Ralph Etienne-CummingsProfessor Electrical and Computer Engineering Secondary Appointment: Computer Science etienne.ece.jhu.edu () Barton Hall 401 (office) retienne@jhu.edu (primary) ResearcherID webpage >> |
Education
| Ph.D. 1994, University of Pennsylvania |
| Master in Electrical 1990, University of Pennsylvania |
| Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian 1988, Lincoln University |
Experience
| 2008: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Professor of ECE, July 1st, 2008 – present |
| 2003-2009: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Associate Director for Education and Outreach of the ERC on Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology |
| 2002-2009: Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering, Director |
| 2004-2008: University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor |
| 2002-2008: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Associate Professor and Director of CE |
| 2006-2007: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Visiting African Scholar |
| 2002-2004: University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Associate Professor |
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VLSI circuits |
Journal Articles
| Dong, F., Ieng, S., Savatier, X., Etienne-cummings, R., Benosman, R. (2013). Plenoptic cameras in real-time robotics. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 32(2). 206–217. |
| Orchard, G., Zhang, J., Suo, Y., Dao, M., Nguyen, D.T., Chin, S., Posch, C., Tran, T.D., Etienne-cummings, R. (2012). Real Time Compressive Sensing Video Reconstruction in Hardware. Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, IEEE Journal on. 2(3). 604–615. |
| Senarathna, J., Murari, K., Etienne-cummings, R., Thakor, N.V. (2012). A Miniaturized Platform for Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging. |
| Mazurek, K.A., Holinski, B.J., Everaert, D.G., Stein, R.B., Etienne-cummings, R., Mushahwar, V.K. (2012). Feed forward and feedback control for over-ground locomotion in anaesthetized cats. Journal of Neural Engineering. 9(2). 026003. |
| Russell, A., Mazurek, K., Mihalas, S., Niebur, E., Etienne-cummings, R. (2012). Parameter Estimation of a Spiking Silicon Neuron. Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 6(2). 133–141. |
Conference Proceedings
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Folowosele, F., Harrison, A., Cassidy, A., Andreou, A., Etienne-cummings, R., Mihalas, S., Niebur, E., Hamilton, T. "A Switched Capacitor Implementation of the Generalized Linear Integrate-and-Fire Neuron", ISCAS 2009, Tiepei, Taiwan, May 2009, 2009. View record in Web of Science SM |
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Mitra, S., Zele, R., Etienne-cummings, R. "Low-Voltage, High CMRR OTA For Electrophysiological Measurements", ISCAS 2009, Tiepei, Taiwan, May 2009., 2009. View record in Web of Science SM |
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Ekekwe, N., Etienne-cummings, R. "A 5-bits Precision CMOS Bandgap Reference with On-Chip Bi-directional Resistance Trimming", IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2008, August 2008., 2008. DOI » 10.1109/MWSCAS.2008.4616785 View record in Web of Science SM |
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Chen, S., Folowosele, F., Kim, D., Vogelstein, R.J., Culurcielle, E., Etienne-cummings, R. "A Size and Position Invariant Event-Based Human Posture Recognition", IEEE BioCAS 2008, Baltimore, MD, November 2008., 2008. DOI » 10.1109/BIOCAS.2008.4696930 View record in Web of Science SM |
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Tapson, J., Vismer, M.P., Jin, C., Schaik, A.VAN, Folowosele, F., Etienne-cummings, R. "A Two-Neuron Cross-Correlation Circuit with a Wide and Continuous Range of Time Delay", IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, WA, May 2008., 2008. View record in Web of Science SM |
Awards & Honors
| 2012: ScienceMaker Scientist, The History Makers, February 2012 |
| 2012: 2012 IEEE-EMBS Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Trans. Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, August 2012 |
