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LETTER FROM THE IEEE PRESIDENT AND AWARDS BOARD CHAIR

Dear IEEE Members, Honorees, Colleagues, and Friends:

Welcome to the 2015 IEEE Honors Ceremony!
It gives us great pleasure to salute the many individuals and organizations whose industry and commitment
make the IEEE Awards program possible. First, we commend those sponsoring this evenings awards;
their contributions and support of our global technology community are greatly appreciated. We also
extend our gratitude to the many nominators, endorsers, and volunteers who have taken time from their
busy schedules to support the awards efforts. Most of all, we thank those whom we are fortunate to
honor in 2015, for their work has truly served to advance technology to benefit humanity.
For this years Honors Ceremony, we have chosen the theme Forward. There is, quite simply, no other
single word or phrase that better describes our exceptional 2015 honorees. Each of these distinguished
engineers, innovators, educators, scientists, leaders, and visionaries has been unwilling to work at the
limits of technology. Instead, they have chosen to advance technologyand those limitsforward.
Those we recognize this year have changed, and continue to change, our world. They have pushed
the boundaries of what is possible in communications sciences, information theory, nanotechnology,
healthcare, and in a diverse array of other fields. They have worked around the world and in their local
communities to better the quality of life for those most in need.
And perhaps, most importantly, as they strive ever-forward, they inspire others to do the same.
Those whom we honor this evening are only some of the many, many members of our global technology
community who are moving their chosen pursuits and personal passions forward. This years honorees
hail from different corners of the world and different communities, possessing different backgrounds,
expertise, and life experiences. But they share a commonality, a unifying thread, that links them together
and spurs them forward.
They are driven to leave our world better for their efforts within it; to make sure that those in need have
their needs addressed; to make certain that no voice remains unheard; to move technology forward for
the benefit of us all. They are those who move our world forward.

Howard E. Michel, Ph.D.

IEEE President and CEO

Kensall D. Wise
IEEE Awards Board Chair

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PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AT IEEE HONORS CEREMONY

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Saturday, 20 June 2015
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
New York, NY
OPENING REMARKS IEEE President and CEO, Howard E. Michel, Master of Ceremonies
IEEE President-Elect, Barry L. Shoop

CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS
IEEE Corporate Innovation Award ..................................................................................SanDisk Corporation
IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award .................................................Daktari Diagnostics
IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award............................................................................ O3b Networks
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award...................................................................Shang-yi Chiang

SERVICE AWARDS
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award.............................................................................. Raymond Sverre Larsen
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award ................................................................................................ Fumio Harashima

IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal .............................................................................................Frank Kelly
IEEE Founders Medal........................................................................................................James D. Plummer
IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies ...Rodolfo Schneburg, Marica Paurevic, Hans Weisbarth
IEEE Edison Medal ..........................................................................................................James J. Spilker, Jr.
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal..............................................................................................Imre Csiszr
IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology.................................................................Takuo Aoyagi
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal........................................................................ Harry L. Van Trees
IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal ..................................................................................... Lynn Conway
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal .................................................................. Richard G. Baraniuk
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal......................................................................................Dimitri A. Antoniadis
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal ................................................................................... Martin A. van den Brink
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications ............................... Marshall Greenspan
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering ............................................................................................... Fred C. Lee
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.................................................................................................... Paul G. Kaminski
IEEE John von Neumann Medal ..........................................................................................James A. Gosling
IEEE Medal of Honor.................................................................................................Mildred S. Dresselhaus

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2015 AWARDS SPONSORS

IEEE Awards proudly acknowledges the sponsorship of its 2015

Technical Field Award and Prize Papers sponsors. These are some of
the worlds leading corporations, foundations, societies, and individuals whose generous support helps to recognize and promote technological advances for the benefit of humanity. Our partners include:

The awards presented at the 2015 IEEE Honors Ceremony Gala

are supported by the generosity of the following organizations,
funders, and societies.

Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Brunetti Bequest
The Grainger Foundation
Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation
in Memory of Herman and Edna Halperin
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi, Ltd.
Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Motorola Solutions Foundation
NEC Corporation
Nokia Corporation
Philips Electronics N.V.
Sony Corporation
SRI International Sarnoff
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Education Society
IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
IEEE Electron Devices Society
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
IEEE Industry Applications Society
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IEEE Information Theory Society
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
IEEE Life Members Fund
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
IEEE Photonics Society
IEEE Power & Energy Society
IEEE Power Electronics Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
IEEE Standards Association
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

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2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter from the IEEE President and Awards Board Chair ....................................................................... Inside Front Cover
Honors Ceremony Program......................................................................................................................................1
2015 IEEE Award Sponsors .....................................................................................................................................2

IEEE
MEDALS, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
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The following awards are presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony Gala

IEEE Corporate Innovation Award ..................................... 4

IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of
Society Award ................................................................ 4
IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award ....................... 4
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award ................ 5
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award..................................... 5
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award................................................ 6
IEEE Honorary Membership.............................................. 6
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal .................................. 7
IEEE Founders Medal....................................................... 7
IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies ........ 8
IEEE Edison Medal .......................................................... 9
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal ..................................... 9

IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology ........ 10

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal ...................... 10
IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal............................. 11
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal.................... 11
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal ....................................... 12
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal ......................................... 12
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar
Technologies and Applications........................................ 13
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering ................................... 13
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal................................................ 14
IEEE John von Neumann Medal ...................................... 14
IEEE Medal of Honor ..................................................... 15

IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS & PRIZE PAPERS

The following awards are presented at 2015 IEEE technical conferences

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award .............................17

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award ...........................................17
IEEE Components, Packaging,
and Manufacturing Technology Award ..........................17
IEEE Control Systems Award.........................................17
IEEE Electromagnetics Award .......................................18
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio
Processing Award .......................................................18
IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing.......................18
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award ......................................18
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and
Distribution Award ......................................................19
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award ............19
IEEE Internet Award.....................................................19
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems
Award .......................................................................20
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award ..........................20
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and
Measurement..............................................................20
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award .............................21
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award .......21

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications

Award .......................................................................21
IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award ...........21
IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies.....22
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits .....22
IEEE Frederik Philips Award..........................................22
IEEE Photonics Award..................................................22
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award............................23
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award........................................23
IEEE David Sarnoff Award ...........................................23
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award ............................23
IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award..............24
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award...........................24
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award ..........................................24
IEEE Nikola Tesla Award..............................................25
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award...........................................25
IEEE Transportation Technologies Award........................25
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award ............................25
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award ...........................................26
IEEE Donald G. Fink Award .........................................27

On This Date in History: 20 June.......................................................................................................................... 16

IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award......................................................................................................26
Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award ............................................................................................................................26
IEEE Fellows Class of 2015 and Fellow Committee Roster.................................................................................... 2834
Congratulatory Ads................................................................................................................................... 16, 3536
IEEE Board of Directors and Awards Board Committee Rosters ............................................................. Inside Back Cover
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2015 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITION

IEEE Corporate Innovation Award

2015 IEEE SPECTRUMS CORPORATE AWARDS

IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of

Society Award

Sponsored by IEEE

Sponsored by IEEE Spectrum

SanDisk Corporation
For pioneering innovation, development,
and deployment of Flash Memory
Technology, which has profoundly
changed the world

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P

500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions whose innovations have transformed the consumer electronics market for more
than a quarter-century. Founded by three engineers in Silicon Valley
more than 26 years ago, SanDisk is a flash storage pioneer that has remained deeply committed to engineering and innovation. SanDisks
portfolio of more than 5,000 patents includes flash storage innovations that have enabled new markets and devicesfrom digital photography to USB drives to smartphones, tablets, and thin-and-light
notebooks. Increasingly, SanDisk is also focused on transforming the
data center.
The SanDisk IP portfolio includes pivotal patents in flash memory device and design, process technology, packaging, test, applications,
and system-level technologies. SanDisks patented advancements also
enabled the company to introduce the industrys first multi-level cell
(MLC) flash technologies using two bits (X2) and three bits (X3)
per cell. These innovations have helped drive the wide adoption
and proliferation of flash memory. They have also helped SanDisk
to chronicle numerous impactful firsts throughout its history. In
2015 alone, the company introduced the worlds highest-capacity
microSD UHS-I card and a break-through all-flash storage system
for the data center that can offer up to a half of petabyte of storage. It also announced the successful development of the worlds first
48-layer second-generation 3D NAND (developed through joint
ventures with Toshiba).
Today, SanDisk continues to expand the possibilities of storage.
SanDisks quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of
the worlds largest data centers and are embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets, and PCs. SanDisks consumer products are available at
hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide.
With headquarters based in Milpitas, CA, USA, and offices located around the world, SanDisk is led by Sanjay Mehrotra, who
co-founded the company in 1988 and currently serves as president
and chief executive officer.
SanDisk is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the
United States and other countries.

Scope: For an outstanding and exemplary innovation by an industrial entity, governmental or academic organization, or other
corporate body, within the fields of interest to IEEE

Daktaris mission is to address the worlds biggest health problems

by distributing a global fleet of portable diagnostic instruments,
deployable anywhere in the world. Daktaris patented technology
combines microfluidic sample preparation and electrochemical
sensing. Through microfluidic immunochromatography, we capture viruses like HIV and hepatitis C, bacteria, or specific blood
cells, starting from a single finger-stick drop of blood. Novel impedometric and voltammetric measurement techniques enable
detection with exquisite sensitivitylaboratory power in a handheld device. Daktaris point-of-care infectious disease diagnostics
can go anywhere, from a retail pharmacy in New York City, to a
rural clinic in central Africa.

IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award

Sponsored by IEEE Spectrum

O3bs next-generation IP trunking solution boosts satellite link

capacities to rival the throughput and latency of fiber with the
reach of satellite. The O3b constellation of high throughput
satellites orbit closer to Earth than conventional geostationary
satellites, dramatically reducing delay, increasing data rates, and
improving voice and video quality for the user. O3bs satellites
orbit at 8,062 km, which is medium Earth orbit. From this altitude latency is slashed to 150 msec, equivalent to long-haul fiber
transmission. Using multiple spot beams, O3bs constellation significantly increases each satellites capacity and decreases the cost
of bandwidth for remote or emerging markets.

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2015 IEEE SERVICE AWARD

2015 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITION

IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial

Leadership Award

IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Technical
Activities Board

Sponsored by IEEE

Shang-yi Chiang

Raymond Sverre Larsen

For visionary leadership in research

and development establishing foundry,
System-on-Chip, and 3-Dimensional
Integrated Circuit technologies that
transformed the industry

For inspiring locally owned businesses

to provide sustainable humanitarian
benefits in underprivileged communities

Shang-yi Chiangs insight and expertise have transformed Taiwan

Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) from a technology follower to a driving force with one of the most advanced
research and development (R&D) teams, helping it become the
worlds largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry.
Known for taking well-calculated risks and making bold decisions, Dr. Chiang created an environment at TSMC for developing innovations that have made digital technology commonplace
in society, profoundly impacting productivity, education, entertainment, and healthcare. Under Dr. Chiangs direction, TSMCs
R&D organization grew from 148 people to 5,500 and has set
milestones in semiconductor technology scaling at nodes from
0.25 micrometers (m) all the way down to 28 nanometers (nm).
Game-changing initiatives implemented under Dr. Chiangs leadership include a dedicated full/half node R&D roadmap, allowing customers to further reduce wafer cost. He also developed a
strong lithography and electron-beam mask technology team that
has advanced lithography, patterning, resist, and mask technologies
for industry-leading high-density application-specific integrated
circuit (ASIC)/system-on-chip (SoC) technologies for foundry
customers and the logic semiconductor industry. Also important
to ASIC/SoC applications has been TSMCs high-density and
energy-efficient interconnect efforts, where Dr. Chiang led his
team to the industrys first high-volume development of copper low-dielectric constant interconnects at 0.13 m and subsequent nodes. Dr. Chiang also initiated a major direction change in
three-dimensional (3D) IC technology to focus on chip on wafer on substrate (CoWoS) as a stepping stone to full-scale 3D-IC.
This established TSMC as the leader in 3D-IC technology with
industry-first high-volume production of CoWoS.This paved the
way for system-level scaling for many emerging applications and
has driven semiconductor industry growth.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of Business Week magazines
Star of Asia award (2001), Dr. Chiang is currently advisor to the
chairman at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company,
Los Gatos, CA, USA.

A true advocate of using technology as an aid to improving the

human condition, Raymond Sverre Larsens community service
initiatives have impacted the lives of needy people in impoverished countries around the world. The founder and current cochair of the IEEE Community Solutions Initiative, Mr. Larsens
concept for bettering disadvantaged communities goes beyond
just providing supplies or finances. His method involves assisting local communities both financially and technically in creating small business opportunities that have growth potential within
the communities that need the help. The goal of his teams program is to demonstrate sustainable development of solar electricity
through seed pilot projects run by community entrepreneurs who
franchise mobile community charging stations with home light
and portable battery kits. Mr. Larsen secured funding from the
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. With co-chair Robin
Podmore from the IEEE Power & Energy Society, he formed a
team of volunteers and industry professionals and set up corporate
partnerships to engineer, design, develop, and deliver six SunBlazer mobile generator stations to an in-country nongovernmental
organization partner who deployed them in six communities in
earthquake-devastated Haiti in 2011. Each station uses solar cells
to charge 80 or more portable battery kits to power lights for two
rooms for 34 days, charge cell phones, and run small appliances
at lower cost than kerosene lamps and candles. Since that initial
deployment, nine additional stations have been delivered to Haiti.
The next-generation SunBlazer II has been delivered to Cameroon.The program has also been implemented in four countries in
Africa, and startups are planned for India, South America, and Asia.
The program, now expanding to include a unique communitybased education model and global classroom delivery system, was
recently adopted by the IEEE Foundation as a Signature Project and rebranded IEEE Smart Village. Mr. Larsens dedication has
been integral to the programs success in creating models of collaboration that will impact more and more people in need, and
he has gained world-wide recognition of what IEEE can achieve.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Mr. Larsen is currently special projects
engineering manager at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

Scope: For exceptional managerial leadership in the fields of interest of IEEE

Scope: For distinguished service to the development, viability, advancement, and pursuit of the technical objectives of IEEE

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2015 IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP

2015 IEEE SERVICE AWARD

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award

IEEE Honorary Membership

Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation

Sponsored by IEEE

Fumio Harashima

Elon Musk

For outstanding leadership in

globalization and diversity of IEEE
communities

For leadership in and innovative contributions to space-exploration technology, combatting global warming and
promoting science education, pediatric
health, and clean energy

The pioneering efforts of Fumio Harashima at both the Society and Institute levels in promoting the activities and benefits of
IEEE helped grow Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) into the strong
and vibrant region that it is today. An expert in power electronics,
mechatronics, and robotics, Dr. Harashima has for decades played
a significant role in expanding the IEEEs reach in Japan and other
Asian countries through his many leadership activities and by enlisting many new members who have become active contributors. He has actively promoted the globalization of IEEE activities
and has been recognized by governments around the world for
his tireless efforts in encouraging collaborative research across national borders. Instrumental to Dr. Harashimas influence on globalization and diversification have been the many important positions he has held within IEEE. He served as president of the IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society from 19861987, during which
time he helped identify new technological directions deserving
focus. Dr. Harashima also served as IEEE Secretary in 1990 and
on the following IEEE boards: Board of Directors (1990), Executive Committee (1990), Awards Board (20012003), Nomination
and Appointment Committee (19911992), Fellows Committee
(19701972, 19911993), and Finance Committee (1990). He
has also served as organizing chair for a number of well-known
international IEEE conferences, including the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (1988-1999), International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (1994), International Conference on Robotics and Automation (1995), and the
Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (2013). He has
also actively pursued collaboration with private industry, providing groundbreaking research and commercialization efforts for
low-power consumption using inverters and power control technology in electric vehicles.
An IEEE Life Fellow and Fellow of the Japanese Federation of
Engineering Societies, Dr. Harashima is a Professor Emeritus with
the University of Tokyo, Japan.

