of signals, pattern recognition, image processing, and signal processing, and he has published extensively in those fields. Prof. Benediktsson was the 2011‐2012 President of the IEEE Geoscience and and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and has been on the GRSS AdCom since 2000. He was Editor‐in‐Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) from 2003 to 2008 and has served as Associate Editor of TGRS since 1999 and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters since 2003. He was the Chairman of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J‐STARS) 2007‐2010. Prof. Benediktsson is a co-founder of the biomedical start up company Oxymap. He received the Stevan J. Kristof Award from Purdue University in 1991 as outstanding graduate student in remote sensing. In 1997, Dr. Benediktsson was the recipient of the Icelandic Research Council's Outstanding Young Researcher Award, in 2000, he was granted the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, in 2004, he was a co‐recipient of the University of Iceland's Technology Innovation Award, in 2006 he received the yearly research award from the Engineering Research Institute of the University of Iceland, and in 2007, he received the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. He is co‐recipient of the 2012 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Paper Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and of SPIE, and a member of Societas Scinetiarum Islandica and Tau Beta Pi.
Dushan Boroyevich
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Dushan Boroyevich received his Dipl.Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1976 and his M.S. from the University of Novi Sad in 1982, both in Yugoslavia. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, USA. From 1986 to 1990, he was Assistant Professor and Director of the Power and Industrial Electronics Research Program in the Institute for Power and Electronic Engineering at the University of Novi Sad, and later, acting Head of the Institute. He then joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech as associate professor. He is now the American Electric Power Professor at the Department and Codirector of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). Since 1998, Dushan Boroyevich together with Prof. Fred Lee has led the team of over 20 professors and over 200 students in the US National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). His research interests include multi-phase power conversion, electronic power distribution systems, power electronics systems modeling and control, and multi-disciplinary design optimization.
Babu Chalamala
SunEdison, Inc.
St. Peters, MO, USA
Babu Chalamala is an elected Fellow of the Technical Staff at SunEdison, where he leads R&D and product development in grid scale energy storage. Prior to joining MEMC/SunEdison in 2011, for six years he led two startup ventures, first at Indocel Technologies commercializing large format lithium batteries, followed by Stellarray, where he led the development of digital X-ray sources. Earlier, he was a manager and principal staff scientist at Motorola. He started his professional career at the Central Research Laboratories of Texas Instruments. He has been an active volunteer of IEEE and the Materials Research Society for over 20 years. He served as General Chair of the 2006 MRS Fall Meeting, and currently serves on the Technical Program Committee and Awards Subcommittee of the MRS. He was a member of the Technical Council of IEEE Photonics Society and chaired the Technical Committee on Displays for three years. In 2001, he led an IEEE-wide initiative launching the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology and chaired the Steering Committee of the new journal for three years. He received a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of North Texas.
Kun-Shan Chen
Chinese Academy of Science
Beijing, China
Kun-Shan Chen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, in 1990. Since 1992, he has been with the faculty of the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, where he served as Director from 2001 to 2004 and has held a remote sensing chair professorship since 2008. He has been the Director of the Communication System Research Center at the same university. He is awarded a distinguished visiting chair professorship from the National United University in Taiwan in 2009 for a six‐year term. He has authored and coauthored over 100 refereed journal papers, contributed five book chapters, and is a coauthor (with A. K. Fung) of the book Microwave Scattering and Emission Models for Users (Reading, MA: Artech House, 2010). His research interests include image processing and analysis of remote sensing data, remote sensing for natural hazards and disasters, and microwave scattering and emission theory and modeling from terrain with applications to environmental watch and resource investigation, and wireless communications. Dr. Chen received an outstanding contribution award from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in 2009 for his long‐term involvement in cooperative research on rupture deformation and subsidence in Vietnam. He also received the 2012 distinguished award of the National Science Council. He was a guest editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING Special Issue on Remote Sensing for Major Disaster Prevention, Monitoring and Assessment (2007), a founding chair of the GRSS Taipei Chapter, an associate editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2000Y2011), the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING (2008-2010), of which he is now an Associate Editor. He has been actively involved in establishing a GRSS link to Asia and Southeast Asia, in lines of natural disaster monitoring by remote sensing.
Steinar Dale
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Steinar Dale is Director - Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL, USA, since 2003. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) the Office of Naval Research on electric ship power systems, including the ONR Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium of eight universities. From 1992 to 2003 he held management positions with ABB in Raleigh, NC, USA. From 1984 to 1992 he was with the ORNL in Oak Ridge, TN, USA. From 1976 to 1984, he worked for the Westinghouse R&D Center in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. In 1986-87, he served as a Congressional Science Fellow (IEEE) in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA. Dale was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1990. He is past Chairman of the Coalition for the Commercial Applications of Superconductors. Dale earned a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, in Electrical Engineering in 1976.
Yogesh B. Gianchandani
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Yogesh B. Gianchandani received a B.S., M.S, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on microelectronics and MEMS. He is presently a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, with a primary appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and a courtesy appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He also serves as the Director for the Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS). Dr. Gianchandani's research interests include all aspects of design, fabrication, and packaging of micromachined sensors and actuators. He has published about 250 papers in journals and conferences and has about 30 US patents issued or pending. He was a Chief Co-Editor of Comprehensive Microsystems: Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications, published in 2008. He serves several journals as an editor or a member of the editorial board, and served as a General Co-Chair for the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in 2002. From 2007 to 2009 he also served at the National Science Foundation as the program director for Micro and Nano Systems within the Electrical, Communication, and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS). Dr. Gianchandani is a Fellow of IEEE.
