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Jon Valvano is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Electrical Engineering. He received S.B. and S.M. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1977, and earned his Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology in 1981. Joining the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 1981 as an assistant professor, he was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and full professor in 1994. Valvano is an accomplished author with eight widely-used textbooks on embedded microcomputer systems and has received various teaching awards throughout his career. His primary research interests include Medical Instrumentation with a focus on cardiac measurements, and he leads the Electro-Thermal Bioinstrumentation Laboratory.
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