University of Texas
ECE

Valvano, Jonathan

Professor

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Phone Room Email
(512) 471-5141
(512) 471-7323
ENS 627
ENS 619
valvano@mail.utexas.edu

Support Staff: Assadourian, Carol

(512) 232-1426 ENS 237 carol.assadourian@mail.utexas.edu

Website: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/

Research Areas:

Biography:

Jon Valvano received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT in 1977. He received his Ph.D. in medical engineering from Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Science and Technology in 1981. He joined 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.

Dr. Valvano holds an Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Electrical Engineering. He has received several teaching awards and authored two widely-used textbooks on embedded microcomputer systems.

Research Interests:

Dr. Valvano's research interests are in the areas of biomedical instrumentation and bioheat transfer.