Dr. Simon Foo
Chair and Professor
+1(850)-410-6474
foo@eng.fsu.edu
Electrical engineering
Research Interest: Computational Intelligence, CMOS Integrated Circuit Design, Photovoltaic
Dr. Foo is a tenured Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida A&M University and Florida State University. His research contributions have been in the areas of computational intelligence, random number generators,
field programmable gate array (FPGA) applications, and photovoltaics. Dr. Foo has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed technical papers and contributed to two book chapters. He has also graduated more than 30 MS and PhD students. He is the Principal
Investigator of at least 20 funded research projects with total funding of over 3 million dollars. His primary research sponsors include the National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, U. S. Air Force, Boeing Aircraft Company, and the Florida
Department of Transportation. He also serves as a technical advisor to Airbus in the area of fire detection in aircraft cargo bays. Besides the "Engineering Research Awards" (2004 and 2008) from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, he also won the "
Teaching Incentive Award" (1995), "Teacher of the Year" awards (2001 and 2010), and two "Best Paper" awards (2001 and 2004). Dr. Foo is a member of Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society (since 1982).
