A professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has been honored by being elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the highest honors of distinction provided by the organization.
Ji Chen, Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and the Houston site director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for EMC Research, was elevated to Fellow as of Jan. 1, 2024. He was notified of the honor in November.
Chen was recognized as being one of the top researchers in the area of EM modeling and measurements for MRI device safety. Less than 0.1 percent of IEEE voting members are selected annually for the Fellow distinction. He is the only member of the faculty to earn this distinction this year.
He has been a long-time member of the IEEE, and he has served the organization with distinction. He earned Senior Member status in 2008, which was followed by the APMC 2008 Best Paper Award, EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-10, and the EMC Society Technical Achievement Award in 2011. Since 2017, he has also served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.
Chen joined the Cullen faculty in 2001, after working at Motorola as a staff engineer. His research interests include computational electromagnetics; coupled EM and neuro-modulation simulation; the safety of passive and active medical implantable devices under MR systems; multi-channel TMS devices; and the interactions of electromagnetic waves with the human body.
Chen earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He completed his graduate work at McMaster University in Ontario, and his undergraduate degree at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.