J. Michael Golio
Golio Endeavors
Mesa, AZ, USA
J. Michael Golio has served in a variety of volunteer roles for the IEEE MTT-Society and ED-Society. He is the author of hundreds of technical papers, book chapters, and presentations, and the editor of eight engineering handbooks. He also authored Engineering Your Retirement, an IEEE/Wiley book that helps to prepare engineers for a successful and satisfying retirement. In 2002 he was given the IEEE MTT-Society's N. Walter Cox Award for exemplary service in a spirit of selfless dedication and cooperation. Dr. Golio has held a variety of positions in both the microwave and semiconductor industries, and within academia. As Director of Engineering at two Fortune 500 companies, he directed large R&D organizations. Prior to this, Mike conducted pioneering work on large signal microwave device modeling. He served as an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University where he conducted research in nonlinear modeling. IEEE recognized this work by making Dr. Golio a Fellow of the Institute in 1996.
Simon Haykin
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Simon Haykin received his B.Sc. (first-class honors), Ph.D., and D.Sc., all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the recipient of the Henry Booker Gold Medal from URSI, 2002, the honorary degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences from ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland, 1999, and many other medals and prizes. He is a pioneer in adaptive signal-processing with emphasis on applications in radar and communications, an area of research, which has occupied much of his professional life. In the mid-1980s, he shifted the thrust of his research effort in the direction of Neural Computation, which was re-emerging at that time. All along, he had the vision of revisiting the fields of radar and communications from a brand new perspective. Cognitive radio and cognitive radar are two important parts of a much wider and integrative field: cognitive dynamic systems, research into which has become his passion. His new book entitled Cognitive Dynamic Systems: Perception-action cycle, radar and radio, to be published by Cambridge University Press in October 2011, will be the first book written on this subject.
Bahram Javidi
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA
Bahram Javidi is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at University of Connecticut, CT, USA. He has been recognized by nine best-paper awards and named Fellow of eight societies, including IEEE, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Optical Society of America, European Optical Society, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and Guggenheim Foundation. He received the 2008 Donald G. Fink Prize chosen among all IEEE Transactions and Journals. He was the recipient of 2010 George Washington University's Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award. In 2007, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded him the Humboldt Prize for outstanding scientist. He received the Dennis Gabor Award and Technology Achievement Award from SPIE in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, in 1980 and an M.S. in 1982. He also received a Ph.D. in 1986 in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA. He has held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, United States Air Force Rome Lab at Hanscom Air Force Base, University of Stuttgart, and Thomson-CSF Research Labs in Orsay, France. He has been a consultant to government and industry in the areas of optical systems, imaging, and 3D visualization and displays.
Nan Marie Jokerst
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Nan Marie Jokerst is the J.A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and the Executive Director of the Duke Shared Material Instrumentation Facility (Cleanroom and Characterization Labs). Her Ph.D. and M.S. are in Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California, CA, USA), and her B.S. is in Physics (Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA). She served on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years, and on the Duke University faculty for nine years. She is an IEEE Fellow and an OSA Fellow, and her awards include a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Newport Research Award, IEEE Third Millenium Medal, and IEEE Rigas Medal. She is a member of the National Academies Board on Global Science and Technology. Dr. Jokerst has published over 300 journal and conference papers and eight patents. Her research includes integrated optoelectronics, biomedical photonic imaging, biochemical sensing, lasers integrated onto Si, plasmonics, and metamaterials.
Takeo Kanade
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Takeo Kanade is the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and the director of Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After holding a faculty position in the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. He was the Director of the Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001. He also founded the Digital Human Research Center in Tokyo and served as the founding director from 2001 to 2010. Dr. Kanade works in multiple areas of robotics: computer vision, multi‐media, manipulators, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics and sensors. He has written more than 400 technical papers and reports in these areas and holds more than 20 patents. He has been the principal investigator of more than a dozen major vision and robotics projects at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Kanade has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, a Founding Fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the former and founding editor of International Journal of Computer Vision. Awards he received include the Franklin Institute Bower Prize, ACM/AAAI Newell Award, Okawa Award, C&C Award, Tateishi Grand Prize, Joseph Engelberger Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award, FIT Accomplishment Award, and IEEE PAMI‐TC Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Accomplishment Award.
Joy Laskar
VP Advanced Technologies
Cupertino, CA, USA
Joy Laskar is currently a Partner at Anayas360, an investment and advisory group in Silicon Valley, which he co-founded after serving two years at InSite Partners. From 1992 to 2011, Dr. Laskar held faculty positions at the University of Hawaii, HI, USA, and at Georgia Tech (GT), GA, USA. At GT, he was the Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics and founded the Georgia Electronic Design Center. Dr. Laskar's technical expertise and research contributions are at the intersection of Radio Frequency Electronics, Analog Electronics and Electromagnetics. He has co-authored five textbooks and has published more than 600 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 60 patents (issued or pending), and graduated 41 Ph.D. students. He has presented more than 50 invited or plenary talks and received nine best-paper awards. Dr. Laskar's research has developed four product/technology segments: GaAs high performance EVM power amplifiers (designed in on the Intel Centrino Platform), CMOS Equalizer/Retimer Solution (designed in on the Apple Thunderbolt), CMOS RF Amplifier, Antenna Impedance Tuner for LTE (Qualcomm RF360), and Low-Power mmW Gigabit Wireless (for backhaul and wireless docking). The economic impact of these developments is more than $1 billion.
