Biography:
Issa M.S.
Panahi received BS and MS
degrees in electrical & computer engineering (ECE) and Ph.D degree in
ECE from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.
Dr. Panahi worked in industry and research centers for
18 years before joining the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in 2001 where
he is now a Professor of ECE and also a research professor of the
Bioengineering departments.
Dr. Panahi
was a senior design engineer for
a vision-controlled industrial robot, tape and disk
drive systems at the Storage Technology Corp in
Colorado, a Research Scientist at
the Bellaire Research Center, Geophysical signal processing group, of Shell Oil
Development Company in Houston, Texas. In 1991, he joined the digital
signal processing (DSP) division of Texas Instruments Inc (TI) in Houston
where he founded and directed the worldwide DSP Embedded
Systems business unit and served as a chief DSP architecture, TI’s senior member of technical staff, worldwide application manager, chief technology officer (CTO), advance systems development manager,
for the business unit until 2000. He was Wireless/OMAP application manager at
TI in Dallas from 2000 to 2001. During his tenure at TI, Dr. Panahi directed a dedicated TI’s Corporate R&D
team, managed multiple
funded university research projects in US, Europe, South America, and Far
East. Dr Panahi was also a member
of industrial advisory board in several universities in US and
abroad.
Dr. Panahi is founding director of the Statistical Signal Processing and Acoustic
Research laboratories in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and
Computer Science at UTD. His research areas include signal processing, audio/acoustic/speech signal processing for
biomedical and commercial applications with emphasis on statistical and
adaptive signal processing; active noise control, speech enhancement,
psychoacoustics, signal detection & estimation, source separation, remote
sensing, beamforming, microphone and loudspeaker arrays.
Dr. Panahi is
the chair of IEEE Dallas chapter of signal processing society. He was founder and vice-chair of the IEEE-Dallas
chapter of engineering in medicine and biology Society (EMBS). He
received the 2005 and 2011 “Outstanding
Service Award” from the IEEE-Section. He has been associate editor, organizer, and chair of
multiple invited and regular sessions of the annual international
conferences of IEEE EMBS (EMBC) and IEEE IECON. He was a member of organizing committee and chair of
plenary session of the IEEE ICASSP2010. He also organized tutorial workshops and chaired
several invited sessions at international conferences such as APE, American
Control Conference (ACC), International Federation of Automatic
Control-World Congress (IFAC), and IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy
Systems.
Dr. Panahi
holds a US patent and has
authored/co-authored 5 books and over 235 technical articles, journals,
and conference papers. His journal paper was recognized as
the best paper of 2013 by
the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) of S.
Korea. He also received the
“Certificate of Achievement – Award of Excellence for Distinguished Teaching
Contribution” from The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer
Science in 2014, and Certificate of Recognition for Inventive Contribution to The
University of Texas at Dallas for 2012- 2013. Articles about Dr. Panahi’s research in hearing aids were published in
the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2015), and in the news magazine/bulletin
of the University of Texas at Dallas (2014), and in several other international
publications including the NIH-NIDCD in the areas of hearing study and hearing
aids.
Dr Panahi is a senior life member of IEEE; Signal Processing Society, Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), and Acoustic
Society of America (ASA).
He is an elected member of the Technical Committee
(TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and Sensor Array and Multichannel
Signal Processing (SAM). He is also an elected member of the TC of the
Acoustical Society of America (ASA). He has also served as a member of the scientific
review panels of NIH and NSF for several years.
Research
projects of Dr. Panahi have been supported by funding from NIH, DoD, Dept. of
VA,
UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TxMRC, Texas Health Systems, and commercial and biomedical industry to the total amount exceeding $3.53M.
Education:
Academic:
·
BSc., MSc., and
PhD degrees all in Electrical Engineering.
·
1988 -
PhD in Electrical Engineering – Digital Signal Processing.
Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder,
Colorado, USA.
Thesis title: “Positivity Tests and a Class of FIR Filters:
Applications in Spectral
Estimation and System
Identification”.
Professional/Industrial:
Technical/Certified
courses:
1)
Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications - Certificate of completion, SRI .
2)
Power Electronics and Motor Control - TA&M University, University of Nevada
at Reno.
2)
TMS320C2x Digital Signal Processors - Texas Instruments Inc.
3)
TMS320C3x Digital Signal Processors - Certificate of Completion, Texas
Instruments Inc.
4)
TMS320C5X Digital Signal Processors - Certificate of Completion, Texas
Instruments Inc.
5) HDL Design - Certificate of Completion,
Texas Instruments Inc.
Business
courses:
6)
Project and Time Management - Certificate of Completion, Texas Instruments
Inc.
7)
Business and Marketing management - Certificate of Completion, Texas
Instruments Inc.
8)
Executive Business Management - Certificate of Completion, Texas Instruments
Inc.