Rate My Professor Joe LoVetri

Joe LoVetri is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba. He joined the University of Manitoba in 1999 after serving as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Western Ontario from 1991 to 1999. Prior to his academic appointments, he worked as an EMI/EMC engineer at Sperry Defence Division in Winnipeg from 1984 to 1986, as a TEMPEST Engineer at the Communications Security Establishment in Ottawa from 1986 to 1988, and as a Research Officer at the Institute for Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada from 1988 to 1991. He completed a sabbatical year from 1997 to 1998 at the TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory in The Netherlands, focusing on time-domain computational methods and ground-penetrating RADAR. At the University of Manitoba, he served as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs in the Faculty of Engineering from 2004 to 2009 and as Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2013 to 2020.

His academic background includes a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with distinction from the University of Manitoba in 1984, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 1991. LoVetri’s research focuses on electromagnetic imaging, inverse problems, microwave imaging for biomedical applications, computational electromagnetics, and ultrasound imaging. He received the URSI Young Scientist Award in 1993, the IEEE EMC Best Symposium Paper Award in 2000, the ACES Outstanding Paper Award in 2007, and the University of Manitoba Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research in the Applied Sciences in 2002. He has been a registered Professional Engineer since 1994 and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.