Daniel D. Stancil
Short Biographical Sketch
Daniel D. Stancil is Adjunct
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering
at Carnegie Mellon University, and Alcoa Distinguished Professor and Head of
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State
University. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Technological
University in 1976, and
the S.M., E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1978, 1979, and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1986 he was Assistant
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State
University. He joined the
faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as an Associate Professor, and
served as Professor from 1990 to 2009. From 1992-1994 he served as Associate
Department Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering
from 1996-2000. He rejoined the faculty at North Carolina State in 2009 as Head
of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests are
generally in the areas of applied electromagnetism, solid state physics, and
communications. Specific interests include vehicle-to-vehicle communications,
wireless signal distribution in buildings, novel radar systems, antenna design,
cognitive radio, and optical nanostructures.
Dr. Stancil received a
Sigma Xi Research Award from North
Carolina State University in 1985, and was a leader in
the development of the CMU ECE department's Virtual Laboratory which was a
finalist for a 1996 Smithsonian Computerworld Award. Dr. Stancil and Dr. T. E.
Schlesinger jointly received a Science Award for Excellence in 1998 from the Pittsburgh Carnegie Science
Center for the
development and commercialization of electro-optics technology. Also in 1998,
electro-optic scanning technology that they co-developed--along with T. Deis and R. Unetich of the
Applied Optics Corporation--was recognized with an IR 100 Award and a Photonics
Circle of Excellence Award. Dr.
Stancil is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
and a past-president of the IEEE Magnetics Society.