Gianluca Lazzi
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Gianluca Lazzi is a USTAR Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Prior to his appointment at the University of Utah, he was a professor (2006 to present), an associate professor (2003 to 2006), and an assistant professor (1999 to 2003) with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA. He has been a visiting researcher with the Italian National Board for New Technologies, Energy, and Environment (ENEA) (1994), a visiting researcher with the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1994–1995), and a research associate (1995–1998) and research assistant professor (1998–1999) with the University of Utah, UT, USA. He has authored or coauthored over 100 international journal papers or conference presentations on implantable devices, medical applications of electromagnetic fields, antenna design, FDTD modeling, dosimetry, and bioelectromagnetics. Dr. Lazzi was the Chair of Commission K (Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine) of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (2006–2008).
Insup Lee
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Insup Lee is the Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Director of PRECISE Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 1983. He was CSE Undergraduate Curriculum Chair from September 1994 to August 1997. His research interests include cyber physical systems (CPS), real‐time systems, embedded systems, formal methods and tools, medical device systems, and software engineering. The theme of his research activities has been to assure and improve the correctness, safety, and timeliness of life‐critical embedded systems. In collaboration with his colleagues and students, he has been working on: Temporal Scope and Timed Atomic Commitment for real‐time systems; specification, analysis, and testing techniques based on real‐time process algebra (ACSR); a hierarchical specification language for hybrid systems (CHARON); the first runtime verification (RV) system called (MaC) that that can be used to assure the correctness of a running system through monitoring and checking of safety and QoS properties; compositional analysis techniques for hierachical real‐time systems (CARTS); high‐confidence medical device software and systems (HCMDSS); and quantitative trust management (QTM) that combines policy‐based trust management with reputation‐based trust management. Since the inception of CPS, he has been working in the area of medical cyber physical systems. He has also served on various steering and advisory committees of technical societies, including CPSWeek, ESWeek, ACM SIGBED, IEEE TC‐RTS, RV, ATVA. He has served on the editorial boards on the several scientific journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, Formal Methods in System Design, and Real‐Time Systems Journal. He is a founding co‐Editor‐in‐Chief of KIISE Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE) since Sept 2007. He was a member of Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Networking and Information Technology (NIT). He is IEEE fellow and received IEEE TC‐RTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award in 2008.
Yilu Liu
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN, USA
Yilu Liu, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, VA, USA, has been elected a Fellow of IEEE for her contributions to modeling and diagnostic techniques for power systems. Since joining the Virginia Tech faculty in 1990, Liu has received a number of honors and grants, including the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award and the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award. Liu's research has led to Virginia Tech's position as a world leader in power transformer diagnosis. Liu is the Director of the Virginia Tech Power Information Technology Laboratory. Among her research group's initiatives are the Global Positioning System/Internet-based national power system frequency monitoring network and the Virtual Hospital for Power Equipment, a Web site that offers free diagnostic services for the power industry. Liu received an undergraduate degree in her native China and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, OH, USA.
Jianguo Ma
Tianjin University
Tianjin, China
Jianguo Ma received a B.Sc. from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, in 1982, and a doctoral degree in engineering from Duisburg University, Duisburg, Germany. He was with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from October 1997 to November 2005 as a faculty member, where he was also the founding director of the Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems. From December 2005 to October 2009, he was with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. Since October 2009 he has served as the Dean for the School of Electronic Information Engineering in Tianjin University. He has served as the founding director of the Center for IC & Computing Systems of Tianjin since May 2010. His research interests are: RFICs and RF integrated systems for wireless, RF device characterization modeling, MMIC, RF/Microwave Circuits & Systems, EMI in wireless, RFID & wireless sensing network. He has published about 269 technical papers, six US patents granted and 15 filed/granted China patents, and two books. Dr. Ma served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters from January 2004 to December 2005. He founded the IEEE EDS Chengdu Chapter.
H. Troy Nagle
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
H. Troy Nagle earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama, AL, USA, in 1964 and 1966, respectively. His education continued with a Ph.D from Auburn University, AL, USA, in 1968 and a M.D. from University of Miami, FL, USA, in 1981. Nagle is a professor at North Carolina State University, NC, USA. He served as Founding Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department from 2003 to 2009. Professor Nagle focuses his teaching and research on biomedical sensors and medical devices and in recent years has been active in research projects in electronic olfaction. Nagle was made a Fellow of IEEE in 1983. He was IEEE President in 1994.
Khalil Najafi
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Khalil Najafi is the Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan since September 2008. He served as the Director of the Solid-State Electronics Laboratory from 1998-2005, has been the director of NSF's National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) since 2004, and the deputy director of the NSF ERC on Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS) at the University of Michigan. He received the B.S., M.S., and the Ph.D. degrees in 1980, 1981, and 1986, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, uSA. His research interests include: micromachining technologies, micromachined sensors, actuators, and MEMS; analog integrated circuits; implantable biomedical microsystems; micropackaging; and low-power wireless sensing/actuating systems. Dr. Najafi has been active in the field of solid-state sensors and actuators for more than 25 years.