| 2012: Appointed Eminent Visiting Scholar, U. Western Sydney, January 2012 |
| 2012: Achieved IEEE Fellow Status, IEEE, January 2012 |
| 2011: 2011 Best Demonstration, Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, November 2011 |
| 2011: Appointed Deputy Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circuits and Systems, January 2011 |
| 2011: 2011 Best Paper Award, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circuits and Systems, May 2011 |
| 2010: Appointed to the IEEE CAS Society Distinguish Lecturer Program, IEEE, January 2010 |
| 2010: R. W. Hart Prize for Excellence in IR&D for Best Project, JHU/APL, November 2010 |
| 2008: Best Ph.D in a Nutshell, IEEE BioCAS 2008 Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2008 |
| 2007: University of California, San Diego: Undergraduate Mentor Award, 2007 (Nominated by Yu Mike Chi, currently a Ph.D. candidate at UCSD) |
| 2006: Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award for Top Minorities in Science, 2006 |
| 2006: Diversity Leadership Council Diversity Award, JHU 2006 |
| 2004: 2003 Best Paper Award, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing |
| 2004: Best Paper Finalist (3/136), ICECS |
| 2004: Best Paper Finalist (5/55), Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems |
| 2004: Elected Chair of the Technical Committee on Neural Systems and Applications, IEEE ISCAS |
| 2004: Appointed Associate Director for Education and Outreach, ERC on CISST at Johns Hopkins University, January 2004 |
| 2003: Elected to the Board of Governors, IEEE CAS Society, November 2003 |
| 2003: Appointed to the Program Committee on Emerging Technology, NIPS Society, May 2003 |
| 2003: Appointed Past-Chair of the Technical Committee on Sensors, IEEE ISCAS, May 2003 |
| 2003: Elected Chair-Elect of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks, IEEE ISCAS, May 2003 |
| 2003: Appointed Organizing Committee of the NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, February 2003 |
| 2001: Chairman: IEEE ISCAS Technical Committee on Sensors |
| 2001: Secretary: IEEE ISCAS Technical Committee on Neural Networks |
| 2001: Nominee: National Academy of Engineering Yearly Symposium |
| Achieved IEEE Senior Member Status, IEEE, December 2008 |
| Best Student Paper Finalist, International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, Seattle, WA, April 2008 |
| Best Paper Honorable Mention, North East BioEngineering Conference, Providence, RI, April 2008 |
| Appointed Director of the Computer Engineering Program at Johns Hopkins University, 2002 |
| Appointed Director of the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering, 2002 (an Institute “with-out walls”) |
| Appointed Associated Editor: IEEE Sensors Journal, 2004 |
| 1. Awarded Tenured as an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, 2002 (JHU tenures Full Professors) 2. Appointed Director of the Computer Engineering Program at Johns Hopkins University, 2002 3. Appointed Director of the Institute of Neuromorphic |
| 2007 - 2008: National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers in Science Fellow, 2007. |
| 2006 - 2007: Fulbright Fellowship Award to South Africa, 2006/2007 |
| 2006 - 2007: Visiting African Fellowship Award, University of Cape Town, 2006/2007 |
Presentations
| Invited Speaker: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, November 2012, November 29, 2012 |
| Invited Speaker: National University of Singapore, Singapore, November 2012, November 26, 2012 |
| Invited Speaker: IFESS 2012, Banff, Canada, September 2012, September 7, 2012 |
| Invited Speaker: Macquarrie University, Australia, August 2012, August 10, 2012 |
| Invited Speaker: TSRC Telluride Town Talks Series, Colorado, July 2012, July 2, 2012 |
| Invited Speaker: Capo Caccia Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, Italy, April 2012, April 27, 2012 |
| 5th Australian Workshop on computational Neuroscience, December 2011, December 13, 2011 |
| Washington International School (K – 12 Outreach), November 2011, November 21, 2011 |
