Dr. John W. Adams

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mail Code 8346, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330-8346

Phone 818-677-3890, E-mail: jwadams@csun.edu (not jwadams@csun.com)

AWARDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF STUDY

Texas Instruments Founder's Prize.  This prize is awarded annually to “the individual  exhibiting the most outstanding record of achievement and potential for future achievement in the physical sciences, health sciences, management sciences, engineering, or mathematics.”  It includes an honorarium of 50,000 dollars.  Previous recipients were the Head of Physics Research at Lucent Technologies, the Chief of Immunology at the National Institutes of Health, and the Dean of Engineering at Stanford University.  The award ceremony was held at TI headquarters in Dallas..

IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize.  This prize is awarded each year “for the most outstanding paper presenting original research in all of the journals, transactions, magazines, and proceedings of the IEEE.”   Approximately 20,000 papers are published by the IEEE each year.  The award ceremonies were held in Philadelphia, PA and Kyoto, Japan.

IEEE RADAR ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD.  This annual award is conferred by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society “for outstanding contributions to the radar art."  It was presented at the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Radar in Washington D.C.

CSU TRUSTEES OUTSTANDING PROFESSOR AWARD, for the Northridge Campus of the California State University System, 1988.  Award was presented at the CSU Chancellor's home.

DISTINGUISHED ENGINEERING EDUCATOR AWARD, San Fernando Valley Engineers Council, 1994.

OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD, College of Engineering and Computer Science, CSUN, 1986.

IEEE ASSOCIATE EDITOR, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1993 to 1999.  Served as Associate Editor for the research journal, coordinated the review of original research papers in the field of image processing, and decided which papers to publish in the journal.  

REVIEWER FOR IEEE RESEARCH JOURNALS:  Frequently serve as reviewer for research papers submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:  Over 70 IEEE publications (most were co-authored with CSUN students).   Example of an IEEE research journal publication that was co-authored with a CSUN graduate student 

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