Short CV for Robert W. Newcomb 08/2014

Short CV for Robert W. Newcomb 08/2014 1. Name, address, email, web, phone Robert Wayne Newcomb, Professor ECE Department, UMCP, College Park, MD 20742 [email protected] www.ece.umd.edu/~newcomb [1]-(301)-405-3662

2. Degrees 1960 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 1957 MS in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 1955 BS in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

3. Academic Experience [full(FT) or part(PT) time status] 1970 – Present Professor (FT), UMCP 1964 – 1970 Tenured Associate Professor (FT), Stanford 1960 – 1964 Assistant Professor (FT), Stanford 1957 – 1960 Teaching Associate (FT; faculty member), UC Berkeley

4. Non-Academic Experience Newcomb Electronics, summers 1951-1954, FT Stanford Research Institute, 1955 – 1957, research intern, FT Consultant to a number of universities, governments, companies and law firms over past years, PT

5. Certifications or Professional Registrations Registered Professional Engineer, California E5558

6. Current Membership in Professional Organizations IEEE AIMBE, SIAM, MAA, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Academy of American Poets, Sigma Xi

7. Honors and Awards Robert W. Newcomb Laboratory established at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Robert W. Newcomb Fellowship established at Postech University, Korea Life Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE (=American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers) IEEE CAS Education Award Fulbright-Hays Fellow, Malaysia (1963) Fulbright Fellow, Australia (1960) Dean’s Circle (Stanford Engineering) Presidents Council (Purdue)

8. Service and Activities (recent within and outside UMCP) Outside UMCP: Program Chair, IEEE Conference on Medicine and Environmental Engineering, Merida, Mexico, December 2009 - 2011 Program Chair STEM Measures Workshop, 2090, and Organizing Committee,1012 Editor, Special Issue on Health Care Systems, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 2011 Reviewer of a number of journals, 5-10 reviews per week Member of a number of IEEE committees, such as CAS Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee, CAS Fellows, various AdComs Chair of IEEE Kirchhoff Award committee Member IEEE-USA Technical Policy Committees on R& D and Medical Technology Editor, Open Forum Section of IEEE CAS Magazine, Neurocomputing Letters, Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, Multidimensional Systems, CSSP Journal, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (various over the years; 2014=TCASII) Member Wheaton High School Business Advisory Committee Foreign Proposal Evaluator: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Portugal, Singapore External Examiner, Lagos University (1st USA examiner) Foreign Dissertation Evaluator: Canada, India, Singapore Sponsor David F. Tuttle Fellowship, Stanford Sponsor in ECE:Henrik Ourthuys Felloswhip, Purdue Sponsor in Math: Gorden Walker Fellowship, Purdue Sponsor in Physics: Frederik Belinfonte Fellowship, Purdue Sponsor in Chemistry: Mellon Fellowship, Purdue Sponsor William H. Haytt, Jr. Named Office, Purdue Sponsor in Geological Society of America: Denali Fellows Sponsor IEEE Charles A. Desoer LiSSA/BioCAS attendance grants Sponsor in ECE: Newcomb/Kim Fellowship, Postech, Korea Sponsor NIH NINDS High School researchers, PostBach & RWNewcomb seminar

UMCP: Sponsor, UMCP Academy of American Poets poetry prize Research Mentor to local high school students, one to five per year Sponsor of Visiting Scholars; China, Korea, Russia, Spain, Brazil MOSIS representative for VLSI fabrications Various ECE committees, as GSRC, Qualifying Exam, APT Chair, Committee to establish Applied Mathematics Program

9. Some 500 publications, some recent ones are: 1. L. Sellami and R. W. Newcomb, "A Chaosing Circuit Model for Heart Fibrillation," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics, Scottsdale, October 20, 2008, pp. 15 – 18. 2. Paul Sotiriadis and Robert W. Newcomb, "Model Reference Circuits for Mitosis Control," Proceedings of MED 09, 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, June 25, 2009, pp. 564 – 569. . 3. Robert W. Newcomb, “Nanotechnology for Biomedicine: Past, Present and Future,” Proceedings of PETRA 2009, Corfu, June 12, 2009, pp. 1-4. 4. A. Hodge, J. Chen, P.-C. Chung, R. Newcomb, J. Chang, U.-V. Koc, and S. T. C. Wong, “Catch the Wave – Nanotechnology, the Future is Now,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol 29, No. 1, 2010, pp. 10 – 15. 5. Koranan Limpaphayom and Robert W. Newcomb, "Inverse Function Theory for Hearing Correction via the ABR," in Future Visions on s, edited by L. Bos, D. Carroll, L. Kun, A. Marsh and L. M. Roa, ICMCC Publications, Publicatiosn, . Springer, Berlin, 2011, pp. 85 – 92. 6. Mohammad Safar and Robert W. Newcomb, “ Design of a Hemispherical Antenna Array for Magnetic Field Control in the Brain,” Procedings of the 2011 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems Applications Workshop, LiSSA, April 07, 2011, pp. 131 – 134. 7. Mohammad Safar and Robert W. Newcomb, “Design of a Hemispherical Antenna Array Receiver for Medical Applications,” Proceedings of the 4th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2011, La Palma, Canary Islands, May 30, 2011, pp. 256 – 265. 8. .L. Sellami and R. W. Newcomb, “Synthesis of Kemp Echoes Using an Analog Choclea Circuit Model,” Proceedings of CASME 2012, Paper T10, power point pp. 3 – 16 on line at http://amsc.tamu.edu/CASME1/CASME12/program.html 9. Louiza Sellami and Robert W. Newcomb, “VLSI Design for Multi-Sensor Smart Systems on a Chip,”In VLSI Design, Dr. Esteban Tlelo-Chuautle, Ed., InTech, 2012 , pp. 1 – 15. at http://www.intechopen.com/books/vlsi-design/vlsi-design-for-smart-multisensor-systems-on- a-chip 10. Pau-Choo Chung and Robert W.Newcomb, “Special issue on “Multidimensional Signal and Image Analysis on HealthCare Applications”. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 2012, pp. 421 – 422. 11. Joseph Chang, Stephen Wong, Robert Newcomb, and Philipp Hafliger, “The Third Revolution in Medicine – the Convergence of Life Sciences with Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and ENGINEERING,” From the Guest Editors, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, Second Quarter 2012, pp. 4 – 7. 12. Insun Song, PooGyeon Park, and Robert W. Newcomb, “A Normalized Least-Mean- Squares Algorithm with a Step-size Scaler against Impulsive Measurement Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II, Vol. 60, No. 7, July 2013, pp. 442 – 445. 13. Louiza Sellami, Robert W. Newcomb and Surajit Sen, “Simulink Modeling for Circuit Representation of Granular Chains,” Modern Physics Letters B, Vol. 27, No. 13, 2013, pp. 1350093 – 1 to 1350093 – 10. DOI: 10.1142/S0217984913500930.