Arokia Nathan
Cambridge University
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Arokia Nathan holds the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays in the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta. Following post‐doctoral years at LSI Logic Corp., USA and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, he joined the University of Waterloo where he held the DALSA/NSERC Industrial Research Chair in sensor technology and subsequently the Canada Research Chair in nano‐scale flexible circuits. He was a recipient of the 2001 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship. In 2006, he moved to the UK to take up the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, where he received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He has held Visiting Professor appointments at the Physical Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zürich and the Engineering Department, Cambridge University, UK. He has published over 400 papers in the field of sensor technology and CAD, and thin film transistor electronics, and is a co‐author of four books. He has over 50 patents filed/awarded and has founded/co‐founded four spin‐off companies. He serves on technical committees and editorial boards in various capacities. He is a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Fellow of IEEE (USA), and an IEEE/EDS Distinguished Lecturer.
Marian W. Pospieszalski
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Marian W. Pospieszalski was awarded an M.Sc. and a D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Warsaw, Poland, in 1967 and 1976, respectively. From 1967 to 1984, Dr. Pospieszalski was with Warsaw University of Technology, during which time he held visiting positions with the Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA (1977-1978), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Charlottesville, VA, USA (1978-1979), and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (1982-1984). Since 1984, Dr. Pospieszalski has been with the NRAO, presently as a tenured scientist and senior research engineer. His research interests are in the fields of microwave, millimeter-wave, and high–speed circuits and systems. He has authored or co-authored about 100 journal and conference papers. In 1992, Dr. Pospieszalski was elected Fellow of IEEE. In 2002, Dr. Pospieszalski received the NRAO Distinguished Performance Award and in 2006 the Microwave Application Award from MTT Society.
Gabriel Rebeiz
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Gabriel Rebeiz is Distinguished Professor and the Wireless Communications Industry Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with distinction from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1982, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, CA, USA, in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He is an IEEE Fellow, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, an URSI Koga Gold Medal Recipient, IEEE MTT 2003 Distinguished Young Engineer, and the recipient of the IEEE MTT 2000 Microwave Prize, the IEEE MTT 2010 Distinguished Educator Award, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation 2011 John D. Kraus Antenna Award. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Amoco Teaching Award given to the best undergraduate teacher at the University of Michigan, and the 2008 Jacobs ECE Teacher of the Year Award at UCSD. He is considered one of the fathers of RF MEMS and tunable networks, silicon RFIC phased arrays, and mm-wave/THz antennas. His book, RF MEMS: Theory, Design, and Technology, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2003, is the reference in the field. He is the Director of the UCSD/DARPA Center on RF MEMS Reliability and Design Fundamentals.
Jeffrey H. Reed
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Jeffrey H. Reed is the Willis G. Worcester Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He currently serves as Director of Wireless @ Virginia Tech, VA, USA, one of the largest and most comprehensive university wireless research groups in the US. He is the Founding Faculty Member of the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology. Since joining Virginia Tech in 1992, Dr. Reed has been PI or co-PI of approximately 100 projects covering areas such as software radio, cognitive radio, ultra wideband, and channel modeling. Dr. Reed is a Fellow of IEEE for contributions to software radio, communications signal processing, and for leadership in engineering education. He is a past recipient of the College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Reed received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Mark A. Reed
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Mark A. Reed received his Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University in 1983, after which he joined Texas Instruments. In 1990 Mark joined Yale University, where he holds the Harold Hodgkinson Chair of Engineering and Applied Science. Mark's research activities have included the investigation of electronic transport in nanoscale and mesoscopic systems, artificially structured materials and devices, molecular scale electronic transport, plasmonic transport in nanostructures, and chem/bio nanosensors. Mark is the author of more than 180 professional publications and six books, has given over 25 plenary and over 360 invited talks, and holds 25 US and foreign patents on quantum effect, heterojunction, and molecular devices. He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Nanotechnology. His awards include Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003), the IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology (2007), and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2009).
Roberto Sorrentino
University of Perugia
Perugia, Italy
Roberto Sorrentino is Professor at the University of Perugia, Italy. His research activities have been concerned with numerical methods and CAD techniques for passive microwave structures and with the analysis and design of microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and antennas. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers in international journals and 200 refereed conference papers and four books (J. Wiley, 2000, McGrawHill, 2006, 2007, J. Wiley 2010). Roberto Sorrentino is an IEEE Fellow (1990). He received the MTT-S Meritorious Service Award (1993), the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), and the Distinguished Educator Award from IEEE MTT-S (2004). He served the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) as Vice Chair (1993-1996) then Chair (1996-1999) of the Commission D (Electronics and Photonics). Since 2007 he has been the President of the Italian Commission of URSI. In 1998 he was among the founders of the European Microwave Association and its first President from 1998 to 2009. In 2010 he received the EuMA Distinguished Service Award.
