The distinction recognizes significant accomplishment in science and research.
The three faculty members include Edward Berbari, chancellor’s professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis; Thomas Sterling, professor of computer science in the School of Informatics and Computing at IU-Bloomington; and P. Sarita Soni, professor emerita in the School of Optometry at IU-Bloomington.
Including these three fellows, 89 fellows have been associated with IU, according to an IU news release.
Berbari was awarded for his contributions in the field of cardiac electrophysiology, particularly sudden cardiac death.
He was also recognized for his work in bioengineering education.
He currently chairs the biomedical engineering department of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI.
His research on cardiac electrophysiology has spanned 40 years.
Sterling was recognized for his work in parallel computing, particularly the development of cluster computing and his leadership in large scale computing, according to the release.
He is the chief scientist and executive associate director of the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies at ?IU-Bloomington.
Sterling is most well known as the “father of Beowulf” for his research in commodity/Linux cluster computing.
He is currently researching the ParalleX execution model for extreme-scale computing and looking into ways to establish principles for the development of future-generation Exascale computing systems.
Soni was recognized for her distinguished work in vision science.
She was also recognized for her work in promoting research as an administrator at IU.
Soni formerly served as vice provost for research at IU-Bloomington and the associate vice president for research at IU, but she retired from this position in May.
She has conducted research on the cornea and development and correction of refractive errors, which has resulted in more than 70 publications, according to the release.
These three IU faculty members are among 401 AAAS members to be recognized.
More fellows will be named Feb. 14 at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, Calif.
The fellows were formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the Nov. 28 issue of the journal ?Science .
“These three outstanding scholars have advanced science through important and original work in fields ranging from high-resolution electrocardiography to correction of vision problems to extreme-scale computing,” IU President Michael McRobbie said in the release. “They are highly deserving of this tremendous honor, which also brings great credit to Indiana University.”
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