1. Charles Elachi was born on April 18,1947 and is a Lebanese-American professor of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology.
12 Facts About Charles Elachi
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Charles Elachi studied at College des Apotres, Jounieh from 1958 to 1962, and then at the Ecole Orientale, Zahle, where he graduated in 1964 first in Lebanon in the Lebanese Baccalaureate.
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Charles Elachi has a master's degree in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
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Charles Elachi is the author of over 230 publications in the fields of space and planetary exploration, Earth observation from space, active microwave remote sensing, electromagnetic theory and integrated optics, and he holds several patents in those fields.
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Charles Elachi taught "The Physics of Remote Sensing" at the California Institute of Technology from 1982 to 2000.
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Charles Elachi was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering developments of space-borne radars for imaging the Earth and planets.
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Charles Elachi participated in a number of archeological expeditions in the Egyptian Desert, Arabian Peninsula and Western Chinese Desert in search of old trading routes and buried cities using satellite data, some of which were featured in National Geographic magazine.
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Charles Elachi is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
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Charles Elachi is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the California Academy of Sciences.
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Charles Elachi was a member of the University of Arizona Engineering School Advisory Committee and the Boston University Center of Remote Sensing Advisory Council.
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Charles Elachi has lectured and given keynote speeches at numerous international conferences and at universities inside and outside the United States, including events in Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, China, Japan, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Monaco, Morocco, Singapore and Switzerland.
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Charles Elachi was a speaker at Caltech's Alumni Day and the Watson Lectures.