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IEEE SELECTS EMIL JOVANOV AS FELLOW FOR WEARABLE HEALTH MONITORING CONTRIBUTIONS
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he Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has selected Dr. Emil Jovanov, a UAH associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, as a Fellow for his contributions to the field of wearable health monitoring. “This is a huge honor for me and a huge honor for the university and for the work we are doing here,” Dr. Jovanov says. “I was really very happy and humbled that some of the best people in the world gave me recommendations.” In 2000, Dr. Jovanov was the first to propose Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) as a sensor system integrated on or in bodies to communicate
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through the Internet for health monitoring. “This is for me recognition of 20 years of work that I did mostly here at UAH,” he says. “Of course, now mobile health is all common sense, but everybody knows what it means to have proposed that back in 2000 and implemented in 2002. I believe that the concept of mHealth definitely changed, and continues to change, the lives of people.” The IEEE Grade of Fellow is a distinction reserved for IEEE members selected from nominees by a committee for extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Nominees must have accomplishments that have
