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# Officers
#### Chapter Chair: Dr. Ramy Tantawy
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Ramy Tantawy is the CEO and co-founder of SenseICs, a fabless semiconductor provider of integrated circuit chips and microelectronics turnkey solutions for defense and commercial needs in advanced imaging, communications, trusted microelectronics, and high radiation environments. Ramy received his BSEE and ME degrees with distinction in Electrical Engineering from Northern Arizona University in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He received his MSEE and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University 2019 and 2023, respectively. Prior to founding SenseICs in 2017, Ramy spent more than 15 years in mixed-signal integrated circuit design at Intel Corporation, Micron Technology – Imaging Group (now ONSemi), and Forza Silicon (now Forza-AMETEK). Ramy designed and developed high-performance image sensors and integrated circuits for ultimate use in mobile, cinematography, medical, automotive, and defense applications. His research interests include imagining readout integrated circuits (ROICs), high-speed communication, RF design, data converters, and trusted & assured microelectronics. He authored and co-authored over 8 patents and 20 conference and journal papers.
#### Vice Chair: Dr. Dale Shane Smith
Dr. Shane Smith (Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University) is the President and co-founder of SenseICs. Before founding SenseICs, Shane worked for more than 15 years in the Electroscience Lab and Department of Physics at The Ohio State University, where he designed, produced, and maintained electronic systems used in integrated circuit research, high energy physics experiments (CERN, Stanford linear accelerator, etc.), and other applications. Shane’s broad expertise covers a range of electrical engineering activities, and his academic publications, which include more than 80 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, have been cited nearly 20,000 times.
#### Chapter Treasurer: Roman Fragasse
Roman (Gus) Fragasse is an Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer at SenseICs Corporation as well as a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He received B.S and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2016, and 2018, respectively. His previous research interests were focused on techniques enabling high-speed, efficient memory arrays (e.g., SRAM). Currently, his research includes mixed-signal design techniques for high-performance CMOS image sensors and read-out integrated circuits (ROICs) design for infrared (IR) sensors and systems. Roman has authored or co-authored 4 journal publications and 6 conference publications.
#### Chapter Secretary: John Hribar
John holds two undergraduate degrees from the Ohio State University- the first from 2005 was in English with a focus in poetry and folklore, and other from 2020 in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Inhabiting a space somewhere between the arts and sciences, John’s passions include multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving, STEM education and ethical engineering.
#### Network Coordinator: Trevor Dean
Trevor Dean is from Alpharetta, Georgia. He is a Research Electronics Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. He received his B.S. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in December of 2017. During his undergraduate career, Trevor worked as an intern at Battelle twice, as an intern at ArcelorMittal and as an undergraduate research assistant in the CLASS laboratory. Currently, he is enrolled in the direct to PhD program at The Ohio State University.
#### VTools Coordinator: Sam Ellicott
Sam Ellicott is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State University. He received his B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Cedarville University in 2019. He has interned at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Automation and Navigation Technology (ANT) center and Analog Devices Incorporated (ADI). His current research interests are mixed-signal circuit design, true-random-number generation, and cryptography.
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