Three ECE faculty members promoted
Lee Potter has been promoted to professor of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the ECE faculty in 1991. Potter was recently awarded a 2011 Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award from the College of Engineering—along with team members Dr. Jay Zweier, Periannan Kuppusamy and Rizwan Ahmad—for their work to accelerate electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. He currently leads a team from five universities on a $2.53 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant-funded project which seeks to develop and demonstrate foundational principles for adaptively managing the collection of data. Potter also directs the Center for Surveillance, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Collaborative Research Center.
Ronald Reano has been promoted to associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with tenure. He received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in 2010. The $400,000 five-year award support his research named “Creating a New Class of Organic-Inorganic Dispersion Engineered RF-Optical Modulators,” which seeks to efficiently convert high-frequency electrical signals into the optical domain using planar lightwave circuits.
Fernando Teixeira has been promoted to professor of electrical and computer engineering. A member of the ECE and ElectroScience Lab faculty since 2000, he has received a number of awards, including the 2011 Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education from the Ohio State College of Engineering. Teixeira also received the 2010 Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He received a three-year $269,231 National Science Foundation Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems grant for “New Physics-Based Inverse-Scattering Techniques for Ultrawideband Distributed Sensing” in 2010.
These promotions were approved by The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on June 24, 2011 and are effective beginning October 1.
