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Four College of Engineering professors named IEEE Fellows

Drs. Michael Devetsikiotis, Alexandra Duel-Hallen, Veena Misra and George Rouskas
Drs. Michael Devetsikiotis, Alexandra Duel-Hallen, Veena Misra and George Rouskas

Four NC State engineering professors have been named 2012 IEEE Fellows. They are Drs. Michael Devetsikiotis, Alexandra Duel-Hallen and Veena Misra, professors of electrical and computer engineering, and Dr. George Rouskas, professor of computer science.

The rank of Fellow is awarded by the IEEE board of directors to members of the organization with extraordinary records of accomplishment in a technology field. IEEE, the world’s largest professional society for the advancement of technology, has more than 400,000 members in more than 160 countries.

The selection of Duel-Hallen and Misra means that 100 percent of the women who are full professors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are now IEEE Fellows.

Devetsikiotis was honored “for contributions to rare-event modeling of communication networks.” His research is in the areas of high-speed network modeling, performance evaluation and efficient simulation; and optimization techniques applied to the analysis and design of communication systems. Devetsikiotis received his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from NC State in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

Duel-Hallen was honored for her “contributions to equalization and wireless communications.” Her recent projects have focused on fading channel characterization and prediction, adaptive transmission, and cross-layer design for ad hoc wireless networks. She received her bachelor’s degree in math and computer science from Case Western Reserve University in 1982 and her master’s degree in computer, information and control engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1983. She earned her doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1987.

Misra was honored “for contributions to metal electrodes and high-K dielectrics for CMOS applications.” Her research is the areas of advanced CMOS materials and devices, nanoelectronics for memory and logic, organic solar cells, wide bandgap power devices, and bioelectronics. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from NC State in 1990, 1992 and 1995, respectively.

Rouskas was honored for his “contributions in algorithms, protocols, and architectures of optical networks.” He also has projects on future Internet architectures, network design, and performance evaluation of network protocols and systems. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1989, and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1994, respectively.