A visionary entrepreneur with an eye for technological innovation, Elon Musks ability to think into the future has already
changed the way we live in the present. Pursuing his lifelong
passion for space exploration, in 2002 Mr. Musk founded Space
Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) with the goal
of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization
of Mars. In 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to
successfully launch and return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit
with its Falcon 9 rocket. In 2012, the Falcon 9 delivered SpaceXs
Dragon spacecraft into orbit where it berthed with the International Space Station (ISS), exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth, becoming the first private spacecraft to
visit the ISS. SpaceX rockets have since transported cargo to and
from the ISS multiple times. Soon, the Falcon 9 and an upgraded
version of the Dragon spacecraft will transport astronauts into
space, and SpaceX is actively working with NASA to achieve this
objective. Mr. Musk and his colleagues founded Tesla Motors in
2003 to prove that electric cars could be better than gasolinepowered cars. The first company to incorporate lithium-ion batteries in its vehicles,Tesla produced its first electric sports car (the
Roadster) in 2008, which became the first all-electric vehicle
to travel more than 200 miles on a single charge. It also set the
world record for a single charge by traveling 311 miles during
the 2009 Global Green Challenge in Australia. In addition, Tesla
sells its electric powertrain technologies to other automakers to
promote production of electric vehicles at affordable prices. To
combat global warming, Mr. Musk helped create SolarCity in
2006, which has become one of the largest providers of solar
power systems in the United States. His Musk Foundation coordinates philanthropic efforts focusing on science, education, pediatric health, and clean energy.
A recipient of the Fdration Aronautique Internationales
2010 Gold Space Medal, the highest award in air and space, Mr.
Musk is the chief executive officer and lead designer of SpaceX,
Hawthorne, CA, USA; chief executive officer and chief product
architect of Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, CA, USA; and chairman of
SolarCity, San Mateo, CA, USA.

Scope: For outstanding service to IEEE

Scope: For those who have rendered meritorious service to humanity in IEEEs designated fields of interest and who are not
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2015 IEEE
IEEE MEDALS
MEDALS

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

IEEE Founders Medal

Sponsored by Bells Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation

Frank Kelly

James D. Plummer

For creating principled mathematical

foundations for the design and analysis
of congestion control, routing, and
blocking in modern communication
networks

For leadership in the creation and

support of innovative, interdisciplinary,
and globally focused education and
research programs

The mathematical models developed by Frank Kelly have enabled

communications networks, including the Internet, to handle
ever-increasing amounts of data transmission while maintaining
quality of service by overcoming challenges including network
congestion. He has provided the mathematical foundations for
a scientific understanding of fundamentally important network
phenomena including distributed congestion control in packetswitched networks and blocking and dynamic routing in circuitswitched telephone networks. Dr. Kellys landmark work on rate
control during the 1990s developed the equations responsible for
governing traffic on the Internet and transformed the field. He
was one of the first to provide economic insights on control problems in telecommunication networks, leading to his development
of the proportional fairness concept. This spurred new research
on rate control for the Internet and spawned worldwide activity
on analysis of control schemes and congestion pricing, demonstrating how rate control of the Internet could be placed in a
rigorous mathematical framework. Proportional fairness is now a
central concept in analyzing resource allocation in networks. Dr.
Kellys work opened the way for model-based development of
the Traffic Control Protocol (TCP), with practically all forms of
congestion control today incorporating Dr. Kellys equations. His
work on dynamic alternative routing (DAR) during the 1980s
provided a call-routing procedure in telephone networks for
choosing alternate call paths when the primary path between a
source and destination was blocked. Key to the success of DAR
was the ability to determine the alternate paths online and in
real time with information based on where and when the call
was initiated. DARs success led to implementation in the British
Telecom network and in the United States and Japan.
A Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the U.K. Royal Society, Dr. Kelly is currently a professor of mathematics of systems at the University of
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, U.K.

James D. Plummer used his influence as the longest-serving dean

of Stanford Universitys School of Engineering to support and lead
major innovations that have changed the way engineering research
and teaching is carried out, impacting industry and academia worldwide. Serving as dean from 1999 through 2014, Dr. Plummer led the
efforts at Stanford to build major interdisciplinary centers to address
challenges facing engineering in areas including energy, the environment, and biomedicine. The Precourt Institute for Energy was
developed to focus on energy efficiency, distribution, and generation and features researchers spanning the spectrum of engineering
disciplines.The Woods Institute for the Environment was created to
address issues in environmental sustainability and features environmental engineering faculty. He also established Stanfords Bioengineering Department, jointly housed in the School of Engineering
and the School of Medicine, to apply engineering principles to
medical problems and biological systems. The Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) was established to
teach computational mathematics in the context of engineering and
science applications and to provide a school-wide focus on applying
computational methods in all areas of engineering and science. Other programs initiated during Dr. Plummers tenure include the Hasso
Plattner Institute of Design, which is known globally for its handson, product-centered approach to education, and the Global Climate
and Energy Project (GCEP), which has provided resources to boost
research in alternative energy. During Dr. Plummers tenure, other
innovations in the Engineering School include the development of
online education courses and technologies, including the flipped
classroom model, where video lectures are viewed by students at
home before the classroom session to allow focus on exercises and
discussions while in class, as well as the worlds first massively open
online courses (MOOCs) to provide unlimited participation and
open access to learning through the Internet. Dr. Plummers contributions to Stanfords School of Engineering have been instrumental
in increasing the number of students choosing engineering majors,
especially in computer science, product design, and bioengineering.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering, Dr. Plummer holds the John Fluke Professorship in
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Scope: For exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering

Scope: For outstanding contributions in the leadership, planning,

and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and
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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies

Sponsored by Toyota Motor Corp.

Rodolfo Schneburg,
Marica Paurevic,
and Hans Weisbarth
For significant contributions to automotive
safety through crash prevention and passenger protection using sensors, warning
systems, and autonomous restraint systems

The contributions of Rodolfo Schneburg, Marica Paurevic,

and Hans Weisbarth to vehicle structure, occupant restraints, and
driver assistance systems have significantly improved automobile
safety, protected lives, and promoted increased use of seat belts.
Prof. Schneburgs team helped develop and bring to market
a system that employs a network of sensors including radar and
cameras within the automobile that can sense when a crash may
be imminent and can prepare the vehicle and its occupants for
the impending accident. Known as PRE-SAFE, the system can
tighten the front seat belts, adjust seats, and close windows and
sunroofs if it senses conditions such as skidding or sudden braking. The activation of the protection systems during the precrash
phase places the occupants in the proper position for optimal effectiveness of the safety restraints. Introduced in 2002 in Mercedes
Benz vehicles, the PRE-SAFE system has proven its effectiveness
in protecting front-seat occupants during actual accidents. While
much of the safety-enhancement technology has focused on the
front-seat occupants, improvements were needed to better protect rear-seat passengers. To address the needs of rear-seat occupants, the team developed the Active Seat-Belt Buckle (ABB). To
encourage seat belt use, when a rear door is opened, the ABB

emerges from the seat and illuminates, so it is easier to locate. After

buckling, the ABB automatically retracts and, in doing so, reduces
the belt slack. When a precrash situation is sensed through the
PRE-SAFE system, the ABB applies reversible belt tensioning
to reduce slack and provide more secure restraint. If a crash occurs, the illuminated ABB also aids in rescue efforts by making the
buckle easier to find when unfastening rear-seat passengers. The
team was also instrumental in improving the virtual models of the
human body used to assess the ABB, which optimized the seat belt
geometry to prevent the pelvis from pushing under the belt. The
ABB first appeared in 2013 in Mercedes Benz vehicles.
Prof. Schneburg is the recipient of the U.S. National Traffic
Highway Safety Administrations Award for Safety Engineering
Excellence (2007) and the Pathfinder Award from the ASC Automotive Safety Council for advancement of automotive safety
(2013). He is currently director of vehicle safety, durability, and
corrosion protection with Mercedes Benz/Daimler AG, Sindelfingen, Germany.
Ms. Paurevic is manager of occupant protection systems concepts.
Mr. Weisbarth is manager of seat belt development, both with
Prof. Schneburgs team at Daimler AG.

Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in the application of technology in the fields of interest to IEEE that improve the environment
and/or public safety

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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Edison Medal

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

Sponsored by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc.

James J. Spilker, Jr.

Imre Csiszr

For contributions to the technology and

implementation of civilian GPS navigation
systems

For contributions to information theory,

information-theoretic security, and
statistics

As one of the principal designers and analysts of the Global Positioning System (GPS), James J. Spilker Jr.s contributions to GPS
development have truly benefited billions of people around the
world. The satellite-based navigation system has become an integral part of society through mobile phones and other portable
devices that rely on GPS timing, commercial and private aviation, sea navigation, geolocating personal vehicles, and providing
disaster warning and recovery support. Dr. Spilker developed the
initial technologies to enable successful GPS operation, and he
has continued to provide innovations important to the further
growth of the GPS. Dr. Spilker designed the L1 C/A code during
the 1970s, which became the GPS civilian signal now used by 2
billion people worldwide. His delay lock loop process for tracking
code division multiple access (CDMA) signals is essential to GPS
accuracy. He has since helped develop the new L5 civilian signal,
first launched in 2011, which provides higher accuracy and more
resistance to the effects of interference, such as space weather, on
navigation. Dr. Spilker also co-invented the split spectrum mode
(now called binary offset carrier, or BOC) for modern GPS ranging that will allow civilian and military signals to use separate
areas of the spectrum. He also developed adaptive vector tracking
for simultaneously tracking ranging signals from multiple satellites
while maintaining accuracy and improving performance against
interference.Vector tracking will be critical to handling GPS satellite navigation expansion as new GPS satellites and signals are introduced by agencies around the world. Dr. Spilkers highly cited
book Global Positioning System: Theory and Applications (American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996) is considered the
standard reference for the GPS and won the AIAA Sommerfield
Book Award. His popular textbook Digital Communications by Satellite (Prentice-Hall, 1977) went through ten printings.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Spilker is currently executive chairman
of AOSense Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA, and professor (consulting),
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

With research spanning over five decades, Imre Csiszr has provided fundamental and pace-setting contributions to information
theory and statistics that have been crucial to data compression,
multiuser communications systems, and secure data transmission
impacting fields including genetics, economics, signal processing, and pattern recognition. Prof. Csiszr is known for developing the method of types. This approach to proving coding
theorems for discrete memoryless communication systems has
become a powerful tool for understanding communications and
statistics. His book (Information Theory: Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems, Academic Press, 1981, Second Edition:
Cambridge University Press, 2011) with J. Krner is considered
the most comprehensive treatment on the method of types and
is an indispensable resource for information theory researchers.
Prof. Csiszrs contributions to information-theoretic security
began in 1978 and still continue. His work (also with J. Krner) on generalizing the wiretap channel model has provided the
foundations for implementing enhanced physical-layer security
in wireless communications networks. His recent work (with P.
Narayan) on secret key extraction by network terminals using
public communication has motivated advances in key generation algorithms based on low-density parity check codes and polar code constructions as well as network coding schemes. Prof.
Csiszr has also demonstrated the fundamental role data compression algorithms can play in the construction of a new generation
of secret keys for secure encrypted communication. His analysis
of divergence geometries of probability distributions has led to
using alternating minimization algorithms to help tackle optimization problems in applications including channel transmission
in information theory, function reconstruction from moments
in the kinetic theory of gases, biomedical imaging, and pattern
recognition algorithms in computer vision.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the Shannon Award
(1996), Dr. Csiszr is a Research Professor Emeritus with the A.
Rnyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest, Hungary.

Scope: For a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts

Scope: For exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology

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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Medal for Innovations

in Healthcare Technology

IEEE Jack S. Kilby

Signal Processing Medal

Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering

in Medicine and Biology Society

Sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc.

Takuo Aoyagi

Harry L. Van Trees

For pioneering contributions to pulse oximetry that have had a profound impact
on healthcare

For fundamental contributions to detection, estimation, and modulation theory;

sensor array processing; and Bayesian
bounds

Takuo Aoyagis development of the fundamental principles of

pulse oximetry has led to an indispensable clinical tool for noninvasive monitoring of blood oxygen levels that has improved
patient safety during anesthesia and practically all other facets of
healthcare. In 1972, while investigating a noninvasive cardiac output device, Dr. Aoyagi discovered that arterial pulsatile noise
interfering with the accurate dye dilution curve carried important information about the oxygenation of arterial blood. This
led him to establish the principle of pulse oximetry using light
signals of two different wavelengths. Based on his discovery, in
1975 he introduced the first commercially available pulse oximeter. Consisting of a probe containing a light-emitting device and
two photodetectors, Dr. Aoyagis pulse oximeter could pass two
wavelengths of light through the earlobe to the photodetectors
to measure the changing absorbance at each of the wavelengths
based on pulsing arterial blood.The devices ability to rapidly and
noninvasively assess the hemodynamic and respiratory condition
of patients allows clinicians to detect abnormalities earlier and
avoid patient harm as well as gauge the effectiveness of clinical
interventions in real time. All of todays pulse oximeters are based
on Dr. Aoyagis original principles of pulse oximetry. Dr. Aoyagi
has continued to advance the development of oxygen monitoring
technologies and inspire generations of medical technology innovators around the world. Pulse oximetry is now considered the
standard of care for patients undergoing anesthesia and for treatment in emergency rooms and intensive care units and for home
care. In 2007, the World Health Organization included pulse oximetry as an essential component of its Surgical Safety Checklist
for reducing complications.
An IEEE Member and recipient of the Gravenstein Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Society for Technology in Anesthesia (2013), Dr. Aoyagi is currently senior manager of the Aoyagi
Research Laboratory at Nihon Kohden Corporation, Nakanoku, Tokyo, Japan.

