Biography
Alan N. Willson, Jr. received the B.E.E. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1961, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University in 1965 and 1967, respectively. From 1961 to 1964 he was with the IBM Corporation in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was an instructor in electrical engineering at Syracuse University from 1965 to 1967. From 1967 to 1973 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Since 1973, Willson has been a faculty member of UCLA where he is now a professor of Electrical Engineering. He served as assistant dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1977 through 1981, and served as Associate Dean of the School from 1987 through 2001. Prof. Willson is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Society for Engineering Education. From 1977 to 1979 he served as editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. In 1980 he was General Chairman of the Fourteenth Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers, and during 1984 he served as president of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Research Interests
Professor Willson's area of research concerns computer-aided circuit analysis and design, the stability of distributed circuits, properties of non-linear networks, theory of active circuits, digital signal processing, and analog circuit fault diagnosis. He is the editor of the book Nonlinear Networks: Theory and Analysis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Press, 1974.)

Awards and Recognitions