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Roger W. Sudbury – Biography
Roger W. Sudbury is the former Executive Officer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and currently on the Director’s staff. He led the development of high-frequency solid-state components for active-element phased-array radars, involving the design, development, and fabrication of devices and circuits for microwave transmit/receive modules. While leading the development of GaAs monolithic circuits at the Laboratory, he served as advisor to the government on GaAs multichip transceiver module development. He has also served as Associate Manager of Lincoln Laboratory’s Kiernan Reentry Measurements Site in the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein Atoll, where he was involved in the operation and management of radar and optical data collection experiments. He was also involved in the fielding and operation of Cobra Eye, an airborne infrared data-collection platform.
Mr. Sudbury has served for many years on the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Technical Program Committee and three IMS Steering Committees, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Microwave- and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium. For the 1991 IMS in Boston, he edited a reissue of Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory. He served on the Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society AdCom and as MTT Society President in 2000. He has also served on the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Phased-Array Systems and Technology.
A Fellow of the IEEE, Mr. Sudbury has served the Institute in many capacities. He has been a member of the IEEE Technical Activities Board and its Strategic Planning and Review Committee. He has served as chair of the Conference Publications Committee, as Technical Activities Board liaison to the Regional Activities Board, and as vice chair of the IEEE Membership Development Committee. He served as chair of the Continuing Professional Education Committee and on the IEEE Educational Activities Board. A Past President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, he currently serves as the MTT Awards Committee Chair and on the IEEE Awards Board Presentation and Publicity Committee. He has also served on the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium and its Technical Program Committee.
Mr. Sudbury is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds a BEE with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the SM and Engineer (EE) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While an instructor in the MIT Electrical Engineering Department, he received a TV Management Shares Teaching Award. From 1964 to 1966, he served in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Captain.
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