John Paul Verboncoeur is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013[1] for contributions to computational plasma physics and plasma device applications.

Verboncoeur received a B.S. from the University of Florida in 1982, a MS and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1987 and 1992 respectively. He was chair of the Computational Engineering Science Program at UC Berkeley from 2001 to 2010. Currently, he is president of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.[2]

He is the author/coauthor of the MSU (formerly Berkeley) suite of particle-in-cell Monte Carlo codes, and is an Associate Editor for Physics of Plasmas.[3]

Awards

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  • 2013 IEEE Fellow
  • 2018 IEEE NPSS Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award
  • 2019 IEEE NPSS Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award[4]

References

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  1. ^ "John P. Verboncoeur". IEEE Xplore. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. ^ "John Verboncoeur". Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society | Dr. John Verboncoeur". Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Biography". John Verboncoeur. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.