An internationally recognized expert in radar, sonar, communications, and signal processing, Harry L.Van Trees is considered one
of the founders of detection and estimation theory, which has
had important implications in engineering. After graduating from
West Point, serving in the U.S. Army, and receiving his Sc.D. from
MIT, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at MIT. First published in 1968-1971, Dr.Van Trees threevolume series of textbooks on detection, estimation, and modulation theory provided a unified approach to communications,
radar, and sonar. Part I, the classic in the field, is used in graduate
schools around the world and has educated several generations of
engineers. Many of the current military radar, sonar, and missile
defense systems rely on the concepts in Dr. Van Trees textbooks
and were designed by engineers educated with these books. Dr.
Van Trees used his expertise to oversee the implementation of
the theory in actual systems through a series of U.S. Department
of Defense positions: chief scientist of both the Defense Communications Agency and the U.S. Air Force, principle deputy assistant secretary of Defense (C3I), and acting assistant secretary
of defense (C3I). The fourth volume, Optimum Array Processing,
published in 2002, provides a comprehensive development of optimum array processing for students and practicing engineers. In
2013, he published the second edition of Part I (in collaboration
with Drs. Bell and Tian), which has been revised and expanded
so that it is the most extensive and up-to-date text in the field.
Dr.Van Trees was the originator of the family of Bayesian bounds.
The first bound, published in 1964, was the Bayesian version of
the classic Cramer-Rao bound, which provided the foundation
for the family of Bayesian bounds. In 2007, he collaborated with
Dr. Bell to publish Bayesian Bounds for Parameter Estimation and
Nonlinear Filter/Tracking.
An IEEE Life Fellow and a recipient of the Presidential Award
for Meritorious Executive (1980), Dr. Van Trees was elected to
the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2015. He is a University Professor Emeritus with George Mason University, Fairfax,VA, USA.

Scope: For outstanding contributions and/or innovations in engineering within the fields of medicine, biology, and healthcare
technology

Scope: For outstanding achievements in signal processing

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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr.

Education Medal

Funded by Cirrus Logic, Inc.

Sponsored by MathWorks, Pearson,

and the IEEE Life Members Fund

Lynn Conway

Richard G. Baraniuk

For contributions to and leadership in design

methodology and pedagogy enabling rapid
advances and dissemination of VLSI design
tools and systems

For fundamental contributions to open educational resources for electrical engineering

and beyond

The groundbreaking contributions of Lynn Conway created a

revolution in very large scale integration (VLSI) technology that
has profoundly impacted computer chip design as one of the most
widely used techniques for building microprocessors and other
computer components. Her creation of simplified VLSI prototyping techniques and design methods were key to educating a new
generation of VLSI designers who continue to enable innovations in VLSI systems today. Ms. Conway co-authored the seminal textbook Introduction to VLSI System Design (Addison-Wesley,
1979) with Carver Mead that started the wave of Mead-Conway
courses at universities around the world. Her focused leadership
and efforts in developing the concepts, writing many chapters of
the book, editing the entire textbook, creating the course syllabus
and class notes, and devising the rapid chip implementation of the
student designs were all essential to the success of the first MIT
VLSI design course in 1978. Her persistence led the subsequent
rapid spread of the VLSI course to students at more than 100
universities. She organized and ran the first three multiproject
chip (MPC) fabrication runs that demonstrated successful designs
of working semiconductor chip systems to a skeptical worldwide
technical audience. Combining several circuit designs onto a
single chip, MPCs substantially reduced the cost of VLSI fabrication and opened up accessibility, allowing ordinary engineers
without specialized silicon fabrication knowledge to create, have
fabricated, and then operate interesting systems on chips of their
own design. Her MPC technology became the foundation for the
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service (MOSIS)
System, which has evolved since 1981 as a national infrastructure
for fast-turnaround prototyping of VLSI chip designs by universities and researchers.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Ms. Conway is Professor Emerita of EECS
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

A visionary who is actively developing the future of technologyenabled education, Richard G. Baraniuks pioneering open-education initiatives are changing the way students learn by sharing
teaching materials and knowledge freely online. In 1999, Prof.
Baraniuk launched Connexions, the worlds first open-education project, offering free open-source textbooks via the Internet. He saw the limited impact of traditional textbooks, where
students are often unable to see how concepts link together and
how to later apply them to real-word situations. When the time
came for him to write a new textbook for his Signals and Systems
class at Rice University, instead of creating a traditional textbook,
Prof. Baraniuk developed a new model that broke material down
into smaller, interchangeable modules, each dealing with a singular topic. These modules could be combined and customized
as needed, providing dynamic learning linked via the Internet to
enable interactive and immersive experiences among a global audience. And it was his goal to make these modules and supporting
software free and open-source to allow the broadest possible use.
Implementing a digital publishing platform with features years
ahead of their time, such as XML semantic markup, open-content
licenses, a digital textbook publishing pipeline, and a scalable approach to postpublication peer review, Connexcions was born. It
has since evolved into an extensive online repository known as
OpenStax CNX used by millions of students around the world.
In 2012, Prof. Baraniuk launched OpenStax College to help
lower the cost of college textbooks to zero. It offers a library of
free textbooks for the most common college courses featuring
professionally developed, peer-reviewed content created under
the guidance of prestigious editorial boards.
An IEEE Fellow and American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow, Dr. Baraniuk is currently the Victor E.
Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

Scope: For groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical
engineering or related fields

Scope: For a career of outstanding contributions to education in

the fields of interest of IEEE

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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal

Sponsored by the Federation of

Electric Power Companies, Japan

Sponsored by the Intel Foundation

Dimitri A. Antoniadis

Martin A. van den Brink

For contributions to metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor physics,

technology, and modeling

For technical and managerial leadership

driving the continuation of optical lithography as the enabling technology for the
semiconductor industry

Known for his deep understanding of device physics, Dimitri Antoniadis has made pioneering contributions to the direction of the
integrated circuit (IC) microelectronics industry by advancing the
capabilities of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors
(MOSFETS). MOSFETs are used for amplifying and switching
signals, and todays microprocessors and memory devices contain
billions of them. In 1978 while at Stanford University, Dr. Antoniadis developed the SUPREM process simulator, which was the
first computer-aided design tool for silicon semiconductor devices and ICs. SUPREM became the preeminent simulator used
by practically all IC manufacturers. His work on deep submicron
MOS devices during the 1980s was one of the first demonstrations of nano-scale MOSFETs, and his innovations have continued to the foundation of todays high-performance silicon FETs.
At MIT, Dr. Antoniadis groundbreaking research in 1985 proved
the feasibility of sub-100-nm MOSFETs and provided the first
demonstration of source-to-channel electron injection velocities exceeding saturation velocity. Known as velocity overshoot,
this provides an increase in current drive in short-channel MOSFETs, enabling higher performance previously not thought attainable. His development of the virtual-source model to describe
the behavior of very short channel devices has shown the role of
high carrier velocity and mobility in obtaining maximum device
performance. With the ability to accurately simulate the characteristics of MOSFETs down to 22 nm and beyond, the model
has been adopted by the International Technology Roadmap for
Semiconductors (ITRS) for predicting the future of MOSFET
scaling. As director for 12 years of the Materials, Structures, and
Devices Center, Dr. Antoniadis has helped determine the most
promising path for future microelectronics by pursuing scaling
of MOS to its ultimate limit and interdisciplinary exploration of
new-frontier devices.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Antoniadis is currently a professor and
the Ray and Maria Stata Chair in Electrical Engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

A technical and managerial trailblazer for over 3 decades, Martin

van den Brink has driven innovations in optical lithography critical to advancing Moores Law for the continued development of
smaller and more advanced electronics. Optical lithography is a
microfabrication process in which light-sensitive chemicals are
used to transfer circuit patterns onto chip wafers, enabling mass
production of integrated circuits. One of ASMLs first employees
from its start-up in 1984, Dr. van den Brinks technical direction has positioned ASML as the worlds largest supplier of essential optical lithography systems for the semiconductor industry.
Dr. van den Brink has been responsible for practically all major
technical decisions at ASML. He introduced modular design and
an open innovation policy with technology and manufacturing
partners during the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was instrumental in
ASMLs move from step to scan lithography. His introduction of
the TWINSCAN dual-stage architecture in 2001 provided major
improvements in productivity and accuracy. Under Dr. Van den
Brinks leadership, ASML delivered one of the most important
innovations for the continuation of Moores Law: immersion lithography (2004), which provided a higher-resolution pattering
solution to allow continued scaling down to 40 nm. It remains
the lithography process of choice for the semiconductor industry. Dr. van den Brink has also pioneered holistic lithography for
cost-effective multiple patterning, which has enabled imaging
resolution below 20 nm. He currently oversees ASMLs biggest
innovation effort to date: the introduction of extreme ultraviolet
(EUV) lithography, which will take single-exposure patterning
down to ever smaller resolutions over the next 10 years. This will
enable Moores Law to continue for at least another decade from
a cost-effective patterning perspective.
A Royal Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, Dr. van
den Brink is currently president and chief technology officer of
ASML,Veldhoven, The Netherlands.

Scope: For outstanding contributions to material and device

science and technology, including practical application

Scope: For exceptional contributions to the microelectronics

industry

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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for

Radar Technologies and Applications

IEEE Medal in Power Engineering

Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications,
Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics,
and Power & Energy Societies

Sponsored by the Raytheon Company

Marshall Greenspan

Fred C. Lee

For contributions to the development of

multiple phase-center airborne surface
surveillance and targeting radars

For contributions to power electronics, especially high-frequency power conversion

Marshall Greenspans pioneering work on multiple phase-center

interferometric processing has significantly enhanced the state-ofthe-art in ground-moving target indication (GMTI) radar technology critical to todays military radar systems. Dr. Greenspans
radar engineering career began in the early 1970s with the design
and development of the navigation, targeting, and terrain-avoidance radar in the U.S. Navys carrier-based A-6 Intruder attack
aircraft. The A-6 was designed to fly undetected at low altitudes
for great distances at night and in all weather conditions, find its
target, and return safely to its carrier. In the early 1980s, this radar
was upgraded under Dr. Greenspans guidance to generate highresolution images of the surface area illuminated by the radar
beam. Indicators were overlaid upon the image to pinpoint the
location of any ground moving targets found within the ground
image scene. This revolutionary technology was adapted by the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the
U.S. Air Force in a demonstration program named Pave Mover
that put a side-looking radar in a high-speed U.S. Air Force EF111 to detect and track armored ground vehicles at long range
while simultaneously guiding missiles to their intended targets.
This technology became part of the U.S. Air Force/Army E-8
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), which
provides ground surveillance to military commanders to support
attack operations. With Dr. Greenspans expertise, JSTARS enabled U.S. forces to map the position of the retreating Iraqi army
during Operation Desert Storm. This work helped demonstrate
the feasibility of GMTI space-time adaptive processing (STAP)
for air-to-surface moving target radars at a time when computing technology was inferior to what is currently available. STAPs
importance to the radar community continues to grow as computing technology and radar hardware improve.
An IEEE Fellow and recipient of the first IEEE Warren D.
White award for Excellence in Radar Engineering (2000), Dr.
Greenspan is a senior consulting systems engineer (retired) with
Northrop Grumman, Norwalk, CT, USA.

A world authority on high-frequency power conversion design,

modeling, and control, Fred C. Lee has pioneered technologies
that provide more efficient power conversion and improved reliability in devices and systems, impacting applications ranging from
personal computing and mobile devices to military and industrial
equipment. Dr. Lee introduced soft switching technologies during the 1980s to combat the undesired switching losses, electrical
and thermal stresses, and electromagnetic interference caused by
high-frequency power conversion. His zero-voltage switching for
resonant, quasiresonant, multiresonant, and pulse-width-modulated converters have become core components of modern power
electronics equipment and systems. During the 1990s, Dr. Lee and
his students developed a novel multiphase voltage regulator (VR)
module for new generations of Intel microprocessors. Dr. Lee and
his students have generated 25 U.S. patents addressing key areas
such as power delivery architecture, modularity and scalability,
control and sensing, integrated magnetics, and advanced packaging and integration. Today, every PC and server microprocessor
is powered with this VR. These technologies have been further
extended to high-performance graphical processors, server chipset and memory devices, networks, telecommunications, and all
forms of mobile electronics. Dr. Lee has helped power electronics
industries realize their full power-saving potential by overcoming
the cost and reliability roadblocks caused by using nonstandard
components and labor-intensive manufacturing. He and his team
have developed advanced integration concepts and technologies
suitable for standardization and automation using integrated power electronics modules (IPEMs) that have provided improvements
in performance and cost reduction. IPEMs have been commercialized and are widely used today in powering the new generation of microprocessors, photovoltaic converters, variable-speed
motor drives, and electric/hybrid vehicles.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering, Dr. Lee is currently a University Distinguished Professor with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg,VA, USA.

Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields

of radar technologies and their applications

Scope: For outstanding contributions to the technology associated

with the generation, transmission, distribution, application, and
utilization of electric power for the betterment of society

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2015 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Simon Ramo Medal

IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Corporation

Sponsored by IBM Corporation

Paul G. Kaminski

James A. Gosling

For leading the development of advanced low-observable airborne

systems, including the F-117, and the
supporting tools, training, and weapons

For the Java programming language,

Java Virtual Machine, and other contributions to programming languages and
environments

Paul G. Kaminskis technical prowess and leadership skills have

played a key role in the development and application of the U.S.
Offset Strategy developed to counter the massive conventional
forces of the Soviet Union during the cold war. The three components of that strategy included Precision Guided Munitions
(PGMs) to permit one weapon to destroy one target; advanced
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems to
find and track the targets; and stealth technology to permit delivery of the PGMs on target in the presence of air defenses. This
combination provided immeasurable benefits to national security
and military capability. Dr. Kaminskis work on low-observable
airborne systems led to the development of stealth aircraft including the F-117 fighter and B-2 bomber and advanced cruise missiles with stealth ability.
Many years ahead of similar systems pursued by other nations,
the F-117 was designed as not simply an airplane but, in combination with ISR and PGMs, provided a complete weapons system
incorporating ordinance and targeting capabilities. It changed the
paradigm of air warfare and provided a dramatic reduction in the
loss and capture of U.S. aircrews. Critical to the success of Dr.
Kaminskis stealth technology innovations was his implementation of the Integrated Product Team concept and the use of red
teams for identifying and solving problems early in the development process.
He also championed physics-based modeling and simulation
during development of the F-117, which accelerated testing and
provided the basis for the development of algorithms to route
the aircraft that gave great confidence to test pilots. Dr. Kaminskis work in stealth and counter-stealth was complemented by
his earlier work in PGMs in the late 1960s, followed by his work
in unconventional satellite imaging systems in the early to mid1970s. This work helped form the basis for the B-2 long-range
stealth strategic bomber, refining the technologies with advances
in sensors, control systems, and modeling and simulation.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of U.S. National Medal of
Technology, Dr. Kaminski is currently chairman and chief executive officer with Technovation Inc., Potomac Falls,VA, USA.

A world-class innovator for over 30 years, James A. Goslings development of the Java programming language in 1995 was a major milestone in computing that has had an immeasurable impact
on computer science. Dr. Gosling combined the best ideas in programming languages with his own ideas to create the first widely
deployed programming language featuring portability to allow
transmission of code over the Internet from one computer to
another for execution while still meeting security requirements.
Its features include the portable write once, run anywhere bytecoded platform and libraries that makes use of a standard class
file format that can be loaded and executed by any Java Virtual
Machine; the robust and secure sand box approach; type-safe
automatic storage management; just-in-time compilation; and
platform scaling from cell phone to enterprise server. Used by
approximately 9 million developers, Java is one of the most popular programming languages in history and can be found in servers, mobile phones, and the chips embedded in credit cards and
identity badges. Dr. Gosling has also influenced software engineering methodology with important contributions during the
1980s. As a graduate student, he created one of the most widely
used versions of the UNIX Emacs text editor. As a contributor to
Carnegie Mellons Andrew Project, he developed the first UNIX
windows manager and one of the first modern, multiformat text
editors that allowed placement of tables, pictures, and graphics in
a document. This open-source architecture influenced the evolution of Microsoft Windows. Dr. Gosling has also impacted the
world of embedded systems with his early work on the ISIS II
satellite, a real-time specification for Java, and his current work on
autonomous ocean-going robots.
A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and
an Officer of the Order Canada (second-highest Canadian civilian honor), Dr. Gosling is chief software architect with Liquid
Robotics, Redwood, CA, USA.

