Dr. Steven M. Wright, Royce E. Wisenbaker II Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was elected fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of his leadership and contributions to the field of medical and biological engineering at an international level. Wright is one of 24 fellows who will be inducted to the academy this year during the Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering in Pittsburgh this September.
Wright received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He joined Texas A&M in 1988, where he established the Magnetic Resonance Systems Lab. The focus of his research group has been in the application of electromagnetics and new technology to the development of low-cost and high-speed magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, using this technology to explore real-time magnetic resonance imaging at submillisecond frame rates.
Wright is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.