A. Murat Tekalp
KOÇ University
Istanbul, Turkey
A. Murat Tekalp received double major B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical, computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. After working briefly at Eastman Kodak Research, he joined the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, as an Assistant Professor in 1987, where he was promoted to Distinguished University Professor. He joined Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2001, where he is currently the Dean of Engineering. He authored the book Digital Video Processing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall, 1995). He holds eight US patents. Prof. Tekalp is a member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), and a member of Academia Europaea. He has been elected a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1998 and received the TUBITAK Science Award in 2004. He has been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing from 1990 to 1999, and chaired it during January 1996 December 1997. He has been the Editor‐in‐Chief of the EURASIP Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication published by Elsevier (1999-2010). Formerly, he has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING (1990-1992) and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING (1994-1996). He was also on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2006-2009) and Academic Press Journal Visual Communication and Image Representation (1995-2002). He was appointed as the Special Sessions Chair for the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, the Technical Program Co‐Chair for the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, the General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Rochester, NY, in 2002, and Technical Program Co‐Chair of the 2005 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Antalya, Turkey. He is the founder and first Chairman of the Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected as the Chair of the Rochester Section of IEEE in 1994-1995. He is a member of the Advanced Grant panel for the European Research Council, and a project evaluator and referee for the European Commission. He is also appointed as a National Expert for the European Commission.
Ching-Kuang Clive Tzuang
Tianjin University
Tianjin, China
Ching-Kuang Clive Tzuang, born on May 10, 1955, received a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1977; an M.S. from the University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1980; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, in 1986. From 1981 to 1984, he was with TRW, Redondo Beach, CA, USA. He became an associate professor at Institute of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1986, and a full professor in 1991, and Acer-Endowed Chair 1999-2001. He joined the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, in February 2004, and became Professor Emeritus in January 2012. Since February 2012, he was invited to Tianjin University, China, as a distinguished professor.
Michael Unser
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Michael Unser is Professor and Director of EPFL's Biomedical Imaging Group (Lausanne, Switzerland). His main research area is biomedical image processing. He has a strong interest in sampling theories, multiresolution algorithms, wavelets, the use of splines for image processing, and, more recently, sparsity and stochastic processes. He is the author of over 200 published journal papers in these areas, with a substantial scientific impact (Google scholar h‐index >70). He was born in Zug, Switzerland, on 9 April 1958. He received the M.S. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and 1984, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. From 1985 to 1997, he was with the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda USA, conducting research on bioimaging and heading the Image Processing Group. Michael Unser received the Dommer prize for excellence in 1981 (1st rank among all EPFL graduates) and the research prize of the Brown-Boveri Corporation (Switzerland) for his Ph.D. thesis in 1984. He is recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1995 Best Paper Award (with A. Aldroubi and M. Eden), the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2000 Magazine Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2003 Best Paper Award (with T. Blu). He has held the position of associate Editor‐in‐Chief (2003‐2005) for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He is (or was) a member of the editorial boards of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, the SIAM Journal of Imaging Sciences, the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision,
Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, Signal Processing (1997-2000), Pattern Recognition (2000‐2006), the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (1997‐2006), and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2003‐2006). He also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (1999‐2002; 2006‐present) including Guest Editor for its special issue on Wavelets in Medical Imaging, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1992‐1995), and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1994‐1998). He is currently member of the editorial boards of IEEE J. Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, and SIAM J. Imaging Sciences. Dr. Unser co‐organized the 1994 IEEE‐EMBS Workshop on Wavelets in Medicine and Biology, and served as regular chair for SPIE's annual conference on Wavelets from 1993 to 2003. He was general co‐chair (with Z.P. Liang) for the first IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'2002), which was held in Washington, DC, 7-10 July 2002. He was chairman of the IEEE-SPS technical committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) (2004-2006), as well as the ISBI steering committee (2006-2008). Prof. Unser is a Fellow of the IEEE (1999) and the recipient of two IEEE Technical Achievement Awards (2008 SPS and 2010 EMBS). He is an EURASIP Fellow and a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is frequently invited as plenary or tutorial speaker at international conferences including flagship IEEE meetings such as ICIP, ICASSP and ISBI.
Usha Varshney
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA, USA
Usha Varshney is a Program Director for Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) in the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation, managing the interdisciplinary science and engineering research thrust areas for spin electronics, micro and nanomagnetic devices and circuits, memories, bioelectronics, molecular electronics, and sensors technologies. She joined the National Science Foundation in December 1997, as Program Director of Physical Foundations of Enabling Technologies, and Integrative Systems programs, in ECS. From October 2003 to June 2004, Dr. Varshney was a Legislative Fellow in the U.S. 108th Congress, and a ComSci Fellow in the Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, during which time she worked on Capitol Hill in processing and management of Senate legislative actions relating to Science, Nanotechnology and Space in the Office of Virginia Senator George Allen. She had a leadership role in the passage of Senate Bill S.189 on Nanotechnology signed into law (PL 108-153) by President Bush on 3 December 2003, and in the organization of the bipartisan and bicameral "Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus" established by Senator Allen on 1 April 2004. From July 2004 to August 2008, she was the Division Director for ECCS.
Robert Weigel
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen, Germany
Robert Weigel has been Head of the Institute for Electronics Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2002. He received the Dr.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing.habil. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from the Munich University of Technology in Germany. From 1982 to 1996, he was Research Engineer, Sr. Research Engineer, and finally a Professor for RF Circuits and Systems at the Munich University of Technology. In winter 1994/95 he was a Guest Professor for SAW Technology at Vienna University of Technology in Austria. From 1996 to 2002, he was Director of the Institute for Communications and Information Engineering at the University of Linz, Austria. In August 1999, he co-founded DICE - Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering, Linz, one part of which is an Infineon Technologies Design Center and the other part an Intel Mobile Communications Design Center, respectively. In 2009 he co-founded eesy-id, Erlangen and eesy-ic, Nuremberg, Germany. Currently, he is the Speaker of the Electrical Engineering Division of the German Research Foundation, and 2013 IEEE MTT-S President Elect. He has been engaged in research and development on microwave theory and techniques, integrated circuits, SAW technology, digital and microwave communication systems, and automotive EMC.
