Communicators Program 2020

Speaker:
Zhihua Qu
Professor and Chair
University of Central Florida

Zhihua Qu has been with University of Central Florida since 1990 and currently is the Pegasus Professor and Chair of ECE Department as well as the SAIC Endowed Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science. His areas of expertise are systems and nonlinear control, with applications to energy and power systems, autonomous vehicles and robotics. His most recent work focuses upon cooperative control and plug-and-play operation of networked and autonomous systems, distributed optimization and game algorithms, and resilient and intelligent networks. He received a service award from the ECEDHA. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS.

Organizers:
Michael Devetsikiotis
Professor, ECE Department Chair
University of New Mexico

Michael Devetsikiotis joined the University of New Mexico in July 2016, as a Professor and the Chair of the ECE Department in the School of Engineering. His research work has resulted in 40 refereed journal articles, 140 refereed conference papers, and 62 invited presentations, in the area of design and performance evaluation of telecommunication networks, complex socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, efficient simulation, and smart grid communications. His work has received well over 4,800 citations. In 2017 he was inducted to the NC State ECE Alumni Hall of Fame. He is a Fellow of the IEEE since 2012.

 

 

 

Sakhrat Khizroev
Professor 
University of Miami

Sakhrat Khizroev is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering, with a joint appointment as a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine. He is an expert on nanomagnetics/spintronics applications ranging from energy-efficient information technologies to precision medicine and nanomedicine. From 2011 to 2018, he was a Professor (tenured) of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University, with a joint appointment at the College of Medicine, where he co-founded and spearheaded the university-wide initiative on personalized nanomedicine. His team has for the first time proposed and developed magnetoelectric nanoparticles for medical applications including targeted drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB), high-specificity cancer treatment, HIV/AIDS, neuroimaging, wireless neural network stimulation, and others. His group’s grounbreaking work on using multiferroic nanoparticles to connect a computer to the brain was listed in Top 100 Science Stories of Year 2015 by Discover Magazine. From 2006 to 2011, Khizroev was a Professor (tenured) of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. His group has pioneered multilevel 3D magnetic memory devices and nanolasers for future information processing. Prior to joining academia, he spent four years with Seagate Research and one year with IBM Almaden Research Center. As an electrical engineer, he is most known for leading groundbreaking experiments which resulted in the multi-billion-dollar data storage industry’s shift towards perpendicular magnetic recording. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors in the inaugural year of the Academy. Khizroev holds over 38 granted US patents. He has authored over 140 refereed papers, 6 books and book chapters in the field. He has presented over 100 talks including many invited seminars and colloquia at international conferences, acted as a guest science and technology commentator on television and radio programs across the globe. He sits on Science Advisory Board of Neuroscience Centers of Florida Foundation. He has graduated over 20 PhD Graduate Students and over 30 MS Graduate Students. He has supervised over 10 Post-doctoral Researchers. He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, a M.S. in Physics from the University of Miami in 1994, and B.S./M.S. degrees in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Phystech) in 1992/1994.