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THE WORLDS NEWSSTAND
LETTER FROM THE IEEE PRESIDENT AND AWARDS BOARD CHAIR
Dear IEEE Members, Honorees, Colleagues, and Friends:
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony. This years theme,
Igniting the Future, was inspired by all of our award recipientsthe men and women who create, educate,
and, yes, ignite further innovation who stood on the shoulders of giants to accomplish the work they did
and on whose shoulders other technology innovators will stand to drive their work further into the future.
The 1957 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and French philosopher, Albert Camus, said Real
generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. This years recipients have done just that,
with extraordinary achievements and future-igniting contributions to the fields of broadband and wireless
communications, information theory, automotive technology, medical diagnostic imaging, engineering
education, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, signal processing, next-generation transistors, real-time
systems, and much, much more.
IEEE and its members continue to propel the continuum of technological progress and the advancement
of technology for humanity, but the future includes significant challenges. By many estimates there will
be another 23 billion people on Earth by the middle of this century, and the nonrenewable resources
we have relied upon for centuries are of finite supply.
In order to sustainably feed, power, transport, hydrate, and shelter a global community of 910 billion
people, to safeguard their health, improve their quality of life, and facilitate their rapidly expanding
communication requirements, groundbreaking technological advances will be required. As has been
the case for more than 132 years, the expertise, determination, and ingenuity of IEEE members and their
colleagues will drive these necessary advancements.
On behalf of IEEEs Board of Directors and some 420,000 members worldwide, we would like to extend
sincere thanks to our generous awards sponsors and to all of the nominators, endorsers, volunteers, and
staff who make our Awards Program possible.
As evidenced by the work and forward-looking vision of the award recipients we honor in New York
this year, IEEE members continue to provide the technological spark to ignite a bright, prosperous future
for coming generations of humankind.
Barry L. Shoop, Ph.D., P.E. Kensall D. Wise

IEEE President and CEO IEEE Awards Board Chair
www.ieee.org/awards
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PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AT IEEE HONORS CEREMONY

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Saturday, 18 June 2016

Gotham Hall
New York, NY
OPENING REMARKSIEEE President and CEO Barry L. Shoop &
IEEE President-Elect Karen Bartleson
CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS
IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award ..................................................... NeuroPace, Inc.
IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award................................................................................. MC10, Inc.
IEEE Corporate Innovation Award ....................................................................................... Intel Corporation
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award...........................................................David Fairbank Welch
SERVICE AWARDS
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award..................................................................................... Stephen Weinstein

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award ........................................................................................................ Moshe Kam
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
IEEE Honorary Membership .................................................................................................. Serge Haroche

IEEE Honorary Membership ..................................................................................................... Rodolfo Zich
MEDALS
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal ................................................................................... Roberto Padovani

IEEE Edison Medal ............................................................................................................ Robert Brodersen
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal........................................................................................Abbas El Gamal
IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology........................................................ Charles A. Mistretta
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal................................................................................. Louis Scharf
IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal ..................................................................................Geoffrey Hinton
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal ............................................................................Simon Haykin
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal.......................................................................................... Masayoshi Esashi
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal ................................................................................................. Takuo Sugano
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications ......................................Nadav Levanon
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering ........................................................................................ Arun G. Phadke
IEEE John von Neumann Medal .............................................................................. Christos H. Papadimitriou
IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies ...........................Masahiko Miyaki, Yukihiro Shinohara,
Katsuhiko Takeuchi
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal ....................................................... John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Lui Sha
IEEE Medal of Honor..................................................................................................... G. David Forney, Jr.
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2016 AWARDS SPONSORS
IEEE Awards proudly acknowledges its 2016 Technical Field Award The awards presented at the 2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony Gala
sponsors. These are some of the worlds leading organizations, socie- are supported by the generosity of the following organizations
ties, and individuals whose generous support helps to recognize and and societies.
promote technological advances for the benefit of humanity. Our
partners include:
Brunetti Bequest
Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation in Memory of
Herman and Edna Halperin
Hitachi, Ltd.
Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Motorola Solutions Foundation
NEC Corporation
Nokia Bell Labs
Nokia Corporation
Philips Electronics N.V.
Sony Corporation
SRI International Sarnoff
Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu
Wolong Electric Group Co., Ltd.
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems 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 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
2 | 2016 IEEE AWARDS BOOKLET
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2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letter from the IEEE President and Awards Board Chair ....................................................................... Inside Front Cover
Honors Ceremony Program......................................................................................................................................1
2016 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 Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award... 4 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal ...................... 10
IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award ....................... 4 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal............................. 10
IEEE Corporate Innovation Award ..................................... 5 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal.................... 11
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award ................ 5 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal ....................................... 11
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award..................................... 6 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal ......................................... 12
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award................................................ 6 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies
IEEE Honorary Membership.............................................. 7 and Applications........................................................... 12
IEEE Honorary Membership.............................................. 7 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering ................................... 13
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal .................................. 8 IEEE John von Neumann Medal ...................................... 13
IEEE Edison Medal .......................................................... 8 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies ...... 14
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal ..................................... 9 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal................................................ 14
IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology .......... 9 IEEE Medal of Honor ..................................................... 15
IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS & PRIZE PAPERS

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The following awards are presented at 2016 IEEE technical conferences
IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award............................ 20 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award ......................................... 20 Communications Award............................................. 23
IEEE Components, Packaging, and IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award.......... 24
Manufacturing Technology Award ............................... 20 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies.... 24
IEEE Control Systems Award....................................... 20 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits .... 24
IEEE Electromagnetics Award...................................... 21 IEEE Frederik Philips Award........................................ 24
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio IEEE Photonics Award ................................................ 25
Processing Award ..................................................... 21 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award.......................... 25
IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing..................... 21 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award ...................................... 25
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award .................................... 21 IEEE David Sarnoff Award.......................................... 25
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award........................... 26
Distribution Award .................................................... 22 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award ............ 26
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award........... 22 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award ......................... 26
IEEE Internet Award................................................... 22 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award............................................ 26
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award ........................ 22 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award......................................... 27
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award ......................................... 27
and Measurement ..................................................... 23 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award ...................... 27
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award............................ 23 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award .......................... 28
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award...... 23 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award .........................................29
IEEE Spectrum Feature Article ........................................................................................................................... 1629

IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award......................................................................................................28
Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award ............................................................................................................................28
IEEE Fellows Class of 2016 and Fellow Committee Roster.................................................................................... 3036
IEEE Board of Directors and Awards Board Committee Rosters ............................................................. Inside Back Cover
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2016 IEEE SPECTRUMS CORPORATE AWARDS
IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award
Society Award Sponsored by IEEE Spectrum
Sponsored by IEEE Spectrum
The RNS System is an award-winning technology developed and MC10 uses cutting-edge technology to create the most intel-
manufactured in Silicon Valley that has been recognized for its in- ligent, flexible platform for biometric healthcare analytics. Our
novation. Similar to a pacemaker that monitors and responds to heart hardware and software systems are uniquely designed to mini-
rhythms, the RNS System is the first and only medical device that mize burden and maximize health insights.
can monitor and respond to brain activity. It constantly monitors Traditional electronic devices are rigid, bulky, and fundamen-
brainwavesincluding during sleeplooking for unusual activity tally mismatched to the properties of the human body. MC10
that may lead to a seizure. products are thin and flexible, and built to stretch, bend, and twist
The device is personalized to recognize the electrical patterns seamlessly with our bodies and the world around us.
specific to a recipients brain, rapidly identifying unusual activ- MC10s software platform consists of a complete end-to-end
ity that can lead to a seizure. Within milliseconds of detecting system with mobile interfaces, cloud storage, and analytical tools.
unusual activity, the device sends brief pulses to instantly dis- Lean, agile software development allows us to create robust sys-
rupt this activity and normalize brainwaves, often before seizure tems to support the high volume of data gathered by the Bio-
symptoms are felt. Stamp and WiSP platforms. Using the most powerful tools in
The RNS System consists of a small, implantable neurostim- big data analytics and machine learning, MC10s software trans-
ulator connected to leads (tiny wires) that are placed in up to two lates the bodys data into a language understandable to humans.
seizure onset areas. It comes with a simple remote monitor that MC10s technology empowers all of us to better understand
recipients use at home to wirelessly collect information from the our bodies and work towards improving human health.
neurostimulator and then transfer it to the Patient Data Manage- MC10 is a private company backed by a strong syndicate of
ment System (PDMS).The doctor can log into the PDMS at any financial and strategic investors that is improving human health
time to review accurate, ongoing information aboutseizureac- through digital healthcare solutions. The company combines its
tivity and treatment progress. This helps the doctor learn more proprietary ultra-thin, flexible body-worn sensors with advanced
about the recipients seizures and improve care. Find out more analytics to unlock health insights from physiological data.
about Neuropace online at www.neuropace.com. MC10 has received widespread recognition for its revolution-
ary technology and was recently named in Fast Companys Most
Innovative Companies in 2016 as a leader in healthcare. MC10
is headquartered in Lexington, MA, USA. Visit MC10 online at
www.mc10inc.com.
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2016 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS

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IEEE Corporate Innovation Award IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial

Sponsored by IEEE Leadership Award
Sponsored by IEEE
Intel Corporation David Fairbank Welch
For leadership in enabling the growth of

For pioneering the use of high-k metal gate and tri-gate cloud-based services and the Internet in
transistor technologies in high-volume manufacturing optical transport networks
Leading the semiconductor industry in developing revolutionary A leader in driving technology innovations from concept to com-
transistor technologies and achieving early high-volume manu- mercial success, David Fairbank Welchs contributions to opti-
facturing of microprocessor products, Intels high-k metal gate cal devices for telecommunications networks have enabled the
and tri-gate transistor innovations have allowed the continua- growth of the Internet and cloud-based services, providing faster
tion of Moores Law and enabled products with improved per- communications for service providers, businesses, and consumers
formance and lower power consumption. The semiconductor around the world. As chief technology officer and vice president
industry had been scaling metal-oxide-semiconductor field-ef- of corporate development for Spectra Diode Labs,Welch played a
fect-transistors (MOSFETs) for more than four decades until the critical role in launching the first commercially available 980-nm
early 2000s, when further scaling of traditional silicon dioxide/ semiconductor pump laser for optical amplifiers. His design be-
polysilicon materials presented leakage problems. New materials came the standard for pump lasers and enabled the proliferation of
and structures would be needed for continued progress, and Intels dense-wave-division-multiplexed systems for long-haul commu-
Technology and Manufacturing Group was first to meet the chal- nications networks that allowed service providers to increase net-
lenge with its introduction of high-k metal gate transistors and work capacity to meet the demanding bandwidth requirements of
then with its tri-gate (FinFET) technology. Intel replaced most emerging Internet applications. In addition, Welch led the design,
of the traditional dielectric MOSFET materials with a high-k development, and commercialization of high-power semiconduc-
hafnium-based dielectric to reduce leakage power, and metal gate tor lasers and solid-state lasers for a diversity of materials process-
electrode materials replaced doped polysilicon to provide im- ing applications.Welch has proven that his vision of photonic inte-
proved transistor performance. Intel was the first to manufacture gration improves performance and reliability while reducing cost
and ship these high-k metal gate transistors, beginning with its 45 in telecommunication systems. He cofounded Infinera in 2001
nm technology in 2007. Intel then overcame the manufacturing and led the company in the architecture and development of the
challenges of using tri-gate transistors to surpass the limitations of most widely deployed photonic integrated circuit (PIC) in in-
planar MOSFETs.Tri-gate transistors feature channels on tall and dustry. PICs are highly functional optical subsystems on a chip
narrow silicon fins instead of a planar surface. With a steeper sub- that overcome the data communications bottleneck between users
threshold slope, tri-gate transistors result in lower power leakage and servers in the cloud.Welch then led Infineras next-generation
and can operate at lower voltage for lower active power consump- technology, which now serves as the foundation for the DTN-X
tion. Intel was the first to ship microprocessors using tri-gate tran- optical transport networking platform.Where the entire transmis-
sistors in 2011 with its 22-nm technology. Intels manufacturing sion capacity of the Internet in 2005 was less than 9 terabits (Tb),
success with these transistor technologies fundamentally changed DTN-X allows 9 Tb per second of long-haul capacity on a single
the direction of the semiconductor industry. Other semiconduc- optical fiber. As president of Infinera, since 2013 Welch introduced
tor companies have followed Intels footsteps in developing high- several new systems that make it easier for network operators to
k and tri-gate products, and foundry companies have accelerated automate the digital switching and optical transport layers of the
efforts to meet the fabrications needs of their customers. multi-Tb transport systems, including the industrys first super-
Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, USA, Intels Technology channel reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer and the first
and Manufacturing Group is led by Sohail U. Ahmed, senior vice 500G flexible-grid super-channels.
president and general manager, and Ann B. Kelleher, corporate An IEEE Fellow and recipient of the Institution of Engineer-
vice president and general manager. ing and Technologys J.J. Thomson Medal for Electronics (2013),
the Optical Societys John Tyndall Award (2011), and elected to
the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2016),Welch is presi-
dent of Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Scope: For an outstanding and exemplary innovation by an indus- Scope: For exceptional managerial leadership in the fields of interest
trial entity, governmental or academic organization, or other cor- of the IEEE.
porate body, within the fields of interest to the IEEE.
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2016 IEEE SERVICE AWARDS
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award IEEE Haraden Pratt Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Activities Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation
Board
Stephen Weinstein Moshe Kam
For original and high-impact contribu-

