Fawwaz Ulaby

Emmett Leith Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan United States

Biography

Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby is the Emmett Leith Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Previously, he served the university as vice president for research from 1999 to 2005. His research involves the use of radar to map terrestrial geophysical features from satellite platforms. In 2006 and 2007 he served as the chair of the Radar Review Team for the Phoenix spacecraft that landed on Mars in May of 2008. Prof. Ulaby is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, and serves or has served on several scientific boards and commissions, including the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academies (2006-2012). Since joining the University of Michigan faculty in 1984, Professor Ulaby has directed numerous interdisciplinary, NASA-funded projects and served as the founding director of a NASA-funded Center for Space Terahertz Technology. He has authored 16 books, published over 700 journal articles, and he has supervised 115 graduate students. Many of his textbooks have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, and other languages. He is the recipient of the NASA Achievement Award (1990), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the 2002 William Pecora Award – a joint recognition by NASA and the Department of the Interior, and the 2006 EECS Professor of the Year Award from EKN. In 2006 he was awarded the Thomas Edison Medal, and in 2012 he received the IEEE Education Medal.