James L. Flanagan

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James L. Flanagan is an electrical engineer, and is Rutgers' vice president for research. He is also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He was chosen as the 2005 recipient of the Research and Development Council of New Jersey's Science/Technology Medal. He worked at Bell Laboratories for 33 years before he joined Rutgers. He has worked in voice communications, computer techniques, and electroacoustic systems.

Previous honors include the National Medal of Science, presented in 1996 by President Bill Clinton; the L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications, presented by the King of Sweden; the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2005 and the Edison Medal in 1986 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); the Medal of the European Speech Communication Association; the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America; and the Marconi International Fellowship, presented by the Crown Prince of Spain.

He is the author of more than 200 papers and two books, and holds 50 patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.