About Professor Taylor...

A.B., Harvard (1951); M.S., PhD., N.M.S.U. (1956, 1960).

Forty-five years in electrical engineering/applied physics in government, industry and academia, at Raytheon, GE, White Sands Proving Ground, Villanova, Penn State, Case-Western Reserve, the University of Madrid (Spain), and the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados (Mexico).

Since 1967, University of Maryland, Professor of Electrical Engineering (Assoc. Prof. 1967-1970); Joint Appointment, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical School; Faculty of Applied Mathematics: teaching and research in biomedical engineering, electromagnetic theory, optics, microwave devices, and antennas.

• Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
• Fellow, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (1992-94).
• Distinguished Alumnus Award (1971), Centennial Alumnus Award (1988), New Mexico State University.

• Inventor: Invasive microwave hyperthermia for cancer therapy.

First invasive microwave hyperthermia trial, brain cancer patient (U.Md. Hospital, 1978).

• Inventor: Microwave coagulating scalpel.

Partial splenectomy using the microwave coagulating scalpel (Mt. Sinai Hospital, NY, 1986).

• Associate Editor for Electromagnetic Theory, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering (1985-90).
• Associate Editor, Bioelectromagnetics Journal (1983-85).
• National Research Council Panelist (1989- ).
• Chairman (1994-1995), Member (1992-1993) Engineering Advisory Committee for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Awards).
• Member, Fellows Committee of the Washington, D.C. Section of the IEEE (1990-95).

• One hundred and fifty journal articles, conference papers and presentations.
• Forty-eight funded research grants, contracts and projects.
• Six U.S. and sixteen foreign patents.
• Directed fifteen doctoral dissertations.

Consultant: U.S.Navy, Strategic Defense Initiative, Institute for Defense Analysis, National Institutes of Health, AVCO, Thiokol Corp., Direx Ltd. (Isr.), Kollsman Instrument Corp., P&P Industries, Environmental Analytic Assoc., Baltimore Gas and Electric.

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