| 9th System on a Chip Conference (Keynote), November 2011, November 3, 2011 |
| IEEE Technology Time Machine (Keynote), June 2011, June 2, 2011 |
| Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June 2011, June 1, 2011 |
| IEEE Solid State Circuits Conference, Forum on 3D Image Sensors, February 2011, February 23, 2011 |
| University of Seychelles Open Lecture Series, January 2011, January 10, 2011 |
| University of Seychelles Open Lecture Series, January 2011, January 10, 2011 |
| University of Seychelles Open Lecture Series, January 2011, January 10, 2011 |
| CNS Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 1, 2010 |
| Mitre Corporation, Mclean, VA, April 1, 2010 |
| Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, April 1, 2010 |
| “Generation and Control of Spinal Locomotion Circuits and Their application to Neural Prosthetics,” National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science. Irvine, CA, Nov 2007.. 2007-11-10. (Invited), November 10, 2007 |
| “Non-Linear Neural Spike Train Decoding via Polynomial Kernel Regression,” 29th IEEE EMBS International Conference. Lyon, France, August 2007. 2007-08-00., August 1, 2007 |
| “Real-time Neuronal Decoding for Individuated and Combined Finger Movements of a Robotic Hand,” 2007 BMES Annual Meeting. Lyon, France, August 2007. 2007-08-00., August 1, 2007 |
| “Towards a Brain-Computer Interface for Dexterous Control of a Multi-Fingered Prosthetic Hand,” IEEE EMBS NeuroEngineering. Honolulu, HI, USA, Summer 2007. 2007-08-00., August 1, 2007 |
| “Towards the Control of Individual Fingers of a Prosthetic Hand Using Surface EMG Signals,” 29th IEEE EMBS International Conference. Lyon, France, August 2007.. 2007-08-00., August 1, 2007 |
| “Focal-Plane Image Processing with Neuromorphic Vision Systems,” SPIE EOS, . Munich, Germany, June 2007.. 2007-06-18. (Invited), June 18, 2007 |
| “2 Transistor, Current-Mode Active Pixel Sensor,” IEEE ISCAS 2007. New Orleans, LA, May 2007. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “A Simple Neural Cross-Correlator Engine,” IEEE ISCAS 2007. New Orleans, LA, May 2007. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “AER Audition Filtering and CPG for Robot Control,” IEEE ISCAS 2007. New Orleans, LA, May 2007. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “Configuring Spiking Central Pattern Generator Networks with Genetic Algorithms,” IEEE ISCAS 2007. New Orleans, LA, May 2007. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “Design and Optimization a Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Micro-Array for Near Field Sensing ,” IEEE ISCAS 2007. New Orleans, LA, May 2007. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “Incremental Encoder Based Position and Velocity Measurements VLSI Chip with Serial Peripheral Interface,” IEEE ISCAS 2007. New Orleans, LA, May 2007. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “Wireless Address Event Representation System For Biological Sensor Network,” SPIE (Bioengineered and Bioinspired Systems). Canary Islands, Spain. 2007-05-00., May 1, 2007 |
| “Optical Flow Approximation of Sub-Pixel Accurate Block Matching for Video Coding” IEEE ICASSP 2007, . Honolulu, HW, April 2007.. 2007-04-15., April 15, 2007 |
| “Neuromorphic Vision Systems” Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems, IJCNN’05. Montreal, Canada. 2005-08-00., August 1, 2005 |
| “A Real-Time Spike Domain Sensory Information Processing System,” IEEE ISCAS 2005. Kobe, Japan. 2005-05-00., May 1, 2005 |
| “A Spiking Silicon Central Pattern Generator with Floating Gates Synapses,” IEEE ISCAS 2005. Kobe, Japan. 2005-05-00., May 1, 2005 |
| “Sonar Echo-Location in 2D Using Mini-Microphone Array and Spatiotemporal Frequency Filtering” IEEE ISCAS 2005. Kobe, Japan. 2005-05-00., May 1, 2005 |
| “A 1V Current-Mode CMOS Active Pixel Sensor,” IEEE ISCAS 2005. Kobe, Japan. 2005-05-00., April 30, 2005 |
| “Electrical Stimulation of a Spinal Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion” Proc. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Arlington, VA. 2005-03-00., March 1, 2005 |
