Majeed M. Hayat Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Director, Center for High Technology Materials General Chair, Optical Science and Engineering The University of New Mexico Center for High Technology Materials 1313, Goddard Street SE, Room 139 MSC04 2710, Albuquerque, NM 87106 e-mail: hayat@chtm.unm.edu (505) 272-7095; (505) 277-0297 (ECE) FAX (505) 272-7801

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Dr. Hayat received his Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific  (in Stockton, CA) in 1985. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He worked as a Research Associate in the ECE Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1993 to 1996 where he also taught graduate and undergraduate courses. In 1996, he joined the Electro-Optics Graduate Program and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Dayton, where he was granted early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2001. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Director of the Center for High Technology Materials, and General Chair of Optical Science and Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He is a recipient of a 1998 National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award. He was an Associate Editor of Optics Express (Photodetectors and Image Processing) from 2004 to 2010 and an Associate Editor and member of conference editorial board for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is currently the Chair of the topical committee of Photodetctors, Sensors, Systems and Imaging within the IEEE Photonics Society. Dr. Hayat's research activities cover a broad range of topics including avalanche photodiodes, signal and image processing, algorithms for infrared spectral sensing and imaging, optical communication, modeling and optimization of distributed systems and networks, and applied probability and stochastic process. He is recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award (1998) and the Chief Scientist Award for Excellence (2006) by the National Consortium for MASINT Research and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Dr. Hayat has authored or co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles (over 2500 citations, H-Index: 27; Google Scholar - March 2012) and has four issued patents, three of which have been licensed.  Dr. Hayat is a Fellow of SPIE, senior member of IEEE, and member of OSA.