tions to IEEEs Educational Activities,
For contributions to IEEE publications, expanding IEEEs global reach and
awards, and globalization effectiveness
Known for inspiring others to always give their best in each of Moshe Kam has dedicated his career to breaking down the bar-
their IEEE volunteer activities and to pursue increasing involve- riers that limit access to the engineering profession, and to help-
ment, Stephen Weinsteins contributions to IEEE have strength- ing people from all backgrounds understand what engineers do.
ened the Institutes global reach, its publications, and its awards As an IEEE volunteer he has transformed IEEEs educational
program. A communications engineer with over 45 years of expe- activities to spur interest in engineering by new audiences and
rience,Weinstein served as president of the IEEE Communications facilitate the pursuit of engineering as a career path by young stu-
Society (ComSoc) in 1996-97, was a member of the IEEE Board dents worldwide. In 2005 Kam spearheaded TryEngineering.org,
of Directors in 2002-03, and was Vice Chair of the IEEE Awards IEEEs most popular and successful online education program.
Board in 2010-12. To encourage globalization of IEEE and ex- This portal serves as the predominant source of pre-university
tend the reach of ComSoc, while ComSoc president Weinstein engineering education for students, parents, and school counsel-
initiated sister society agreements with the Korean Institute of ors. The success of TryEngineering.org led to the development
Communications Society (KICS) and the Russian A.S. Popov of the IEEEs TryNano.org and TryComputing.org portals. Kam
Society and traveled to Vietnam and Germany to initiate sister also championed the development of IEEEs version of the Engi-
society negotiations. He also was dedicated to developing numer- neering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) project. Devel-
ous joint international technical initiatives and conference events. oped by Purdue University but originally implemented mostly in
His efforts resulted in ComSoc becoming the first IEEE Society the United States, EPICS provides students with the opportunity
to have non-U.S. membership exceed U.S. members. Weinsteins to create technological solutions for their communities in coop-
contributions to publications include cofounding IEEE Commu- eration with nongovernmental organizations and humanitarian
nications Magazine and the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. groups. Using IEEEs resources and working with fellow volun-
He also helped establish the Journal of Communications Networks as teers, Kam expanded EPICS reach around the world with over
an English-language journal of the KICS technically cosponsored 40 projects, including a project that supplied reliable electricity
by ComSoc, served as its first editor-in-chief, and established a to rural schools in Uruguay and a joint industryIEEE venture
prestigious editorial board with global representation. His con- to provide solar-energy-heated water for an orphanage in South
tributions as member and Vice Chair of the IEEE Awards Board Africa. Kam has also expanded the IEEE Teacher-in-Service Pro-
included redefining corporate recognitions as major IEEE awards, gram, which trains IEEE volunteers to work with pre-university
which was critical to enhancing the importance of IEEEs awards teachers on lesson plans in engineering and engineering design,
to industry. As chair of the Awards Policies and Procedures Board, thereby bringing hands-on engineering activities into the class-
he significantly improved the clarity and value of the guidelines for room. Another area where Kam induced change was IEEEs par-
finding and rewarding excellent award candidates. ticipation in accreditation of engineering programs outside the
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the IEEE Communica- United States. Going beyond the traditional IEEE educational
tions Society Exemplary Global Service Award (2007),Weinstein workshops on accreditation, he played a pivotal role in develop-
is president of Communication Theory and Technology Con- ing training programs for program evaluators in Peru, assisting
sulting, New York, NY, USA. accreditation programs in China, and creating a new accreditation
body for Caribbean nations.
An IEEE Past President, IEEE Fellow, and recipient of the
IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), Kam is dean of the New-
ark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Tech-
nology, Newark, NJ, USA.
Scope: For distinguished service to the development, viability, Scope: For outstanding service to IEEE.
advancement, and pursuit of the technical objectives of IEEE.
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2016 IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS
IEEE Honorary Membership IEEE Honorary Membership

Sponsored by IEEE Sponsored by IEEE
Serge Haroche Rodolfo Zich
For the development of cavity quantum

electrodynamics, leading to fundamental For leadership in the global integration
quantum physics studies and to a wide of electrical and electronics engineering
range of applications education and research
A Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who pioneered the discipline A leading scientist in the area of electromagnetic wave scattering
of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED), Serge Haroche has and antennas, Rodolfo Zich has continuously worked to expand
pushed the frontiers of CQED toward new achievements leading international collaborations in electronics and telecommunica-
to practical applications in quantum optics and laser physics.With tions by establishing university exchange programs and inter-
CQED, which involves studying the interaction of atoms with the national conferences that have promoted research and higher
quantum radiation field confined in highly reflective cavities, Ha- education in information and communications technology engi-
roche led a revolution in quantum electronics that brought quan- neering around the world. While president of the Politecnico di
tum engineering into reality and has given substance to quan- Torino, the leading technical university of Italy, he worked tire-
tum thinking beyond what had been possible before. Building lessly to greatly strengthen the cooperation with industry, increase
on Purcells proposal from the 1940s that the atomic spontane- the competition in European research space, develop joint teach-
ous emission rate could be enhanced at will by a resonant cavity, ing and research programs with several European institutions,
Haroche opened the modern era of experimental CQED dur- and to create a worldwide network of cooperative efforts with
ing the 1980s. He explored the strong coupling regime in which over 50 universities from all continents. Zich was instrumental
the atom field interaction overwhelms the dissipative process. He in transforming the Politecnico into an international venue of
demonstrated spectacular effects of quantum mechanics, such as excellence for engineering research and education, increasing the
the modification of atomic spontaneous emission by properly foreign student population to 20% and attracting some of the
engineering the vacuum field boundary conditions and the ob- best electronics researchers in the world. He developed graduate-
servation of atomic superradiance in a cavity. Haroche made pho- level student-exchange programs with several European and U.S.
ton-by-photon observations possible, giving scientists the ability universities that have been in effect for over 20 years. In 1992
to watch a quantum measurement unfold in real time. During he created and directed a network to provide remote education
the 1990s, Haroche was the first to investigate the decoherence at the masters level, the first in Italy and one of the most ad-
of a mesoscopic quantum superposition, which is essential in the vanced in Europe. To further promote international collabora-
quantum measurement process and also provides an explanation tions in diverse areas of electronics and communications, Zich
of the lack of quantum superposition at the macroscopic scale. established (in 1989) and has expanded the International Con-
Haroches most recent work has focused on improving the quality ference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA).
of superconducting microwave cavities to enable real-time obser- The ICEAA has become a prestigious venue for international sci-
vation of quantum jumps of light through a quantum nondemo- entists and engineers held each year in different locations around
lition photon counting process, which has opened new lines of the world. Zich also founded and has been chairing both the
research and helped realize quantum feedback loops. Istituto Superiore Mario Boella in Torino and the Torino Wire-
A recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics and member of less Foundation, which are devoted to research and dissemination
the European Physical Society, Haroche is a professor and chair of of advanced wireless technologies.
quantum physics with the Collge de France, Paris, France. Zich is president of the Torino Wireless Foundation and presi-
dent of the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella,Torino, Italy.
Scope: For those who have rendered meritorious service to hu- Scope: For those who have rendered meritorious service to hu-
manity in IEEEs designated fields of interest and who are not manity in IEEEs designated fields of interest and who are not
members of IEEE. members of IEEE.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS

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IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal IEEE Edison Medal

Sponsored by Nokia Bell Labs Sponsored by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Roberto Padovani Robert Brodersen
For innovations enabling efficient, wide- For contributions to integrated systems

band, wireless access to the Internet, that for wired and wireless communica-
is central to all third-generation cellular tions, including wireless connectivity of
networks personal devices
The third-generation (3G) cellular technology enabled by the With the vision that wireless technology would fundamentally
vision and leadership of Roberto Padovani is transforming lives change the way we interact with information, Robert Brodersen
around the word by supporting voice and wireless Internet access has been at the forefront of introducing innovative technologies
via mobile devices to over 3 billion people. Padovani provided that are changing the wireless landscape even today. Focusing on
key leadership in developing and commercializing code-division- using standard low-cost complimentary metal-oxide semicon-
multiple-access (CDMA) technology during the 1980s and 1990s ductor (CMOS) technologies for integrated systems, Brodersens
to substantially increase circuit-switched voice capacity and en- work has enabled higher data rates, better energy efficiency, and
able efficient high-data-rate (HDR) packet-switched communi- better spectrum utilization critical to wireless devices. A testa-
cations. His work has formed the basis for all 3G cellular systems ment to Brodersens vision was the development of the Infopad
and has also influenced fourth-generation long-term evolution as the first wireless tablet during the early 1990s. A complete in-
(LTE) systems. Padovani later adapted CDMA technology, which tegrated system, the project demonstrated the potential of cloud
was originally heavily tuned for voice services, to support data computing, broadband wireless connectivity, and low-power mo-
services. To overcome the challenges of asymmetry in data traffic bile computing well before the true emergence of the Internet
in the up- and downlinks and the bursty nature of data, Padovani and wireless networks. It took technology 15 years to catch up to
developed innovations including the scheduling of high and low his concept with the emergence of devices like the iPad, but the
rate users, variable modulation and code rate, and power control proliferation of personal devices we now take for granted shows
strategies for more efficient Internet data transfer, resulting in the that Brodersens vision was spot on. Before energy efficiency of
HDR technology. He realized early on that, for packet data, sym- devices was an issue, Brodersen was one of the first to demon-
metric performance across uplink and downlink and equal grade strate that improving energy efficiency was critical to the contin-
of service across users could be relaxed to improve total system ued scaling of digital circuitry. His combination of concurrency
throughput, in contrast to voice designs that focused on giving all with voltage scaling in 1992 radically changed the way we build
users equal service in all conditions. Slow to be accepted by op- computer systems, making possible the multicore paradigms that
erators who were primarily concerned only with voice capacity, fuel todays high-performance and mobile computing systems. He
the demand for HDR communications grew as mobile phones later extended this concept to include dynamic voltage scaling,
began to support e-mail and Internet services. HDR evolved into which allows processors to scale energy efficiency proportional
the 1X EVDO system, which paved the way for high-speed data to the requested performance. In the late 1970s Brodersen also
services on 3G systems. The availability of packet-switched Inter- pioneered the idea of using switched capacitors for monolithic
net access made possible by Padovanis innovations has impacted integrated filters. Originally used for single-chip realizations of
business, safety, entertainment, navigation, social networking, edu- pulse code modulation interfaces for wired telephony, switched-
cation, and health in developed and especially developing coun- capacitor circuits have been the preferred choice for the efficient
tries around the world. implementation of on-chip filters for the past four decades.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering, Padovani is executive vice president and fellow with Engineering, Brodersen is a Professor Emeritus with the Univer-
Qualcomm Technologies, San Diego, CA, USA. sity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Scope: For exceptional contributions to the advancement of com- Scope: For a career of meritorious achievement in electrical sci-
munications sciences and engineering. ence, electrical engineering or the electrical arts.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal IEEE Medal for Innovations

Sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc. in Healthcare Technology
Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society
Abbas El Gamal Charles A. Mistretta
For contributions to network multi-user For the development of imaging

information theory and for wide-rang- instrumentation and techniques that
ing impact on programmable circuit have transformed the diagnosis and
architectures treatment of vascular disease
Abbas El Gamals lasting contributions to information theory, The pioneering accomplishments and vision of Charles A. Mis-
wireless networks, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and tretta in developing digital subtraction angiography (DSA), time-
digital imaging have immensely impacted a wide variety of in- resolved magnet resonance angiography (MRA), and accelerated
formation technology applications critical in todays society. His imaging algorithms have transformed diagnostic radiology. Dur-
early work formed the basis for several new areas in multi-user ing the 1970s, screen film X-rays were the standard for radiog-
information theory, paving the way to capacity results integral to raphy and angiography. However, film angiograms were limited
todays communications networks. He determined the capacity of due to interference from overlying anatomy. Mistretta recognized
the product of Gaussian broadcast channels and of deterministic the importance that electronic subtraction in imaging could play
interference channels leading to recent advances in multi-antenna in providing vascular images that were free of obscuring anatomy.
and interference-limited wireless networks.Together with Thom- Incorporating a hand-made, custom-designed digital image pro-
as Cover, he established the first upper and lower bounds on the cessor, Mistretta introduced his DSA technique. He went on to
capacity of the three-node relay network. This work introduced refine and optimize DSA to provide virtually real-time visual-
the cut-set upper bound for networks, which is widely used in ization of vascular structures without obstructions, revolutioniz-
information theory today, as well as the compress-forward and ing angiography with a safer and more effective technology that
decode-forward schemes, which continue to be the dominant re- is now found in practically every medical center. DSA is also
laying techniques. His recent work has involved the creation of considered an enabling technology that made minimally invasive
coding schemes for sending multiple sources over noisy networks, vascular therapeutic procedures such as angioplasty and stenting
and significant contributions to wireless networks through char- possible. During the 1990s, Mistretta applied DSA technology to
acterizing their optimal delay-throughput tradeoff and devising overcome the limitations of slow magnetic resonance data acqui-
schemes for energy-efficient packet transmission scheduling. His sition in contrast-enhanced MRA techniques. He developed the
book Network Information Theory (Cambridge Press, 2011) with time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics (TRICKS) method for
Young-Han Kim provides the first unified and comprehensive three-dimensional visualization of previously difficult-to-image
coverage of the field. El Gamals contributions to hardware design vascular beds. TRICKS provides clinicians with dynamic vascu-
include the development of integrated circuit fabrics and tools lar information and eliminates the timing uncertainty associated
that significantly reduce design time and cost of systems used in with single-image contrast-enhanced MRA. This radiation-free
computing, communication, and signal-processing applications. MRA method uses less toxic contrast material and is performed
In 1986, he cofounded Actel, where he coinvented the routing intravenously rather than intra-arterially for enhanced safety and
architecture used in all commercial FPGAs today. He subsequent- effectiveness. Mistrettas recent efforts include work on image ac-
ly pioneered the use of FPGAs in teaching digital system design, celeration. His highly constrained reconstructions from projec-
which has become standard in all electrical engineering programs. tions (HYPR) method provides rapid accelerations of dynamic or
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy parametric imaging by using imaging data acquired over a short
of Engineering, El Gamal is a professor and chair in the Depart- time interval to weight an image acquired over a much longer
ment of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, time interval.
CA, USA. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering,
Mistretta is a professor with the Department of Medical Phys-
ics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Scope: For exceptional contributions to information sciences, sys- Scope: For outstanding contributions and/or innovations in en-
tems, and technology. gineering within the fields of medicine, biology, and healthcare
technology.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Jack S. Kilby IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