| “Temporal Change Threshold Detection Imager,” ISSCC’05 Digest of Technical Papers. . 2005-02-00., February 1, 2005 |
| “Change Detection Imagers,” Agilent Corp. Palo Alto, CA. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Neuromorphic Vision Systems,” NRO. Chantilly, VA,. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| Workshops/Tutorials/Conferences . . 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “CPG Design using Inhibitory Networks” Robotics and Automation. Barcelona, Spain. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Curriculum Development: A Systems Approach,” NSF Grantees Meeting. Washington, DC,. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Cycle-by-cycle control of Lamprey Spinal CPG Circuits,” ETHZ-INI/INE Workshop. Zurich, Switzerland. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Designing Robots that See and Walk,” . NASA, Goddard, MD. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Designing Robots that See and Walk,” National Society of Black Engineers, . Greenbelt, MD, . 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Electrical Stimulation of a Spinal Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion,” Proc. 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Arlington, VA. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Neuromorphic Vision Systems,” . Columbia University, NY, . 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| “Visual Motion Estimation Chips,” SPIE Conference,. Orlando FL. 2005-00-00., January 1, 2005 |
| "INE: Creating a Community for Neuromorphic Engineers" . UMCP. 2004-12-00., December 1, 2004 |
| "Saliency-Driven Image Acuity Modulation on a Reconfigurable Silicon Array of Spiking Neurons" Neural Information Processing Systems. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-12-00., December 1, 2004 |
| "Spatial Acuity Modulation of an Address-Event Imager" IEEE ICECS 2005. Tel Aviv, Israel. 2004-12-00., December 1, 2004 |
| "Active Pixel Sensor with On-Chip Normal Flow Computation on the Read-Out" IEEE ICECS 2005. Tel Aviv, Israel. 2004-12-00., November 30, 2004 |
| "INE: Creating a Community for Neuromorphic Engineers" . Caltech. 2004-11-00., November 1, 2004 |
| "Neuromorphic Vision Systems" . Mitre Corp.. 2004-11-00., November 1, 2004 |
| "Tutorial: Agilent Optical Mouse Technology" . Northern District of California Federal Court. 2004-11-00., November 1, 2004 |
| "Neuromorphic Vision Systems" NACS. UMCP. 2004-10-00., October 1, 2004 |
| "Neuromorphic Vision Systems" . Edith Cowen U., Australia. 2004-08-00., August 1, 2004 |
| "Neuromorphic Vision Systems" . U. Queensland, Australia. 2004-08-00., August 1, 2004 |
| "Neuromorphic Vision Systems" . U. Sydney, Australia. 2004-08-00., August 1, 2004 |
| "Neuromorphic Vision Systems" NSF Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering. Telluride, CO. 2004-07-00., July 1, 2004 |
| "A Programmable Array of Silicon Neurons for the Control of Legged Locomotion" IEEE ISCAS '04. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-05-00., May 1, 2004 |
| "Bearing Angle Estimation For Sonar Micro-Array Using Analog VLSI Spatiotemporal Processing" IEEE ISCAS '04. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-05-00., May 1, 2004 |
| "Linear Current Mode Imager with Low Fix Pattern Noise" IEEE ISCAS '04. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-05-00., May 1, 2004 |
| "Low Power Current Rectifiers for Large-Scale Current-Mode Signal Processing" IEEE ISCAS '4. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-05-00., May 1, 2004 |
| "Normal Optical Flow Measurement on a CMOS APS Imager" IEEE ISCAS '04. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-05-00., May 1, 2004 |
| "Second Generation of High Dynamic Range, Arbitrated Digital Imager" IEEE ISCAS '04. Vancouver, Canada. 2004-05-00., May 1, 2004 |
| "An Optical Flow Camera" Proc. SPIE. Orlando, Flordia. 2004-04-00., April 1, 2004 |
| "Coupled Neural Oscillators" . Cornell University. 2004-04-00., April 1, 2004 |
| "The Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering" ETHZ-INI. Switzerland. 2004-03-00., March 1, 2004 |
