Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Office: ECE 101E

Office phone number: (701) 231-6728

Fax number: (701) 231-8677

Mailing address:

1411 Centennial Blvd., ECE 101E

Fargo, ND 58105-5285 USA

Email address : Ivan.Lima@ndsu.edu

Photonics and Bioengineering Laboratory (Dr. Lima's lab): EE 227

Lab phone number: (701) 231-5611


Curriculum vitae (PDF format).

Biography

Ivan T. Lima, Jr., received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, in 1995, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in the field of photonics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2003.

From 1986 to 1996, Dr. Lima was with Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil), where he served as the Information Technology Adviser of the State Superintendence of Bahia, Brazil. From 1998 to 2003, he was a Research Assistant in the Optical Fiber Photonics Laboratory at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 2003, Dr. Lima became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, ND, USA. In 2004, Dr. Lima established the Photonics & Bioengineering Laboratory in the ECE Department at NDSU to carry out theoretical and experimental research in photonics and in bioengineering. From May 2007 to October 2008, Dr. Lima was a Faculty Associate of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at NDSU, where carried out research and development in distributed computer systems in the Electronic Systems Laboratory. Since October 2008, Dr. Lima has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he is carrying out research in biophotonics.

Dr. Lima research interests have been devoted to the modeling of polarization effects and receivers in optical fiber communications systems and to the modeling of lasers. He has authored and coauthored 23 archival journal papers, 45 conference contributions, one book chapter, and one U.S. Patent. In his academic career at NDSU, Dr. Lima has served as principal investigator and project director of five grants totaling $330,000, including a four-year grant by the U.S. Department of Education from 2007 to 2011, and a seed grant from NASA EPSCoR from November 2007 to August 2008.

In 2006, Dr. Lima was selected as a Faculty Fellow in the 2006 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory at the Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, USA, to work in the program "Solid-State Laser Source Development" during the summer of 2006. In 2003, Dr. Lima received the IEEE LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award, and he was co-recipient of the Venice Summer School on Polarization Mode Dispersion Award. In February 2004, he was co-instructor (invited) of the Short Course SC210: Hands-on polarization measurement workshop, which was offered at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2004, Los Angeles, CA. In March 2005, he also served as co-instructor (invited) of the short courses SC210-A and SC210-B at OFC/NFOEC 2005, and SC210 at OFC/NFOEC 2006 and OFC/NFOEC 2007, which were held in Anaheim, CA, and SC210 at OFC/NFOEC 2008 and OFC/NFOEC 2009 that were held in San Diego, CA. These short courses were sponsored by the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and by the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. Lima is a member of the LEOS and of the EMBS societies of the IEEE.

"Humanity, you gave me a kind and loving family that raised me, even without knowing who I was. You gave me freedom, respect, and opportunities to pursue my dreams, even though you never asked anything in return. Despite having much received, I will not be fulfilled until accomplishing the biggest of all my dreams: to serve you with the best that I have to offer until the very last of my days." Ivan T. Lima Jr., February 2, 2008.