Chair
Sir John O'Reilly HonFIET FREng FLSW
Sir John O’Reilly, Chairman, NICC (Standards) Ltd and Chairman, Science and Engineering Research Council, A*STAR, Singapore is the Chair of the IET A F Harvey Search and Selection Panel.
He has a background in engineering and science research spanning industry, academia and government, is a visiting Professor at University College London, RAEng Industrial Visiting Professor at University of Huddersfield, Board member of ERA Foundation Ltd and of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 where he also chairs the Engineering and Industry committee.
Previous appointments include Director-General overseeing research, innovation and higher education for UK government, Vice-Chancellor Cranfield University, Chief Executive Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as well as a practicing researcher in the scientific civil service, universities, and industry.
Members
Professor David Atkinson PhD
After an undergraduate degree in Physics, David Atkinson did a PhD in semiconductor optoelectronics. Following a role as a scientific programmer, he worked as a PostDoc on semiconductors in optical telecommunications systems. In 1996 he used his signal processing expertise to move into Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Guy’s Hospital, London and he is currently working on medical image acquisition and reconstruction at University College London and its associated Hospital.
Professor Jennifer Bernhard
Jennifer Bernhard is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Director of the Illinois Applied Research Institute (ARI). She was previously the Associate Dean for Research in the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering. She is an IEEE Fellow and a former member of the IEEE Board of Directors and the ASEE Engineering Research Council Executive Board.
Professor Bernhard is a globally recognised expert in multifunctional reconfigurable antennas and their system-level benefits. Her research group also develops antenna synthesis and packaging techniques for electrically small, planar, and integrated antennas for wireless sensor and communication systems.
Dr Myles H Capstick
Myles Capstick is the Associate Director and Head of Hardware at the IT’IS Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society in Zurich, Switzerland. Before joining IT’IS in 2006 he has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of York, UK. He is also CTO of ZMT Zurich MedTech AG, a spin-off company of ETH Zurich and the IT’IS Foundation since it was founded in 2006.
Dr Capstick's principal areas of research focus on the development of new therapy and treatment devices for neurostimulation and cancer therapy, novel and optimized electromagnetic (EM) sensor technologies, exposure assessment and dosimetry for safety and compliance evaluation for EM fields in complex environments, and EM exposure systems for biomedical research and medical compliance applications.
Dr Dean Ho
Dean Ho is the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of the N.1 Institute for Health and Director of the Institute for Digital Medicine.
His research interests are in personalized medicine technologies and the development of nanodiamond platforms for drug delivery.
Professor Hugh Griffiths OBE FREng PhD DSc(Eng) FIET, FIEEE
Hugh Griffiths holds the THALES/Royal Academy Chair of RF Sensors at University College London. His research interests include radar systems and signal processing (particularly bistatic radar and synthetic aperture radar), and antenna measurement techniques.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IET Radar, Sonar, and Navigation journal. He has published over five hundred papers and technical articles in the fields of radar, antennas and sonar.
Professor Griffiths has received several awards and prizes, including the IEEE Picard Medal (2017), IET Achievement Medal (2017), the IEEE AES Mimno Award (2015), the IET A F Harvey Prize (2012) and the IEEE AES Nathanson Award (1996).
Professor Ashok JhunJhunwala
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor at IIT Madras, received his BTech degree from IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD from the University of Maine, USA. He was a faculty at Washington State University, USA before joining IIT Madras. He was on sabbatical from IITM 2017-18 and was Principal Advisor to the Minister of Power, MNRE, and Railways, Government of India, New Delhi.
Professor Jhunjhunwala is a pioneer in nurturing Industry-Academia interaction in India towards R&D, Innovation and Product Development. He conceived and built India’s first university affiliated business park (IIT Madras Research Park) to promote Industry-Academia R&D collaboration. He is fellow of IEEE, INSA, NAS, IAS, INAE and WWRF and a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA.
Professor Linda Katehi
Linda Katehi is the O’Donnell Endowed Chair in Engineering and a Distinguished TEES Chair Professor of Electronics in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Material Science and Engineering departments at Texas A&M.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the American Academy for Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Innovators (NAI) and a fellow of IEEE.
She chaired the President’s Committee for the National Medal of Science and was the chair of the Secretary of Commerce’s Committee for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From 2018-19 she was the President (WEPAN) Women in Engineering Professional Advocacy Network.
Professor Katehi’s research focuses on the design and development of intelligent communication electronics.
Professor Alison Noble OBE FRS FREng FIET
Alison Noble OBE is currently the Technikos Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University. She leads a medical image analysis group best known internationally for learning-based ultrasound image analysis and has received several international awards including the Royal Society Gabor Medal, the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society Enduring Impact award, and the IFMBE Laura Bassi Award.
Prof. Noble is a Fellow of the IET, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the ELLIS Society, and the MICCAI Society. She is a Royal Society Council member and member of the EPSRC SET Board. She is a former IET Trustee.
Professor Helder Santos
Helder Santos is Full Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering and Head of the Department at the University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen. Professor Santos is also the Chairman and co-founder of Capsamedix Oy, and Coordinator of H2020 EU MSCA-ITN P4 FIT network.
He holds Visiting Professorships at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and University of Tartu. He is co-author of +450 publications (+17800 citations; h-index = 80) and 5 patents. He has +200 invited talks around the world. Prof. Santos has received prestigious awards/grants, including the Academy of Finland Award for Social Impact in 2016, and the CRS Young Investigator Award 2021.
Professor Merryn Tawhai
Merryn Tawhai graduated from the University of Auckland with a PhD in Engineering Science in 2001. She leads a research programme at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) in applied computational physiology of the respiratory system.
Merryn is the Deputy Director of the ABI. She was Director of the Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence (MedTech CoRE) from 2018-2021. She was awarded the 2016 MacDiarmid Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) Te Apārangi, is a Fellow of the RSNZ, and a Fellow of IAMBE and AIMBE.
Merryn is also a Director of Izon Science. Her research interests are computational physiology, mathematical models of integrative lung function and multi-scale multi-physics models.