Andreas Weisshaar
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA
Andreas Weisshaar received the Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. In 1991, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (now School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at Oregon State University, where he is a Full Professor. From April 2008 to August 2011 he served as Program Director for Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Prof. Weisshaar's current research interests include integrated passive RF/microwave circuits and components, electronic packaging, and wireless communications. He has authored/co-authored numerous papers in these areas, and co-authored Transmission Lines and Wave Propagation, 4th Edition (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001). Prof. Weisshaar is a Fellow of IEEE.
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Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Ke Wu
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Ke Wu is Tier-I Canada Research Chair Professor in RF and millimeter-wave engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique (University of Montreal). He has been the Director of the Poly-Grames Research Center and the founding Director of the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec. He has authored or co-authored over 900 referred papers and a number of books/book chapters and filed more than 30 patents. His current research interests involve substrate integrated circuits (SICs), antenna arrays, advanced CAD and modeling techniques, wireless power transmission and harvesting, and development of low-cost RF and millimeter-wave transceivers and sensors. He is also interested in the modeling and design of microwave photonic circuits and systems. Dr. Wu has held key positions in and has served on various panels, editorial boards, and international committees. He is an elected IEEE MTT-S AdCom member. He was the recipient of many awards and prizes including the inaugural IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2004 Fessenden Medal and the 2009 Thomas W. Eadie Medal, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Canada. He was an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.
Lixia Zhang
University of California, Los Angelos
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lixia Zhang received her PhD degree in computer science from MIT in 1989 and joined Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a member of research staff. Her work at Xerox PARC included analysis of TCP traffic dynamics, reliable multicast protocols, and designs of Internet integrated services support; the RSVP protocol was conceived and developed during that time. She joined the faculty of UCLA Computer Science Department in 1995. Since then her research focus has been on the global Internet infrastructure including the global Internet routing system and Domain Name Systems. Since 2010 Zhang has been leading a multiple‐campus research project on the development of a new Internet architecture called Named Data Networking (NDN). Over the years Zhang has served as the vice chair of ACM SIGCOMM, member of the editorial board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, member of the Internet Architecture Board, and co‐chair of the Routing Research Group under IRTF. She is a fellow of ACM and a fellow of IEEE, and the recipient of 2009 IEEE Internet Award. She holds UCLA Jon Postel Chair in computer science.


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- Release Date: Jun 25, 2007
- ESRB: Mature
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Passport to Fun: Travel-Inspired Party Ideas
Maybe you can't jet to far-flung destinations this summer, but you can still take that trip in spirit by throwing a travel-inspired soiree. Check out these entertaining ideas from party planners and bloggers around the country. Heart set on a different locale? Just use these tips to map out your own fun-filled itinerary.
By Esther Chapman
Passport to Portugal
When her mother traveled back to Lisbon to research her family's Portuguese roots, Lori Lange caught the heritage bug. She pored over photographs from her mother's travels and paged through David Leite's cookbook, The New Portuguese Table, for ideas and inspiration. Then she threw a dinner party to share this newfound knowledge with friends.
How to decorate: Lange showcased Portugal's rustic, old-world beauty in her table decorations. She used a red tablecloth and richly patterned runner to create a warm backdrop, then added brown woven placemats reminiscent of Lisbon's cobblestone streets. She topped off each setting with thick ceramic plates and bowls. Centerpieces included vases filled with wine corks, wrapped in raffia, and adorned with chunky candles, a visual nod to the country's fine wines. (Visit recipegirl.com for more photographs.)


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Frustrated Gregoire says 'status quo does not work'
Gov. Chris Gregoire, who once advocated boosting state spending by billions of dollars, has become the budget-cutter in chief. She's rolled out unprecedented proposals to slash services to the poor, eliminate state agencies and restructure government as a way to close a budget shortfall approaching $5 billion. And she's done it with an air of frustration, impatience, and a certain weariness with Olympia politics.
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire, who once advocated boosting state spending by billions of dollars, has become the state's budget-cutter in chief.
She's rolled out unprecedented proposals to slash services to the poor, eliminate state agencies and restructure government as a way to close a budget shortfall approaching $5 billion.
And she's done it with an air of frustration, impatience and a certain weariness with Olympia politics. "Let me repeat," she said recently when announcing her controversial plan to pull the state ferry system from a sea of red ink. "If not this, then what? The status quo does not work."
This is not the Gregoire we're used to: The career government official is known more for building consensus than shaking up the state Capitol.
It's a Twilight Zone where members of her own Democratic Party are balking at some of the proposals, while Republicans largely applaud. Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt, R-Walla Walla, recently greeted the governor before she met with members of his caucus saying, "welcome to the friendly caucus."
Gregoire says her transformation is a product of the enormous budget shortfall — and an evolution in her thinking.
"I have matured," she said during an interview at her office last week. "I've tried hard in a number of ways to accomplish what I wanted and I haven't made the progress I wanted to make.
"Making change, in large part, is about timing around here. Here we sit in a crisis. We're watching businesses fundamentally change, families rethink everything about what they're spending money on. What are we going to do? Sit here and maintain the status quo when we know there is frustration, and not do anything about it? If not now, then when?"
