Four Inventors Honored

Four Florida Atlantic researchers were recently inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) chapter at Florida Atlantic University.

NAI, an international organization created to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, boosts more than 3,000 individual members and fellows from 200 institutions.

Four Florida Atlantic researchers were recently inducted into the university chapter of the National Academy of Inventors, including:

• Pierre-Philippe Beaujean, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of the Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science. His research spans the areas of underwater acoustics, signal processing, sonar systems design, communication navigation systems and transducer design. He is an active member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Marine Technology Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Beaujean is also the associate director of the Center for Acoustics and Vibrations.
• James Hartmann, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. An experienced faculty member and researcher at Florida Atlantic, Hartmann has conducted research in the areas of immunotherapy of cancer, regulation of the immune system and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. His current research focus centers around studying cells of the immune system to determine how they interact to cause inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and finding means to activate immune cells, so they selectively destroy cancer cells. Hartmann also studies the role of vitamin D in preventing and treating asthma.
• Ceylan Isgor, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. As a neuroscientist, her research focuses on animal models of epilepsy, nicotine addiction and learning and memory. Isgor has earned numerous research awards for her work, including from the National Institutes of Health and the Florida Department of Health. She serves as a faculty liaison for the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry and member of the Florida Atlantic Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute.
• Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., is a professor and Charles E. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and fellow in the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering. Pados’ research spans the field of communications theory and systems, including secure wireless communication and interference avoiding networking, and the fields of machine learning and adaptive signal processing. He serves as the director of the Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence and as a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics societies. Pados has authored more than 250 journal and conference proceedings articles and has received multiple prestigious awards for his research.