Shira Lynn Broschat (née Tokuno) is an American electrical engineer whose research topics have included ultrasound imaging[1] and the use of machine learning to model antimicrobial agents.[2] She is a professor and DEI Chair in the Washington State University School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, with affiliate professorships in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology Pathology and Paul G. Allen School for Global Health.[3]
Education and career
editBroschat is the daughter of Asako Maida Tokuno and Shiro Tokuno, Japanese-Americans who were both interned in the Topaz War Relocation Center during World War II.[4][5] Their story was recounted in the 2007 television documentary The War.[4] As Shira Tokuno, she graduated from Norte Del Rio High School in Sacramento, California in 1968.[6] She became a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz,[7] supported by a scholarship from the Japanese American Citizens League,[6] and in 1970 married and changed her name to her husband's, Broschat.[8]
Returning to school in the 1980s, Broschat studied electrical engineering at the University of Washington, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982, a master's degree in 1985, and a Ph.D. in 1988.[3] Her master's research concerned microwave-induced hyperthermia therapy for cancer, but by the time of her doctoral research, she had shifted to ultrasound.[1]
She joined the Washington State University faculty in 1989.[1]
Recognition
editBroschat was a 1992 recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award.[9] She was named as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, in the 2000 class of fellows, "for contributions to scattering and biomedical acoustics".[10] She is a 2004 Fellow of the Institute of Physics,[3] and in 2010 was named as an IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to modeling of rough surface electromagnetic scattering".[11]
Personal life
editBroschat is married to John Brand Schneider, also an electrical engineer at Washington State University; they have two children.[12]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Shira L. Broschat", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, December 10, 2002, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ Chapman, Peggy (January 29, 2015), "Making a difference — Honoring women in male-dominated careers", Northwest Asian Weekly, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ a b c "Shira Broschat", Directory, Washington State University School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ a b "Asako Tokuno", The War, Public Broadcasting System, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ Meriko Maida, East Bay Times, October 2016, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ a b "Sac'to names seven scholars" (PDF), Pacific Citizen, July 26, 1968, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ "Wind Ensemble Concert At UCSC", Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 6, 1969
- ^ "Marriage licenses", Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 5, 1970, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ Moran, Elaine (September 1992), "ASA member receives Presidential Fellow Award", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92 (3), Acoustical Society of America (ASA): 1771, doi:10.1121/1.403918
- ^ Fellows of the society, Acoustical Society of America, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2024-08-27
- ^ The personal Shira, Washington State University, retrieved 2024-08-27