Don Brunell, president of the Association of Washington Business, said he's seen this kind of shift before.
"I think she's recognized what a lot of governors recognize when they've been in office for four or five years," he said, noting that former Gov. Gary Locke underwent a similar change in 2003 during an economic downturn.
"When your back is against the wall and the same people are making the same arguments about why their programs shouldn't be cut, at some place you have to make changes," Brunell said.
To understand how big a turnaround this is for Gregoire, consider that during her first four years in office state spending increased 31 percent. Roughly half of the money — about $4 billion — went into education.
Now much of that additional money for education has been taken back out.
Gregoire says she doesn't have any choice given the budget gap and the reality that no more bailouts will be coming from Congress.
Surprisingly, though, Gregoire also seems unsure that the money she poured into education improved student achievement as much as she'd hoped.
"I came in here determined to make the system work better. To invest more money. I put a lot more money into K-12. But then you sit there and say, 'Why have I not been able to get the result I set out to achieve?' " she said.
Gregoire said she had a Eureka moment over the summer when she concluded that public schools and higher education are too decentralized and balkanized.
She proposed earlier this month a radical restructuring that would create a single education department covering preschool through college. It would be headed by a secretary who'd report to her.
The idea was panned by state Superintendent Randy Dorn, who said he hadn't been thoroughly briefed before it was announced. Dorn sent out a statement saying that "every governor I've known has wanted more power."
Dropping bombshells like her education overhaul on the Legislature is a marked departure from the way she's operated in the past.
When running for governor in 2008, Gregoire said, "Legislation is a whole lot more stable and sustainable if you bring all the diverse parties to the table and try to see if you can make steps forward without shoving something down someone's throat."
Gregoire said she's abandoned that approach, at least for now.
"I'm in a crisis," she said. "I don't have the time. The process I'm willing to work through is the legislative process. We need to step up to it and realize that in a crisis you make tough decisions, you make them timely. You cannot spend years on process. I've shortcut it all."
She's also showing impatience with factions fighting to protect the status quo.
"No matter how hard you try to make change, there are always those who want to protect something or another," she said. "I'll use education because I think it's a perfect example. Do they want to protect it because it's right for the kids? Do they even think about whether it's right for the kids?"
Democrats in the House and Senate have pushed back on some of her plans.
The Democratic chairwoman of the House Transportation Committee said there wasn't much support for Gregoire's idea to hand over the state ferry system — along with some of the responsibility to fund it — to a nine-county, semi-independent regional authority. Some Republicans also attacked the plan.
And Democratic leaders in the House and Senate were skeptical of her proposals to eliminate — not just reduce — certain services to the poor, such as the state Disability Lifeline, which provides cash and health care for unemployable disabled people.
"I don't think it's in our best interest long term as a society to write them off," House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, said recently about the people on Disability Lifeline. "Governors have proposed eliminating the program, I think, five times. We're used to this."
Gregoire said it doesn't bother her that not everyone is embracing her proposals. "The reason why I don't get anxious when people say, 'I'm going to save this program or that program' ... is because I had all those thoughts," she said.
Ultimately, after poring over the budget, she decided there was no other option but to cut popular and sorely needed state services.
She expects legislators will reach the same conclusion.
Republicans credit Gregoire for advancing ideas that aim to bring state spending in line with tax collections. But they still complain that a part of the reason the state is in trouble is because Democrats spent too much when the economy was booming.
"I'm tired of saying, 'We told you so,' " Hewitt said, "but in reality if we had made some of these moves (earlier) it wouldn't be as difficult today as it's going to be."
Hewitt said the governor and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate appear to be genuinely interested in working with Republicans. But he has his suspicions why.
"I think they are looking for political cover," he said, "and I think they've gotten themselves in a real mess. I think they've finally recognized there is no new revenue and they're going to take some serious reforms to get out of this."
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Mon, Jun 06, 2005
Ya gotta pity poor Phil
Boyer... for the last several years, the Annual AOPA Fly-In has not
only been rained out but a few of them boasted more snorkel sales
than E-6Bs. The day before this year's event, the weather was wet,
lotsa rain and scud was in the area and it was a crap shoot as
whether the WX would clear in time for the fun to begin... without
having to tread water.
Phil was worried.
But... the weather started clearing shortly after sun-up and
while there was a fair amount of IFR scuz to battle, the faithful
made the effort to show up... in great numbers for the annual
one-day AOPA HQ shindig. AOPA tells us that more than 5,000 pilots,
future pilots, and their families and friends turned out for AOPA's
Fifteenth Annual Fly-In and Open House on Saturday. Phil's mood
improved... as the weather did likewise.
Better yet, some 250 aircraft braved the vagaries of the
Washington area's restricted, confusing airspace to take advantage
of the conditions and a temporary control tower to land at
Frederick Municipal Airport for the event... while thousands more
arrived by car.
AOPA's 2005 Prize-plane, a beautifully updated
Commander 112A, got stuck at a nearby airport for a few hours, in
rain and fog, but got to the fly-in as soon as they could get a
clearance. The Red/White/Blue Commander was a major draw... and a
spectacular example of what can be done to update an elder airframe
-- gorgeous!
