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Pittsburgh Chapter

A joint chapter with control systems society

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About the Society

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Pittsburgh Chapter was dormant for past few years. Revival of IEEE SPS aims to conduct variety of meetings aimed at the diverse interests of the Pittsburgh area and western PA region. The Chapter hopes to provide information, support, and networking services to the signal processing community whether they be educators, students, scientists, engineers or simply people seeking knowledge about this rapidly growing sector of the Pittsburgh corporate makeup. The IEEE SPS Pittsburgh Chapter operates under the IEEE Pittsburgh Section which hosts other local engineering society chapters such as Power, Industry applications, EMB, Nanotechnology, and Computers. We encourage membership in the IEEE, but we welcome all to our general technical meetings

Executive Administration

Ramana

Ramana Vinjamuri received B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Kakatiya University, India in 2002. He received M.S. degree in electrical engineering specialized in bio instrumentation from Villanova University, Villanova, PA in 2004. He received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering specialized in dimensionality reduction techniques in hand movements, prosthesis, robotics and virtual reality from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2008. Currently he is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA in the field of neural prosthesis through brain computer interface. His research interests include signal processing, optimization methods and their applications in brain machine interfaces. He has published several papers in IEEE journals since 2006. Dr. Vinjamuri has been chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Pittsburgh Chapter since August 2010.

Dr. Zhi-Hong Mao is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2005. He also received a S.M. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2000 From Tsinghua University in China he earned a M.Eng in Intelligent Control in 1998, a B.Eng in Automatic Control in 1995, and a BS in Mathematics in 1995. His research interests include systems and control theory, signal processing, neural control and learning, and robotics. He has published several papers in IEEE journals since 1995. Dr.Mao has been a co-chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Pittsburgh Chapter since January 2006. Dr. Mao has been a co-chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (A joint chapter with control systems society) since September 2010.