TWO ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS NAMED FELLOWS WITH RENOWNED SCIENCE GROUP
US Fed News
June 6, 2011 Monday 7:48 AM EST
SAN ANTONIO, June 6 — The University of Texas at San Antonio issued
the following news release:
Earlier this year, Sos Agaian, Peter T. Flawn Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, and Rena Bizios, Peter T. Flawn Professor
of Biomedical Engineering, were inducted as fellows into the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an elected honor
bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Agaian, a computer engineering scholar, specializes in signal and
image processing, cancer imaging, bioinformatics and multimedia
security. His research applies to mobile communications security,
multimedia security, sensors imaging, health care management and
other engineering areas.
In addition to holding 23 U.S. patents, Agaian has authored more than
450 journal and conference papers, six books and seven book chapters.
He is an associate editor of the IEEE’s Systems Journal, Journal of
Real-Time Imaging and Journal of Electronic Imaging, and he serves
as an editorial board member of the Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Image Analysis.
He has two doctoral degrees from the Academy of Sciences of the
USSR in Moscow: one in engineering sciences (electrical and computer
engineering) and the other in mathematics and physics. Additionally,
he is a Fellow of the International Society for Photo-Optical
Instrumentations Engineers and a foreign member of the Armenian
National Academy.
Bizios, a chemical-biomedical engineer has established a distinguished
career in academia. Her contributions to teaching and accomplishments
in research have been recognized by awards and honors from several
regional and national professional organizations. She also is a Fellow
of the Biomedical Engineering Society, American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
and of International Society for Biomaterials Science and Engineering.
Her research interests include cellular engineering, tissue
regeneration, biomaterials, biocompatibility and tissue engineering.
She has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and several hundred
invited and contributed presentations at national and international
conferences, universities and companies. She is co-author of a textbook
and co-editor of another book pertinent to her research interests and
activities. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of
Biomedical Materials Research (Parts A and B).
This year, 503 members were awarded the honor of fellow by the AAAS
because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts
to advance science or its applications. Both Agaian and Bizios were
nominated to become AAAS fellows by the organization’s Section on
Engineering.
Other AAAS fellows on the UTSA faculty include Mo Jamshidi, Lutcher
Brown Distinguished Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering;
Joseph L. Martinez Jr., professor of neurobiology; George Perry, dean
of the College of Sciences; Ravi Sandhu, Lutcher Brown Distinguished
Chair in Cyber Security; Miguel Yacaman, professor and chair of the
Department of Physics and Astronomy; and David J. McComas, senior
executive director of the Space Science and Engineering Division at
Southwest Research Institute and UTSA adjoint professor of physics;
and C.L. Philip Chen, professor of electrical and computer engineering.