Edward Sazonov received a diploma as a systems engineer from the Khabarovsk State University of Technology, Russia, in 1993, and his doctorate in computer engineering from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 2002. Currently, he is a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at The University of Alabama College of Engineering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the head of the Computer Laboratory of Ambient and Wearable Systems. His research interests span wireless, ambient and wearable devices, and methods of biomedical signal processing and pattern recognition. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Academies of Science, as well as by state agencies and private industries and foundations.
Mingui Sun received a BS degree in instrumental and industrial automation in 1982 from the Shenyang Chemical Engineering Institute in Shenyang, China, and an MS degree in electrical engineering in 1986 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also earned a PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1989. He was later appointed to the faculty in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Sun’s research interests include neurophysiological signals and systems, biosensor designs, the brain–computer interface, bioelectronics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