Scope: For exceptional achievement in systems engineering and

systems science

Scope: For outstanding achievements in computer-related science

and technology

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IEEE Medal of Honor

Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

For leadership and contributions across many fields of science

and engineering

With innovations that have helped mold the history of advancements in science, technology, and education in the United States
and around the world, Mildred Dresselhaus has paved the way for
the rise of nanotechnology and blazed a path for women in science and engineering. Known as the queen of carbon science
based on her life-long research into the properties of graphite
and carbon-based materials, the era of carbon electronics can
be traced back to her tireless research efforts. During the 1960s,
Dr. Dresselhaus was a pioneer in researching carbon, one of the
most abundant elements, and its thermal and electrical properties
when no one else seemed interested in its potential. She used
magnetoreflection spectroscopy to determine the graphite band
structure, which led to the currently accepted band model for
graphite.
Her insights regarding the composition, structure, and properties of graphite have encouraged bold new research into
single-atom-thick graphene. Graphene has potential practical
applications in high-speed electronics circuits and systems. In the
late 1970s she made important contributions to understanding
the structure of graphite intercalation compounds. The work of
her group on fullerenes and carbon nanotubes began in the early
1990s before these structures were well known. She also demonstrated the symmetry of single-wall nanotubes and how one
could calculate their electronic structure. Her work on nanotubes continues today, including the important contribution of
the measurement of Raman spectroscopy on isolated single-wall

carbon nanotubes. Her recent work on the semiconductive

properties of carbon nanotubes opens new possibilities in nanotechnology, and other recent research holds exciting promise for
energy-related applications.
Dr. Dresselhaus public advocacy for women in engineering and science began in the mid-1970s, when the number of
American women seeking undergraduate degrees in engineering
began to rise. Recognizing this as an issue of great importance
for the profession, Dr. Dresselhaus began actively speaking out in
favor of womens access to careers in technology and science. Her
unquestioned accomplishments in the laboratory and classroom
gave her an unparalleled credibility in this national dialogue. Her
1975 article Some Personal Views on Engineering Education for
Women (IEEE Transactions on Education) remains an immensely
valuable and accurate account of the psychological and social
challenges facing women in a male-dominated field. The article
also stressed the critical importance of role models for women
engineering students, which Dr. Dresselhaus herself has certainly
served as through mentoring, formally and informally, countless
young women across the United States and around the world.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Dresselhaus has received numerous
awards including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
She is currently an Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Physics with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Scope: For an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in IEEE fields of interest

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On This Date in History: 20 June

IEEE-HKN proudly recognizes

its members receiving
IEEE Medals and Technical Field Awards in 2015:
Marshall Greenspan
(Beta Theta, 1961), IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal
for Radar Technologies and Applications

On 13 January 1902, IEEE predecessor the American Institute

of Electrical Engineers held its annual banquet at the original
Waldorf Astoria at 33rd Street and 5th Avenue in New York
City. 300 people attended. The guest of honor was the Italian/
British inventor Guglielmo Marconi, who only a month before
had succeeded in the first wireless telegraph transmission across
the Atlantic Ocean; three dots, spelling the Morse code letter
S.The AIEE decorated the banquet hall for the occasion with
electric signs spelling out Marconi, Podhu (Cornwall), where
the signal originated, and. St. Johns (Newfoundland), where
Marconi received the signal. The three names were connected
across the room by electric lights repeating the three dots of the
Morse code S. Marconi addressed the gathered AIEE members after dinner, thanking the Institute for the honor and for
its support. He then proceeded to explain his work over the
preceding seven years; its commercialization for shorter-range
communication with British, Italian, and other ships; and its
future potential.
The banquet program, reproduced here and long preserved
in the IEEE Archives, is notable because it is autographed
not just by Marconi, but by five of AIEEs most prominent
membersAlexander Graham Bell, Charles Steinmetz, Frank
Sprague, Michael Pupin, and Elihu Thomson, as well as by British Counsel Percy Sanderson.
Eighteen years later, in 1920, IEEEs other predecessor, the
Institute of Radio Engineers, named Marconi the third recipient of its signature award, the Medal of Honor. Marconi was
unable to accept the award until he visited the United States
two years later. Then, on 20 June 1922, the IRE and the AIEE
held a joint banquet at the original Waldorf-Astoria to celebrate
the now-famous inventor and entrepreneur and to present him
with the IRE Medal of Honor. Marconi again addressed the
gathering, describing his latest achievements and the enormous
advances made in what was now known as radio over the 20
years since his original AIEE address.
Sheldon Hochheiser, Historian, IEEE History Center

Georgios Giannakis
(Upsilon, 1984), IEEE Fourier Award
for Signal Processing
Martin Cooper
(Delta, 1950; Eminent Member 2013),
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) is the honor society

of IEEE. It began in 1904 at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign and merged with IEEE in 2010.
IEEE-HKN recognizes engineering students, alumni,
and professionals who demonstrate the qualities of
Scholarship, Character, and Attitude. For more than
110 years, IEEE-HKN members have proven that the
balance of these characteristics supports success as an
engineering professional and in life.
For additional information:
www.hkn.org
info@hkn.org

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IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
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IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society

Sponsored by the Brunetti Bequest and Taiwan Semiconductor

Manufacturing Company Limited

Christofer Toumazou

Hiroshi Iwai

For outstanding contributions to

biomedical circuit technology

For contributions to the scaling of

CMOS devices

A visionary leader in the field of biomedical circuits and systems,

Christofer Toumazous groundbreaking contributions to the design, implementation, and clinical application of integrated microchip technology solutions for intelligent diagnostics and therapy
have transformed medical practice. In 2001, Dr. Toumazou developed semiconductor genomic sequencing. Other achievements
include cochlear implants for children born deaf, an artificial pancreas for type 1 diabetics, wireless heart monitors for personalized
ambulatory care, semiconductor-based DNA sequencing, and an
intelligent neural stimulator as a drug alternative for obesity. In
1994, Dr. Toumazou became the youngest professor to be appointed at Imperial College London.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Toumazou is founder and chief scientist
of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College
London, and founder of three successful healthcare companies
(Toumaz, DNA Electronics, and GENEU).

Hiroshi Iwais dedication to pushing the boundaries of integrated circuit scaling broke perceived barriers to enable the continued miniaturization of electronic devices providing higher performance with lower power that are integral to todays mobile
electronics. When industry forecasted that complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) scaling wouldnt go below 1
micrometer due to current leakage and lithography issues, Prof.
Iwai provided solutions demonstrating that 25-nanometer (nm)
scaling was possible. Among his many innovations, he developed
technologies for shallow junctions and optical lithography to allow fabrication of 40-nm gate-length CMOS transistors. He also
devised techniques for growing ultra-thin silicon oxide films to
overcome leakage issues when using extremely small gate lengths.
Overall, Prof. Iwais contributions demonstrated to industry that
sub-50-nm CMOS scaling could be achieved.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Prof. Iwai is a professor with the Tokyo
Institute of Technology,Yokohama, Kangawa, Japan.

IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing

Technology Award

IEEE Control Systems Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing

Technology Society

Nasser Bozorg-Grayeli

Bruce A. Francis

For contributions to the advancement

of microelectronic packaging technology, manufacturing, and semiconductor
ecosystems

For pioneering contributions to H-infinity,

linear-multivariable, and digital control

One of the most influential people in the electronics board and

substrate industry, Nasser Bozorg-Grayelis contributions have
been integral to driving down component package size while
incorporating more features and functionalities, enabling thinner and lighter devices. Among his many accomplishments, Dr.
Bozorg-Grayeli developed Intels first 6-inch wafer gold bumping
and advance tape automated bonding packaging and manufacturing technology, which was an order of magnitude thinner than
existing microprocessor packages. He led the industrys transition
of high-density packaging from ceramics to organics to reduce
cost and continuously improve performance of products. He also
was a champion of removing hazardous materials from packaging
materials, making Intel the first company to eliminate lead in all
its products.
Dr. Bozorg-Grayeli is vice president of technology and manufacturing and director of the Corporate Quality Network with
Intel Corporation, Tempe, AZ, USA.

A giant in the control systems field, Bruce A. Francis helped grow

and popularize the concept of H-infinity optimal control, which
is perhaps the most important development in control theory of
the past 30 years. His work on the internal model principle has
provided one of the most fundamental results in linear-multivariable control and has become an indispensable principle for design
of todays control systems. Prof. Francis also pioneered the development of robust control for sampled-data systems, which has
important implications in signal processing for connecting digital
systems with analog systems. Many of the most widely used computer-aided control system design tools are based on Prof. Francis
contributions, impacting industries such as aerospace, automotive,
manufacturing, robotics, and chemical processing.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Francis is an Emeritus Professor with
the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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IEEE Electromagnetics Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio

Processing Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Donald R. Wilton

Steve Young

For fundamental contributions to integral

equation methods in computational
electromagnetics

For pioneering contributions to the

theory and practice of automatic speech
recognition and statistical spoken
dialogue systems

One of the most cited researchers in computer science, Donald R.

Wilton has been instrumental in the fundamental development of
computational electromagnetics (CEM), an important tool for the
design and modeling of systems on scales ranging from nanophotonics and integrated circuits to aircraft scattering and space station
antennas. His development of the Rao Wilton Glisson (RWG)
family of basis functions has shaped integral equation-based CEM
for over 30 years. RWG functions are used by literally thousands
of researchers and practitioners today. Prior to Prof.Wiltons work,
electromagnetic simulation tools played only a very limited role
in the design of complex electromagnetic systems due to large
computer memory requirements and inaccuracies. He is also one
of the major technical contributors to the EIGER software tool
set for performing government mission-critical electromagnetic
analyses using moment-method solutions of integral equations.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Wilton is a Professor Emeritus with
the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

A highly respected leader in speech and language processing, the

innovations developed by Prof. Steve Young continue to advance
the state-of-the art in translating spoken words into text. Prof.
Young developed the HTK Toolkit for hidden Markov modelbased speech recognition, which has become indispensable software in research laboratories worldwide and has served as the
basis for training many commercial speech recognition systems.
Techniques including decision-tree state clustering and parallel
model combination have enabled speech recognition systems that
are more robust to additive and convolutional noise. Prof.Youngs
research in applying statistical techniques to spoken dialogue systems aims to revolutionize the development of systems that integrate natural conversational speech interactions between users
and information systems such as in call centers, mobile devices,
and other applications.
An IEEE Fellow, Prof.Young is a professor with the University
of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, U.K.

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society

and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society

Georgios B. Giannakis

Masayoshi Esashi

For contributions to the theory and practice of statistical signal processing and its
applications to wireless communications

For developments in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) used in

transportation and industrial electronics

One of the first statistical signal-processing researchers to envision the

explosive growth of wireless communications and its resulting signalprocessing needs, Georgios B. Giannakis has profoundly impacted
the field with many groundbreaking contributions. He was the first
to devise a multicarrier communication scheme that was resilient
to frequency-selective multiuser and inter-symbol interference. This
established blocking as the third important dimension for improving
communication performance without altering power or bandwidth.
His work on space-time coding for multiple-antenna wireless communications has demonstrated the practicality of multiple-antenna
signal processing. Prof. Giannakis also helped pioneer ultra-wideband
communications, educating industry and academia on the emerging
technology that altered the wireless landscape for performing shortrange communications such as in local-area networks.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Giannakis is currently an Endowed
Chair Professor and director of the Digital Technology Center,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

A pioneer of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, Masayoshi Esashi developed an ion-sensitive field-effect
transistor which was commercialized as pH and CO2 catheters in
1980 and provided an early example of lab-on-a-chip technology.
He developed and commercialized many MEMS innovations. His
integrated capacitive pressure sensor and MEMS switch for largescale-integration testers are based on wafer-level packaging. Dr.
Esashis resonating gyro was extended to yaw rate and acceleration sensors for vehicle stability control, and his electrostatically
levitated rotational gyro, used for vibration measurement in railway cars, enables a more comfortable ride. Dr. Esashis MEMSbased optical scanner for platform door operation has also improved passenger safety.
An IEEE Member, Dr. Esashi is a professor with the World
Premier International Research Center/Advanced Institute for
Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai,
Miyagi, Japan.

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IEEE Herman Halperin Electric

Transmission and Distribution Award

IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

Sponsored by Sony Corporation

Sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory of

Herman and Edna Halperin, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society

Wolfram Boeck

Martin Cooper

For contributions to the understanding

of dielectric behavior of SF6 insulated
systems for high- and extra-high-voltage
substations and transmission lines

For pioneering contributions to mobile

wireless technology, including the first
handheld cellular telephone

A pioneer in exploring the potential of SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride)

as a dielectric insulator, Wolfram Boeck provided the power industry with technology that enables reliable and efficient high-capacity
electricity transmission. Prof. Boecks research on SF6 began in the
1960s, resulting in the first gas-insulated, hermetically encapsulated
high-voltage switchgear. He addressed key aspects of SF6 as an insulting gas, including development of the volume time law that
describes time lag as a function of stressed gas. Prof. Boeck also investigated insulation coordination and methods for avoiding external effects and for monitoring insulation quality using UHF signals.
He championed the implementation of SF6 in practical devices and
standards, resulting in space-efficient gas-insulated substations and
reliable gas-insulated transmission lines, which have been implemented worldwide as safe methods for supplying power.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Boeck is a Professor Emeritus with the
Technische Universitt Mnchen, Munich, Germany, and lives in
Meersburg, Germany.

The father of the cellular phone, Martin Cooper is responsible

for a technology that arguably has had the greatest impact on
global society over the past 50 years. Mr. Cooper conceived, and
led the effort to develop, a personal, portable radio handset that
could be utilized as a normal telephone by anyone, anytime, anywhere. The result was the introduction of the first truly mobile
telephone in 1973. Mr. Cooper also formulated the Law of Spectral Efficiency (Coopers Law), which states that the maximum
number of voice conversations or equivalent data transactions that
can be conducted in all of the useful radio spectrum doubles every
30 months. This observation allows a prediction that technology
can continue indefinitely to anticipate and fulfill the continued
growth of the interconnected world.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Mr. Cooper is chairman of Dyna LLC,
Del Mar, CA, USA.

