IIT Faculty Member Jafar Saniie Named Walter and Harriet Filmer Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Armour College of Engineering is pleased to announce that faculty member Jafar Saniie has been named the Walter and Harriet Filmer Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The chair was established in 1995 in memory of Walter L. and Harriet B. Filmer and recognizes Saniie’s outstanding educational and research contributions in computer engineering during the last 25 years.
Saniie joined IIT’s electrical and computer engineering department (ECE) in 1983 and currently serves as a professor, associate chair, graduate program director, director of computer engineering and director of the Ultrasonic Information Processing Laboratory. He has gained national and international visibility for his scholarly work in embedded computing and ultrasonic signal processing, and has published more than 195 journal and conference papers in these areas. His recent research contributions have included signal processing algorithms and digital hardware architectures for system-on-a-chip design, nonlinear signal processing and hardware design, time-frequency distributions and pattern recognition and modeling and estimation algorithms for ultrasonic imaging with medical and industrial applications.
“I strongly believe that Professor Saniie is a pillar of the ECE department who has contributed selflessly to our growth and visibility through his teaching, research and service,” said ECE Chair and Bodine Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour. “For more than two decades, he has inspired young minds with his unique approach of integrating research and education through hands-on projects. He is a great role model for computer engineering students and junior faculty, and continues to raise the bar in excellence, dedication and service at IIT.”
In 2006, Saniie received IIT’s ECE Outstanding Faculty Award in recognition of his exceptional teaching and contributions to computer engineering and in 2007 he received the university’s Outstanding Teaching Award.
Saniie earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1974, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1981.
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