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Professor Ramanaryanan (‘Vish’) Viswanathan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to a Fellow of IEEE (class of 2008) for contributions to distributed detection and decision fusion in sensor systems. His work on detection with decentralized sensor systems spans a period of twenty years and was funded over an eight-year period by two grants from Office of Naval Research. His research has established conditions for optimal performance of parallel and serial sensor configurations, method for optimal multi-level partitioning of parallel sensor observations under Neyman-Pearson criterion, and has established performance limits in large scale systems. His theory has also been applied to constant false alarm rate detection with multiple Radars.
The IEEE website, in honoring the Fellows states, “The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society… The IEEE Fellows are an elite group from around the globe. The IEEE looks to the Fellows for guidance and leadership as the world of electrical and electronic technology continues to evolve.”
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