IEEE Internet Award

Sponsored by Nokia Corporation

Kimberly Claffy and Vern Paxson

For seminal contributions to the field of Internet measurement, including security

and network data analysis, and for distinguished leadership in and service to the
Internet community by providing open-access data and tools

The pioneering and continued contributions of Kimberly Claffy

and Vern Paxson have provided a deeper understanding of how
the Internet works, the traffic it carries, and how to combat
threats. Prof. Paxson was among the first to empirically study the
modern Internet and the first to identify the substantial challenges involved in measuring and simulating the Internet. He
introduced the usefulness of statistical techniques for gathering
data and sparked resurgence in measurement research. Prof. Paxsons Bro network monitoring system established him as widely
recognized expert on network-based attacks. Dr. Claffy provided
some of the first descriptions of traffic flows, which are now
mainstream and fundamental to network monitoring, modeling,
and management. In 1997 she founded a research institute, now

called the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at

the University of California, San Diego, to provide and enable a
more scientific approach to Internet research. Through CAIDA,
Dr. Claffy has developed and improved network measurement,
analysis, and visualization tools and methods and created a publicly accessible collection of network data for use by researchers
worldwide.
Dr. Claffy is the director of CAIDA and an adjunct professor with the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
An IEEE Senior Member, Dr. Paxson is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, and holds a joint appointment with the International Computer Science Institute.

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IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award

Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Dov Moran, Amir Ban,

and Simon Litsyn

For pioneering contributions to storage systems based on

flash memory

The innovations of Dov Moran, Amir Ban, and Simon Litsyn,

while working at M-Systems, drove the creation of the USB
flash drive, the worlds most popular portable memory device.
Mr. Moran founded M-Systems in 1989 to create storage systems utilizing the advantages of rewritable flash memory technology. Dr. Ban introduced dynamic mapping techniques for
organizing storage on flash memory, allowing the computer to
use the flash memory as a disk drive. Prof. Litsyn introduced
signal processing techniques that provided increased memory
density to significantly reduce the cost of flash memory devices.

The original USB flash drive, called DiskOnKey, was introduced

by M-Systems in 2000 and quickly replaced the floppy disk for
storing and transferring data. M-Systems was acquired by SanDisk in 2006.
Mr. Moran is the founder and Chairman of Comigo,Yarkona,
Israel, among other companies.
Dr. Ban is vice president of business development and chief
technology officer with Eyessessment, Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
An IEEE Senior Member, Prof. Litsyn is a professor with the
School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award

IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in

Instrumentation and Measurement

Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society

Sponsored by Keithley Instruments, Inc. and the IEEE Instrumentation

and Measurement Society

Charles John Mozina

Jean-Charles Bolomey

For contributions to the electrical protection of synchronous generators

For pioneering contributions to efficient

modulated probe array technology for
fast electromagnetic near-field techniques and microwave imagery

Charles John Mozinas expertise in generator protection contributed to standards for protecting generators across many industries.
A key contributor to IEEE working groups on power systems
protection, Mr. Mozina has helped diagnose problems and provide solutions to ensure safe and reliable equipment operation.
He was the lead author of the IEEE Tutorial on the Protection
of Synchronous Generators, which became the leading tool for
educating engineers on how to protect synchronous generators.
He also provided leadership and major technical content for a
working-group effort that developed hybrid grounding. Other
important contributions helped alert the industry to off-line inadvertent generator energizing hazards and the inclusion of protection methods for these events in the IEEE C37.102 generator
protection standard.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Mr. Mozina is currently a consultant residing in Palm Harbor, FL, USA.

Jean-Charles Bolomeys groundbreaking work on rapid near-field

techniques has helped revolutionize the domain of electromagnetic field measurement. Using the modulated scattering technique, during the 1980s Prof. Bolomey demonstrated that simultaneously fast and accurate near-field measurements were possible
using probe arrays. This greatly reduced the measurement time
compared to the conventional mechanical scan of probes and
is now used worldwide in characterizing intentional or nonintentional radiating systems. He also applied the benefits of probe
arrays to microwave-based imagery for industrial and medical
applications. A pioneer in applying microwave techniques for
tomographic imaging, Prof. Bolomey developed a camera with
more than 1,000 sensors to provide some of the first-ever images
of isolated and perfused organs.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Bolomey is an Emeritus Professor, Paris
Sud University, Paris, France.

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IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award

IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund

Yosiro Oono

Daniel J. Costello, Jr.

For fundamental contributions to the

foundation of classical circuit theory

For profound and lasting contributions to

graduate education in coding, information theory, and digital communications

Solving principal circuit-theoretical problems of the 1940s and

1950s posed by Wilhelm Cauer, Yosiro Oono established the socalled classical network theory named by Vitold Belevitch. Prof.
Oono provided complete solutions to the problems of clarifying realizability conditions for linear passive n-ports and found
their equivalent networks by developing mathematically rigorous theory. Since Prof. Oonos groundbreaking work is a general
synthesis theory built on the principles only of linearity and passivity, it has widely influenced the development of sophisticated
circuit designs for todays digital filters, active filters, and of signal
processing. Concerning more general networks including active
elements, Prof. Oono pointed out the existence of innovative singular elements known as a nullator and a norator, which are very
useful for active network synthesis.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Oono is an Emeritus Professor of
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

A role model of what a graduate educator and advisor should

be, for over 40 years Daniel J. Costello, Jr. has prepared graduate students in the fundamentals and practice of reliable communications. His efforts helped transform the University of Notre
Dames Electrical Engineering Department into one of the largest
doctorate-producing departments on campus. With courses that
have incorporated the latest advances in code design and digital
transmission that drive the communications field, Dr. Costellos
students also appreciate the detailed attention to their research
and the career guidance he is always willing to provide. His classic textbook on error control coding (co-authored with Shu Lin)
helped educate the designers of satellite, cellular, and WiFi systems
and is still an indispensable resource today.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Costello is an Emeritus Professor of
electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA.

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers

and Communications Award

IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society

Sponsored by NEC Corporation

Albert G. Greenberg

Shu Yuen Ron Hui

For fundamental contributions to largescale backbone networks and datacenter networks

For contributions to power electronics

applications in planar wireless charging
and sustainable lighting technology

A visionary computer-networking expert, Albert G. Greenberg

has revolutionized how industry designs and operates large-scale
backbone and data-center networks critical to todays cloud
services and other applications. Dr. Greenbergs fair queuing
scheduling algorithm helped transform AT&T from a voice- to an
Internet Protocol-services company. He was instrumental in creating tools for network tomography and Internet Protocol measurement, fault diagnosis, and network management now used in
AT&Ts operational systems and networks. He then transformed
data-center network operations at Microsoft with virtual networks that operate on shared infrastructures but behave like they
are dedicated to individual customers. His VL2 architecture provides an 80-time improvement in cost, availability, and response
time over existing designs and is the architecture of choice for
Microsoft data-center networks, including Xbox, Bing, and Azure.
An IEEE Member, Dr. Greenberg is a Distinguished Engineer
and director of Microsoft Azure, Redmond, WA, USA.

The impactful power electronics innovations of Shu Yuen Ron

Hui focus on providing sustainability, saving energy, and reducing electronic waste. Prof. Hui pioneered planar wireless charging
technology, providing free-positioning and localized charging for
multiple devices through a wireless charging pad. His patented
work is featured in the first global wireless charging standard for
low-power electronics introduced in 2010.This unifying standard
will help to reduce hundreds of millions of units of electronic
waste per year considering the plethora of noncompatible charging devices produced in the past. Prof. Huis groundbreaking work
in lighting control includes passive LED drivers for street lighting
that feature materials that are 85% recyclable, an energy efficiency
of 94%, and a designed lifetime exceeding 10 years.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Hui is the Chair Professor of Power Electronics with the University of Hong Kong and Imperial College
London, U.K.

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IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies

IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits

Sponsored by the Motorola Solutions Foundation

Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

Khalil Najafi

Robert W. Adams

For leadership in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies and

devices and for seminal contributions to
inertial devices and hermetic wafer-level
packaging

For contributions to noise-shaping data

converter circuits, digital signal processing, and log-domain analog filters

The visionary contributions of Khalil Najafi have helped advance

the development of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
technology synonymous with the sensors ingrained in todays automotive, mobile, and biomedical applications. In 1994 he developed the first micromachined vibrating ring gyroscope featuring
a high-aspect ratio electroplated nickel process integrated with
CMOS electronics. This device was commercialized and became
the highest performing automotive gyroscope. His work showing that sensitive multi-axis accelerometers could be fabricated
in a system-in-package approach helped the introduction of accelerometers in mobile phones. He also demonstrated wafer-level
vacuum encapsulation with a biocompatible glass-silicon package
that could remain airtight for 20 years, which paved the way for
implantable wireless biomedical devices.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Najafi is the Schlumberger Professor of
Engineering and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

The pioneering contributions of Robert W. Adams to delta-sigma

data conversion technology laid the groundwork responsible for
the professional-quality audio featured in todays digital consumer
devices. His noise-shaped segmentation concept permits costeffective integrated circuits using less space and power to deliver
high-quality audio. Mr. Adams designed one of the earliest digital
audio recorders, and he introduced the first audio converter with
18-bit resolution. In the signal-processing domain, he developed
the first integrated asynchronous sample-rate converter for audio
as well as a line of audio CODECs with an embedded DSP core
of his own design, used extensively in todays automotive audio
systems. He also discovered the log-domain analog filter principle
in 1978, which provided a fundamental new building block for
analog designers.
An IEEE Fellow, Mr. Adams is currently a Fellow with Analog
Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA.

IEEE Frederik Philips Award

IEEE Photonics Award

Sponsored by Philips Electronics N.V.

Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society

Benedetto Vigna

Philip St. J. Russell

For leadership in conceiving,

developing, and commercializing
micro-electro-mechanical systems
(MEMS)

For pioneering contributions to the

conception and realization of photonic
crystal fibers

One of the pioneers of consumer micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), Benedetto Vigna is a key technology driver of the
tiny sensors and actuators that have revolutionized the portable
electronics landscape. Dr. Vignas foundational work on accelerometers and gyroscopes has paved the way for over 170 patents
representing MEMS technology. In 1995, Dr.Vigna joined STMicroelectronics R&D Labs and launched the companys efforts in
MEMS, leading the companys development of groundbreaking
MEMS products that transformed computer gaming and enabled
smartphones, tablets, and whole new industries that rely on small,
affordable, and easy-to-use sensing. Called The Man Behind the
Chip Behind the Wii in 2007 by IEEE Spectrum, Dr. Vigna and
his MEMS group quickly elevated STMicroelectronics to one of
the leaders in consumer MEMS technology.
An IEEE Member, Dr.Vigna is currently executive vice president and general manager of the Analog, MEMS & Sensors
Group, STMicroelectronics, Geneva, Switzerland.

Philip Russells invention of photonic crystal fiber technology in

1991 opened a completely new field of research in photonics. He
continues to be a leading authority in the field and has developed
many key aspects of photonic crystal fiber technology, including
endlessly single-mode holey fibers and hollow-core photonic
bandgap fibers. Compared to traditional optical fiber, which is made
from solid glass, photonic crystal fiber is typically microstructured
with an array of hollow channels that allows tailored control of the
light passing through the fiber, providing great flexibility. The fibers
have found a wide range of unique applications, many of them pioneered by Prof. Russell, including broadband supercontinuum light
sources, high-power fiber lasers, fiber-optic communications, scientific and medical imaging, microscopy, laser beam delivery, sensing,
and pressure-tunable gas-based ultraviolet light sources.
Dr. Russell is a founding director of the Max Planck Institute
for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany, and professor of physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Rodney A. Brooks

Marco Dorigo

For pioneering contributions to and

leadership in research and commercialization of autonomous robotics, spanning mobile, humanoid, service, and
manufacturing robotics

For contributions to the foundations of

swarm intelligence

Rodney A. Brooks has revolutionized the field of robotics and redefined our perception of robots and their capabilities. Challenging the
mainstream approach to robotics during the late 1980s, Dr. Brooks
championed real-time strategies of robot control that enable robots
to act and react in in real-world environments. He created behaviorbased robotics, providing the foundation for mobile robots that can
operate in human-crowded environments and for socially interactive
humanoid robots. Dr. Brooks co-founded iRobot in 1990 to provide
consumer-market robots in the United States, such as the Roomba
vacuum. He founded Rethink Robotics in 2008, which developed the
user-friendly and safe Baxter industrial robot that is trained to perform
a task by a person directly manipulating its arms, showing it locations,
fiducial markers and objects, and leading it through the steps of a task.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Brooks is chairman and chief technology
officer with Rethink Robotics, Boston, MA, USA, and the Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Marco Dorigos groundbreaking research on biologically inspired intelligent methods for solving optimization problems has helped launch
the discipline of swarm intelligence. Swarm intelligence studies distributed systems whose problem-solving abilities derive from selforganized local interactions between their constituent components.
Prof. Dorigo is most known for his work on the ant colony optimization (ACO) methodology, inspired by the foraging behavior of ants,
which is used by researchers worldwide and has generated many highperformance algorithms. He is also a leading contributor to swarm robotics, which applies swarm intelligence principles to coordinate large
groups of autonomous robots without relying on any external infrastructure or on any form of centralized control.This holds promise for
performing tasks too difficult or dangerous for humans.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Dorigo is an F.R.S.-FNRS research director and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of
the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

IEEE David Sarnoff Award

IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award

Sponsored by SRI International Sarnoff

Sponsored by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Pallab Bhattacharya

Noah Hershkowitz

For contributions to near-infrared and

visible quantum dot lasers

For innovative research and inspiring

education in basic and applied plasma
science

A pioneer of near-infrared and visible quantum dot (QD) laser

technology, Pallab Bhattacharya continues to be a leader in developing high-performance lasers impacting optical communication
and medical and mobile projector applications. Prof. Bhattacharya
was one of the first to demonstrate a room-temperature QD laser in 1996. He then demonstrated the tunnel injection method
to enable QD lasers with high-speed modulation and high temperature stability. In 2011, he demonstrated the first nitride-based
visible QD lasers with lower threshold than equivalent quantum
well lasers. His 630-nanometer red QD laser is the longest ever
emission wavelength achieved with nitride materials. His work
on incorporating QD lasers on silicon substrates has important
implications for realizing on-chip optical interconnections and
signal processing.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

For over 40 years, Noah Hershkowitzs research has broadened

our understanding of the fundamental properties of plasma. His
work has covered a wide range of plasma phenomena including
low-temperature plasmas, semiconductor fabricating plasmas, fusion plasmas, and space plasmas. His groundbreaking contributions
to understanding solitons, sheaths, and presheaths have impacted
semiconductor etching, as the plasma sheath plays a major role in
the linear acceleration of ions that results in the small features of
modern microelectronic circuits. His pioneering work on emissive probes resulted in the development of a new technique for
determining plasma potential by analyzing emissive probe emitted current. In 2002 he was the first to measure plasma potential
throughout the presheath and sheath at a boundary in a weakly
collisional plasma. He has supervised 56 Ph.Ds.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Hershkowitz is the Irving Languir
Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI,
USA.

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IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award

Sponsored by Hitachi, Ltd. and the IEEE Computer Society

Takemochi Ishii, Hirokazu Ihara,

and Atsunobu Ichikawa
For pioneering the concept of dependable autonomous decentralized systems and contributing to its practical application in early transport control systems

The development and refinement of the autonomous decentralized system (ADS) by Takemochi Ishii, Hirokazu Ihara, and
Atsunobu Ichikawa has enabled the safe and timely operation
of urban and long-distance transportation infrastructures. Modeled on biological systems, the ADS incorporates a distributed
database and broadcast communication protocols to provide a
flexible system that can adapt to environmental disturbances or
failures. With ADS, repairs or changes can be made without having to shut down the entire network as with a centralized system.

