Three faculty members from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Aniruddha Datta

Dr. Aniruddha Datta, a professor in the department, was cited “for contributions to control techniques in cancer genomics.” Datta joined the faculty in 1991. He received the B. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), the M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Illinois University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include robust adaptive control, PID control and more recently, genomic signal processing and control. He has published five books and more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers on these topics. Honors include being named a Eugene E. Webb ‘43 Faculty Fellowship by the Dwight Look College of Engineering, a TEES Special Research Fellow and the J. W. Runyon Jr. ‘35 Professorship II. He also has been a member of several program committees, has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and has served as the general chair for the IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS) 2008.

Dr. Scott Miller

Dr. Scott Miller, also a professor in the department and graduate coordinator, is cited “for contributions to the theory of spread spectrum communications.” Miller earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego. In August 1998, he joined the Texas A&M faculty. He has published more than 75 refereed journal and conference papers on a variety of topics in the area of digital communication theory. Miller currently is chair of the IEEE Communications Theory Technical Committee. Honors include being named a Eugene E. Webb ‘43 Faculty Fellow by the Dwight Look College of Engineering and receiving an Outstanding Faculty Award from the department.

Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University-Qatar and program coordinator at TAMUQ, is cited “for contributions to design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.” Alouini received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He was previously an associate professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Minnesota. In 2005, he joined the electrical engineering program at TAMUQ, where his current research interests include the design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

With the addition of Datta and Miller there are now 21 faculty members in the department at Texas A&M who have reached the rank of Fellow, a significant achievement as the number of IEEE members who may be advanced to Fellow grade in one year is 0.10 percent of the total 320,000 Institute membership.

The IEEE Directory describes the honor as “one of unusual professional distinction conferred only by the  Board of Directors upon a person of extraordinary qualifications and experience.” To be considered, candidates must have made an outstanding contribution to the electrical and electronics profession.

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