Prof. Edwin A. Marengo, Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Electronic mail: emarengo@ece.neu.edu
Short biography: Edwin A. Marengo received the Bachelor’s degree in Electromechanical Engineering (Valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude) from the Technological University of Panama, Panama City, in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 2004 he did post-doctoral work at Northeastern University, the University of Arizona, the Technological University of Panama, and Arizona State University, covering a broad spectrum of topics in electrical engineering, physics and mathematics. Since 2004 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University where he is an Associate Professor. His research focuses on theoretical and computational challenges in electromagnetics, optics, imaging, signal processing, and wireless communications. Among other areas, he works on electromagnetic scattering and inverse scattering, electromagnetic information theory, wireless communications, and compressive optics. Dr. Marengo is a member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (elected into Commission B: Fields and Waves, in 2006), a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Optical Society of America, as well as a member of the Honor Societies of Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi, and has been an invited speaker at universities in the USA, Panama, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and Chile. He has been a Fulbright scholar sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.