Signal Processing Medal Sponsored by IEEE
Sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc.
Louis Scharf Geoffrey Hinton
For pioneering and sustained contribu- For pioneering and sustained contribu-
tions to statistical signal processing and tions to machine learning, including
its practice. developments in deep neural networks
Pioneering and introducing the use of statistical invariance for the Driven by the desire to understand the mechanisms of cogni-
design of detectors and estimators, Louis Scharf has profoundly tion in the human brain and how to apply them to machines
impacted the way statistics are used in modern signal processing that learn, Geoffrey Hinton is considered the leading authority
to provide solutions for a wide range of engineering problems. on machine learning. Hintons development of the backpropaga-
Scharf is most known for his work on modal analysis, invariance tion algorithm was key to the resurgence of the machine learn-
theories for subspace signal processing, dimension reduction in ing field during the 1980s. He realized and demonstrated that,
subspaces for managing performance metrics, and for his recent in addition to performing nonlinear regression and classifica-
work on coherence statistics for space-time signal processing. tion, backpropagation allowed neural networks to develop their
His work on modal analysis is being applied to mode tracking own internal representations.The backpropagation algorithm has
in power systems to identify and track low-frequency modes of been used successfully in applications including speech and vi-
oscillation that reveal vulnerabilities to system instabilities. He sual object recognition, fraud detection, plant monitoring, and
introduced invariance as an important principle for designing automated check verification. His early work on the Boltzmann
optimal detectors, which has resulted in matched and adaptive machine during the 1980s introduced many of the concepts
subspace detectors for radar, sonar, and hyper-spectral imaging. that have remained at the forefront of neural network learn-
These detectors adaptively find tell-tale signatures in broadband ing. Boltzmann machines were initially considered too slow for
multisensor time series while maintaining invariance to unknown widespread application. However, as computing power improved,
channel variations that cannot be modeled or estimated. Scharf s Hinton was able to develop a specific Boltzmann machine that
work on coherence is bringing attention to the commonality of provides much faster training properties than the earlier general
a variety of seemingly disparate problems in detection and es- machines. The ability to pre-train each of the layers of neural
timation theory. He also pioneered the geometric approach to networks having up to 20 layers of parameters ushered in the
interpreting signal processing problems and their solutions, lead- era of deep-learning neural networks. Hinton demonstrated that
ing to the application of problem-solving tools such as subspace deep networks, which partition the neural network into many
projections (orthogonal and oblique), canonical coordinates, and layers, can be trained using mostly unsupervised learning, level by
principal angles between subspaces. His early work on the geo- level, with each level learning to represent slightly more abstract
metrical point of view provided a pathway for future researchers concepts than the previous level, by composing those concepts
resulting in new insights and useful ways of approaching and solv- represented by the previous levels. Hintons work on deep learn-
ing problems. Scharf s Statistical Signal Processing: Detection, Estima- ing has completely revolutionized the field of machine learning,
tion, and Time Series Analysis (Addison Wesley, 1991) is considered especially impacting machine vision applications including image
a definitive text on the subject. classification, medical diagnostics, law enforcement, computer
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of an IEEE Third Millen- gaming, and enhanced vehicle safety.
nium Medal (2000) as well as a Technical Achievement Award A Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.) and recipient of the
(1995) and Society Award (2004) from the IEEE Signal Process- IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award (1998), Hinton is a Distin-
ing Society, Scharf is Research Professor of Mathematics and guished Emeritus Professor with the Department of Computer
Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Science at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. and a Distinguished Researcher at Google Inc., Mountain View,
CA, USA.
Scope: For outstanding achievements in signal processing. Scope: For groundbreaking contributions that have had an excep-
tional impact on the development of electronics and electrical
engineering or related fields.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Education Medal Sponsored by the Federation of Electric Power
Sponsored by MathWorks, Pearson, and the Companies, Japan
IEEE Life Members Fund
Simon Haykin Masayoshi Esashi
For pioneering contributions to micro-

For contributions to engineering educa- electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and
tion in adaptive signal processing and their uses in automobiles, cellular phones,
communication industrial equipment, and medical devices
With a passion for ensuring that education and research regularly Masayoshi Esashi has been a pioneering force of micro-electro-
reinforce each other, Simon Haykin is among the most influen- mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for over 40 years, devel-
tial electrical engineering educators of our generation. A prolific oping and bringing to market the tiny sensors and actuators that
writer of textbooks, Haykin believes that, whenever possible, an provide advanced functionalities in todays automobiles, cellular
author should make sure that the teacher adopting the textbook phones, industrial equipment, and medical devices. Esashis key
and the student studying from the book both feel comfortable in contributions to biomedical microsensors began in the 1970s,
reading the textbook. This belief has been key to the success of where his work on an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET)
his many landmark books on signal processing, adaptive filtering, led to the development of medical catheters for in-vivo pH and
communications (both analog and digital), neural networks, and PCO2 monitoring. During the 1980s, Esashi developed many
learning machines that have made him well known throughout MEMS and integrated circuit (IC) devices including a servo-
the world. The use of his textbooks is so widespread that many if type accelerometer, networked tactile sensor, multifreedom active
not most of todays practicing engineers learned their fundamen- catheter, and a monolithically integrated capacitive pressure sensor
tals in communications, radio, and radar from Haykin. In 2015, it that was commercialized by Toyoda Machine Works. The micro-
was estimated that over 14,000 students at over 120 universities in fluidic system developed by Esashi during the 1990s, which fea-
the United States and Canada alone were using one of Haykins tured microchannels, flow sensors, valves, and pumps on a silicon
textbooks. He continues to define new topics that bring together wafer, provided the foundation for the micro total analysis sys-
signal processing, communications, controls, machine learning, tem/lab-on-a-chip technologies of today. To provide the often-
and cognitive science. Haykins current focus is devoted to a new lacking tools needed for continued innovation of MEMS-based
way of thinking about human cognition from an engineering devices, Esashi used his IC research and development experience
perspective. He has written books on cognitive networks and the to help develop etchers, deposition machines, and special lithog-
fundamentals of cognitive radio and is currently working on what raphy and evaluation tools. His development of an ion-reactive
he considers his most important text, Cognitive Dynamic System etcher enabled the fabrication of deep trenches in silicon, which
Theory. This book builds on the teaching of cognitive dynamic was critical to the commercialization of inertial sensors now used
systems at the graduate level and beyond by mimicking the brain in over 1 million automobiles for active safety control. Another
and complementing it with engineering fundamentals. Haykin hallmark of Esashis career has been his belief in open innova-
was the founding director of McMaster Universitys Communi- tion collaboration. He established the Micro System Integration
cations Research Laboratory, which has distinguished itself for Center where companies can work together to advance MEMS
contributions to signal processing, adaptive filtering, radar, and technologies. This has resulted in wafer-level-based hetero-inte-
communications. grated devices such as piezoelectric MEMS switches for mobile
An IEEE Life Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, phones, monolithic tunable filters for cognitive radios, MEMS-
and recipient of many international awards, Haykin is a Distin- on-IC networked tactile sensors for human-friendly robots, and
guished University Professor with the Electrical and Computer massively arrayed electron beam emitters for maskless high-speed
Engineering Department at McMaster University, Hamilton, nanolithography.
Ontario, Canada. An IEEE Member and recipient of the Medal with Purple
Ribbon from the government of Japan, Esashi is a professor with
Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
Scope: For a career of outstanding contributions to education in Scope: For outstanding contributions to material and device sci-
the fields of interest of IEEE. ence and technology, including practical application.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for

Sponsored by the Intel Foundation Radar Technologies and Applications
Sponsored by the Raytheon Company
Takuo Sugano Nadav Levanon

For contributions to and leadership in
the research and development of the For contributions to radar signal design
science and technology of semiconductor and analysis, pulse compression, and
devices signal processing
Takuo Sugano has dedicated his career to strengthening the under- With a central research theme of waveform design and analysis,
standing of semiconductor materials to enable progress in develop- Nadav Levanon is considered one of the worlds foremost experts
ing advanced silicon-based electronic devices and the continued on radar theory and practice with many contributions to tech-
growth of the industry. During the 1960s, he tackled instability niques that have become fundamental practices in radar signal
issues in silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors processing. Levanon is most known for his development of the
(MOSFETs) caused by sodium contamination. Using radio-acti- periodic ambiguity function (PAF), which is an important ex-
vation analysis, Sugano demonstrated the physical mechanism of tension of Woodwards ambiguity function. PAF is the main tool
prevention of sodium ions from moving in the dielectric, leading for analyzing and designing continuous-wave radar waveforms
to more stability and enabling more reliable and high-performance and periodic pulsed waveforms. Levanons early work on mul-
MOSFETs. Assuming that chemical bonds between silicon and ticarrier waveforms for radar provides waveform variability and
oxygen or silicon at silicon dioxide-silicon interfaces are stretched, separability, which are of concern to advanced multiple-input,
he also proposed a novel model on the origin of the U-shaped multiple output (MIMO) coding and are explored by the radar
energy distribution of density of trap state at silicon dioxide-silicon community. His recent work on noncoherent pulse compression
interfaces. His work on electron transport in the silicon inversion has enabled coding concepts normally used in coherent radar to
layer highlighted the effect of surface quantization of carriers in be applied to noncoherent radar such as laser radar. Making use
MOSFET channels at room temperature to improve the dynamic of the lasers natural on-off keying technique, these radars can
characteristics of silicon MOSFETs. The resulting improvement operate using extremely low-peak optical power, which is im-
in performance helped move the commercial application of sili- portant for low-cost operation and stealth applications. Levanon
con MOSFETs beyond personal calculators. To further improve designed and built his first radar during 1968-69 as part of his
MOSFET reliability, Sugano then focused his efforts on electron Ph.D thesis. Hundreds of these balloon-borne radar altimeters
and hole trapping in silicon dioxide films that were thermally flew for months on meteorological balloons that provided data
grown in an ultra-dry or conventional oxidizing atmosphere on used to enhance the early Antarctic ice elevation maps. His radar
the surface of silicon substrates and the generation of interface trap was later adapted for aircrafts as the Sperry AA100 Radar Altim-
states by electron or hole injection. Also important to increasing eter. He also headed a team that developed the first bird-borne
the understanding of semiconductor materials was Suganos role in beacon for the ARGOS satellite tracking system that was used to
establishment of a class-100 clean room in 1975 at the University locate and gather information on migrating birds. Levanon also
of Tokyo at a time when clean rooms were not popular at uni- developed the user location concept of Qualcomms GLOBAL-
versities. Sugano has also made pioneering contributions to IIIV STAR satellite communication system. Levanons Radar Principles
semiconductors, superconducting ( Josephson junction) devices, (Wiley, 1988) and Radar Signals (Wiley, 2004) are important books
and single-electron transistors. He developed an anodic oxidation in the field that have educated two generations of radar students
process for III/V compound semiconductors in inductively cou- and experts.
pled plasma and demonstrated its usefulness for fabricating gallium An IEEE Life Fellow and Fellow of the Institution of Engi-
arsenide insulated-gate FETs. He also has made important con- neering and Technology, Levanon is a Professor Emeritus of the
tributions to plasma processes for fabrication of silicon large-scale Faculty of Engineering with Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
integrated circuits, including plasma etching, plasma cleaning, and
plasma oxidation.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the Person of Cultural
Merit award (2006) from the government of Japan, Sugano is a
Professor Emeritus with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Scope: For exceptional contributions to the microelectronics in- Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields
dustry. of radar technologies and their applications.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Sponsored by IBM Corporation
Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, and
Power & Energy Societies
Arun G. Phadke Christos H. Papadimitriou

For providing a deeper understanding of
computational complexity and its implica-
For contributions to synchrophasor tions for approximation algorithms, ar-
technology for monitoring, control, and tificial intelligence, economics, database
protection of electric power systems theory, and biology
The pioneering work of Arun G. Phadke on computer-based Christos H. Papadimitriou is a leader in providing an understand-
protection equipment for providing precise, real-time data on ing of how computational complexity can be used as a tool for
power transmission system conditions has provided the backbone understanding limits and solving problems within the broader
for todays wide-area measurement and control systems used to scientific community, pioneering connections and collaborations
ensure power grid reliability and prevent disruptions from lead- between computer science and other disciplines. Papadimitriou
ing to large-scale blackouts. Phadke developed synchrophasors has been the key player in the development of our understand-
for measuring the flow of electricity through the power grid. ing of NP total search problems, which are computational chal-
Synchrophasors are time-synchronized numbers that represent lenges where solutions are guaranteed to exist but may be hard to
both the magnitude and phase angle of the sine waves found in find. He has been very influential in developing algorithmic game
electricity and are time-synchronized for accuracy. Phadke also theory, which involves the convergence of computer science and
developed the phasor measurement unit (PMU) for measuring economic theory. His work on computing and determining the
synchrophasors. PMUs have proven to be the main tool for the computational complexity of the Nash equilibrium has provided
monitoring, protection, and control of the grid and are consid- important insights for game theory and economics. He studied
ered a quantum leap over analog technology, quickly providing the algorithmic complexity of computing game-theoretic solu-
the information needed to maintain grid stability over a wide tions to cooperative and noncooperative game scenarios, which
region. During the 1990s, Phadke helped develop the concept has had important implications for economics and gauging the
of adaptive relaying. Using the computing and communications health of the Internet amid the risks caused by congestion. He
capability of computer relays, this concept allows for automatic defined the price of anarchy, which provides a measure of the
adjustment of protective relay characteristics to match prevailing degree of inefficiency of equilibrium in a game, and is impor-
power system conditions to avoid unnecessary trips of equipment tant for quantifying loss due to uncoordinated behavior of selfish
as a catastrophic power system event evolves. Phadkes efforts on agents within networks such as the Internet. Papadimitriou has
advancing computer-based protective relaying began in the early also demonstrated how computational complexity can be applied
1970s when his implementation of protective algorithms in an to natural processes such as biology, describing the algorithmic
IBM minicomputer and its subsequent installation in a 138-kV aspects of protein structure. His novels Turing and Logicomix have
substation near Roanoke, Virginia, represented the worlds first been very successful in reaching the broader public and exposing
communicating relay and fault recorder. Also, his digital sym- many people to some of the fundamental principles and ideas of
metrical component distance relay was a significant contribution mathematics and computer science.
to the distance protection of transmission lines. His early work on A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Na-
Fourier transforms for voltage and current calculation serves as tional Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts
the foundation for most of the digital relays installed throughout and Sciences, and an ACM Fellow, Papadimitriou is the C. Lester
the world today. Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci-
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Acad- ence with the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
emy of Engineering, Phadke is a University Distinguished Re-
search Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg,VA, USA.
Scope: For outstanding contributions to the technology associated Scope: For outstanding achievements in computer-related science
with the generation, transmission, distribution, application, and and technology.
utilization of electric power for the betterment of society.
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2016 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies

