FACULTY

UMRAN S. INAN

Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Director of the VLF Group
Director of theSTAR Laboratory

EDUCATION

	B.S., Middle East Technical University, Turkey (1972)
	M.S., Middle East Technical University, Turkey (1973)
	Ph.D., Stanford University (1977)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	9/97- Director, Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience (STAR) Laboratory
	9/92- Profesor of Electrical Engineering (EE), Stanford University
	9/85-8/92 Associate Professor of EE, Stanford University
	9/82-8/85 Assistant Professor of EE, Stanford University
	2/81-3/81 Research Associate, EE Dept., Stanford University
	4/81-8/82 Acting Assistant Professor of EE, Stanford University
	9/80-1/81 Assistant Professor of EE, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
	9/78-8/80 Acting Assistant Professor of EE, Stanford University
	9/77-8/78 Research Affiliate, EE Dept., Stanford University

BOOKS

	Engineering Electromagnetics, Addison Wesley, July 1998
	Electromagnetic Waves, Prentice Hall, August 1999

HONORS AND AWARDS

	Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), December 2006
	Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), November 2006
	European Space Agency (ESA) Certificate of Recognition (CLUSTER), September 2005
	NASA Group Achievement Award (CLUSTER), August 2004
	Ionospheric Effects Symposium, Most Outstanding Paper Award, May 1999
	Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching June 1998
	NASA Group Achievement Award (POLAR), June 1998
	NSF and Department of the Navy Antarctic Service Medal, August 1993
	Young Scientist Award of the International Union of Radio Science, September 1984
	NASA Group Achievement Award (Dynamics Explorer), October 1983
	Outstanding service award of the Electrical Engineering Department for excellence in teaching (1978)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Principal investigator on several research grants sponsored by Office of Naval Research (ONR), NSF Division of Polar Programs, NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Space Physics Division, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory. Current research projects include: (i) optical observations of high altitude plasma discharges and optical emissions known as sprites and elves, (ii) ground based VLF remote sensing of lightning-induced disturbances in ionospheric plasma and precipitation of energetic electrons at multiple sites across the United States, Canada and Antarctic, (iii) studies of HF radio wave heating of ionospheric plasma, (iv) interpretation of plasma wave and energetic particle data from low and high altitude satellites, (v) theoretical modeling of gyroresonant wave-particle interactions in the magnetosplasma, (vi) ELF/VLF observations of plasma waves at unmanned observatories in Antarctica and on ocean-based autonmous buoys, and (vii) investigations and computer simulation of energy efficieny of plasma display panels.

PHD DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED

CURRENT STUDENTS

Student Awards: N. Lehtinen received the First Prize in the URSI/USNC Student Prize Paper Competition in January 1999 and S. Reising received the same prize in January 1998. Y. Taranenko received AGU's F. L. Scarf award for his dissertation work. V. Pasko selected as a CEDAR post-doc fellow 1996-98. M. Spasojevic selected as GEM post-doc fellow 2005-07. Sixteen students received AGU Best Student Paper Awards since 1993.

Teaching: Professor Inan currently teaches courses on Engineering Electromagnetics (EE141), Electromagnetic Waves (EE142), Elementary Plasma Physics (EE356), and Numerical Electromagnetics (EE256). In previous years he has also taught a number of other courses, including Fourier Transforms and Applications (EE261), Microwave Engineering (EE246), Antennas for Telecommunications and Remote Sensing (EE252), and Statistical Signal Processing (EE278). Course descriptions are available here.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

	Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
	Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
	The Electromagnetics Academy
	Sigma Xi.
	Tau Beta Pi

OUTSIDE SERVICE

	International Chairman of Commission H (Waves in Plasmas) of the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), 2002-2005
	Chairman U. S. National Committee (USNC), International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), 2002-2005
	Chairman, Commission H (Waves in Space Plasmas) of the U. S. National Committee (USNC), International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), 1996-1999
	U. S. Representative to the Solar Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research Working Group of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1998-2004

CONTACT

TIMOTHY F. BELL

IVAN LINSCOTT

DAVID LAUBEN

MARIA SPASOJEVIC Research Scientist since 2005 Homepage Publications

NIKOLAI LEHTINEN

ROBERT A. HELLIWELL

DONALD L. CARPENTER

MARTIN WALT

DAVID LEESON

JACK DOOLITTLE