Shira Broschat
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Shira Lynn Broschat is an American computer scientist 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]
Broschat 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.[6] She became a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz,[7] supported by a scholarship from the Japanese American Citizens League,[6], as well as other scholarships.
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 wave scattering from randomly rough surfaces.[1]
She joined the Washington State University faculty in 1989.[1]
Recognition
Broschat was a 1992 recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award.[8] 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".[9] 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".[10]
