2004
Dr. Fritz J. Russ
Bio-Engineering Award

Dr Douglas Brungart of the Air Force Research Lab, WPAFB

Nominated by Dr. Dan Repperger.

2004
Dr. Fritz J. Russ
Bio-Engineering Award

Dr Ping He, Ph.D., P.E. Professor Dept. Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering Wright State University.

Dr. Chandler Phillips and Dr. Paul Kladitus

Nominated by Dr. Chandler Phillips, WSU.

Dr. Ping He has been working in the field of biomedical engineering for over 20 years. His main contributions are in the areas of ultrasound signal and image processing, ultrasound tissue characterisation, and applications of medical ultrasound in rehabilitation engineering. He has published 28 journal articles, 27 conference papers, and holds tow U.S. Patents. He became a registered professional engineer in Ohio in 1996, and was promoted to IEEE Senior Member in 1997. Dr He has actively served as a peer reviewer for many technical journals, as well as a grant reviewer for NASA, Army, NSF, and NIH.

2003 Dr. Fritz J. Russ Bio-Engineering Award

Dr. Michael W. Haas

Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB

Nominated by Dr Grant McMillan, AFRL

2001 Winner

2001 Winner: Steven K. Rogers, Ph.D, President, CEO and Chief Scientist of Qualia Computing, Inc. And FELLOW of the IEEE.

Nominated by Martin P. SeSimio, Ph.D., Technical Director , Qualia Computing Inc.

Dr. Fritz J. Russ Bio-Engineering Award Dr. Steven Rogers is currently President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientist of Qualia Computing Inc. where he has lead the development of a computer aided breast cancer detection product. When he started the company four years ago his vision was "The best breast cancer detection system for the most women as soon as possible." Today, that system is being sold in Europe and completing clinical trials in the United States. This product is helping radiologists help women.

Before founding Qualia, Dr. Rogers was a professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), where he made several important contributions in the area of bioengineering. He developed and tested a method to reduce the problems of motion sickness for astronauts. The key observation was the analysis of electroencephalograms that showed patterns similar in the onset of epileptic seizures prior to emesis. An anti-epileptic drug was shown to be an effective agent for the treatment of motion sickness. This treatment is being used by NASA, the Navy and Air Force to improve mission effectiveness.

While at AFIT, Dr. Rogers contributed t bioengineering education in the development and teaching of the graduate course sequence, "Mathematical Modeling of the Central Nervous System." Dr. Rogers also served the electrical engineering profession by serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and by chairing technical conferences, including the 2994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks.

He has written a highly entertaining and informative textbook, "An Introduction to Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition".

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