Dr. Miguel Velez-Reyes Senior Member IEEE Volunteer

Biography
Dr. Miguel Velez-Reyes is the George W. Edwards/El Paso Electric Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) since 2012. He received the BSEE degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM), in 1985, and the EE-ENG, MSEE and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1988, 1988, and 1992, respectively. He was a member of the faculty at the UPRM Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1992 to 2012. His research work focuses in integrating physical, statistical, and machine-learning approaches to develop methodologies for information extraction from dynamic systems using remote sensing. He has over 160 publications. He is fellow of SPIE and of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House in 1997 and the IEEE Walter Fee award in 1998.
Interests
Control systems
Engineering education
Geoscience and remote sensing
Hyperspectral imaging
Hyperspectral sensors
Experience
Dean/Professor/Instructor
The University of Texas at El Paso
Publications
Sayyid Mohssen Sajjadi, Paras Mandal Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, and Miguel Velez-Reyes, "Transactive energy market in distribution systems: A case study of energy trading between transactive nodes," in 2016 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2016, pp. 1 - 6.
Maider J. Marin-McGee and Miguel Velez-Reyes, "A Spectrally Weighted Structure Tensor for Hyperspectral Imagery," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 4442 - 4449, 2016.
Velez-Reyes, M. and Messinger, D.W., "Introduction," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9840, 2016.
Eric Galvan, Paras Mandal Miguel Velez-Reyes, and Sukumar Kamalasadan, "Transactive control mechanism for efficient management of EVs charging in transactive energy environment," in 2016 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2016, pp. 1 - 6.
Maria C. Torres-Madronero and Miguel Velez-Reyes, "Hyperspectral endmember class extraction using clustering and validity indexes," in 2016 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2016, pp. 81 - 84.
Education
Massachusetts Inst of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy
Engineering , 1992
Massachusetts Inst of Technology
Master of Science
Engineering , 1988
Massachusetts Inst of Technology
Engineer
Engineering , 1988
Puerto Rico Univ Of-Mayaguez
Bachelor of Science
Engineering , 1985