Sponsored by Toyota Motor Corporation
Masahiko Miyaki, Yukihiro Shinohara,

and Katsuhiko Takeuchi
For development of electronic multipoint fuel-injection systems,

enabling fuel-efficient and low-emission diesel engines
The development of electronic multipoint fuel-injection tech- low injection pressure. Their system allowed high fuel injection
nology by Masahiko Miyaki, Yukihiro Shinohara, and Katsuhiko pressure, even at low engine speeds, for finer atomization resulting
Takeuchi has revitalized the popularity of diesel engines by in less unburned fuel and fewer particulates. The first-generation
enabling high-power operation with better fuel efficiency and ECMFIS reduced emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulates
lower emissions than conventional injector technology. The by half and cut combustion noise by as much as 10 dB. Their
trios concept of common rail direct fuel injection featured an fourth-generation common rail system (2013) cuts emissions by
electronically controlled multi-fuel injection system (ECMFIS) 80% and further reduces combustion noise. They also developed
to overcome the limitations of common rail system prototypes an innovative feedback control system that can compensate for
of the 1960s. Incorporating an electronically controlled injec- aging deterioration of the fuel injectors to ensure clean emissions
tor and sensors for speed, cylinder identification, and pressure, and high drivability throughout the lifespan of the engine.
they were the first to successfully commercialize the diesel com- A Fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Masahiko
mon rail system in 1995. Prior to their work, the popularity Miyaki is executive vice president;Yukihiro Shinohara is executive
of conventional diesel engines was waning, due to significant director of electric systems; and Katsuhiko Takeuchi is head of the
black smoke emissions from poor atomization of fuel caused by diesel business unitall at DENSO Corporation, Kariya-shi, Japan.
Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in the application of technology in the fields of interest to IEEE that improve the environment
and/or public safety.
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal

Sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation
John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar,

and Lui Sha
For technical leadership and contributions to fundamental
theory, practice, and standardization for engineering real-time
systems
The groundbreaking work of John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Ra- medical systems.Their work made it possible to compute both the
jkumar, and Lui Sha on developing the generalized rate-mono- average-case and worst-case behaviors with useful mathematical
tonic scheduling (GRMS) theory has revolutionized the modern precision. Not only does GRMS contribute to keeping develop-
practice of real-time system design by ensuring that critical tasks ment costs in check, it also helps assure that expensive mission
can be guaranteed across a wide range of real-world applications. failures do not occur. GRMS has been incorporated into IEEE
Building upon the RMS theory introduced by Liu and Layland in real-time software standards and hardware standards.
1973, the trio developed and refined GRMS theory over two de- An IEEE Member, John P. Lehoczky is the Thomas Lord Uni-
cades to provide predictability, efficiency, and flexibility in schedul- versity Professor of Statistics and Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie
ing complex concurrent real-time tasks that regular RMS could Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. An IEEE Fellow, Ragu-
not satisfy. GRMS transformed the development of real-time sys- nathan Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse Professor with the
tems from what was traditionally a hand-crafted, error-prone pro- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie
cess into a scientific engineering discipline for building real-time Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. An IEEE Fellow, Lui Sha
systems that are pervasive in applications including aerospace, de- is the Donald B. Gillies Chair Professor of Computer Science,
fense systems, transportation, process control, manufacturing, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Scope: For exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.
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IEEE Medal of Honor

Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation
G. David Forney, Jr.
For pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes

and the development of reliable high-speed data communications.
In a career spanning more than 50 years, G. David Forney, Jr., has mum sequence detector rather than just a proof technique. His
influenced virtually every major advance in the field of coding Forney algorithm (FA) is employed by all practical decoders for
theory, providing practical solutions that have enabled high-speed Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for computing error values after
data communications for systems ranging from wired to wireless error locations in a received code word have been determined.
and from electrical to optical. Forney introduced concatenated The FA continues to be widely used in many physical-layer
codes in 1965 as error-correcting codes constructed of two or transmission systems and optical/magnetic storage devices,
more simpler codes to achieve good performance with reason- which employ RS coding for outer-layer error control. An-
able complexity in detecting and fixing errors during data trans- other important contribution by Forney is the minimum-phase
mission. His concatenated method became widely used for space whitened matched filter for maximum-likelihood sequence de-
communications, and the approach is widely practiced today coding of modulation symbols in the presence of intersym-
for satellite communications, mobile telephony, and digital vid- bol interference and noise. When turbo codes were introduced
eo broadcasting. Forney joined Codex Corporation to develop in 1993, Forney demonstrated that they could be described
practical implementations of coding theory, where he designed as codes on graphs. In 2001, with what are now known as
the first coding system to go into spacea convolutional code Forney-style factor graphs, he showed that one graph can si-
with sequential decoding for a NASA Pioneer deep-space mis- multaneously describe both a code and its dual, which provides
sion in 1968. Considered the founder of the modern modem, in for new, efficient decoding algorithms. Forney continues to
1970 Forney brought quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) contribute to error-correcting coding techniques with recent
to the marketplace by designing the first high-speed [9,600 bits work focusing on tail-biting trellis realizations using Forney-
per second (bps)] QAM telephone-line modem.This became the style factor graphs.
foundation of Codexs commercial success, and it revolutionized An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Acad-
the industry, providing the foundation for the international V.29 emy of Engineering and U.S. National Academy of Sciences,
9,600 bps modem standard. Forney is currently an adjunct professor with the Department of
Forney also introduced the now universally used concept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Laborato-
trellis diagrams to describe the Viterbi algorithm, and he is con- ry for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute
sidered the first to recognize the Viterbi algorithm as an opti- of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Scope: For an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in IEEE fields of interest.
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IEEE SPECTRUM FEATURE
This is an excerpt from IEEE Spectrum May 2016 print issue as "Modem Maestro."
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Modem
Maestro
G. David Forney Jr., I T C A N S O M E T I M E S S E E M A S T H O UG H theres

a gaping chasm between theory and reality. But G. David
the 2016 IEEE Forney Jr., the recipient of this years IEEE Medal of Honor,
Medal of Honor masterfully straddles both realms, his colleagues say. A key
figure in the development of the high-speed modem, a device
recipient, turns that opened up the Internet and all its associated world-changing
technologies, Forney has balanced the practical and the theoretical
information theory throughout his career. Over the years, he has not only made
critical contributions to communications and information theory
into practice but also put some of this recondite mathematical theory into
practice. And as a result, he can claim a key role in the greatest
communications revolution in modern history. r Hes one of the
BY M ARK ANDERSON people who gets to the heart of abstract subjects very quickly, says
Thomas Kailath, an emeritus professor of engineering at Stanford
and the 2007 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient. But uniquely, when
needed, he also designed and built circuits, wrote code, and got
things working. Everything Dave does, he does well. r And yet, as
PHOTOGRAPH BY Mike McGregor
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ert Gallager, a young faculty member

in the mid-1960s and now an emeritus
professor at MITs Research Labora-
tory of Electronics, singles out For-
neys doctoral thesis as a leap forward
in the field.
At that time, digital technology was
taking off, and researchers were hunt-
ing for coding schemesways of trans-
forming those 1s and 0s into a form
that could be carried from place to
place with little power and few errors.
In his celebrated 1948 paper, Shannon
had already worked out the ultimate
limit to such efficiency, a maximum
achievable error-free data rate for any
communications channel. But reach-
ing that limit was easier said than done.
Disturbances during transmission
will flip bits at random. To tackle errors,
PUSHING THE LIMITS: Forney
an underclassman at Princeton in the Shannon proposed adding redundant
late 1950s, Forney wasnt necessarily [right] and Robert Gallager confer at bits to a sequence of data before trans-
set on a career in engineering. He did MIT. This photograph was taken around mission to create an encoded packet.
ultimately decide to pursue a bachelor 1965, Forney says. The longer the packet, the less likely
of science in engineering, but not out of it would be corrupted to look like
any burning desire to invent or design. another potential sequence. This
I thought, Ill keep my options approach could push transmission to its
open, but without any great inten- of Maxwells demon, a thought exper- limits, but it posed a practical challenge
tion to become an engineer, Forney iment in which energy appears to be at the decoding stage. The straight-
recalls, relaxing in the sunny sitting created for free by sorting molecules forward, brute-force approach would
area off the kitchen of his Cambridge, by their speed. Brillouin noted that compare the incoming sequence with
Mass., home one December afternoon every physical system contains infor- every possible transmitted sequence to
last year. But an elective course in ther- mation, and extracting that informa- find the most likely one. This process
modynamics taught by John Archibald tionin the case of Maxwells demon, could work for relatively short pack-
Wheeler stirred a sense of discovery the speed of particlesalways costs ets, Forney says. But longer packets,
in him. energy, enough to precisely satisfy the which would be needed to obtain very
I really liked his approach, Forney laws of thermodynamics. Information low error rates, would quickly exhaust
says of the legendary physicists down- isnt free; it comes at a cost, Forney the computational power of a decoder,
to-earth teaching style. It was much says, in summary. Probably I could even with todays technology.
more of an engineering course than a poke holes in that now. But certainly Researchers proposed various cod-
physics course. And he [assigned] a term as an undergraduate this was all very ing schemes to try to achieve data rates
paper instead of a final exam. interesting. close to the Shannon limit with low
For the paper, Forney decided to He carried this interest to graduate error rates and reasonable decoding
read Lon Brillouins 1956 book, Sci- school at MIT, in 1961, where he found complexity. But there was no single
ence and Information Theory. The a whirlwind of research activity. Shan- code that could do it all.
book tackled thermodynamics in the non himself had recently arrived from Forney had another idea. Why not
context of information theory, then a Bell Labs, and a research group was try- break the problem down and use mul-
fledgling field, founded about a decade ing to extend his work and find prac- tiple, complementary codes to encode
earlier with a groundbreaking paper by tical uses for it. and decode data, one operating on the
Claude Shannon. In that 1948 paper, A In a masters thesis on information outcome of the other? A simple inner
Mathematical Theory of Communica- theory and quantum mechanics, and a code operating directly on the input
tion, Shannon laid out the mathemati- doctoral dissertation on error-correct- and output of a communications chan-
cal foundation for the transmission of ing codes, Forney displayed a blood- nel could achieve a moderate error rate
information (the centenary of his birth hounds nose for f inding the right at data rates near Shannons limit. An
is being celebrated this year). problems and the right questions to outer code, used before data enters the
For ne y s ay s he w a s s t r uck by ask about those problems. The 1990 inner code and after exiting it, could
Brillouins resolution of the problem IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, Rob- drive error rates down further using a
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powerful but less computationally com- out to be unreliable owing to a previ- things out graphically, which appeals
plex algorithm. ously unrecognized problem with the to people more than just a collection of
Forney showed that this approach, telephone networks that added phase equations [does], says Stanfords Kai-
dubbed concatenation, could achieve jitterrandom variation in the phase lath. They provided a tool for engi-
a much better trade-off between data of the signal-carrying waves traveling neers to appreciate what the Viterbi
rates and computational complexity, across them. algorithm could do and make exten-
and that it would in principle let exist- Following up on a suggestion made sions of it.
ing modems transmit and receive all by Gallager, Forney designed a fam- From 1975 to 1985, Forney served
the way up to Shannons limit. Today, ily of modems that used a modulation as an R&D executive for Codex and
almost every coding scheme for trans- scheme called quadrature amplitude then Motorola, after the companys
mission is in some form a concatenated modulation. This approach, which acquisition. In the 1980s, Forney was
scheme, says colleague Gottfried could better handle phase shifts, pro- inspired by trellis-coded modulation,
Ungerboeck. You can transmit infor- duced a more reliable and successful a new signaling scheme developed by
mation faster and more reliably with modem. The design eventually became Ungerboeck that was rapidly adopted
the same power and bandwidth. the basis of the international V.29 in modems, and he was drawn back
Coming out of graduate school in 9,600-bit-per-second modem standard. into research. In the decades since, he
1965, Forney recalls that information But this early practical success didnt has worked extensively on codes, with
theory was a field brimming with ideas lure Forney away from the fundamen- an eye toward continuing to raise the
and yet-to-be-realized applications. tals. After his modem work in 1970 and efficiency of data transmission. A num-
Any such IT f ield today might have 1971, he spent a sabbatical year at Stan- ber of his papers, as with his work on
launched a dozen startups, with angel ford. And when he returned, he set out trellis diagrams, reintroduced key con-
investors hovering to pounce on pos- to write up some thoughts hed had on cepts into the field that other research-
sible secondary spin-off opportunities. how an algorithm proposed in 1967 by ers could then apply.
But at the time, startups werent really Andrew Viterbi might be applied to Forney retired from Motorola in
part of the culture, Forney says. Smart signal decoding. 1999. He has been an adjunct professor
and capable grads who didnt intend to The result was a landmark 1973 paper in the department of electrical engi-
stay in academia typically sought out in the Proceedings of the IEEE that neering and computer science and the
big companies. popularized the Viterbi algorithm by Laboratory for Information and Deci-
Forney submitted applications to introducing a visualization technique sion Systems at MIT since 1996.
some of the usual suspectsIBM and called the trellis diagram. The algo- Regarding his contributions, For-
Bell Labs. But on the advice of Gallager, rithm can be used to recover data from ney says modestly, Im just the guy
Forney also applied to the recently a patchy or noisy signal. Today, it is who comes along at the end of the
formed Codex Corp. The Massachu- used in an extraordinary range of dis- circus parade. After a discovery has
setts-based company gave Forney the parate technologies, including modems, been made, hell add to it, he says. In
lowest offer. But he was sold. They wireless communications, and voice a sentence he sums up these insights:
were in business to try to make infor- and handwriting recognition, as well You know, the right mathematical
mation theory practical, to make cod- as DNA sequencing. language to talk about this invention
ing practical. Nobody else was doing To explain how the Viterbi algo- is this.
that, he says. rithm works, Forney gives a hand- Filling out the framework around
Forney became the 13th employee in w r it ing recog n it ion exa mple. a new theory or algorithm might not
the company, which would be bought Reading in the letters for the word be the kind of work that garners head-
by Motorola in 1977 and ultimately hand, the computer might initially lines, but its still critical to progress,
employ thousands. One of his first proj- determine that the second letter looks Gallager says. Researchers keep score
ects was a communications contract for more like a q than an a. But a recog- by counting inventions and weighting
NASA, creating coding and decoding nizer running the Viterbi algorithm them by their popularity, he says, but
algorithms for some of the agencys will also factor in the fact that hand what makes a research field grow and
Pioneer spacecraft. is a much more likely English word evolve is the context, relations, and
But the project that put Codexand than hqnd. It finds the most likely connection to reality. Forney has cre-
Forneyon the map was a 9,600-bit- sequences, taking into account both ated this context in the information
per-second modem that became the raw likelihood and sequence con- theory and communication technology
basis of the companys commercial suc- straints, Forney says. fields to a greater extent than almost
cess. The company had devised the first Viterbi-algorithm decision trees anyone else, Gallager says.
such modem in 1968, Forney says, and can be plotted in a latticelike trellis And in the ever-evolving world of
it sold for more than US $20,000 to diagram, an approach Forney and his engineering, the ability to draw from
big firms with international data net- colleagues say is much simpler than theory to push the limits of whats prac-
works, such as banks and airlines. But, writing out formulas and logical if- tical is one skill that will never go out
like its competitors, the modem turned then statements. Trellis diagrams laid of style.r
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2016 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

