EMC Personality Profile Frank Sabath, Associate Editor
Introducing New IEEE Fellows The EMC Personalities for this issue are our two new IEEE Fellows: Sergio Amedeo Pignari and Richard Anthony Tell. Please join me in congratulating them for being elected to the Fellow Grade. Our first new IEEE Fellow, Sergio A. Pignari, received the Laurea (M.S.) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. Dr. Pignari was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow for contributions to immunity characterization using bulk current injection test methods. While obtaining his Ph.D., his research activity was on distributed-parameter modeling of complex networks. From 1991 to 1998, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. In 1998, he joined Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, as an Associate Professor. He is currently a Full Professor of Circuit Theory and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is the author or coauthor of more than 120 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests are in the field of EMC and are mainly related to statistical techniques for EMC and experimental procedures and setups for EMC testing. From 2007 to 2009 he served as the Chair of the IEEE Italy Section EMC Society Chapter. Since 2010 he has been serving as the IEEE EMC Society Chapter Coordinator. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC. Over the past ten years, Sergio has organized special sessions and workshops on statistical techniques for EMC and transportation systems EMC at several international conferences. Particularly, he has been Technical Program Chair of the ESA Workshop on Aerospace EMC in 2009 and 2012, and a Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Asia Pacific EMC Week since 2010. His research activity is related to aerospace, automotive, and railway industry sectors. In particular, his recent work has been supported by the European Space Research and Technology Center of the European Space Agency, by companies of the Italian Railways Group, and by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research. A sizable part of Sergio’s research work is on immunity assessment. In particular, he developed an understanding of the ways in which bulk current injection (BCI) can be correlated to distributed field-to-wire coupling effects in wire bundles. This was possible by releasing the deterministic constraints, and by recognizing the inherently random nature of electromagnetic disturbances. Concerning BCI, Sergio also contributed to the development of electromagnetic modeling and circuit simulation of the injection devices, through a measurement-based parameter extraction technique accounting for by the ferrite core frequency-dependent losses and resonances. This enables quantitative design of the measurement system and characterization of artifacts. The contributions on BCI led to
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the IEEE EMC Society 2005 Transactions Prize Paper and an IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award in 2011. In radiated immunity, Sergio originated probabilistic models to characterize the response of transmission lines to external plane-wave fields with unknown (i.e. random) parameters. This contribution led to a second place in the contest for the IEEE EMC Society 2002 Transactions Prize Paper. He also contributed to the development of deterministic and statistical models for the radiated immunity of twisted-wire pairs, and for crosstalk estimation in random wire bundles. Sergio also made a contribution to railway EMC through the development of measurement systems and procedures for the practical characterization of radiated electromagnetic emission of high-speed trains, and human exposure to electromagnetic fields in the railway environment. Since he has been with Politecnico di Milano, Sergio has built up an EMC research group (the EMC Group @ POLIMI), which is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering, and now has five academic staff (http:// docenti.etec.polimi.it/IND31/emcgroup/). In addition to his research work, Sergio has been active in EMC education. At the Department of Electrical Engineering he started and currently teaches the EMC course for the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. In recent years, he has also taught courses on EMC at ESIGELEC in Rouen, France and courses on Electromagnetic Fields at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Sergio lives in the northwest corner of Italy, in a little village among the hills, in a land of vineyards (and famous vines). In his spare time he enjoys playing tennis and biking. Also, Sergio enjoys traveling, and Asia is by far the region of the world he likes most. Our second new IEEE Fellow, Richard A. Tell, was elected to the IEEE Fellow grade for contributions to assessment and safety standards for human exposure to radio frequency energy. He earned the B.S. degree in physics and mathematics in 1966 from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas and the M.S. degree in radiation sciences in 1967 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mr. Tell has 38 years of experience working on issues related to radiofrequency (RF) hazards. During the first 20 years of his professional career within the Federal government, he worked first for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health and then for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he served as Chief of the Electromagnetics Branch. In that capacity, he supported the agency’s program to develop a public exposure standard for RF fields and did extensive work related to RF instrumentation evaluation, computer modeling of antennas and national field studies to measure environmental levels of RF fields. During his
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tenure at the EPA, his program provided technical support to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the FCC adopted new rules for human exposure to RF fields. For the past 18 years, Mr. Tell has pursued his own scientific consulting practice related to electromagnetic field exposure assessment. Much of his work has been in helping clients to evaluate compliance with applicable standards and to establish RF safety programs within their companies. His work has included contract support to the FCC, NIOSH, the FAA, Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Border Patrol, the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), and other Federal and public agencies related to analyzing and evaluating electromagnetic fields. In recent years, his business activities have expanded to include the development of specialized software for analyzing RF fields at wireless telecommunications antenna sites, design and production of RF safety signs (RF Alerting Signs) and the development and production of electromagnetic energy awareness and training videos for the industry.
Richard Tell is a past elected member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and serves as Chairman of Subcommittee 2 of the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee TC-95 on RF. He also is Chair of the Risk Evaluation Working Group of Subcommittee 4 within TC-95 which has recently revised the IEEE standard for RF exposure and is an elected member of the IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR). He has authored numerous reports, publications and book chapters related to evaluating electromagnetic fields from a hazards perspective and is a frequent participant in national and international workshops related to electromagnetic field hazards and safety standards development. On the personal side, Richard is married to Valeria Ann Tell and has three children. He has been a licensed amateur radio operator since 1959 and holds the call sign K5UJU as an Extra Class licensee. EMC
published numerous papers on the results of his research in the Electro electronic systems and given numerous invited presentations. He has
Chapters in four handbooks. Dr. Paul is a Life Fellow of the Institute of E
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(IEEE) and is an Honorary Life Member of the IEEE EMC Society.
Electromagnetics Award and the 2007 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Aw
A special section of theEMC IEEEHall Transactions EMC will contain invited papers of Fame inon 2011 summarizing research areas pioneered by Professor Clayton R. Paul.
This special section will include topics such as printed circuit board design, multiple conductor transmission lines, inductance, twisted-pairs, common and differential mode, as well as others.
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