January 4, 2017
Professors Ravi Adve and Sorin Voinigescu have been named Fellows of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The two professors in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) were inducted in the 2017 cohort, joining 28 ECE faculty members, including Emeritus Professors, who hold the grade of fellow.
Professor Adve was elevated with the citation “for development of signal processing techniques for airborne radar.”
“My research areas include physical layer wireless communications and signal processing for radar systems,” says Professor Adve. “It’s an honour to be recognized by my peers for doing innovative work that has pushed the ball forward in the field.”
Professor Adve’s work with airborne radar and advanced signal processing aims to detect and track small or slow moving targets at large ranges. While applications for this research are likely to be found in defense, Professor Adve is working on extending a similar concept to other areas. “One exciting research thrust is to apply a similar idea underwater or even in the human body,” says Professor Adve. “Monitoring pipelines, exploring underwater relics and even using radar to guide MRIs are all areas where producing sharper images could be useful.”
Professor Voinigescu was elevated with the citation “for contributions to silicon and silicon-germanium microwave and millimeter-wave devices and integrated circuits.”
“I work with radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) at very high frequencies, and have developed several new millimeter-wave integrated systems for wireless and wireline communications, automotive radars, and passive and active imaging systems,” says Professor Voinigescu. “My goal is to research new circuit and device concepts and organize and model them in such a way that the design algorithms and methodologies that we develop can be widely adopted by industry and used in the most important applications.”
While working at Nortel, Professor Voinigescu led projects in high-frequency characterization and statistical scalable compact model development for various electronic devices. In 2000, he co-founded Quake Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company that was later acquired by Applied Micro Circuits. He joined ECE in 2002 where he is a member of the Electronics Group.
“Throughout the course of my career, I’ve conducted research in a variety of settings: academia, government, industry and in an entrepreneurial environment,” says Professor Voinigescu. “It is always exciting to see research progress from theoretical concepts to the creation of products and then bringing them to market.”
The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity and has more than 400,000 members in 160 countries. Each year less than one-tenth of one-percent of the total voting membership of the IEEE are elevated to Fellow — the highest grade of membership.
“Congratulations to Professors Adve and Voinigescu on this significant career milestone,” said Professor Farid Najm, chair of the ECE department. “This recognition of their work and leadership in their respective fields is well-deserved.”
More information:
Jessica MacInnis
Senior Communications Officer
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-7997; jessica.macinnis@utoronto.ca