February 16, 2008
Mukul Shirvaikar (Electrical 1986) Chair of Electrical Engineering at University of Texas at Tyler
Chronicle Editor @ Feb 16, 2008
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Shirvaikar Appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar has been appointed chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He has served in the Electrical Engineering Department since 2003 and manages active research programs in real time image processing and engineering education that employ several graduate and undergraduate students, including the “Back-To-Basics Tutoring” program. Mukul has published over 15 refereed papers and was awarded 23 grants totaling over $500,000. He serves as an Associate Editor of the international Journal of Real Time Image Processing and is a member of the Technical Committee for the SPIE International Conference on Real Time Image Processing. He was nominated in 2006 and 2007 for the Minnie Piper Award for overall excellence in teaching and scholarly achievement.
Dr. Shirvaikar came to UT-Tyler with significant industrial experience. At Texas Instruments he was part of an internal startup group chartered to develop new businesses based on digital signal processors. Prior to this he worked at Pressco Technology, developing ultra-high-speed inspection systems for food and beverage containers operating at speeds of 3600 parts per minute. These products are currently in operation throughout the world.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and has a M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maine. He earned a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University, India.
Home page; http://ee.uttyler.edu/Mukul_Shirvaikar/
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