Ken Connor Chair and Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President – ECEDHA Research programs; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Texas, Kyoto and Nagoya Universities – Japan, Ioffe Institute – Russia, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology – Ukraine Fellow – IEEE Education: B.S., M.S. Electrical Engineering – University of Wisconsin Ph.D. Electrical Engineering – Polytechnic Institute of New York