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IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Sponsored by the Brunetti Bequest
Computational Intelligence Society, and IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society
K. Kirk Shung Akira Toriumi
For contributions to CMOS device design

For contributions to ultrasound imaging from materials engineering to device
and transducer technology physics
A world-renowned leader of biomedical ultrasound technology, Akira Toriumis pioneering contributions to understanding ad-
K. Kirk Shungs pioneering discoveries have contributed signifi- vanced gate dielectrics and device physics are driving the con-
cantly to the health and welfare of society. His early work involv- tinued miniaturization of components needed for current and
ing the interaction of ultrasound and blood has set the standard future electronic devices. His early work on random dopant
for research activities and the development of diagnostic ultra- fluctuation-induced threshold voltage variation and its effect on
sound equipment. His study led to a thorough understanding of device reliability addressed an important source of variation facing
the origin of echogenicity of biological tissues in an ultrasonic device design when trying to further scale power supply voltage.
image. Shung is also credited for developing the worlds first high- In the area of high-k silicon dielectrics, Toriumi demonstrated
frequency linear array at 30 MHz for imaging, an important some of the thinnest reliable dielectrics to date to enable high-k
technological breakthough in the field. His recent inntovations gate stacks. He has also pioneered the investigation of using ger-
include applying high-frequency ultrasound beams to trap micro- manium as an alternative channel material for high-performance
particles and cells and in assessing cellular responses to ultra- complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS), which will
high-frequency ultrasound stimulation. be critical to providing the reduced power supply voltages needed
An IEEE Life Fellow, Shung is the Deans Professor in Bio- for even smaller future technology generations.
medical Engineering at the University of Southern California, An IEEE Senior Member, Toriumi is a professor with the De-
Los Angeles, CA, USA. partment of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan.
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing IEEE Control Systems Award

Technology Award Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society
Sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology Society
Michael Pecht Arthur J. Krener
For visionary leadership in the devel-

opment of physics-of-failure-based For contributions to the analysis, control,
and prognostics-based approaches to and estimation of nonlinear control
electronic packaging reliability systems
A world leader in electronics packaging reliability, Michael Pecht Arthur J. Kreners foundational work on nonlinear control pro-
has developed prediction tools that enable manufacturers to make vided the definitive treatment on controllability and observability
their products safer and more operationally available. As an alter- of time-variant, real-world systems and has spurred tremendous
native to flawed handbook-based reliability prediction methods, progress in the development of nonlinear control theory. Kreners
Pecht developed the physics-of-failure (PoF) approach to elec- work during the 1970s set the cornerstone for control of nonlin-
tronics reliability. The PoF approach provides greater accuracy by ear systems and the resulting research paper was selected by the
taking into account the actual failure mechanisms of the device IEEE Control Systems Society as one the 25 Seminal Papers of
in the operating conditions that the device would likely face in the 20th Century for its far-reaching importance. Kreners work
the field. He also developed prognostics-based health assessment on a bifurcation-based approach to controlling models of rotating
methods that have been adopted by industry to predict reliability stall and surge has been invaluable to the U.S. Air Forces study of
for critical systems such as vehicle batteries, avionics, and alterna- jet engine instabilities. He has also been a leader in developing
tive energy sources. Pecht also founded the Center for Advanced software tools for implementing the latest methods of nonlinear
Life Cycle Engineering. control.
An IEEE Fellow, Pecht is director of the Center for Advanced An IEEE Life Fellow, Krener is a research professor with the
Life Cycle Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate
Park, MD, USA. School, Monterey, CA, USA.
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IEEE Electromagnetics Award IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio

Sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Processing Award
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Sensing Society, and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Giorgio Franceschetti Takehiro Moriya
For leadership in the academic world,

teaching, research, and scientific activi- For contributions to speech and audio
ties in advanced electromagnetics coding algorithms and standardization
Giorgio Franceschetti has helped advance the field of electro- Considered one of the most innovative speech and audio coding
magnetics through innovative research and high-level teaching researchers in the world, the technologies and standards devel-
covering diverse areas ranging from electromagnetic propagation oped by Takehiro Moriya are used internationally for the practical
in complex environments to wireless transmission power. France- transmission of speech signals over digital networks. His many
schetti introduced the study of electromagnetic fields and waves to contributions to standardized coding techniques include the pitch
Italian universities in 1965 and established an outstanding research synchronous innovation scheme adopted by the Japanese digital
community. His contributions to synthetic aperture radar technol- cellular phone system, which is recognized as the lowest bit-rate
ogies have been successfully used for imaging the Earths surface standard for public telephone service in the world. His speech
from space. His work on the degrees of freedom involving scatter- coder implemented in the ITU-T G.729 standard has become
ing fields has enabled more accurate sampling, which has impacted the default technique for VoIP systems, cellular phones, and voice
electromagnetic imaging. As recognition of his long-lasting impact recording devices. Moriya also made a significant contribution
on electromagnetics, the November/December 2014 issue of the to establishing MPEG audio lossless coding (ALS), which has
Forum for Electromagnetic Research Methods and Application Technolo- been selected as one of the techniques for the next generation of
gies (Vol. 6, NEWS&VIEWS) was dedicated to Franceschetti and super-high-definition broadcasting in Japan.
contains a salute and a tribute to his accomplishments. An IEEE Fellow and NTT Fellow, Moriya is head of the Mori-
An IEEE Life Fellow, Franceschetti is a Professor Emeritus with ya Research Lab, NTT Communication Science Laboratories,
the University Federico II, Naples, Italy. Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan.
IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the IEEE Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society
Signal Processing Society
Bede Liu Carlos H. Daz
For foundational contributions to the For sustained contributions to and lead-

analysis, design, and implementation of ership in foundry advanced CMOS logic
digital signal processing systems transistor technology
Bede Lius cutting-edge research has profoundly impacted the The innovations in logic transistor technology developed by Car-
digital processing of images and video by enabling signal pro- los H. Daz have revolutionized the foundry industry and provided
cessing systems that feature lower circuit count, minimal power semiconductor companies the ability to bring devices to market
consumption, and reduced design cost critical to todays mobile more quickly and cost effectively. Daz has successfully developed
multimedia devices. His revolutionary concept of incorporating multiple generations of foundry technology from 0.18 m forward.
a fixed number of shift-adds for multiplier-free filters provided He has demonstrated that it is possible to provide a flexible high-
a 3-to-1 savings in computation time over the traditional use of density transistor technology platform that supports multiple de-
full multipliers. Lius proposal to use 1-bit coefficients on over- vice segments with minimal burden on manufacturing. Of note
sampled data achieved significant savings in chip area and power. is his work on the 28-nm generation, which meets the needs of
He also proposed a highly efficient motion vector search method both high-performance and low-power applications. The 28-nm
for video coding, providing better accuracy and substantial time high-k/metal-gate transistor technology has set the foundry industry
savings compared to prior approaches. standard in performance-power space coverage on a wide range
An IEEE Life Fellow, Liu is a Professor Emeritus with the De- of devices such as cellular/mobile computing, graphics processors,
partment of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princ- field-programmable-arrays, and central processing units.
eton, NJ, USA. He is a member of U.S. National Academy of An IEEE Fellow, Daz is the director of Logic Technology
Engineering, an Academician of Academia Sinica, and a Foreign Advanced Development Division with Taiwan Semiconductor
Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Manufacturing Co., Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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IEEE Herman Halperin Electric IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
Transmission and Distribution 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
George J. Anders Steven J. Sasson
For contributions to advances in compu-

tational methods for the thermal rating For designing and building the first
of electric power cables digital still camera
George J. Anders expertise has contributed toward setting the Steven J. Sassons development of the first digital still camera and
standard for rating electric power cables, which has provided sig- contributions to groundbreaking digital technologies have rev-
nificant economic benefits to the power industry. His compu- olutionized photography, making it easier and less expensive to
tational techniques using analytical and finite element methods capture and share photos. His patented work at Kodak during
enable engineers to accurately rate cable circuits. He also devel- the 1970s involved using a fast charge-coupled device to capture
oped optimization techniques for selecting the most economic images to a digital buffer memory and transfer them to a nonvola-
conductor sizes, providing accurate calculations to avoid costly tile digital storage medium. Sasson saw the potential of emerging
oversizing of buried cables. The software for steady-state and memory chips and analog-to-digital converters and decided to
emergency ratings of underground cables, which he developed, store four digital bits per pixel on a cassette tape instead of using
is used throughout the world and is considered the industry stan- traditional analog video circuits. During the 1980s, he also devel-
dard for power cable rating calculations. Anders contributions to oped the first megapixel digital camera incorporating discrete co-
early leak detection methods are also helping to reduce the costs sine transform compression for storing images on memory cards.
of detection, location, clean up, and repair related to cable leaks. A recipient of the 2009 U.S. National Medal of Technology
An IEEE Fellow, Anders is currently president of Anders Con- and Innovation, Sasson is currently president of Steven J. Sasson
sulting, Ltd., Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. Consulting, LLC, Hilton, NY, USA.
IEEE Internet Award IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award

Sponsored by Nokia Corporation Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society
Henning Schulzrinne G.S. Peter Castle
For formative contributions to the design For developments of applied electrostatic

and standardization of Internet multime- devices and processes in industry, agri-
dia protocols and applications culture, and environmental protection
The multimedia-capable Internet that we now take for granted One of the founders of modern applied electrostatics research, G.S.
was made possible by Henning Schulzrinnes fundamental con- Peter Castle has developed tools for addressing real-world issues im-
tributions to the development of network protocols, applications, pacting manufacturing, agriculture, and the environment. His work
and algorithms for the effective transport of audio and video sig- on electrostatic precipitators including two-stage precipitation and
nals. He helped migrate the Internet from a medium containing space charge suppression has improved air-cleaning applications.
primarily text and images to one featuring both real-time and on- He also developed processes for electrostatic liquid painting and
demand audio/video. Key to the success of the Internet was Schul- powder coating, which have provided more cost-effective and envi-
zrinnes Real-Time Transport Protocol, which became an Internet ronmentally friendly solutions compared to conventional industrial
full standard in 2004. He also developed the Real-Time Streaming painting systems. Castles induction charging concept has enhanced
Protocol to control delivery of audio and video streams, which liquid deposition of pesticides on leaves, reducing the amount of
is supported by major consumer streaming architectures. And his chemicals that need to be sprayed for improved crop protection. His
Session Information Protocol became the standard for Internet te- research concerning contact charging for electrostatic separation of
lephony and conducting real-time interactive multimedia sessions. plastics is benefitting the recycling industry.
An IEEE and ACM Fellow, Schulzrinne is a professor with the An IEEE Life Fellow, Castle is a Professor Emeritus and adjunct
Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, New research professor with the Department of Electrical and Com-
York, NY, USA and serves as a Technology Advisor to the Federal puter Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, London,
Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, DC, USA. Ontario, Canada.
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IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award