| Entrainment of Silicon Central Pattern Generators for Legged Locomotory Control Proc. of Neural Information Processing Systems. Vancouver, Canada. 2003-12-00., December 1, 2003 |
| Low Power Current Rectifiers for Large-Scal Current-Mode Signal Processing accepted for publication at IEEE ISCAS '04. . 2003-12-00., December 1, 2003 |
| A 2D Normal Flow Chip IEEE ISCAS ’03. . 2003-05-00., May 1, 2003 |
| A Single Chip Stereo System IEEE ISCAS ’03. . 2003-05-00., May 1, 2003 |
| A Time-Series Processor for Sonar Mapping and Novelty Detection IEEE ISCAS ’03. . 2003-05-00., May 1, 2003 |
| Invited Participant DARPA Workshop on Intelligent Arthropods. Arlington, VA. 2003-05-00. (Invited), May 1, 2003 |
| Vision Chips for Robot Navigation accepted for IEEE ISCAS ’03. . 2003-05-00., May 1, 2003 |
| Vision Chips for Robot Navigation IEEE ISCAS '03. Bangkok, Thailand. 2003-05-00. (Invited), May 1, 2003 |
| Applying Ideas From Visual Image Processing to Sonar Signal Processing: Making Every Ping Count NSF Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering. CO. 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Biomorphic Chips for Focal Plane Image Processing: From Biological Inspiration to Applications LPS Seminar Series. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Co-Chair Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop. . 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Inter-Pulse-Interval Based Mixed Signal Representations SRC Review. Seattle, WA. 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Organizer: Tutorial ISCAS. . 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Organizer NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop. Telluride, CO. 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Session Chair International Solid-State Circuits Conference. San Francisco, CA. 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| Session Chair International Symposium on Circuits and Systems . . 2003-00-00. (Invited), January 1, 2003 |
| An Algorithm for a Single Chip Stereo Vision System IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2002-10-00., October 1, 2002 |
| A Pipe-Lined Differencing Imager IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2002-05-00., May 1, 2002 |
| A Single Chip for Color Segmentation, Histogramming and Object Recognition IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2002-05-00., May 1, 2002 |
| Ultrasonic Bearing Estimation Using a MEMS Microphone Array and Spatiotemporal Filters IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2002-05-00., May 1, 2002 |
| Single Chip for Color Segmentation, Histogramming and Object Recognition ISSCC 2002. . 2002-02-00., February 1, 2002 |
| A Pipe-Lined Differencing Imager IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2001-10-00., October 1, 2001 |
| An Algorithm for a Single Chip Stereo Vision System IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2001-10-00., October 1, 2001 |
| Ultrasonic Bearing Estimation Using a MEMS Microphone Array and Spatiotemporal Filters IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2001-10-00., October 1, 2001 |
| A Single Chip for Color Segmentation, Histogramming and Object Recognition IEEE ISCAS 2002. . 2001-09-00., September 1, 2001 |
| A Dual Pixel-Type Imager for Imaging and Motion Centroid Localization IEEE ISCAS 2001. Sydney, Australia. 2001-05-00., May 1, 2001 |
| Architecture for Source Localization with a Linear Ultrasonic Array IEEE ISCAS 2001. Sydney, Australia. 2001-05-00., May 1, 2001 |
| Large Dynamic Range Arbitrated Address Event Representation Digital Image Sensor IEEE ISCAS 2001. Sydney, Australia. 2001-05-00., May 1, 2001 |
| Arbritrated Address Event Representation Digital Image Sensor ISSCC 2001. . 2001-02-00., February 1, 2001 |
Committees