Drs. Ishii, Ihara, and Ichikawa jointly conceived the ADS, developed its theories and tools, and applied it to several high-impact
infrastructures. First introduced in 1982 in the Kobe municipal
subway system, ADS has been incorporated in almost all of subway operations in Japan.
Dr. Ishii is a Professor Emeritus with the University of Tokyo,
Minatoku, Japan. An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Ihara is a Member
Emeritus of IFIPWG 10.4 Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Ichikawa is a Professor Emeritus with the Tokyo Institute of Technology,Tokyo, Japan.

IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award

IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association

Sponsored by Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Steve M. Mills

Sanjoy Mitter

For outstanding leadership in the development of IEEE standards programs with

global impact

For contributions to the unification of communications and control

Steve M. Mills has tirelessly worked to raise the level of acceptance

of IEEE standards at the formal international level and in the
world-wide marketplace. A past president of the IEEE Standards
Association (IEEE-SA) and the first person appointed chair of
the IEEE-SA Standards Board for the maximum of 3 years, Mills
leadership and contributions focused on supporting the development of the IEEE-SAs business strategy, international strategy, and
intellectual property strategy, as well as support of the introduction of new standards technology areas. Mr. Mills was instrumental in the creation of OpenStand, a movement dedicated to the
development of market-driven standards that are global and open,
enabling standards without borders to further drive innovation.
An IEEE Senior Member, Mr. Mills is a currently a strategist
who retired from Hewlett-Packard Companys Industry Standards
Program Office, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, in 2011.

With pioneering work that has bridged communications and control, Sanjoy Mitter helped create the important discipline of networked control systems. Critical to real-time communications for
systems such as the electric power grid, traffic monitoring, and social
networks, his work has addressed how control performance is affected by delay and noise in communication channels in pursuit of
achieving network stability. Dr. Mitter, together with his then doctoral student Sekhar Tatikonda, demonstrated how capacity of feedback channels can be computed using methods of stochastic control.
His idea of anytime capacity, introduced with his then doctoral student Anant Sahai, addresses the reliability and timeliness needed for
the stable functioning of control systems where sensors and controllers are linked via noisy communication channels.
An IEEE Life Fellow and a member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, Dr. Mitter is a professor of electrical engineering and
a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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IEEE Nikola Tesla Award

IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award

Sponsored by The Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power &

Energy Society

Sponsored by Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote

Sensing Society, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society

Kaustav Banerjee
and Vivek
Subramanian

Ion Gheorghe Boldea

For contributions to nano-materials, devices, circuits, and

CAD, enabling low-power
and low-cost electronics

For contributions to the design and

control of rotating and linear electric
machines for industry applications

With research ahead of its time and many books that are considered the best resources in the field, Ion Gheorghe Boldea has
introduced many firsts in electric machine technology for better
industrial productivity, energy savings, and air pollution reduction.
He developed an optimum goodness factor for designing highspeed linear induction motors to address factors such as mechanical vibrations and bending. He introduced the Magnibus-01, a
4-ton magnetic levitation test vehicle featuring linear homopolar
synchronous motors for passive guide-way integrated magnetic
propulsion and levitation. Dr. Boldeas active flux concept is a
unifying force for simplifying sensorless control of ac motor drives
that has been implemented in many industrial applications. His
work on torque vector control has become an industrial standard
for electric motor drives.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Boldea is a Professor Emeritus with
the University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania.

Kaustav Banerjees and Vivek Subramanians pioneering use of nanomaterials and radical innovations in devices, interconnects, circuits, and
design methods for overcoming power, thermal, and other fundamental
challenges in both nanoscale integrated circuits (ICs) and printed electronics have been crucial to the continued scaling of electronic devices.
Prof. Banerjee is considered one of the key visionaries behind threedimensional (3D) IC technology for continued scaling and integration
beyond Moores law, and the pioneer behind thermal-aware design
methods and tools. Prof. Subramanians innovations have provided pathways for 3D IC fabrication via 3D nonvolatile memory and have driven
advances in fabrication techniques for displays and RFID tags.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Banerjee is currently a professor with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. An IEEE
Member, Dr. Subramanian is currently a professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at
the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

IEEE Transportation Technologies Award

IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics,

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Microwave Theory and Techniques,
Power Electronics, Power & Energy, and Vehicular Technology Societies

Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society

Robert D. King

Branislav M. Notaros

For contributions to the design, optimization, and implementation of propulsion and energy management systems
for hybrid-electric vehicles

For contributions to undergraduate

electromagnetics education through
inspiring teaching and innovative course
materials

Robert D. King has devoted his 35-year career to changing the

worlds dependence on fossil-fuel-driven vehicles. Known as GEs
father of electric vehicle research and development, over 50%
of todays hybrid-electric vehicles incorporate patents developed
by Mr. King and his research team. He has been responsible for
the design, development, and testing of electric and hybrid vehicle
propulsion systems for the GE Hybrid Locomotive program, GE
Hybrid Package Delivery Truck, GE/FTA Low Emissions Hybrid
Bus Program, Modular Electric Vehicle Program, and the GE/
DOE Hybrid Test Vehicle. Using compact ac traction drives and
novel energy management system controls, Mr. King has demonstrated substantially reduced petroleum consumption for onroad hybrid passenger cars and reduced transit bus emissions via
hybridization.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Mr. King, a senior electrical engineer
with GE Global Research, Schenectady, NY, USA, retired in 2014.

Teaching what are traditionally considered some of the most difficult courses in the electrical engineering curriculum, Branislav
M. Notaros has made dramatic improvements to student learning,
mastery, success, and satisfaction in his electromagnetics classes.
Prof. Notaros students appreciate his enthusiasm for the subject
matter, his effectiveness in explaining complex material, and his
genuine concern for their success. His teaching is based on active
and problem-based learning, using his examples, problems, and
conceptual questions. At the global level, he implemented this approach and material in his electromagnetics textbook, his greatest
endeavor of many years. His hands-on MATLAB exercises, tutorials, and projects constitute one of the most complete and ambitious uses of MATLAB in electromagnetics education.
An IEEE Senior Member, Dr. Notaros is currently a professor
at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

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2015 IEEE PRIZE PAPER

IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Communications, IEEE Control Systems, IEEE Information Theory,
IEEE Power & Energy, IEEE Signal Processing, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Societies

Thomas L. Marzetta

For the paper Non-cooperative Cellular Wireless with Unlimited

Numbers of Base Station Antennas

Thomas Marzettas pioneering paper demonstrates the feasibility of using large-scale multiple input/multiple output (MIMO)
antenna systems to meet the ever-increasing demand for wireless
throughput. Appearing in the November 2010 issue of the IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications (vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 3590
3600), the paper launched the field of Massive MIMO. Massive
MIMO systems employ a very large number of antennas which
focus the transmission and reception of signal energy into eversmaller regions of space to provide improvements in throughput
and energy efficiency, overcoming the drawbacks of traditional
MIMO systems. The paper presents a complete multicellular

analysis in the limit of a large number of antennas, taking into

account the practical limitations of intercellular interference and
errors associated with channel state information. It demonstrates
that, in this Massive MIMO limit, the effects of noise and fast
fading vanish, spectral efficiency is independent of bandwidth,
and the required transmit energy per bit vanishes.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Marzetta is currently group leader of
Large Scale Antenna Systems and co-head of the FutureX Massive MIMO Project at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ,
USA.

2014 IEEE STAFF AWARDS

IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award

Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award

Sponsored by IEEE

Sponsored by IEEE

Fran Zappulla

Beth Surmont

For outstanding leadership in the success

of IEEE publications

For demonstrating distinguished job performance and serving as a role model to

IEEE professional staff

Fran Zappulla has notably advanced IEEEs e-first publishing program in her 25-year career at IEEE, leading the development of
electronic publishing processes and online experiments from the
mid-1990s to todays multiyear, multimillion dollar effort to provide
more interactive, HTML-formatted content to IEEE readers. She
directed the use of SGML-tagged journal content in 1995-1996 to
create IEEE Xplores predecessor, the online digital platform, delivering content in PDF and simple HTML. She introduced Web-based
article submission and peer review tools in 1998-1999 to replace the
hard-copy article review process.Today, under Ms. Zappullas supervision, the Publishing Operations group publishes journal articles in
50% less time than it did 3 years ago and at 28% less cost since 1996.
She also effectively collaborates with volunteers and staff to achieve
additional economies of scale in editorial and production services.
An IEEE Member and member of the IEEE Communications
Society, Ms. Zappulla is the senior director of IEEE Publishing
Operations, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

Displaying optimism and leadership that has been infectious

throughout her team at IEEE, Beth Surmont believes she can
always do better and that a better experience is available for IEEE
customers. She is seen by her colleagues as embodying the best
of IEEE in service, intelligence, character, energy, vision, tenacity,
patience, and hope.With more than 15 years of professional planning experience, Ms. Surmont has a passion for experiential event
design. A certified meeting planner since 2008, she has worked
in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors and has a wide range
of knowledge, with experience in almost every aspect of meeting
planning from registration, to logistics, to program management
and production. She has presented globally on meeting design
and innovation and regularly facilitates event design sessions for
IEEE. She serves on the American Society of Association Executives Meeting & Exposition Council and has been an active
volunteer with a youth program in her community for 10 years.

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2015 IEEE PRIZE PAPER

IEEE Donald G. Fink Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Life Members Fund

Theodore S. Rappaport, Shu Sun, Rimma Mayzus, Hang Zhao, Yaniv Azar, Kevin Wang,
George N. Wong, Jocelyn K. Schulz, Mathew Samimi, and Felix Gutierrez

For the paper Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!

Theodore Rappaport and the co-authors have shown that millimeter wave frequencies will support ultrawideband mobile communications in 5th-generation (5G) wireless networks. Their paper, which appeared in the May 2013 issue of IEEE Access (vol. 1,
pp. 335349), immediately became a leading resource based on its
comprehensive review of radio propagation and mobile channel
characteristics at 28 and 38 GHz.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of NYU
WIRELESS at the New York University Polytechnic School
of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Ms. Sun is an IEEE Graduate Student Member pursuing
a degree at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering,
Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Ms. Mayzus is an IEEE Student Member pursuing a degree
at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY,
USA.

Ms. Zhao is an IEEE Member pursuing a degree at the NYU

Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Mr. Azar is an IEEE Member pursuing a degree at the NYU
Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Mr. Wang is an IEEE Student Member pursuing a degree at
the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY,
USA.
Mr. Wong is an IEEE Student Member pursuing a degree at
the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY,
USA.
Ms. Schulz is an IEEE Student Member pursuing a degree at the
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Mr. Samimi is an IEEE Graduate Student Member pursuing a degree at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering,
Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Dr. Gutierrez is an IEEE Member and Ph.D. graduate from
The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

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IEEE FELLOWS CLASS OF 2015

The grade of IEEE Fellow recognizes exceptional distinction in the profession. It is conferred by the IEEE Board
of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
The total number of IEEE Fellows elevated in any one year must not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total
voting membership of the IEEE on record as of 31 December of the preceding year. In 2015, 300 IEEE Fellows
were elevated. To learn more about the Fellow program or to nominate, visit: www.ieee.org/fellows.

David K. Abe
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington DC USA
for leadership and contributions to the
development of high power microwave and
millimeter wave vacuum electronic devices

Wiren Dale Becker

IBM Corporation
Poughkeepsie NY USA
for contributions to power distribution and
signal integrity in high-speed interconnects for
computing systems

Vivek Agarwal
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
Mumbai Maharashtra India
for contributions to topologies and control
schemes for solar photovoltaic energy
conversion and power quality enhancement

Kristine L. Bell
Metron, Inc.
Reston VA USA
for contributions to statistical signal processing
with radar and sonar applications

Hctor J. Altuve Ferrer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Monterrey Nuevo Len Mexico
for contributions to power line and transformer
protection
Matthew Andrews
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Murray Hill NJ USA
for contributions to network design and wireless
resource allocation

Ewert Bengtsson
Uppsala University
Uppsala Sweden
for contributions to quantitative microscopy and
biomedical image analysis
Charanjit Singh Bhatia
National Univeristy of Singapore
Singapore Singapore
for contributions to magnetic head-media
interfaces and tribology

Victor Mark Bright

University of Colorado
Boulder CO USA
for contributions to micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems
Martin George Buehler
Decagon Devices
Pullman WA USA
for contributions to metrology through
development of semiconductor process control
test structures, gas sensors and radiation
detectors
Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
Freiburg Germany
for contributions to mobile robot navigation and
simultaneous localization and mapping
Rajkumar Buyya
University of Melbourne
Melbourne Victoria Australia
for contributions to cloud computing

David Angeli
Imperial College London
London UK
for contributions to nonlinear control theory

Ricardo Bianchini
Microsoft Corporation
Bellevue WA USA
for contributions to server and data center
energy management

Christian Cachin
IBM Research Laboratory
Ruschlikon Switzerland
for contributions to steganography and secure
distributed systems

Jean Armstrong
Monash University
Clayton Australia
for contributions to the theory and application
of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in
wireless and optical communications

Marcela Milena Marie Bilek

University of Sydney
Sydney NSW Australia
for contributions to the science and application
of plasma processes for materials modification
and synthesis

Ning Cai
Xidian University
Xian Shaanxi China
for contributions to network coding theory and
arbitrarily varying channels

David Isaac August

Princeton University
Princeton NJ USA
for contributions to compilers and architectures
for multicore and parallel processing systems

Kenneth Birman
Cornell University
Ithaca NY USA
for leadership in distributed computing and
management of distributed systems

Christopher Auth
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro OR USA
for contributions to strained silicon transistor
technology

Daniel Wesley Bliss

Arizona State University
Tempe AZ USA
for contributions to adaptive sensor systems in
radar and communications

Jiannong Cao
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon Hong Kong
for contributions to distributed computing in
mobile wireless networks

Randy Keith Avent

North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC USA
for leadership in automatic target recognition
technology

Aaron Fred Bobick

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA USA
for contributions to activity recognition in
computer vision

Paolo Carbone
University of Perugia - Italy
Perugia Italy
for contributions to quantization and data
converter theory

Anastasios G. Bakirtzis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki Macedonia Greece
for contributions to optimization of power
systems operation and scheduling

Nuno Borges Carvalho

Universidade de Aveiro
Aveiro Portugal
for contributions on characterization and design
of nonlinear RF circuits

Gerhard Bauch
Hamburg University of Technology
Hamburg Germany
for contributions to iterative processing in
multiple-input multiple-output systems

Alberto Borghetti
Univesity of Bologna
Bologna Italy
for contributions to modeling of power
distribution systems under transient conditions

Joseph R. Cavallaro
Rice University
Houston TX USA
for contributions to VLSI architectures and
algorithms for signal processing and wireless
communications

Jason Raymond Baumgartner

IBM Corporation
Austin TX USA
for contributions to formal hardware verification
its and application

