Andrei M. Shkel (born 1967 in Russia) is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to micromachined gyroscopes". He served as the President of the

IEEE Sensors Council The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

(2020-2021). In 2021, he was elected to

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(NAI) Fellow status. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Letters.

Education and career

Shkel was educated at the Moscow State University where in 1991 he got his diploma in

applied mechanics Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

. In 1997, he earned his Ph.D. in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

from the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

and from 1997 to 1999 served as a postdoc at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. Since 2000, Shkel is a faculty member at the

, and from 2009 to 2013, he was on leave from academia serving as a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office of the

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Adv ...

(DARPA). Dr. Shkel has been on a number of editorial boards, most recently as Editor of IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (JMEMS), Editor of the Journal on Gyroscopy and Navigation, member of the program commitee of the leadin
DGON / IEEE ISA Inertial Sensors & Applications conference
and the founding chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems (INERTIAL). Dr. Shkel has been also awarded in 2013 the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service, the 2009

IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award The (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award honors a person with outstanding technical contributions within the scope of the IEEE Sensors Council, as documented by publications and pate ...

, the 2023 IEEE Sensors Council John Vig Meritorious Service Award, and the 2005

NSF CAREER award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

. His professional interests, reflected in over 300 publications, three books, and 43 U.S. Patents, include high performance inertial sensors,

microelectromechanical systems Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, ...

(MEMS), and implantable vestibular prosthetics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shkel, Andrei 1967 births Living people Russian engineers Moscow State University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni University of California, Irvine faculty Fellows of the IEEE Place of birth missing (living people)