Roy Choudhury: Gilmore Family Endowed Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professorship: Gilmore Family Endowed Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Gilmore Family Endowed Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering was established by Merle L. and Lisa M. Gilmore.
Mr. Gilmore received his bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1970 from the University of Illinois. He received the ECE Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998 “in recognition of outstanding leadership in development of radio and land mobile products and distinguished social services” and the College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service in 2001. In 1981 he received a master’s of electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University.
Mr. Gilmore joined Motorola in 1970 as an engineer and held numerous senior management positions including executive vice president and president of the Land Mobile Products Sector; executive vice president and president for Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and executive vice president and president of the Communications Enterprise.
Mr. Gilmore is currently an industrial partner of Ripplewood Holdings Japan Inc, a private equity company.
The Gilmore family also includes Douglas Gilmore, brother of Mr. Gilmore. Douglas Gilmore received his B.S and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D in economics from the University of Illinois.
Romit Roy Choudhury
Romit Roy Choudhury is a Professor of ECE and CS at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He joined UIUC from Fall 2013, prior to which he was an Associate Professor at Duke University. Romit received his Ph.D. in the CS department of UIUC in Fall 2006. His research interests are in sensing and signal processing with applications in mobile and wearable computing. Along with his students, he received research awards including the 2017 ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award, the 2016 CS@UIUC Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2015 ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award, the 2009 Hoffmann Krippner Award for Engineering Innovations, 2007 NSF CAREER Award, etc. Romit was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2019. Visit Romit's Systems Networking Research Group (SyNRG) at http://synrg.csl.illinois.edu.