|
 J. R. Cruz (S’75 - M’79 - SM’85 - F’01) received his undergraduate
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, and M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Houston, TX, USA, while holding a
Fulbright Fellowship.
He was with Computer Sciences Corporation at the NASA
Johnson Space Center, and Motorola Research, prior to joining The University of
Oklahoma, where he is currently a Professor, Director of the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the holder of the Tilley Chair in
Electrical Engineering.
Prof. Cruz' research interests are in communications signal
processing, particularly equalization, detection and coding techniques, with
applications to digital data storage and transmission. He is a member of the
Board of Governors and a Past President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society, and a recipient of its Outstanding Service and Stuart Meyer Memorial
Awards.
He is a former
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and currently
serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. He is a Fellow of
the Radio Club of America, the recipient of the Armstrong Medal in 2014 and the
IEEE Third-Millennium Medal in 2000. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the
IEEE Communications Society and the co-recipient of the Best Paper Prize in
Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage at the 2007 IEEE International
Conference on Communications. | 
 for the term 201719, Professor J. R. Cruz. He is one of five BoG members elected in last year to form the 15-member BoG.He is with the University of Oklahoma.*/);){kind=small}
