Image Processing Expert and ECE Chair Named IEEE Fellow

Badri Roysam, chair of the electrical and computer engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The honor is the IEEE’s highest grade of membership and is reserved for those with “an outstanding record of accomplishments” in an IEEE field. No more than one-tenth of 1 percent of IEEE’s voting members can be named Fellows in a given year.

In naming Roysam to the 2017 Class of Fellows, the IEEE cited his contributions to image processing algorithms for biological microscopy.