| 2012: Appointed Organizing Committee of the NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, 2003 – Present Appointed Senior Associated Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal, July 2008 – January 2013 Appointed Associated Editor, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2006 – Present Appointed Deputy Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2010 – Present Member of the Editorial Board: INE The Neuromorphic Engineer, 2002 – present Director of the Robotics Minor, JHU, September 2010 - Present Member of the Robotics MSE Curriculum Committee, JHU, September 2010 - Present Member of the ASE Continuous Review Committee, MD Higher Education Commission, Annapolis, MD, September 2009 - Present Member of Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals Curriculum Committee, Whiting School of Engineering, JHU, 2007 – 2013 PI/Co-PI SITE REU Program & Supervised REU Students, ERC on CISST, JHU, 2000 – Present Instructor, NSF Sponsored Course on Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering, 1996 - Present Organization Committee, NSF Sponsored Course on Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering, 2002 –Present Organized/Lead various tutorials, workshops and panels at international conferences, ISCAS, BioCAS, 1997 - Present |
| 2012: Appointed to the Committee on the NSF Workshop on the Science of Learning, September 2012 - Present |
| 2012: Appointed to the BME Awards Committee of the IEEE CAS Society, 2010 - Present |
| 2012: Appointed to the Journal of Low-Power Electronics and Applications Editorial Board, August 2010 - Present Appointed to the Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering Editorial Board, July 2010 - Present Appointed to the IEEE CAS Society Distinguish Lecturer Program, IEEE, January 2010 - 2012 |
| 2012: Member of ECE Faculty Search Committee Member of LCSR Faculty Search Committee |
| 2012: Member of ECE Faculty Search Committee Member of LCSR Faculty Search Committee |
| 2011: Appointed to the BME Awards Committee of the IEEE CAS Society, 2010 - Present |
| 2011: Appointed Deputy Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2011 – Present |
| 2010: Member of the Robotics MSE Curriculum Committee, JHU, September 2010 - Present |
| 2010: Appointed to the Journal of Low-Power Electronics and Applications Editorial Board, August 2010 - Present |
| 2010: Appointed to the Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering Editorial Board, July 2010 - Present |
| 2010: Appointed to the IEEE CAS Society Distinguish Lecturer Program, IEEE, January 2010 - 2012 |
| 2009: Mentor of Robotics Club, JHU, September 2009 - Present |
| 2009: Member of the ASE Continuous Review Committee, MD Higher Education Commission , Annapolis, MD, September 2009 - Present |
| 2008: Appointed Senior Associated Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal, July 2008 – Present |
| 2003: PI/Co-PI SITE REU Program & Supervised REU Students, ERC on CISST, JHU, 2000 – Present |
| 2002: Organization Committee, NSF Sponsored Course on Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering, 2002 –Present |
| 1997: Organized/Lead various tutorials, workshops and panels at international conferences, ISCAS, NIPS, ISSCC, BioCAS, 1997 - Present |
| 2010 - 2012: Director of the Robotics Minor, JHU, September 2010 - Present |
| 2007 - 2007: Review Site Visitor: NSF-SLC CELEST, March 25-27, 2007 |
| 2007 - 2007: Review Panel: DoE Retina Prosthesis Project, Rockville, MD, Sept 2007. |
| 2007 - 2007: Promotion and Tenure Referee: Associate Professor for 1 candidates, 2007 |
| 2007 - 2007: Co-Chair of Diversity Committee, ERC on CISST, JHU, 2004 – Present |
| 2007 - 2007: ECE: Member of the Strategic and Planning Committee |
| 2007 - 2007: ECE: Member of GBO Committee |
| 2007 - 2007: ECE: Member of 3 Ph.D. Committees |
| 2002 - 2002: Society Membership: IEEE, Circuits and Systems Society, Solid-State Circuits Council, EDS, SPIE |
| 2002 - 2002: Served on the search committee for a CE faculty. Actively recruiting for the position. |
| 2002 - 2002: Served on the search committee for the Dean of WSE |
| 2002 - 2002: E&CE Committees: CE Program Committee, Undergraduate Advising Committee, Chairman Advising Committee, E&CE Computing Committee, Space Committee. |
| 2002 - 2002: Served on Ph.D. Defense Committee of 2 students. Served on GBO of 3 students (two of my students passed their GBO.) |