Olga Boric-Lubecke
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu HI USA
for contributions to biomedical microwave
technology

Randal W. Beard
Brigham Young University
Provo UT USA
for contributions to the theory and practice of
guidance, control, and team coordination of
unmanned aerial vehicles

Azzedine Boukerche
University of Ottawa
Ottawa ON Canada
for contributions to communication protocols
for distributed mobile computing and wireless
sensor networks

Natalino Camilleri
Nitero, Inc.
Austin TX USA
for leadership in radio frequency integrated
circuits and systems

Chandan Chakraborty
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur West Bengal India
for contributions to estimation techniques and
control of induction machine and drive systems
Elizabeth Chang
Curtin University, Australia
Perth WA Australia
for contributions to industrial informatics and
cyber physical systems
Chi-Chih Chen
Ohio State University
Columbus OH USA
for contributions wideband and miniature
antennas

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Biao Chen
Syracuse University
Syracuse NY USA
for contributions to decentralized signal
processing in sensor networks and interference
management of wireless networks

John Michael Dallesasse

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA
for contributions to oxidation of III-V
semiconductors for photonic device
manufacturing

Xiaodong Chen
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
for contributions to antennas for wireless
communications and satellites

Sajal K. Das
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla MO USA
for contributions to parallel and distributed
computing

Xiuzhen Cheng
George Washington University
Washington DC USA
for contributions to localization and detection in
sensor networks

Purnendu Kumar Dasgupta

University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington TX USA
for contributions to ion chromatography and
analytical instrumentation for environmental
studies

Ming Cheng
Southeast University
Nanjing Jiangsu Province China
for contributions to the development and control
of stator permanent magnet machines for
vehicular propulsion and wind power generation

Dipankar Dasgupta
University of Memphis
Memphis TN USA
for contributions to immunological computation
and bio-inspired cyber security

Josef Drobnik
SPARQ Systems Inc.
Kingston ON Canada
for development of high performance power
converters in industrial applications
Jeffrey L. Duerk
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland OH USA
for contributions to rapid magnetic resonance
imaging technologies
Alistair Paul Duffy
De Montfort University
Leicester UK
for development of validation methods in
computational electromagnetics
Frank Effenberger
Huawei Technologies, Inc.
Bridgewater NJ USA
for contributions to passive optical networking
standards and technology

Howie Choset
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA USA
for contributions to the design, control and
planning of highly-articulated robots

Michael Evan Davies

University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Lothian UK
for contributions to sparse representations in
signal processing and compressed sensing

Carl August Ekdahl, Jr.

Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos NM USA
for contributions to high-power accelerator
development and the generation and
transport of electron beams for flashradiography

Jyh-Horng Chou
National Kaohsiung University of Applied
Sciences
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
for contributions to hybrid evolutionary
optimization approaches for industrial applications

Lieven De Lathauwer
KU Leuven
Leuven Belgium
for contributions to signal processing algorithms
using tensor decompositions

Randy E. Ellis
Queens University
Kingston ON Canada
for contributions to image guided surgical
technology

Francisco de Len
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Brooklyn NY USA
for contributions to transformer modeling for
electromagnetic transient studies

Dara Entekhabi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA USA
for contributions to microwave remote sensing
of soil moisture

Henrik I. Christensen
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA USA
for contributions to estimation methods for robot
localization and mapping
Chen-Nee Chuah
University of California, Davis
Davis CA USA
for contributions to MIMO communications and
network management

Mrouane Debbah
Ecole Suprieure delectricite(SUPLEC)
Gif-sur-Yvette France
for contributions to the theory and application of
signal processing in wireless networks

Mooi Choo Chuah

Lehigh University
Bethlehem PA USA
for contributions to wireless network system and
protocol design

Joe Charles Decuir

CSR Technology, Inc.
Issaquah WA USA
for contributions to computer graphics and video
games

Israel Cohen
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel
for contributions to the theory and application of
speech enhancement

Michael A. Demetriou
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester MA USA
for contributions to estimation and optimization
of distributed parameter systems

Iain Collings
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Epping NSW Australia
for contributions to multiple user and multiple
antenna wireless communication systems

Laurent Pierre Desclos

Ethertronics Inc.
San Diego CA USA
for leadership in developing cellphone antenna
technology

John F. Conley
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR USA
for contributions to semiconductor process
technology to improve radiation hardening of
MOS devices
Javier Contreras
University of Castilla, La Mancha
Ciudad Real Spain
for contributions to modeling and forecasting of
electricity markets

Murthy Devarakonda
IBM Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights NY USA
for contributions to measurement-based
analytics of distributed systems for data center
optimization
Peter A. Dinda
Northwestern University
Evanston IL USA
for contributions to virtualization technologies in
adaptive and parallel computing

Jordi Cortadella
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Barcelona Spain
for contributions to the design of asynchronous
and elastic circuits

Edward John Dobrowolski

North American Electric Reliability
Corporation
Atlanta GA USA
for leadership in interactive control center
technology

Tie Jun Cui

Southeast University
Nanjing Jiangsu China
for contributions to microwave metamaterials
and computational electromagnetics

Rolf Drechsler
University of Bremen
Bremen Germany
for contributions to test and verification of
electronic circuits and systems

Babak Fahimi
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson TX USA
for contributions to modeling and analysis of AC
adjustable speed motor drives
Pingzhi Fan
Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu Sichuan China
for contributions to signal design for wireless
communications
Weileun Fang
National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
Hsinchu Taiwan
for contributions to measurement methods
and process technologies for micro-electromechanical systems
Lorenzo Faraone
University of Western Australia
Crawley WA Australia
for development of semiconductor optoelectronic
materials and devices
Ernest Feleppa
Riverside Research Inst / Biomed
New York NY USA
for contributions to ultrasound imaging medical
applications
Alan Simon Finkel
Monash University
Clayton Victoria Australia
for contributions to measurement technology for
biomedicine
William R. Finley
Siemens Industry
Norwood OH USA
for leadership in global standardization of
electric motors and energy conservation
Michael Paul Fitz
TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
San Diego CA USA
for contributions to the theory and practice of
multiple antenna radio

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Michael Patrick Flynn

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI USA
for contributions to integrated analog-digital
interfaces

Josep M. Guerrero
Aalborg University
Aalborg Denmark
for contributions to distributed power systems
and microgrids

John Alexander Hossack

University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA USA
for contributions in ultrasound imaging and drug
delivery

Kenneth G. Foote
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole MA USA
for contributions to quantification of underwater
sound scattering

Guna Seetharaman Gunasekaran

AFRL-Information Directorate
Rome NY USA
for contributions to high-performance computer
vision algorithms for airborne applications

Stephanie Forrest
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM USA
for contributions to computer security systems
based on biological principles

Deepnarayan Gupta
HYPRES Inc
Elmsford NY USA
for contributions to superconductor digital radiofrequency receivers

Ekram Hossain
University of Manitoba, Canada
Winnipeg MB Canada
for contributions to spectrum management and
resource allocation in cognitive and cellular
radio networks

Dieter Fox
University of Washington
Seattle WA USA
for contributions to Bayesian state estimation
and robotic perception

Dan M. Gusfield
University of California at Davis
Davis CA USA
for contributions to combinatorial optimization
and computational biology

Gordon J. Frazer
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Edinburgh SA Australia
for contributions to advanced over-the-horizon radar
Henry Fuchs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC USA
for contributions to computer graphics, virtual
and augmented reality
Pascale Fung
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
for contributions to human-machine interactions
Xiqi Gao
Southeast University
Nanjing JIangsu China
for contributions to broadband wireless
communications and multirate signal processing
Reza Ghodssi
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park MD USA
for contributions to materials and processes for
microsystems technology
Amitabha Ghosh
Nokia Solutions and Networks
Arlington Heights IL USA
for leadership in cellular communication system
standardization
Monisha Ghosh
InterDigital Communications, Inc.
Mellville NY USA
for contributions to cognitive radio and signal
processing for communication systems
Patrick Girard
LIRMM (Labotatory of Informatics, Robotics and
Microelectronics of Montpellier)
Montpellier Cedex 5 France
for contributions to power-aware testing of VLSI
circuits
Nachappa Gopalsami
Argonne National Laboratory
Lemont IL USA
for contributions to millimeter-wave
spectroscopy, imaging, and reflectometry

John Bruce Hacker

Teledyne Scientific and Imaging
Thousand Oaks CA USA
for contributions to terahertz integrated circuits
and devices
Paul David Hale
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)
Boulder CO USA
for contributions to metrology of high-speed
electronic and optoelectronic devices
Dan Halperin
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv Israel
for contributions to robust geometric algorithms
for robotics and automation
K.V.S. Hari
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore KT India
for contributions to high-resolution signal
parameter estimation
Zhihai He
University of Missouri, Columbia
Columbia MO USA
for contributions to video communication and
visual sensing technologies
Constance Heitmeyer
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington DC USA
for contributions to formal methods for modeling
and analyzing software and systems
Abdelsalam Helal
University of Florida
Gainesville FL USA
for contributions to pervasive and mobile
computing systems
Joerg Henkel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany
for contributions to hardware/software codesign
of embedded computing systems

Yi Hu
Quanta Technology
Raleigh NC USA
for leadership in wide-area synchronized
measurement systems
Jianying Hu
IBM
Yorktown Heights NY USA
for contributions to pattern recognition in
business and health analytics, and document
analysis
Howard C. Huang
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Murray Hill NJ USA
for contributions to multiple antenna techniques
in wireless cellular networks
Giuseppe Iannaccone
University of Pisa, Italy
Pisa Italy
for contributions to modeling transport and noise
processes in nanoelectronic devices
Meikei Ieong
TSMC Europe B.V.
Amsterdam Netherlands
for leadership in development of advanced
complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
device technologies
Makoto Iwasaki
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Nagoya Aichi Japan
for contributions to fast and precise positioning
in motion controller design
Ravi Iyer
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro OR USA
for contributions to computer architecture and
cache/memory systems
Qiang Ji
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy NY USA
for contributions to automatic facial image
processing and affective computing
Hong Jiang
Intel Corporation
Santa Clara CA USA
for leadership in parallel multimedia computing
architectures and systems
Hong Jiang
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE USA
for contributions to computer memory hierarchy
and storage systems

Manimaran Govindarasu
Iowa State University
Ames IA USA
for contributions to security of power grids

Gary Hoffman
Advanced Power Technologies, LLC
Randolph NJ USA
for leadership in the advancement of monitoring
systems for power transformers and power line
protection

Ian Gresham
Anokiwave
Billerica MA USA
for technical leadership in commercial
automotive radar sensors

Toshikazu Hori
University of Fukui
Fukui Japan
for contributions to broadband antennas for
cellular and satellite communications

James A. Jodice
J. A. Jodice & Associates
Manchester by the Sea MA USA
for contributions to the testing of protective
relays

Min Gu
Swinburne University of Technology
Hawthorn Victoria Australia
for contributions to multiphoton microscopy,
endoscopy, and optical data storage

Ray-Hua Horng
National Chung Hsing University
Taichung Taiwan
for contributions to high brightness light emitting
diodes

Richard Darryl Jones

New Zealand Brain Research Institute
Christchurch New Zealand
for contributions to human performance
engineering and neurorehabilitation

Nihar Jindal
Broadcom Corporation
Irvine CA USA
for contributions to multiuser multi-antenna
communications

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Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore MD USA
for contributions to security, privacy and data
management in mobile and pervasive systems

Edmund Y. Lam
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Hong Kong SAR China
for contributions to modeling and computational
algorithms in imaging applications

Zicheng Liu
Microsoft Research
Redmond WA USA
for contributions to visual processing for
multimedia interaction

Tzyy-Ping Jung
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA USA
for contributions to blind source separation for
biomedical applications

Christian Laurent
National Center for Scientific Research
Toulouse France
for research of electrical aging and charge
transport in insulating polymers

Yong Liu
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp.
South Portland ME USA
for contributions in power electronics packaging

Mohan V. Kalkunte
Broadcom Corporation
Irvine CA USA
for contributions to ethernet switching
architectures and merchant-switching silicon

Paul Lecoq
European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN)
Geneva Switzerland
for contributions to scintillator detectors for highenergy physics and medical imaging

Safa Kasap
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon SK Canada
for contributions to photoconductive sensors for
x-ray imaging

Paul P. Lee
Exelis Geospatial Systems
Amityville NY USA
for contributions to the development of CMOS
image sensor technology and the pinned photodiode active pixel sensor

Young-Han Kim
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA USA
for contributions to feedback communication
and network information theory

Thomas H. Lee
Stanford University
Stanford CA USA
for contributions to the design of CMOS radiofrequency integrated circuits

Youngky Kim
Networks Business, Samsung Electronics
Suwon Gyeonggi-do South Korea
for leadership in mobile communication systems

Henry K. Leung
University of Calgary
Calgary AL Canada
for contributions to chaotic communications and
nonlinear signal processing

Tsunenobu Kimoto
Kyoto University
Kyoto Japan
for contributions to silicon carbide materials
and devices

Steven P. Levitan
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA USA
for contributions to mixed-technology microsystems education

Simon Alistair King

University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh UK
for contributions to text-to-speech synthesis and
speech technology
Stefanos Kollias
National Technical University of Athens
Athens Greece
for contributions to intelligent systems for
multimedia content analysis and human-machine
interaction
Hiroshi Kondoh
Centellax, Inc.
Santa Rosa CA USA
for contributions to microwave and millimeter
wave MMIC technologies
Christoforos Kozyrakis
Stanford University
Stanford CA USA
for contributions to high-performance, energyefficient and secure memory systems
David J. Kriegman
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA USA
for contributions to computer vision
Deepa Kundur
University of Toronto
Toronto ON Canada
for contributions to signal processing techniques
for multimedia and cyber security
Hao-chung Kuo
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu Taiwan
for contributions to light emitting diodes and
vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Grard Lachapelle
University of Calgary
Calgary AL Canada
for contributions to signal processing for global
navigation satellite systems
Sanjay Gouri Lall
Stanford University
Stanford CA USA
for contributions to control of networked systems

Keqin Li
State University of New York
New Paltz NY USA
for contributions to parallel and distributed
computing
Baochun Li
University of Toronto
Toronto ON Canada
for contributions to application-layer network
protocols and network coding
Ming-Jun Li
Corning Incorporated
Corning NY USA
for contributions to optical fiber technology
Xiang-Yang Li
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago IL USA
for contributions to performance analysis and
resource allocation in wireless networks
Daniel Lidar
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA USA
for contributions to quantum information
processing
Cheng-Lin Liu
Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of
Sciences
Beijing China
for contributions to handwritten document
analysis
Yunhao Liu
Tsinghua University
Beijing P.R. China
for contributions to wireless sensor networks
and systems
Ling Liu
Georgia Institue of Technology
Atlanta GA USA
for contributions to scalable Internet data
management and decentralized trust
management

