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networks, biosensors, and integrated
circuit technology dealing with digital, analog, and radio-frequency (RF)
circuit designs for wireless, biomedical, and RF applications. He has published more than 100 technical articles
in these areas and received a NASA
Group Achievement Award in 2007
for developing an SOI transceiver. He
received a Best Journal Paper Award in
2014 from the IEEE Microwave Theory
and Techniques Society. He received a
Research Excellence Award in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, in 2010.
He received the prestigious Australian
Research Council Future Fellowship
Award in 2013.
He is an author of the books Wireless Body Area Networks (2011) and
Ultra-Wideband and 60 GHz Communications for Biomedical Applications (2013). He is an associate editor
for IEEE Sensors Journal and was a

SMC Innovators

Dr. Dongyi Chen
Dr. Dongyi Chen earned his Ph.D.
degree from Chongqing University,
China, in 1997. Since then, he has been
with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is
now a full professor of automation
engineering and the director of the
Research Center for Mobile Computing. He was a postdoctoral research
fellow with University of Toronto,
Canada, from 1998 to 1999. From 2002
to 2005, he was a visiting professor
at the Graphics, Visualization, and
Usability Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a pioneering

researcher in wearable computing in
China. He has led a number of important national research projects and
initiatives in China, and his research
results have been widely covered by
the Chinese media, such as CCTV,
People's Daily, and Science and Technology Daily.
He was a cochair of the first and
second editions of the China-Germany Wearable Computing Symposium. He was also the general chair
of the 2013 and 2014 China Wearable
Computing Conference and the conference chair of the 2015 China Wearable Computing Conference/2015
Symposium on Wearables and Challenges in Medicine. His research
interests include mobile computing, wearable computing, human-
machine inter faces, augmented
virtual reality, wireless sensor networks, and body sensor networks.

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Jamshidi: I cannot say enough
about my partner in life, Jila, who has
tolerated me being a workaholic for
the 42 years we have been together.
She has been a key factor in where
I am and what I have done in my
45-year career. My daughter, Ava (like
me, a University of Illinois alumna),
studied computer engineering and has
been a successful manager of talent in
Hollywood for 15 years. My son, Nima
(an alumnus of Purdue University and
the University of New Mexico), studied computer and electrical engineering and has been making tremendous
contributions to the nation through
his career with the U.S. Air Force and
Honeywell for 11 years now.
El-Hawary: How about your biographical highlights?
Jamshidi: Aside from what came
up already, other highlights of my
career include helping to establish the
field of large-scale systems in 1983 by
publishing the first text in this field in
a series of books edited by Andy Sage.
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guest editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics in
2014. He has been a TC member of
many IEEE conferences in the areas
of medical sensors, wireless wearable
sensors, and body-area networks. He
is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

This book was widely adopted and
used in many languages, such as Mandarin, French, Russian, and Romanian. Another highlight was helping
to create an economic power dispatch
of coal-fired power plants with airquality constraints without violating
any clean-air standards while at IBM
Research in 1975-1977. In addition,
my ten-year service to NASA was a
high point, including an advisory role
for the first Mars mission and advocating a new challenge to engineer a
wired or connected world of system
of systems, which is an ongoing challenge for me and numerous others
around the globe.
El-Hawary: How do you see the
SMCS of the future?
Jamshidi: I see a bright future
for the SMCS-as long as young systems engineering students, researchers, and industrial professionals are
encouraged to be active in the Society,
especially in the annual conferences
and publications. The SMCS can be

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helped a lot by catering to industry
and opening new doors to them, as
the International Council on Systems
Engineering has done for years.
El-Hawary: What is the most coveted
reward that you seek?
Jamshidi: The most coveted
reward I seek is to see that I have done
all I could for my students for the limited time their lives cross mine and see
them succeed in their own careers.
El-Hawary: What keeps you up at
night worrying?
Jamshidi: I am, fortunately, good
at falling asleep quickly almost every
night, but, at times, I think about the
many commitments I have made to
deliver new lectures and new reference letters and how can I help my
students and be like a father to them.
El-Hawary: Thank you.
Jamshidi: You are most welcome,
and thank you for calling on me for
this interview.

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