IEEE IMS Best Dissertation Award Selection Committee

Boby George

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

India

Boby George

Biography

Boby George (M’ 07- SM’ 18) received the M. Tech. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing, Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria from 2007 to 2010.

He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras in 2010. Currently, he is working as a Professor there. His areas of interests include magnetic and electric field based sensors, sensor interface circuits/signal conditioning circuits, sensors and instrumentation for automotive and industrial applications. He has co-authored more than 60 journal papers, of which more than 50 are in IEEE transactions/journals. He is active in the flagship conferences of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M) society and has co-authored more than 90 conference papers. Twice, he has received the best paper award at the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology conference.

He has received outstanding reviewer award from IEEE I&M society, twice. He is an Associate Editor for IET Science, Measurement and Technology, IEEE Sensors Journal and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Affiliation(s)

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

India

Ferdinanda Ponci

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Simona Salicone

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Simona Salicone

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Biography

Simona Salicone is an Associate Professor of electrical and electronic measurements at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano.

Her principal research interests are concerned with the analysis of advanced mathematical methods for uncertainty representation and estimation. Her research activity is reflected in the over 100 papers published in international and national scientific journals, in the proceedings of national and international conferences in the field of instrumentation and measurements, and in two monographs, edited by Springer.

In 2004 she has received, by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, in recognition of contributions made to measurement uncertainty theory, the 2004 Outstanding Young Engineer Award. In 2007, Simona Salicone is elected, by the Officers and Board of Directors of the IEEE, to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. In years 2013 to 2017, Simona Salicone has been part of the Academic Board of the PhD in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2014 until the end of 2016, she has been part of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, as the responsible of the column “Future Trends in Instrumentation & Measurements”. Since January 2016 until the end of 2017, Simona Salicone has been the Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine. In 2016 Simona Salicone has received, in appreciation of outstanding service to IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, the recognition as one of the Transactions Outstanding Reviewers of 2015, by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. Simona Salicone is the winner of the 2016 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Faculty Course Development Award. I&M Magazine Editorial Board (2014, 2015), Recipient of 2004 Outstanding Young Engineer Award (IMS)

Affiliation(s)

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Octavian Adrian Postolache

Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Portugal

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Best Dissertation Award Committee Chair

George Xiao

Best Dissertation Award Committee Member

Boby George

Ferdinanda Ponci

Simona Salicone

Octavian Adrian Postolache