John R. Long
Delft University of Technology
Stevinweg 1 Delft The Netherlands
for the development of on-chip and silicon radiofrequency integrated circuits
Susan M. Lord
University of San Diego
San Diego CA USA
for professional leadership and contributions to
engineering education
Wenjing Lou
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Falls Church VA USA
for contributions to information and network
security
David J. Love
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN USA
for contributions to feedback-adaptive wireless
communication systems
Jianhua Lu
Tsinghua University
Beijing P. R. China
for contributions to the theory and engineering
applications of wireless transmission
technologies
David Lubkeman
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC USA
for contributions to power system distribution
systems
Giuseppe Macchiarella
Politecnico di Milano
Milano Italy
for contributions to the synthesis of microwave
filters and multiplexers
Abhijit Mahalanobis
Lockheed Martin, Missiles and Fire Control
Orlando FL USA
for contributions to the development of
correlation filters for automatic target recognition
Scott A. Mahlke
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI USA
for contributions to compiler code generation
and automatic processor customization
Dragan Maksimovic
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder CO USA
for contributions to digital control of highfrequency switched-mode power converters
Roger Malik
First Solar
Santa Clara CA USA
for contributions to heterojunction compound
semiconductor materials and devices
Debendra Mallik
Intel Corporation
Chandler AZ USA
for contributions to microprocessor packaging
Diana Marculescu
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA USA
for contributions to design and optimization of
energy-aware computing systems
Detlev Marpe
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
Berlin Germany
for contributions to video coding research and
standardization

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Sylvain M. Martel
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Montreal QC Canada
for contributions to medical micro- and nanorobotics

Tadao Nagatsuma
Osaka University
Toyonaka Osaka Japan
for contribution to millimeter and terahertzwave
communications using photonics

Luis Marti
Hydro One Networks Inc.
Toronto ON Canada
for contributions to modeling and simulation of
electromagnetic transients

Krishna Rama Narayanan

Texas A&M University
College Station TX USA
for contributions to coding for wireless
communications and data storage

Yehia Massoud
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester MA USA
for contributions to the modeling and design of
nanoscale interconnects

Paul Michael Newman

University of Oxford
Oxford UK
for contributions to robot navigation
Khai D.T. Ngo
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA USA
for contributions to unified synthesis and
modeling of switched-mode converters

Witold Maszara
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Santa Clara CA USA
for contributions to high performance CMOS
process modules
Paolo Mattavelli
University of Padova
Padova Italy
for contributions to power converters for gridconnected applications and power management
Gianluca Mazzini
University of Ferrara
Ferrara Italy
for contributions to chaos-based electronic and
telecommunication systems design

Michael E. Orshansky
University of Texas at Austin
Austin TX USA
for contributions to VLSI design for
manufacturability

Timothy John McCoy

United States Navy
Montross VA USA
for leadership in ship-board electric power
systems

Marek A. Osinski
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM USA
for contributions to analysis of optoelectronic
materials and devices

Patrick D. McDaniel
Penn State University
University Park PA USA
for contributions to the security of mobile
communications

Philip Norman Overholt

US Dept. of Energy
Washington DC USA
for leadership in the development and
deployment of synchrophasor technology

Hong Mei
Peking University
Beijing China
for contributions to software architecture and
component-based software engineering

Teresa Pace
SenTech, LLC
Orlando FL USA
for contributions to image and signal processing
algorithms for sensor systems

Shengwei Mei
Tsinghua University
Beijing China
for contributions to power systems robust control
and complexity analysis
Jean-Pierre Merlet
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et
Automatique (INRIA)
Sophia-Antipolis France
for contributions to parallel robots
Mehran Mesbahi
University of Washington
Seattle WA USA
for contributions to networked control systems
Ethan L. Miller
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz CA USA
for contributions to the design of file and storage
systems

Boris Murmann
Stanford University
Stanford CA USA
for contributions to the design of digitallyassisted analog integrated circuits

Tetsuji Oda
University of Tokyo
Setagaya-ku Tokyo Japan
for contributions to electrostatics and highpressure plasmas for environmental protection
Kiyoshi Ohishi
Nagaoka University of Technology
Nagaoka Niigata Japan
for contributions to development of fast and
robust motion control systems

Stephen DJ McArthur
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow UK
for contributions to intelligent systems with
application in power engineering

Stefan G. Mozar
Dynexsys Pty Ltd.
Glenwood NSW Australia
for development of safety solutions for electronic
equipment

Alexandru Nicolau
University of California, Irvine
Irvine CA USA
for contributions to compiler technology and
electronic design automation

Sokrates T. Pantelides
Vanderbilt University
Nashville TN USA
for contributions to point-defect dynamics in
semiconductor devices
Unnikrishna Pillai
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Brooklyn NY USA
for contributions to adaptive signal processing
and radar systems
Antonio Plaza
University of Extremadura
Caceres Spain
for contributions to hyperspectral data
processing and parallel computing of Earth
observation data
Mark D. Plumbley
Queen Mary University of London
London UK
for contributions to latent variable analysis
David J. Pommerenke
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla MO USA
for contributions to system-level electrostatic
discharge technology

Radha Poovendran
University of Washington
Seattle WA USA
for contributions to security in cyber-physical systems
Mircea Popescu
Motor Design Ltd.
Ellesmere Shropshire UK
for contributions to AC induction and permanent
magnet electric machines
Robert Caiming Qiu
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville TN USA
for contributions to ultra-wideband wireless
communications
Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Madras TN India
for development of wireless technology in India
Sundaram K. Ramesh
California State University, Northridge
Northridge CA USA
for contributions to entepreneurship in
engineering education
John Neal Randall
Zyvex Labs
Richardson TX USA
for contributions to nanofabrication technologies
and applications
Spiridon Reveliotis
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA USA
for contributions to discrete event systems for
resource allocation
David John Richardson
University of Southampton
Southampton Hampshire UK
for contributions to optical fiber technology
Rasheek M. Rifaat
Jacobs Canada Inc.
Calgary AB Canada
for contributions to protection of industrial power
systems
Eric Rotenberg
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC USA
for contributions to the microarchitecture of highperformance and reliable microprocessors
Ahmed A. Rubaai
Howard University
Washington DC USA
for contributions to the development of highperformance controls for motor drives
Markus Rupp
Technical University Vienna
Wien Austria
for contributions to adaptive filters and
communication technologies
Ponnuswamy Sadayappan
Ohio State University
Columbus OH USA
for contributions to parallel programming tools
for high-performance computing
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON Canada
for contributions to gigahertz to terahertz
integrated antenna systems
Robert James Safranek
Benevue, Inc.
Warren NJ USA
for contributions to perceptual image and video
compression and quality
Surya Santoso
University of Texas at Austin
Austin TX USA
for contributions in automated root cause analysis
of electric power quality disturbance phenomena
Richard Schreier
Analog Devices Incorporated
Toronto ON Canada
for contributions to delta-sigma data converters

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Luca Selmi
University of Udine
Udine Italy
for research on carrier transport and reliability
of semiconductor devices

Stefano Stramigioli
University of Twente
Borne The Netherlands
for contributions to modeling, control and
realization of complex robotics systems

Harry Trentelman
University of Groningen
Groningen Netherlands
for contributions to geometric theory of linear
systems and behavioral models

Michael C. Shebanow
Samsung San Jose, CA
San Jose CA USA
for contributions to superscalar out-of-order
processors

Suresh Subramaniam
George Washington University
Washington DC USA
for contributions to optical network architectures,
algorithms, and performance modeling

James Joseph Truchard

National Instruments
Austin TX USA
for leadership in instrumentation and computing
for signal processing

Peng Shi
University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA Australia
for contributions to control and filtering
techniques for hybrid dynamical systems

Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

Nanyang Technological University
Singapore Singapore
for contributions to optimization using
evolutionary and swarm algorithms

James D. Shields
Draper Laboratory
Cambridge MA USA
for leadership in advanced guidance,
navigation and information systems

Yu Sun
University of Toronto
Toronto ON Canada
for contributions to automated manipulation of
biological cells

Masashi Usami
KDDI Corporation
Saitama Japan
for contributions to development of high
reliability semiconductor optical devices for
undersea cable systems

Yoshihiro Shiroishi
Hitachi Research and Development Group,
Hitachi Ltd.
Tokyo Japan
for leadership in the development of high density
magnetic recording technologies and devices

Dong Sun
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong China
for contributions to robot-aided manipulation of
biological cells
Jian Sun
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Troy NY USA
for contributions to modeling and control of
power electronic circuits and systems

Moshe Shoham
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa Israel
for contributions to robot manipulators and
miniature medical robots
Mario G. Silveirinha
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Coimbra Portugal
for contributions to electrodynamics of metamaterials

Dan Keun Sung

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (KAIST)
Daejeon Korea
for contributions to network resource management

Gail Skofronick Jackson

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt MD USA
for contributions to microwave remote sensing
of snow

Wonyong Sung
Seoul National University
Seoul Korea
for contributions to real-time signal processing
systems

Paris Smaragdis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA
for contributions to audio source separation and
audio processing

Johan A. K. Suykens
KU Leuven
Leuven Belgium
for developing the least squares support vector
machines

Peter Jeffrey Smith

University of Canterbury
Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand
for contributions to statistical modeling and
analysis of wireless communication systems

Dacheng Tao
University of Technology, Sydney
Sydney NSW Australia
for contributions to pattern recognition and
visual analytics

Hing Cheung So
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon Hong Kong China
for contributions to spectral analysis and source
localization

Paul J. Tasker
Cardfiff University,UK
Cardiff Wales UK
for contributions to microwave measurements
and their application to microwave models

Haruhisa Soda
FiBest Limited
Hachioji Tokyo Japan
for contributions to vertical-cavity surfaceemitting and distributed-feedback lasers

David Taubman
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW Australia
for contributions to image and video communications

Vesa Valimaki
Aalto University
Espoo Finland
for contributions to synthesis and processing of
audio signals
Son Van Nghiem
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena CA USA
for contributions to cryospheric sciences and
Earth remote sensing applications
John Thomas Vaughan, Jr.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN USA
for contributions to high-field magnetic
resonance imaging technology
Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian
Washington State University
Pullman WA USA
for contributions to on-line detection of
oscillatory behavior of electric power systems
Michel Verleysen
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
for contributions to high-dimensional analysis
and manifold learning
Mahesh Viswanathan
IBM Corporation
Yorktown Heights NY USA
for contributions to ubiquitous access to
cloud computing and to vehicular speech
communications
Yurii A. Vlasov
IBM Corporation
Yorktown Heights NY USA
for contributions to silicon-integrated
nanophotonics
Alexander Waibel
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA USA
for contributions to neural network based speech
recognition and translation and multimodal
interfaces

Fernando Lisboa Teixeira

Ohio State University
Columbus OH USA
for contributions to time-domain electromagnetic
techniques and applications

Jian-Ping Wang
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN USA
for contributions to magnetic material and
spintronic devices for magnetic recording,
information processing and biomedical
applications

Rajeev Thottappillil
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm Sweden
for contributions to the understanding of
lightning and electromagnetic interference

Geoffrey Ian Webb

Monash University
Clayton Victoria Australia
for contributions to machine learning, data
mining and knowledge discovery

Eckehard Steinbach
Technische Universitat Munchen
Munich Bavaria Germany
for contributions to visual and haptic communications

Yuichi Tohmori
NTT Electronics
Atsugi-shi Kanagawa Japan
for contributions to tunable semiconductor lasers
for optical fiber communications

Mark H. Weichold
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Doha Qatar
for contributions to international development of
engineering education

Gregory Stewart
Honeywell International, Inc.
North Vancouver BC Canada
for contributions to model-based control of
industrial systems

Ridha Touzi
Canada Center for Remote Sensing
Ottawa ON Canada
for contributions to design and calibration of
polarimetric synthetic aperature radar

David M. Weiss
Iowa State University
Ames IA USA
for contributions to software measurement and
product line engineering

William S. Song
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington MA USA
for contributions in high-performance low-power
embedded processors
Charles W. Stearns
GE Healthcare
Milwaukee WI USA
for contributions to medical imaging with
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IEEE FELLOWS CLASS OF 2015

Dieter J. Weller
HGST
San Jose CA USA
for contributions to heat-assisted magnetic
recording media

Liuqing Yang
Colorado State University
Fort Collins CO USA
for contributions to theory and practice of ultrawideband communications

Wei-Bin Zhang
University of California, Berkeley
Richmond CA USA
for contributions to cooperative vehicle highway
automation systems

Blake Shaw Wilson

Duke University
Durham NC USA
for development of cochlear implants

Olexander Georgiyovych Yarovyi

Delft University of Technology
Delft The Netherlands
for leadership in ultra-wideband imaging for
ground penetrating radar and microwave
scanners

Wei Zhang
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW Australia
for contributions to cognitive radio
communications

Hsiao-Chun Wu
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge LA USA
for contributions to digital video broadcasting
and wireless systems

Aylin Yener
Pensylvania State University
University Park PA USA
for contributions to wireless communication
theory and wireless information security

An-Yeu Wu
National Taiwan University
Taipei Taiwan
for contributions to DSP algorithms and VLSI
designs for communication IC/SoC
Ji Wu
National Space Science Center
Beijing China
for leadership in microwave remote sensing and
its application to satellite programs
Gaozhi Xiao
National Research Council Canada
Ottawa ON Canada
for contributions to the development of safety
and security monitoring instrumentation and
measurement technologies
Xiaolan Xie
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint
Etienne
Saint Etienne France
for contributions to systems engineering for
healthcare and manufacturing
Yuan Xie
Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA USA
for contributions to design automation and
architecture of three-dimensional integrated
circuits
Isao Yamada
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Japan
for contributions to inverse problems and
learning in signal processing

Bulent Yener
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Troy NY USA
for contributions to network design optimization
and security
Wang Yi
Uppsala University, Sweden
Uppsala Sweden
for contributions to safety-critical real-time
systems
Chik Patrick Yue
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
Clear Water Bay Hong Kong
for contributions to the advancement of CMOS
radio-frequency integrated circuits and device
modeling

Yin Zhang
University of Texas at Austin
Austin TX USA
for contributions to computer network
measurement and management
Zhijun Zhang
Tsinghua University
Beijing China
for contributions to antenna design and
propagation modeling in mobile communication
devices
Yong-Hang Zhang
Arizona State University
Tempe AZ USA
for contributions to molecular beam epitaxy
growth technology, infrared lasers and
photodetectors
Yahong Rosa Zheng
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla MI USA
for contributions to channel modeling and
equalization for wireless communications
Haitao Zheng
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA USA
for contributions to dynamic spectrum access
and cognitive radio networks

Moti Yung
Google Inc.
New York NY USA
for contributions to cryptography
Navid Zargari
Rockwell Automation Canada
Cambridge ON Canada
for contribution to medium voltage drive
technologies and applications
Huaguang Zhang
Northeastern University China
Shenyang Liaoning China
for contributions to stability analysis of recurrent
neural networks and intelligent control of
nonlinear systems

Kun Zhou
Zhejiang University
HangZhou Zhejiang Province China
for contributions to shape modeling and GPU
computing
Yuanyuan Zhou
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA USA
for contributions to scalable algorithms and tools
for computer reliability

2015 IEEE FELLOW COMMITTEE ROSTER

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IEEE President and CEO........................................ Howard E. Michel

IEEE President-Elect .................................................... Barry L. Shoop
IEEE Past President ............................................ J. Roberto de Marca
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