CSC Fellow Evaluation Committee (FEC)

The CSC Fellow Evaluation Committee performs a technical evaluation of the candidates nominated to be evaluated through CSC. The purpose of this step is to ensure that the technical and professional achievements of a candidate are evaluated by his/her peers. The basic outcome of CSC Fellow Committee evaluation is to place candidates into a single rank-order list where each candidate is given a score. These scores are supported by comments worded by the evaluators.

Bear in mind that:

Reference forms and endorsement letters are not made available to the members of CSC Fellow Committee.
The CSC Fellow Evaluation Committee does not make decisions for elevation to Fellow grade. Such a decision falls to the IEEE Board of Directors.

FEC Chair

Deepnarayan Gupta

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Deepnarayan Gupta

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Gupta is responsible for the Digital-RF Circuits and Systems Business Division that includes the entire digital-RF technology program. Dr. Gupta was instrumental in changing HYPRES’ business direction in 2000-2001 to focus on RF applications and small-scale digital-RF systems and creating a multi-faceted program consisting of synergistic research and development (R&D) projects funded by a variety of government agencies and other sources. This branch of business has attracted more than $85M in revenue and encompasses analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs), digital signal processors (DSP), multi-chip modules (MCMs), cryogenic analog RF modules (CARM), and complete cryocooled digital systems. Dr. Gupta has led the development of three generations of digital-RF receiver systems, the latest of which are modular, multi-function systems operating in customer facilities. Dr. Gupta served in various capacities, including VP R&D (2003-2012), since joining HYPRES in 1997. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr. Gupta was a post-doctoral research affiliate at Stanford University (1995-1997), working on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor electronics, a theme that he has continued to develop into the hybrid-temperature heterogeneous-technology (HTHT) systems concept that combines the strengths of various warm and cold electronic and photonic technologies to solve difficult technical problems. His doctoral research (1990-1995) at the University of Rochester involved the invention of an inductive opening switch built with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) thin films and triggered by short laser pulses. He earned B. Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering (1990) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Dr. Gupta, a Fellow of the IEEE, is a co-author of more than 60 articles and holds 45 U.S. patents. He serves on the boards of the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) and the United States Committee for Superconductor Electronics. Dr. Gupta has been serving as the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) representative on the IEEE Council on Superconductivity since 2009.

FEC Vice-Chair

Daniel Oates

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Daniel Oates

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Daniel E. Oates is a staff member in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group. His current research interests are microwave-frequency superconducting electronics, specifically applications in receiver front ends to reduce noise figure and interference. He is also active in characterization of superconducting materials for microwave applications using resonator techniques he pioneered that have been used to understand the basic physics of high-temperature superconductors.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Oates was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany. He was also employed at Bell Laboratories for several years. Research during his first 11 years at Lincoln Laboratory was in the field of microwave acoustics. He invented and developed temperature-stable surface-acoustic-wave dispersive-delay lines. He also developed surface-acoustic-wave programmable transversal filters in which surface-wave devices were coupled with silicon integrated circuits.

Dr. Oates has published as author or coauthor 86 papers in the field of superconductivity and related areas. He holds seven patents and has written three book chapters. He has given numerous invited talks at the international conferences on superconductivity and has served on the organizing committees for several important conferences. He organized two Materials Research Society Symposia and was the general chair for the 2002 Symposium on High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, serves on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.

Dr. Oates received his PhD degree in atomic physics from MIT and his BA degree in physics, with honors, from Yale University.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FEC Members

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

University of Illinois

4 (Central U.S.)

Antonio della Corte

Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA)

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Venkat Selvamanickam

University of Houston

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Raafat Mansour

University of Waterloo

7 (Canada)

Raafat Mansour

7 (Canada)

Biography

Dr. Raafat R. Mansour received the BSc and MSc degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1977 and 1981, respectively, and the PhD degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1986 — all in electrical engineering.

Dr. Mansour is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and holds a Tier 1-Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems. He held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for two terms (2001-2005) and (2006-2010). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in January 2000, Dr. Mansour was with COM DEV Cambridge, Ontario, over the period 1986-1999, where he held various technical and management positions in COM DEV’s Corporate R&D Department. Dr. Mansour holds 37 US and Canadian patents (35 awarded, 2 pending) and more than 350 refereed publications to his credit. He is a co-author of the most comprehensive 20-chapter Microwave Filters book published by Wiley and also contributed 6 chapters to four other books. He was the recipient of COM DEV’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 1991 and COM DEV’s CEO Special Award in 1994. He also received several Best Paper Awards and outstanding research performance awards from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Mansour is the Founding Director of the Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) facility at the University of Waterloo cirfe.uwaterloo.ca, which houses a state-of-the-art clean room and RF-MEMS test/characterization laboratory. CIRFE launched the UW-MEMS process, a research-oriented multi-user MEMS fabrication process, and, through the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), it has been offering the UW-MEMS as a multi-project wafer university-based fabrication process to researchers across Canada. Dr. Mansour’s research group has made seminal contributions to the field of nano-instrumentation by introducing a new class of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) capable of imaging surfaces at the nano-scale. Dr. Mansour and his graduate students co-founded Integrated Circuit Scanning Probe Instruments (ICSPI-Corp; www.icspicorp.com), a start-up company that commercializes CMOS-MEMS SPM technologies.

Dr. Mansour served as the Chair of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium IMS2012. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Dr. Mansour was the recipient of the 2014 Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Engineering Medal for Research and Development.

Affiliation(s)

University of Waterloo

10 (Asia and Pacific)

FEC Chair

Deepnarayan Gupta

FEC Vice-Chair

Daniel Oates

FEC Members

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

Antonio della Corte

Venkat Selvamanickam

Raafat Mansour

Alan Kleinsasser

Akihiko Kandori

Jianxun Jin