Dr. RAVINDER JOSHI ELEVATED TO IEEE FELLOW
The IEEE Board of Directors has recently elevated Dr. Ravindra P. Joshi to one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, IEEE Fellow, for contributions bio-electrics and simulation of cellular responses to pulsed power excitation. According to IEEE, "The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who has made important individual contributions to one or more of these fields."
R. P. Joshi received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He received his PhD, also in Electrical Engineering, from Arizona State University in 1988. From 1988 to 1989, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Center for Solid State Electronics Research at Arizona State University. In 1989, he joined Old Dominion University, and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion. He has been a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, AFRL Laboratory, Motorola and NASA Goddard.
His research broadly encompasses modeling and simulations of bio-electrics and bio-physics; charge transport in semiconductors, liquids and gases; non-equilibrium high-field phenomena including breakdown physics, and bio-cellular mechanisms such as apoptosis and signal transduction. He has used Monte Carlo methods for simulations of high-field transport in bulk and quantum well semiconductors, and Molecular Dynamic approaches for bio-cellular responses to high-power, ultrashort electric pulses. He has one patent, over 120 refereed publications, and over 130 papers in international conferences. He served as a Guest Editor of two Special Issues of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on Nonthermal Medical/Biological Treatments Using Ionized Gases and Electric Fields (August 2004, and August 2008). He has been on the Executive Committee for the IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (2008 and 2009). Besides, he has been the recipient of the ODU Doctoral Mentor Award (2008), was designated ODU University Professor (2007), was the recipient of Martin Black Prize from the Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (2005), the ODU Rufus Tonelson Award (2004), the Outstanding Teaching Award (2003), the ODU 18th Annual Research Award, and the ODU Most Inspiring Faculty Award (2002). He is also listed in various Who's Who lists including American Men & Women of Science, Marquis Who's Who (Science & Engineering) and Engineering Education.
