Thorp, James S.

James S. Thorp is the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelley Professor and Department Head at Virginia Tech.. He obtained the B.E.E. in 1959 and the Ph.D. in 1962 from Cornell University and was on the faculty there from 1962 to 2004. He was the Director of the Cornell School of Electrical and Computer Engineering form 1994 to 2001 a Faculty Intem, American Electric Power Service Corporation in 1976-77 and an Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University in 1988. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1989 and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996. He was the Chair of the Sub...