My Academic Genealogy

Me

Sharlene D. Newman, Ph.D.

Marcel A. Just, Ph.D.

Donald B. Twieg, Ph.D.

Louis R. Nardizzi, MD/Ph.D

George A. Bekey, Ph.D.

John H. Lyman, Ph.D.

Patricia A. Carpenter Ph.D.

John H. Lyman, Ph.D. Born: 1921-2001 Received Psychology Ph.D. in 1951 from

UCLA Dissertation: “Performance of Man in

Extreme Heat Environments” A futurist and visionary who pragmatically applied

his pioneering the-future-is-now thinking to the creation of more comfortable and maneuverable artificial limbs for amputees

Extensive Biography

Although he worked in and taught specialized engineering at UCLA for more than 40 years before his 1996 retirement, the Santa Barbara-born Lyman was educated as a psychologist and held three degrees in psychology from UCLA.

George A. Bekey, Ph.D. Born: 1932 Received Electrical Engineering Ph.D. in 1962

from UCLA Dissertation: “Analyzer Interconnections for

Automatic Determination of Power System Swing Curves”

Worked in Industry(Beckman Instruments, TRW Systems) before becoming a professor at University of Southern California. Check out his most recent book:

Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control. (2005)

Louis Robert Nardizzi MD, Ph.D. Born: 1938 Received EE Ph.D. in 1967 from USC;

Received MD in 1975 from Texas Southwestern University.

Dissertation: “Analysis and Synthesis of Discrete-Time Systems with Control Signals of Variable Amplitude and Pulse-Width”

Was a part-time associate professor of EE at Southern Methodist University before going into private practice.

Donald Baker Twieg, Ph.D. Born: 1944 Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering 1977 from

Southern Methodist University Dissertation: Worked in Industry(e.g. Boeing, Phillips)

before becoming an assistant professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

“Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Scintigraphic Data for Measurement of Cardiac Perfusion and Performance”

Post-Doc YearsMarcel Adam Just & Patricia Carpenter

Born: MJ (1947), PC (1946) Both Received Ph.D.’s in 1972 from

Stanford Research focuses on fMRI and other technologies to uncover the structure of human thought. The fMRI studies track the brain activity that occurs during a wide range of cognitive and social thought, such as language comprehension, visual thinking, problem-solving, working memory, social judgment, and multi-tasking. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dissertation:

“Semantic control of eye movements in picture scanning during sentence-picture verification”

Dissertation: “Drawing inferences from the presuppositions and implications of affirmative and negative sentences.”

Research focuses on the organization of the cognitive systems in immediate thought, for example, the processes that underlie problem solving and sentence comprehension. In addition, her research extends to understanding how language comprehension and problem solving are approached by individuals with unusual characteristics, including those who have had a stroke or who have autism.

Sharlene D. Newman, Ph.D. Born: 1971 Ph.D. in BE 1999 from University of Alabama-

Birmingham Dissertation: "An fMRI study of the

discrepancies observed in functional neuroimaging studies of phonological perception"

Did a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University before accepting a faculty position at IU in 2004