Emad S. Ebbini (S’82–M’90–SM’08–F’11) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering/ communications from The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in 1987 and 1990, respectively.,From 1990 to 1998, he was with the Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Since 1998, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA. His current research interests include signal and array processing with applications to biomedical ultrasound and medical devices.,Dr. Ebbini was a member of AdCom for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control from 1994 to 1997. He was a member of the Board of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound from 2002 to 2011 and the President from 2012 to 2015. He is also a member of the Standing Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. He was a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award for his work on new ultrasound phased arrays for imaging and therapy in 1993. In 1996, he was a Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Therapeutic Ultrasound in the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, for which he was also an Associate Editor from 1997 to 2002.