Miguel Vélez-Reyes
Position: Campus Director
Email: mvelez@ece.uprm.edu
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Miguel Vélez-Reyes received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1988, and 1992, respectively. In 1992, he joined the faculty with UPRM, where he is currently a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He has also held internship positions with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratories, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Vélez-Reyes' teaching and research interests are in the areas of modeling, identification and control of dynamic systems and remote sensing using hyperspectral imaging. He has over 70 publications in journals and conference proceedings and contributed to 2 book chapters. He is Associate Director of the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems and Campus Coordinator for the Center for Power Electronic Systems, both are NSF Engineering Research Center led by Northeastern University and Virginia Tech respectively.
In 1997, Dr. Vélez-Reyes was one of 60 recipients from across the United States and its territories of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House. In 2005, Dr. Vélez-Reyes was inducted in the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. He is a senior member of the IEEE where he has held many posts such as president of the IEEE Western Puerto Rico Section, and Latin America representative to the IEEE PELS AdCom. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.