Instrumentation and Measurement Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Sponsored by Keithley Instruments, Inc. and the IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Society
Samuel P. Benz P.P. Vaidyanathan
For creating and disseminating quan-

tum-based superconducting voltage
standards that form the basis for world- For fundamental contributions to digital
wide precision voltage measurements signal processing
Considered the premier researcher in developing and applying Considered to be one of the pioneering contributors to multirate
superconducting quantum voltage standards, Samuel P. Benz has signal processing research, P.P.Vaidyanathan has heavily influenced
provided industries around the world with the ability to perform the research directions in filter banks and multirate systems. He is
precision measurements. Benz advanced the capabilities of Pro- most well known for developing the general theory of filter banks
grammable JosephsonVoltage Standard (PJVS) systems that provide with perfect reconstruction, as well as orthonormal filter banks,
improved voltage stability and noise immunity compared to con- which have impacted digital communications, audio, and image
ventional JVS technology. Accuracy is achieved because these volt- coders. One of his earliest contributions was in the area of low-
age standards are based on superconducting Josephson junctions sensitivity digital filter structures. He showed how such structures
incorporating quantum mechanics, which ensures that the voltage can be designed directly in discrete time, without the need for
does not drift with time or from environmental conditions. He transforming electrical circuits into the digital domain. An early
also helped develop the Quantum Watt, which uses a PJVS for best proponent of applying signal processing methods to genomics,
ever power calibration critical to the electric power industry. The Vaidyanathan developed methods to computationally predict the
NIST alternating current (ac) JVS produces quantum-accurate ac location of protein coding genes and noncoding genes. His work
waveforms and also significantly reduces uncertainties. on coprime and nested arrays is expected to have major impact on
An IEEE Fellow, Benz is also a NIST Fellow and leads the applications such as direction finding and radar systems.
Superconductive Electronics Group at the National Institute of An IEEE Fellow, Vaidyanathan is a professor at the California
Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA. Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers
Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund and Communications Award
Sponsored by NEC Corporation
K.J. Ray Liu Leandros Tassiulas
For exemplary teaching and curriculum

development, inspirational mentoring of
graduate students, and broad educa-
tional impact in signal processing and For contributions to the scheduling and
communications stability analysis of networks
K.J. Ray Lius students arent just individuals pursuing graduate Leandros Tassiulas has revolutionized how scheduling and stabil-
degrees in signal processingthey become his extended family. ity analysis are performed in communications networks, provid-
They can attest to how Lius passion for teaching and mentoring dynamic resource allocation tools to improve performance
ing for their professional development goes beyond the classroom, of wireless networks and Internet switches. Developing control
beyond graduation. He is always there for them. Many have gone algorithms based on a sound mathematical foundation as an al-
on to become leaders in academia and industry. Both a world-class ternative to heuristic approaches, Tassiulas introduced the Max-
researcher and excellent educator who pioneered and cross-polli- Weight scheduling algorithm for achieving maximum throughput
nated various fields, Liu built the University of Marylands signal in systems with conflicting resources as well as the Backpressure
processing program practically from scratch beginning in 1990 routing algorithm for end-to-end traffic forwarding. His Maxi-
and has shaped it into one of the most well-respected graduate mum Connected Queue algorithm introduced the concept of
programs in the world. He also revamped the Universitys masters opportunistic scheduling that became part of most wireless stan-
program in telecommunications, creating a unique identity result- dards since 3G. Together, these three algorithms provide the basis
ing in a scholarly and financially successful program. for cross-layer network design in todays wireless networks.
An IEEE Fellow, Liu is the Christine Kim Eminent Professor of An IEEE Fellow, Tassiulas is the John C. Malone Professor in
Information Technology at the University of Maryland, College the Electrical Engineering Department and the Institute for Net-
Park, MD, USA. work Science at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies
Sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society Sponsored by the Motorola Solutions Foundation
Johann W. Kolar Mark G. Allen
For contributions to the advancement For contributions to research and

of three-phase pulse-width modulation development, clinical translation, and
(PWM) converter systems and power commercialization of biomedical micro-
electronics education systems
A visionary leader in the field of power electronics, Johann W. An international leader in the field of micro-electro-mechanical
Kolar has a distinguished record of providing industry with key systems (MEMS), the innovations of Mark G. Allen are playing
innovations for ensuring high power quality and saving energy. a major role in improving patient care and reducing healthcare
He has driven advances in three-phase pulse-width modulation costs. His development and commercialization, together with
rectifier and matrix converter technology, including the Vienna coworkers, of a fully implantable wireless sensor technology for
Rectifier and the Sparse Matrix Converter, over the past two monitoring heart pressure, known as the CardioMEMS Heart
decades. Offering outstanding performance concerning effi- Failure System, allows physicians to better regulate patient activity
ciency, power density, harmonic distortions, and costs, the Vienna and adjust medication regimes. Allens innovation represents the
Rectifier is widely employed for power supply of data centers first MEMS sensor approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin-
and industry processes, as well as actuators of electric aircraft. istration for permanent implantation in humans. Clinical studies
Furthermore, Kolar has spearheaded the introduction of multi- of Allens sensor have demonstrated a 37% reduction in hospital
objective optimization as a fundamentally new research approach admissions and a 78% reduction in re-admissions, providing better
into power electronics and has proposed a revolutionary new ap- quality of life for patients.
proach for education in power electronics that is used today in An IEEE Fellow, Allen is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor
academia and industry all over the world. with the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at
An IEEE Fellow, Kolar is a full professor and chair of the Power the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Electronic Systems Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits IEEE Frederik Philips Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Sponsored by Philips Electronics N.V.
Miles A. Copeland Kelin J. Kuhn
For contributions to the design and ap- For technical leadership in the develop-
plication of switched-capacitor and RF ment and implementation of break-
signal processing circuits through CMOS technology
Miles A. Copelands 31-year career is marked by the strength of his Kelin J. Kuhns leadership in turning next-generation compli-
achievements as a university teacher, inventor, researcher, and mentor. mentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology into
His innovative approach to industry-university collaboration support- reality has been critical to enabling the continued miniaturization
ed the rapid development of the telecommunication and microelec- of transistors required for smaller but more powerful and efficient
tronics industries in Canada. He coauthored, with Northern Telecom electronic devices.While working for Intel, Kuhn was responsible
(Nortel), a groundbreaking paper on the use of switched capacitors as for navigating CMOS technology from minimum dimensions of
resistor equivalents, which demonstrated that filter RC time constants 130 nm to 22 nm. Her involvement with introducing the high-
on-chip could depend on the ratio of capacitor sizes. This results in k/metal-gate process was a breakthrough that enabled increased
much better integration, repeatability, and accuracy when implement- performance with lower power dissipation in electronic devices.
ing analog filters on chip than is possible with ordinary resistors.The She also made significant contributions to enabling the mass pro-
filter codec developed subsequently at Nortel used switched-ca- duction of the TriGate transistor, which facilitates lower operating
pacitor filtering. With this innovation the company became an early voltage for a substantial reduction in chip power consumption.
leader in the shift to fully electronic switching networks. Other re- These innovations are considered two of the most transformative
search work done by Miles graduate students included much cited changes in the history of silicon-based technology.
studies of the matching of on-chip capacitors and transistors. An IEEE Fellow, Kuhn is a professor with the Materials Sci-
An IEEE Fellow, Copeland is a Professor Emeritus with Car- ence and Engineering Department at Cornell University, Ithaca,
leton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. NY, USA.
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IEEE Photonics Award IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Mark E. Thompson Raffaello DAndrea
For scientific and technical leadership in

the conception, demonstration, and de- For pioneering contributions to design
velopment of phosphorescent materials and implementation of distributed, coop-
in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) erative robotics and automation systems
displays for commercial applications
The highly efficient photonic materials developed by Mark E. Spanning academics, business, and the arts, Raffaello DAndreas
Thompson have advanced organic light-emitting diode (OLED) career is built on his ability to bridge theory and practice. He
technology from a laboratory curiosity to a booming commercial was the faculty advisor and system architect of the Cornell Ro-
success, providing low-power, high-resolution displays for mobile bot Soccer Team, four-time world champions at the international
devices and the newest generation of flat-panel televisions.With a RoboCup competition. He was one of the first in the controls
previous device efficiency of only 25%, OLED performance was community to use a multi-vehicle testbed for research. At ETH
severely limited. During the late 1990s, Thompson overcame the Zurich, his research redefines what autonomous systems are ca-
limitations by introducing iridium and platinum as materials for pable of. He is cofounder of Kiva Systems, a robotics company
electrophosphorescent emitters, which through further develop- that revolutionized material handling by deploying thousands of
ment now provide practically 100% device efficiency. Less than autonomous mobile robots in warehouses. He recently founded
10 years after Thompsons introduction, electrophosphorescent Verity Studios, a company developing a new breed of interactive
OLEDs were commercialized and are now featured in the very and autonomous flying machines.
popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones, among other products. An IEEE Fellow, DAndrea is professor of dynamic systems and
An American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and control at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
National Academy of Inventors Fellow, Thompson is a professor
with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award IEEE David Sarnoff Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Sponsored by SRI International Sarnoff
Ronald R. Yager Hiroyuki Matsunami
For contributions to the development of

For contributions to the theory of fuzzy silicon carbide (SiC) crystals and devices
sets and systems for advanced power electronics
With almost 40 years of groundbreaking contributions, Ronald Recognizing early on the potential that silicon carbide (SiC) held
R.Yager is one of the most highly cited researchers in the field of for outperforming conventional semiconductor materials in ad-
computational intelligence. Of major impact has been Yagers in- vanced power electronics, Hiroyuki Matsunami has developed many
troduction of the Ordered Weighted Averaging operator that has critical breakthroughs to provide SiC-based energy-saving devices.
been applied to multicriteria decision making, information fusion, Important to the adoption of SiC for power devices was Matsu-
database retrieval, and pattern recognition. His methodology for namis step-controlled epitaxial growth technique, which enabled
finding linguistic summaries of large data collections makes data single-crystal growth and overcame the barrier of polytype mixing
easier to understand and has been integral to data mining applica- problems. His demonstration of the first high-voltage SiC Schottky
tions. He also developed a generalized class of logical and opera- barrier diodes for reducing power dissipation during energy conver-
tors, known as the Yager family of t-norms, that have been widely sion is considered a milestone in SiC power device development.
used to model the intersection of fuzzy sets. Yagers pioneering Matsunami also played a pioneering role in establishing SiC power
work on fuzzy-set-based approaches for social network and rec- metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor technologies. The
ommender systems has been important to web applications. devices made possible by Matsunamis innovations are being utilized
An IEEE Life Fellow, Yager is a professor with the Machine today in trains, high-speed elevators, and hybrid vehicles and are re-
Intelligence Institute at Iona College, New York, NY, USA. alizing huge energy savings benefitting the environment.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Matsunami is a Professor Emeritus with
Kyoto University,Yawata, Kyoto, Japan.
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IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Sponsored by Hitachi, Ltd., and the IEEE Computer Society
Simon R. Cherry William H. Sanders
For contributions to the development and For the assessment-driven design of

application of in vivo molecular imaging trustworthy cyber infrastructures for
systems electric grid systems
Simon R. Cherrys expertise in developing molecular imaging sys- A leading cybersecurity expert, the groundbreaking contributions
tems incorporating positron emission tomography (PET) is driv- of William H. Sanders have made the electric power grid more
ing advances in biomedicine and healthcare. Cherry created the safe, secure, reliable, and available. He did so by developing tools
first microPET scanner to evaluate radiopharmaceuticals and drugs and techniques to make the grid more resilient to attacks that
in small animals. Overcoming the challenges of imaging small ani- may occur as well as methods for quantitatively assessing its cyber
mals has been instrumental in allowing researchers and clinicians security and resiliency. He has worked in every part of the field,
to gain a better understanding of diseases and potential human from the distribution-side, including smart meters, to long-haul
therapies. He also developed the first hybrid PET/magnetic reso- transmission networks. Among other contributions, he is the co-
nance imaging (MRI) scanners for even more powerful preclinical developer of the NP-View software to test NERC-CIP compli-
imaging applications. His discovery that many radionuclides used ance of process control networks, which has changed the way
in biomedical research produce Cerenkov luminescence and can utilities audit their networks.
be imaged using optical cameras has created one of the fastest- An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Sanders is a Donald Biggar Willett Profes-
growing areas in molecular imaging. Cherry is currently working sor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and
on developing the first total-body human PET scanner. Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
An IEEE Fellow, Cherry is a professor with the Departments Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at the University of
California, Davis, CA, USA.
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award IEEE Nikola Tesla Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association Sponsored by Wolong Electric Group Co., Ltd., the IEEE Industry
Applications Society, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society
Hermann Koch Bruno Lequesne
For leadership in and contributions to

the development, standardization, and
global impact of gas-insulating technol- For contributions to the design and
ogy for substations (GIS) and high-volt- analysis of actuators, sensors, and mo-
age lines (GIL) tors for automotive applications
Hermann Kochs dedication to advancing gas-insulating switch- The patented work of Bruno Lequesne has driven advances lead-
gear (GIS) and line (GIL) technology for the power industry is ing to the realization of more electric automobiles that use elec-
enabling the safe transmission of high electric power over greater trical and electromechanical systems for improved fuel economy,
distances and into space-constrained environments where over- reduced greenhouse emissions, and better safety. With innovations
head power lines are not viable. Working with Siemens AG, Koch recognized by multiple awards from industry leaders such as Delphi
developed new insulating gas mixtures for high-voltage systems, and General Motors, Lequesnes work on linear actuators provided
adopted pipeline laying technology to electrical systems, and was closed form solutions to identify the best configurations for engine-
responsible for the installation of the first GIL system using these valve motion or suspension. His work on encoders for brushless
new techniques in 2001. Koch has helped increase global access motors helped overcome torque ripple in electric power steering
to GIS and GIL technology by promoting improved standardiza- systems, contributing to a fuel-saving feature now standard in most
tion efforts between the International Electrotechnical Commis- vehicles. His camshaft and crankshaft position sensors for engine
sion (IEC) and IEEE. He influenced IEEE to develop standards control help to reduce emissions, and his wheel speed sensors for
for high- and medium-voltage GIS and GIL and promoted IEC anti-skid braking have made vehicles safer. He also developed one of
positions while a member of the IEEE Standards Activities Board. the first induction belt-driven starter generators, which has enabled
An IEEE Fellow, Koch is a principle expert with the Energy start-stop functionality to help eliminate idling losses in engines.
Management Division at Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany. An IEEE Fellow, Lequesne is president of E-Motors Consult-
ing, LLC, Menomonee Falls, WI, USA.
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IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award

