Brief Biography

Afzel Noore received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University. He worked as a digital design engineer at Philips India. From 1996 to 2003, Dr. Noore served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Special Assistant to the Dean in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. He is a Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. His research interests include computational intelligence, biometrics, software reliability modeling, machine learning, hardware description languages, and quantum computing. His research has been funded by NASA, NSF, Westinghouse, GE, Electric Power Research Institute, the US Department of Energy, and the US Department of Justice. Dr. Noore has over 80 publications in refereed journals, book chapters, and conferences. He has received four best paper awards. Dr. Noore is a member of the IEEE and serves in the editorial boards of Recent Patents on Engineering, Open Nanoscience Reviews, Open Nanoscience Letters, and the Open Nanoscience Journal. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.

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