Face it... it ain't a fly-in anymore without scads
of Cirri on the ramp. Even though the Cirrus bunch were
gathering some 1000 miles to the west at Cirrus Design HQ for
their annual get-together and composite love-fest, quite a few
SR20s and SR22s were in residence and a few folks reportedly took
the plunge and started the process of ordering their own right on
the grounds.
For under $200K, you can get a glass panel-equipped
Symphony of your very own.. setting the most aggressive price-point
in the field for TAA's (Technologically Advanced Aircraft). Mind
you, if you need more than two seats, (Note: with
the exception of Cessna's venerable Skyhawk, which we've been
admonished to recall is ALSO priced under $200K -- but with
four seats) you're out of luck without ponying up the better part
of another $100K... but for many missions, the speedy little 160 HP
Symphony does just what the flight surgeon ordered... cruises
nearly 150 mph, boasts 700 pounds of useful load and is just
plain fun to fly. Serial production and deliveries are getting back
up to speed as we speak... and we couldn't be more pleased. This is
a fun little bird.
NO aircraft is getting more buzz right now than the
SLEEK new Diamond DA42... the first of which are expected to start
showing up in the US using Lycoming engines and later with Thielert
Diesel-power. Garmin G1000 equipped, the four seat DA42 is the
first all-new twin to show up on American shores in a LONG time.
The Lycoming version is known to be quite the hot-rod, with
exceptional single-engine capability, but the diesel is going to
set standards for economy of operation that no twin can hope to
match without serious effort. ANN expects to offer an aggressive
flight test shortly.
If there is a big crowd at the main event tent... one of two
people is speaking -- AOPA Boss Phil Boyer or
aero-humorist/educator Rod Machado. Rod does something amazing in
his well-attended seminars... he not only uses humor to great
effect, he manages to weave in solid aero-educational data and
tools that not only leaves one with a big sloppy grin on their
face, but well-educated and more knowledgeable than when they
started. Rod is a master at keeping audiences entertained... but
he's also one of the most effective instructors we've ever met. If
you get a chance to hear Rod speak, DO NOT miss it. Highly
One of the other SRO events at at the AOPA Fly-In was Phil
Boyer's informal chat with membership... principally about the
state of the Washington ADIZ and associated issues. Phil, obviously
still reeling from the fallout of the Washington ADIZ incursion
that SO embarrassed the GA industry, started with a photo of
downtown Washington DC... asking all those in attendance to look it
over (with a number of WELL-KNOWN DC landmarks highly visible) to
let him know if they could not plainly recognize where they (in the
photo) would have been if they saw such a sight from their
cockpits... While he was trying to be polite, he was plainly not
impressed with pilot Jim Schaeffer's explanations about not knowing
where he was when he blundered into prohibited territory and
set-back local GA access issues significantly.
Phil also had some fun with the over-reaction and
hype surrounding the DC ADIZ transgression. While a GA pilot
clearly screwed up, the system DID work, even though small aircraft
like a Cessna 150 make for a ridiculously inefficient weapons
system. Unfortunately; public sensitivity to all manner of aviation
threats since 9/11 has produced a great deal of over-reaction and
little sense in how our nation's aviation security has been
administered. Phil admitted the Schaeffer incident has set back
attempts, on their part, to start dismantling portions of the ADIZ
by weeks... or months. Darn.
While AOPA would normally be very pleased to see
local media interest in their Fly-In, this year's increased
interest came about for all the wrong reasons... as local media
outlets continued to beat the Washington ADIZ incursion story to
death. AOPA has been unusually effective in conducting damage
control after this major screw-up.
One of the best reasons to attend the AOPA Fly-In
has little to do with the outside exhibits... but revolves around
the chance to wander the halls of AOPA HQ and visit EVERY major
office and department in the building... getting an up-close and
personal look at the many functions the organization undertakes and
to meet the staff that handles those tasks. Here, AOPA's Chief
medical trouble-shooter (a staggeringly valuable and effective
function that AOPA undertakes on behalf of its membership), Gray
Crump, holds court and answers one of hundreds of questions he's
asked each week about collective and individual medical
A young couple checks out a Lancair cockpit... I
was pleased and impressed with how many couples were trying out
airplanes TOGETHER and talking about what the airplane would do for
them, as a family. VERY cool trend, that. Lancair, like a number of
the slicker GA operators, has a mobile showroom that moves around
the country with a "try-it-before-you-fly-it" cockpit mock-up and a
sales force that is ready with solid answers to the common
questions potential buyers have as they consider an aircraft
purchase. Is it working? Apparently, yes... GA sales activity
continues to look good.
One of the "elder statesmen"of the GA world, New
Piper Aircraft, displayed a roomy six-place Piper 6X... complete
with the new Avidyne glass panel system. We didn't think it was
possible for a panel to dwarf the huge Avidyne displays, but
the monstrous panel of the 6X actually leaves plenty of room for
more toys (HDTV, anyone?). The Avidyne installation has injected
even greater interest and utility into an airframe that has
withstood the test of time surprisingly well. There are few solid
fixed gear six-place offerings at the moment, but the 6X and the
Turbo-Charged 6XT are near the top of our list.
That's just a few of the many cool things we saw
this weekend... but if you don't want to miss the next
opportunity to enjoy such an event, mark your calendars NOW for
next year's AOPA Fly-In... Saturday, June 3, 2006. This has become
one of our favorite one-day events and remains an excellent chance
to see what GA's most dynamic Alphabet Association is all
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