IIT Faculty Member Miles Wernick Receives Motorola Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chicago, IL — June 12, 2009 —
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is pleased to announce that Miles Wernick has received the Motorola Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Motorola Foundation established the professorship in 1987 to assist an engineering professor.
Wernick has been an IIT faculty member since 1994, the director of the university’s Medical Imaging Research Center (MIRC), and a professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering. Dedicated to building strong research and educational programs in medical imaging, Wernick founded the MIRC in 2004 after several years of growth, aided by seed funding granted by the Whitaker Foundation.
Wernick’s primary research interests are in medical imaging, image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and optics. He is currently leading projects that include mapping the human brain, developing new X-ray imaging techniques, utilizing computer-aided diagnosis, and imaging the heart.
The author or co-author of 43 journal papers, 80 full-length conference papers, four book chapters, and three patents, Wernick was lead editor of the book, Emission Tomography: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT, published by Academic Press. He is associate editor of both IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and SPIE/IS&T Journal of Electronic Imaging. He also served on the Optics & Photonics News editorial committee, published by the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is currently guest editing a special issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Additionally, Wernick regularly participates in National Institutes of Health (NIH) study sections and has served as a reviewer for 16 journals and two book publishers.
Wernick has held leadership positions in technical societies, including IEEE and OSA. In 2008, he received a Sigma Xi/IIT Award for Excellence in University Research, and in 2006, he received an Outstanding Faculty Award from IIT’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from Northwestern University in 1983, Wernick received a Ph.D. in optics (’90) from the Institute of Optics at Rochester University.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 7,300 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business, and law. IIT's interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate inventions that improve the human condition, and to prepare students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment. Visit www.iit.edu.
