Dr. Bahram Javidi, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, has recently received several major awards from IEEE, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and SPIE.

IEEE: Dr. Javidi was awarded the 2008 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize for the best overview or survey paper among all (over 130) IEEE transactions, journals, and magazines.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: The Foundation has awarded Dr. Javidi the 2008 Humboldt Prize for outstanding U.S. scientists, Germany’s most prestigious research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disciplines.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: He has received a 2008 Fellow Award for his work on real-time 3D optical imaging and identification.

SPIE: He has received the 2008 Technology Achievement Award from the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) for his lifetime work on information optics.

His other awards include the Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Wave Technologies from SPIE, National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, Engineering Foundation and IEEE Faculty Initiation Award, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Awards, and best paper awards from IEEE and SPIE. In 2003, he was selected by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the nation’s top 160 engineers between the ages of 30-45 to be an invited speaker at the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

Dr. Javidi is Fellow of seven professional societies, including IEEE, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Optical Society of America, SPIE, and Institute of Physics. He has over 630 publications, including 8 books, 44 book chapters, over 250 peer reviewed journal articles, over 330 conference proceedings, and over 110 plenary and keynote addresses and invited conference papers.

Dr. Javidi received his B.S. from George Washington University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University, all in electrical engineering.