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Ferari Named Vice Provost
 Leonard Ferrari, department head from
1995-2000, has been appointed vice provost for special initiatives.
In his new position, Ferrari will lead the development of several
large footprint programs for the university. He currently serves
as interim director of therecently founded Institute for Infor-(Continued
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position in the development of a university-wide microelectronics
program.
While department head, Ferrari initiated a number of successful
efforts, including the Virtual
Corporation, the Alexandria
Research Institute, the microelectronics program, programs
to encourage women engineering students, and the Master
of Information Technology degree program. He also lifted
the cap on enrollment of CPE students, and BS CPE graduates increased
from 43 to 129. During his tenure as head, the ECE department
research expenditures grew from $6 million to more than $20 million
last year.
Ferrari came to Tech from the University of California, Irvine,
where he was a professor Electrical and Computer Engineering,
with joint appointments in the departments of Information and
Computer Sciences and Radiological Sciences. He served as chair
of the ECE department at UC Irvine from 1990-93, and served as
director of an NSF Center for High Speed Image Processing from
1990-95 Ferrari's specialty is signal and image processing. He
earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Irvine
in 1980; his MSEE degree from Northeastern University in 1967;
and BSEE degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1963.
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