Department of Electrical Engineering

Education: Paul G. Huray was born in Knoxville, and grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the Manhattan project.  He pursued undergraduate work and graduated first in his engineering class in 1964 from The University of Tennessee (UT).  During this study he was a co‑op student in the Solid State Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).  His graduate research was carried out in the Physics Division at ORNL.  In 1968, he received a Ph.D. degree in physics at UT and began postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina.  In 1982, he completed the Institute for Higher Education Management at Harvard.

 Academic: In 1969 Huray became assistant professor of physics at UT, teaching the introductory honors physics sequence and the graduate sequence in the mathematical methods of physics.  He was promoted to full professor in 1980.  During this time his research was conducted in the Chemistry Division at ORNL in the Transuranium Research Laboratory where he and his students carried out magnetic studies on the transamericium elements (Cm, Bk, Cf and Es).  In 1976 he was named UT Alumni Outstanding Teacher.  In 1984, he helped create a center of excellence called "The Science Alliance" between ORNL and UT and in 1988 he was named UT Phi Beta Kappa faculty scholar.  At the University of South Carolina, he helped create the South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (SCUREF), the Governor’s Math and Science Advisory Board (MSAB), the State Systemic Initiative (SSI) for Science and Math Education, and the S.C. Supercomputer Network (SCSN).  In 1994, Governor Campbell conferred upon him The Order of the Palmetto and he was named Carolina Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering.  In 1995 he helped create the national Academic Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (A-CIMS), in 1996 he helped create the SouthEast Partnership for Sharing Computational Resources (SEPSCoR) and in 2000 he helped create the “TechnoAngels” program for physically-disabled persons.  In 2003 he worked with the Intel Corporation to create the USC / Intel Signal Integrity MS and ME program. In total, he has received 74 awards for $248 million, has published 111 articles, has given 319 invited talks (24 keynote), and has testified 9 times before the U. S. Congress.

 Administration: From 1981 to 1985, Huray was Associate Dean of the UT College of Liberal Arts and in 1984 he became the first director of the UT/ORNL Science Alliance.  In 1988, Huray became Senior Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina and in 1992 was renamed Vice Provost for Research.  In 1992, he served as Vice Chairman of the first South Carolina Governor's Math and Science Advisory Board.  In 1993-94 he served as Program Director for the State's EPSCoR programs and as principal investigator (PI) for the NSF Experimental Systemic Initiative in South Carolina and in 1999-2000 for DoEd’s project to Prepare Tomorrow’s Teachers to use Technology (PT³).  Between 1998 and 2003 he was PI for NSF’s SEPSCoR program and in 2000 he served as the Interim Chairman of the USC Computer Science and Engineering department.

 Government: In 1985 Dr. Huray worked as a senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to help create the NSF Science and Technology centers and to double the NSF budget.  At OSTP he wrote portions of two executive orders and the 1987 State of the Union address.  He co-chaired the White House S&T Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and chaired the Federal FCCSET committee on Computer Research and Applications.  The FCCSET work produced the Presidential initiative on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and created the Internet.  In 1988 he represented the U. S. for the US/Japan Agreement on Cooperation in R&D, between 1989 and 1991 he was a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) panel on HPCC, between 1992 and 1994 he was vice chairman of the international steering committee for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) and served on the Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC).  Between 1994 and 1998 he served as chairman of the University-Laboratory task force for the National Coalition for R&D.

 Service: Huray has served on technical advisory or review Boards for the National Academy of Sciences, the Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, the American Management Association, the Industrial Research Institute, the Department of Energy, the Research Consortium Inc., the U.S. Department of Commerce, Southeast Universities Research Association, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the 88-Open industrial consortium, South Carolina Educational Television, the City of Columbia, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory and the White House.

 Personal:  Dr. Huray and his wife, Susan, live at 110 Summer Haven Court, in DeBordieu Colony, Georgetown, SC  29440.  Their son, William, is an RN in intensive care and is now a traveling trauma nurse.  Their daughter, Jennifer teaches American and English Literature at Amherst High School in Amherst, NH. Their daughter, Stephanie, teaches English as a second language for the British Embassy and assists the “CONCERN” program to protect indentured children in Kathmandu Nepal.