Asok Ray, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive the "Most Cited Paper Award for the journal Signal Processing" for the article "Symbolic Dynamic Analysis of Comoplex Systems for Anomaly detection". Paper selections for this award are based on the highest number of cities received for all journal articles published between the years 2004-2006."

Asok Ray earned the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 1976, and also graduate degrees in each of the disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Dr. Ray joined the Pennsylvania State University in July 1985, and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and a Graduate Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and a Graduate Faculty in the Inter-College Program in Materials. Prior to joining Penn State, Dr. Ray held research and academic positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie-Mellon University as well as research and management positions at GTE Strategic Systems Division, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, and MITRE Corporation. Dr. Ray is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ASME, and a Fellow of World Innovation Foundation (WIF). Further details are available at http://www.mne.psu.edu/Ray/. Dr. Ray has published over four hundred research publications (including about two hundred scholarly articles in refereed journals and research monographs). Further details about his publications are available at http://www.mne.psu.edu/Ray/publications.htm.