Sponsored by Nokia Bell Labs
Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Raymond W. Yeung,

and Ning Cai
For pioneering contributions to the field of network coding
The pioneering contributions of Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Raymond An IEEE Fellow, Li is a Distinguished University Professor
W.Yeung, and Ning Cai to network coding have laid the founda- with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of
tion of the field. Their seminal work on linear network coding China, Chengdu, China and Professor Emeritus of the Chinese
has changed the landscape of the information technology by dem- University of Hong Kong. An IEEE Fellow, Yeung is the Choh-
onstrating an improvement of transmission rates over traditional Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering with the Chinese
routing techniques in communication networks. Linear network University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. An IEEE Fellow,
coding has become one of the fastest-growing areas in communi- Cai is a Distinguished Professor with the State Key Laboratory
cation theory. It is now being actively investigated for applications of Integrated Services Networks (ISN), Xidian University, Xian,
to mobile/wireless, network infrastructure and protocols, cloud Shaanxi, China.
storage, content distribution networks, and video streaming.
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award IEEE Transportation Technologies Award

Sponsored by Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics,
Sensing Society, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Intelligent Transportation Systems, Microwave Theory and Techniques,
Power Electronics, Power & Energy, and Vehicular Technology Societies
Yonina Eldar Petros Ioannou
For development of the theory and

implementation of sub-Nyquist sampling For contributions to the design, analysis,
with applications to radar, communica- and implementation of adaptive cruise-
tions, and ultrasound control systems
Yonina Eldars pioneering work on sub-Nyquist sampling and The pioneering innovations of Petros Ioannou have been instru-
reconstruction of sparse analog signals has demonstrated the po- mental in making adaptive cruise control (ACC) a practical reality
tential to improve radar, medical imaging, communication, and and spurring its commercial adoption by the automotive industry.
storage systems. Bridging the gap between theory and real-world Using forward-looking sensors such as radar, ACC systems auto-
applications, Eldar developed the concept of Xampling for sub- matically adjust a vehicles speed to maintain a safe driving distance
Nyquist sampling and built hardware prototypes to demonstrate based on vehicles ahead of it. Unique to Ioannous work was im-
how the technique works in practical settings. The ability to plementing a time-headway approach to vehicle spacing instead of
sample signals at rates significantly lower than the standard Ny- the popular belief of using vehicle-to-vehicle communications. By
quist rate, but without the distortion normally associated with avoiding the complications of vehicle-to-vehicle communications,
such techniques, positively impacts power consumption, storage manufacturers such as Ford were able to bring ACC technology
memory, size, and digital signal processing rates in analog-to-dig- to market quickly. Ioannous ACC systems also provide smoother
ital converters. Eldars innovations will enable portable ultrasound acceleration and speed response, which have demonstrated positive
machines for emergency and rural medicine, radar systems with effects on traffic flow, fuel economy, and the environment.
improved resolution, and better wireless capabilities for cognitive An IEEE Fellow, Ioannou is a professor with the University of
(intelligent) radio transmission and reception. Southern California, Director of the Center for Advanced Transpor-
An IEEE Fellow, Eldar is a professor with the Technion-Israel tation Technologies, and Associate Director of Research of the Uni-
Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. versity Transportation Center METRANs, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society
Terri Fiez
For innovative undergraduate engineering and computing curriculum development fostering student
engagement and retention
Terri Fiez has helped ensure that engineering students are well real systems to work and the satisfaction of accomplishing the
prepared for their careers not only technically but in terms of task. By graduation, students not only have a robot that theyve
leadership, teamwork, and communication. While at Oregon customized, they also fully understand how it works and how it
State University, Fiez implemented a learner-centered program got there. Fiez also launched the first online post-baccalaureate
called TekBots where freshman students develop an autonomous program to provide computer science degrees for students with
robot and build upon this platform during their four-year cur- degrees from nonengineering disciplines.
riculum. By engaging students with a real system that does some- An IEEE Fellow, Fiez is currently vice chancellor for research
thing interesting, students experience the frustration of getting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
2015 IEEE STAFF AWARDS
IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award
Sponsored by IEEE Sponsored by IEEE
Susan Hassler Ken Gilbert
For enhancing the global impact of IEEE

by creating the distinctive publication
IEEE Spectrum, which exemplifies the For demonstrating distinguished job
highest values of science, technology, performance and serving as a role
and engineering journalism model to IEEE professional staff
Susan Hassler has transformed IEEEs flagship member magazine Entering his 20th year at IEEE, Ken Gilbert has learned a thing
IEEE Spectrum into an internationally renowned source for in- or two about how to manage a staff that really works together, and
sightful and understandable coverage of science, technology, and he knows just how influential and diverse IEEE really is. Starting
engineering. She has repositioned the magazine and extended its his IEEE career as an accounting director, Gilbert moved over to
digital platform strategy, establishing IEEE Spectrum as an essen- Technical Activities Operations, where he is senior director. With
tial member benefit while also expanding the visibility of IEEE a knack for maximizing the many different strengths that his staff
among the larger technology community and general public by members possess, his skills as a team builder are well known. He
developing outlets for the magazines material beyond IEEE. works to understand each persons abilities and interests to find
Hassler developed a mobile-friendly state-of-the art website and the best organizational fit, bringing the employee with the right
introduced a very popular video series and podcast service. Under skills to a task rather than based just on a job description. He
her leadership, IEEE Spectrum has won numerous awards for both receives great satisfaction in assembling and maintaining diverse
its print and online efforts, including three Grand Neal Awards teams that complement each other, knowing that when his staff
and a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the members feel that they are involved and making a difference,
Thought Leader Category (2012). good things are accomplished.
An IEEE Member, Hassler is currently editor-in-chief of IEEE Gilbert is the senior director of IEEE Technical Activities Op-
Spectrum, New York, NY, USA. erations, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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2016 IEEE PRIZE PAPER
IEEE Donald G. Fink Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Life Members Fund
Timothy York, Samuel B. Powell, Shengkui Gao, Lindsey Kahan, Tauseef Charanya,
Debajit Saha, Nicholas W. Roberts, Thomas W. Cronin, Justin Marshall, Sanuel Achilefu,
Spencer P. Lake, Baranidharan Raman, and Viktor Gruev
For the paper, Bioinspired Polarization Imaging Sensors: From Circuits and Optics to Signal Processing Algorithms and Bio-
medical Applications
Representing an integration of work in biology, mathematics, op- Engineering, Debajit Saha is a postdoctoral fellow with the Depart-
tics, materials science, and electronics, Timothy York and his col- ment of Biomedical Engineering, Samuel Achilefu is director of the
leagues present recent developments in bioinspired polarization Optical Radiology Lab, Spencer P. Lake is an assistant professor with
imaging sensors and their applications to biomedicine in their the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
paper Bioinspired Polarization Imaging Sensors: From Circuits Baranidharan Raman is an assistant professor with the Department
and Optics to Signal Processing Algorithms and Biomedical Ap- of Biomedical Engineering, and Viktor Gruev is an IEEE Senior
plications. To emulate the highly efficient sensory systems found Member and associate professor with the Department of Com-
in biology to better detect features that are hard to see with the puter Science and Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis,
human eye, the paper, which appeared in the October 2014 issue MO, USA. Lindsey Kahan is a research assistant with the Washing-
of the Proceedings of the IEEE (vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 14501469), ton University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Shenkui
presents a bioinspired complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor Gao is an electrical engineer with Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA.
(CMOS) current-mode polarization imaging sensor based on the Tauseef Charanya is a management consultant with Boston Con-
compound eye of the mantis shrimp. The work presented in the sulting Group, Toronto, Canada. Nicholas W. Roberts is director of
paper has important implications for applications such as noninva- research with the School of Biological Sciences at the University
sive neural recording, tissue evaluation, and tumor detection. of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Thomas W. Cronin is a professor with the
Timothy York is an IEEE Member and assistant professor with Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at South- Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA. Justin Marshall is a profes-
ern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, USA. Samuel B. Powell is sor of neuroscience and marine biology at the Queensland Brain
a Ph.D. student with the Department of Computer Science and Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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IEEE FELLOWS CLASS OF 2016
The grade of IEEE Fellow recognized 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 2016, 297 IEEE Fellows
were elevated. To learn more about the Fellow program or to nominate, visit: www.ieee.org/fellows.
David Abramson Ronald Azuma Laura Bottomley

University of Queensland Intel Laboratories North Carolina State University
Queensland, Australia Santa Clara, CA, USA Raleigh, NC, USA
for contributions to software tools for high for contributions to augmented reality for leadership in increasing student interest in
performance, parallel, and distributed STEM education
computing Fan Bai
General Motors Global R&D Brian Brandt
Vassilios Agelidis Detroit, MI, USA Maxim Integrated Products
University of New South Wales for contributions to vehicular networking and San Jose, CA, USA
Sydney, NSW, Australia mobility modeling for leadership in data converters and mixed-
for contributions to power electronics, renewable signal circuits
energy conversion and integration with electricity Christopher Baker
grid Ohio State University Michael Branicky
Columbus, OH, USA University of Kansas
Kiyoharu Aizawa for contributions to cognitive sensing in passive Lawrence, KS, USA
University of Tokyo and diversity radars for contributions to switched and hybrid control
Tokyo, Japan systems
for contributions to model-based coding and William Baldygo
multimedia lifelogging U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Henning Braunisch
Dayton, OH, USA Intel Corporation
Ozgur B. Akan for leadership in signal processing for radar Phoenix, AZ, USA
Koc University systems for contributions to high-bandwidth
Istanbul,Turkey microprocessor packaging
for contributions to wireless sensor networks Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Indian Statistical Institute David Brooks
Alin Albu-Schaeffer West Bengal, India Harvard University
Technical University Munich for contributions to genetic algorithm based Cambridge, MA, USA
Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling, Germany classification and clustering techniques for contributions to power-efficient and resilient
for contributions to compliant and lightweight computer system design
robots Edward Baranoski
Intelligence Advanced Research, Juergen Brugger
Massimo Alioto Projects Activity (IARPA) EPFL - cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne
National University of Singapore McLean, VA, USA Lausanne, Switzerland
Singapore, Singapore for leadership in knowledge-aided radar systems for contributions to micro and nano
for contributions to energy-efficient VLSI circuits for indoor environments manufacturing technology
Alexandre P. Alves da Silva Kenneth Barner Tracy Camp

GE Global Research University of Delaware Colorado School of Mines
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Newark, DE, USA Golden, CO, USA
for contributions to dynamic security assessment for contributions in nonlinear signal processing for contributions to wireless networking
and load forecasting in power systems
Siegfried Bauer Eugenio Cantatore
Lorenzo Alvisi Johannes Kepler-University Linz Eindhoven University of Technology
University of Texas at Austin Linz, Austria Eindhoven, Netherlands
Austin, TX, USA for contributions to the understanding and for contributions to the design of circuits with
for contributions to reliable distributed systems application of electroactive polymer dielectrics organic thin film transistors
Massoud Amin B. Wayne Bequette Carlos Canudas de Wit

University of Minnesota Rensselaer Poly Institute CNRS-GIPSA-Lab
Minneapolis, MN, USA Troy, NY, USA Grenoble, France
for leadership in smart grids and security of for contributions to design and control of for contributions to modeling and control of
critical infrastructures chemical and biomedical systems mechanical, robotic, and networked systems
Plamen Angelov Karl Berggren Jinde Cao

Lancaster University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Southeast University
Lancaster, United Kingdom Cambridge, MA, USA Nanjing, China
for contributions to neuro-fuzzy and autonomous for contributions to nanofabrication and for contributions to the analysis of neural
learning systems nanomanufacturing in the sub-10 nm regime networks
Tatsuo Arai Shannon Blunt Bruce Carlsten

Osaka University University of Kansas Los Alamos National Laboratory
Osaka, Japan Lawrence, KS, USA Los Alamos, NM, USA
for contributions to micro manipulators and for contributions to radar waveform diversity for contributions to high-brightness electron
sensors, and applications to cellular biology and design beams and vacuum electron devices
Huseyin Arslan Kwabena Boahen Sandro Carrara

University of South Florida Stanford University Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Tampa, FL, USA Stanford, CA, USA Lausanne, Switzerland
for contributions to spectrum sensing in cognitive for contributions to system design for for contributions to design of nanoscale
radio networks neuromorphic chip biological CMOS sensors
David Atienza Francesco Borrelli Umit Catalyurek

EPFL- cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne University of California - Berkeley Ohio State University
Lausanne, Switzerland Berkeley, CA, USA Columbus, OH, USA
for contributions to design methods and tools for for contributions to the theory and application of for contributions to combinatorial scientific
multiprocessor systems on chip model predictive control computing and parallel computing
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Yiu Tong Chan Armando Colombo Schahram Dustdar

Royal Military College Schneider Electric Automation GmbH Vienna University of Technology
Kingston, ON, Canada Bayern, Germany Vienna, Austria
for development of efficient localization and for contributions to industrial cyber-physical for contributions to elastic computing for cloud
tracking algorithms systems applications
Tony Chan Ian Craddock Michael Eineder
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology University of Bristol TUM - Technische Universitt Mnchen
Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong, China Bristol, United Kingdom Mnchen, Germany
for contributions to computational models and for leadership in imaging for healthcare for contributions to synthetic aperture radar
algorithms for image processing applications image processing for geodesy
Chorng-Ping Chang Lorrie Cranor Georges El Fakhri
Applied Materials, Inc. Carnegie Mellon University Massachusetts General Hospital/
Santa Clara, CA, USA Pittsburgh, PA, USA Harvard Medical School
for contributions to replacement gate and for contributions to privacy engineering Boston, MA, USA
shallow trench isolation for CMOS technology for contributions to biological imaging
Luiz Da Silva
Jie Chen Trinity College Dublin
University of Alberta, Canada Danilo Erricolo
Dublin, Ireland University of Illinois
Edmonton, AB, Canada for contributions to cognitive networks and
for contributions to low-power and biomedical Chicago, IL, USA
resource management for wireless networks for contributions to electromagnetic scattering
ultrasound circuits and devices
and associated computational algorithms
Gilles Dambrine
Xilin Chen
IEMN - Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic Karu Esselle
Institute of Computing Technology
and Nanotechnology Macquarie University
Beijing, China
Lille, France Sydney, NSW, Australia
for contributions to machine vision for facial
for contributions to the modeling of small signal for contributions to resonance-based antennas
image analysis and sign language recognition
and noise characteristics in nanoscale high-
Chun-Hung Chen frequency devices Giuseppe Fabrizio
George Mason University Defence Science & Technology Group
Fairfax, VA, USA Timothy Davis Edinburgh, SA, Australia
for contributions to simulation-based Texas A&M University for contributions to adaptive array signal
optimization of automation systems College Station,TX, USA processing in over-the-horizon radar systems
for contributions to sparse matrix algorithms and
Shigang Chen software Jun Fan
University of Florida Missouri University of Science & Technology
Gainesville, FL, USA Leila De Floriani Rolla, MO, USA
for contributions to quality of service University of Genova for contributions to power delivery networks in
provisioning and policy-based security Genova, Italy printed circuit designs
management in computer networks for contributions to geometric modeling and
visualization Mukta Farooq
Degang Chen IBM Corporation
Iowa State University Robert Deng Hopewell Junction, NY, USA
Ames, IA, USA Singapore Management University for contributions to 3D integration and
for contributions to testing of analog and mixed- Singapore, Singapore interconnect technology
signal integrated circuits for contributions to security algorithms, protocols
and systems Patrick Fay
Shu-Ching Chen University of Notre Dame
Florida International University Yixin Diao Notre Dame, IN, USA
Miami, FL, USA IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for contributions to compound semiconductor
for contributions to multimedia data and disaster Yorktown Heights, NY, USA tunneling and high-speed device technologies
information management for contributions to modeling, optimization, and
control of computing systems Faramarz Fekri
Gyu Hyeong Cho Georgia Institute of Technology
KAIST- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto Atlanta, GA, USA
Technology Sapienza University of Rome for contributions to coding theory and its
Daejeon, Korea Rome, Italy applications
for contributions to power management circuit for contributions to impulse-radio ultra
design wideband and cognitive networks for wireless Leonard Feldman
communications Rutgers University
Henry Chung
Piscataway, NJ, USA
City University of Hong Kong Warren Dixon for contributions to semiconductor-dielectric
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China University of Florida interfaces for MOS technologies
for contributions to power electronic converters Gainesville, FL, USA
for lighting for contributions to adaptive control of uncertain Claudia Felser
nonlinear systems Max-Planck-Institut fur CPfS
C. Y. Chung
University of Saskatchewan Ananth Dodabalapur Gesellschaft, Munchen, Germany
Saskatoon, SK, Canada Univeristy of Texas at Austin for contributions to the design and chemical
for contributions to power system stability and Austin,TX, USA synthesis of new materials with multi-functional
control for contributions to organic electronic devices properties
and circuits
Wan Kyun Chung Gabor Fichtinger
Pohang University of Science & Technology David Doman Queens University
Pohang, Korea USAF Air Force Research Laboratory Kingston, ON, Canada
for developments in robust control theory for Rome, NY, USA for contributions to medical robotics and
mechanical systems for contributions to flight dynamics and control computer-assisted intervention
Terry Cisco Ravindranath Droopad Dinei Florencio

Consultant Texas State University Microsoft Research
Glendale, CA, USA San Marcos, TX, USA Redmond, WA, USA
for leadership in the development of airborne for contributions to epitaxial growth of for contributions to statistical and signal
active array transmit and receive module advanced materials for RF and CMOS processing approaches to adversarial and
technologies applications security problems
George Clark Frederic Dufaux Thor Fossen

Alabama Power Company Telecom ParisTech Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Birmingham, AL, USA Paris, France Trondheim, Norway
for contributions to distribution automation for for contributions to visual information processing for contributions to modelling and controlling of
power and coding marine crafts
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F. Stuart Foster Alan Hanjalic Xiaobo Hu

Sunnybrook & Womens College- TU Delft- Delft University of Technology University of Notre Dame
Health Sciences Centre Delft, Netherlands Notre Dame, IN, USA
Toronto, ON, Canada for contributions to multimedia information for contributions to resource management for
for contributions to the development and retrieval embedded systems
commercialization of ultrasound technology
Tomohiro Hase Jiang Hu
Christina Fragouli Ryukoku University Texas A&M University
University of California - Los Angeles Shiga, Japan College Station,TX, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA for contributions to embedded software for real- for contributions to gate, interconnect, and clock
for contributions to network coding time applications network optimization in VLSI circuits
Michael Franz Dimitrios Hatzinakos

Xian-Sheng Hua
University of California - Irvine University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada Alibaba Group
Irvine, CA, USA Hangzhou, China
for contributions to just-in-time compilation and for contributions to signal processing
techniques for communications, multimedia for contributions to multimedia content analysis
to computer security through compiler-generated and image search
software diversity and biometrics
Scott Hauck Tony Jun Huang
Patrick French University of Washington Penn State University
TU Delft- Delft University of Technology Seattle, WA, USA University Park, PA, USA
Delft, Netherlands for contributions to Field-Programmable Gate for contributions to acousto-opto-fluidics, and
for contributions to micro-electromechanical Array based systems nanoelectromechanical systems
devices and systems
Aaron Hawkins Jianwei Huang
Jessica Fridrich Brigham Young University Chinese University of Hong Kong
Binghamton University- SUNY Provo, UT, USA Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Binghampton, NY, USA for contributions to optofluidics for contributions to resource allocation in
for contributions to digital media forensics, wireless systems
steganography, and steganalysis George Hayhoe
Mercer University Qiang Huang
Masayuki Fujita Macon, GA, USA Beijing Institute of Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology for contributions to professional and technical Beijing, China
Tokyo, Japan communication for contributions to the design and control of
for contributions to passivity-based control in biped robots
robotics and robust control Larry Heck
Google Qing-An Huang
Vincenzo Galdi Mountain View, CA, USA Southeast University
University of Sannio for leadership in application of machine Nanjing, China
Benevento, Italy learning to spoken and text language for contributions to modeling and packaging of
for contributions to modeling the interaction processing microsensors and microactuators
between electromagnetic waves and complex
materials Maurice Heemels
Jiwu Huang
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, Netherlands Shenzhen University
Alan Gatherer Shenzhen, China
Huawei for contributions to analysis and design of
hybrid, networked, and event-triggered systems for contributions to multimedia data hiding and
Plano, TX, USA forensics
for contributions to systems-on-chip for 3G and Gernot Heiser
4G cellular systems University of New South Wales Adrian Ionescu
Sydney, NSW, Australia EPFL - cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne
Maryellen Giger for contributions to security and safety of Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Chicago - Radiology operating systems for contributions to the development of novel
Chicago, IL, USA devices for low power applications
for contributions to computer-aided biomedical Michael Henderson
imaging and diagnosis ISO New England Mohammad Islam
Springfield, MA, USA Halla Mechatronics
Fernando Gomide for contributions to the application of high- Bay City, MI, USA
University of Campinas voltage DC and flexible AC transmission for development of electromagnetic sensors and
Sao Paulo, Brazil systems actuators for automotive applications
for contributions to fuzzy systems
Mark Hersam Rabih Jabr
Tibor Grasser Northwestern University American University of Beirut
Technische Universitt Wien : TU Wien Evanston, IL, USA Beirut, Lebanon
Vienna, Austria for contributions to carbon nanomaterial for application of robust optimization to power
for contributions to modeling the reliability of processing methods and devices systems
semiconductor devices
John Heywood Yungtaek Jang
Anthony Grbic University of Dublin Delta Products Corporation
University of Michigan Dublin, Ireland Fremont, CA, USA
Ann Arbor, MI, USA for contributions to engineering education for contributions to efficiency optimization of
for contributions to the theory and design of research ac-dc power supplies
electromagnetic metamaterials
Mark Horenstein
Dan Jiao
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie Boston University
Boston, MA, USA Purdue University
Clemson University West Lafayette, IN, USA
Clemson, SC, USA for contributions to the modeling and
measurements of electrostatics in industrial for contributions to computational
for contributions to organic electronic materials electromagnetics
in biotechnology and biomedicine processes
Tzyy-Sheng Horng Yaochu Jin
Gerhard Hancke Natl Sun Yat-Sen University University of Surrey
University of Pretoria Kaohsiung, Taiwan Surrey, United Kingdom
Pretoria, South Africa for contributions to system-in-package modeling for contributions to evolutionary optimization
for contributions to wireless sensor networks and design
Alvin Joseph
Edwin Hancock Yu Hu IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
University of York Purdue University Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
N. Yorkshire, United Kingdom West Lafayette, IN, USA for contributions to silicon-germanium
for contributions to pattern recognition and for contributions to power modeling and energy bipolar-CMOS and RF silicon-on-insulator
computer vision management of mobile devices technology
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Mahmut Kandemir Mark Laubach Stefano Lonardi

Penn State University Broadcom Corporation University of California, Riverside
University Park, PA, USA Irvine, CA, USA Riverside,CA, USA
for contributions to compiler support for performance for leadership in design and standardization of for contributions to computational biology and
and energy optimization of computer architectures cable modems data mining
Lance Kaplan Eugene Lavretsky Songwu Lu
Army Research Laboratory The Boeing Company University of California, Los Angeles
Adelphi, MD, USA Everett, WA, USA Los Angeles, CA, USA
for contributions to signal processing and for contributions to the development of adaptive for contributions to wireless and mobile
information fusion for situational awareness and robust flight control technologies networking and network security
Sheldon Kennedy Ta Sung Lee Chenyang Lu
Niagara Transformer Corporation National Chiao Tung University Washington University in St. Louis
Cheektowaga, NY, USA Hsinchu,Taiwan Saint Louis, MO, USA
for leadership in the technology and standards for for leadership and contributions in for contributions to adaptive real-time computing
rectifier, inverter and harmonic-mitigating transformers communication systems and signal processing systems
Nam Sung Kim Jong Ho Lee Shih-Lien Lu
University of Wisconsin-Madison Seoul National University
Madison, WI, USA Intel Corporation
Seoul, Korea
for contribution to circuits and architectures for Portland, OR, USA
for contributions to development and characterization
power-efficient microprocessors for contributions to low-voltage microarchitecture
of bulk multiple-gate field effect transistors
and approximate computing
Joungho Kim Inkyu Lee
KAIST- Korea Advanced Institute of Korea University Victor Lubecke
Science and Technology Seoul, Korea University of Hawaii at Manoa
Daejeon, Korea for contributions to multiple antenna systems for Honolulu, HI, USA
for contributions to modeling signal and power wireless communications for leadership in the development of microwave
integrity in 3D integrated circuits transducers for biomedical application
Hui Lei
Katsumi Kishino IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Fa-Long Luo
Sophia University Yorktown Heights, NY, USA Element CXI, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan for contributions to scalable and dependable San Jose, CA, USA
for contributions to III-V light emitter technology data access in distributed computing systems for contributions to adaptive signal processing
for hearing and multimedia applications
Hitoshi Kiya Charles Leiserson
Tokyo Metropolitan University MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jian-Guo Ma
Tokyo, Japan Cambridge, MA, USA Tianjin University
for contributions to filter structure, data hiding, for leadership in parallel and distributed Tianjin, China
and multimedia security computing for leadership in microwave electronics and
RFIC applications
Stuart Kleinfelder Peng Li
University of California - Irvine Texas A&M University Xiaoli Ma
Irvine, CA, USA College Station,TX, USA Georgia Institute of Technology
for contributions to sensors and instrumentation for contributions to the analysis and modeling of Atlanta, GA, USA
for high-speed imaging applications integrated circuits and systems for contributions to block transmissions over
Michael Kneissl wireless fading channels
Shaoqian Li
Technische Universitaet Berlin University of Electronic Science &
Berlin, Germany Souvik Mahapatra
Technology of China IIT- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
for contributions to the development of wide bandgap Sichuan, China
semiconductor laser diodes and ultraviolet LEDs Mumbai, India
for leadership in development of broadband for contributions to CMOS transistor gate stack
Vladimir Kolobov wireless networks reliability
CFD Research Corporation Zhiwu Li
Huntsville, AL, USA Gabriele Manganaro
Xidian University Analog Devices Inc.
for contributions to theory, simulation and
Xian, Shaanxi, China Norwood, MA, USA
software development for industrial plasma
for contributions to Petri nets and their for leadership in the design of high-speed
Avinoam Kolodny applications to automated manufacturing converters
Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology systems
Technion City, Haifa, Israel Dimitris Manolakis
for contributions to VLSI design and automation tools Tsorng-Juu Liang MIT Lincoln Laboratory
National Cheng Kung University Lexington, MA, USA
Danica Kragic Tainan, Taiwan for contributions to signal processing
Royal Institute of Technology for contributions to power conversion for lighting education, algorithms for adaptive filtering, and
Stockholm, Sweden and sustainable energy hyperspectral imaging
for contributions to vision-based systems and
robotic object manipulation Weisi Lin
Jonathan Manton
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore, Singapore University of Melbourne
William Krupke Parkville, VIC, Australia
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for contributions to perceptual modeling and
processing of visual signals for contributions to geometric methods in signal
Livermore, CA, USA processing and wireless communications
for leadership in laser science and technology
Xuemin Lin
Lawrence Kushner University of New South Wales Joao Marques Silva
BAE Systems, Inc. Sydney, NSW, Australia IST/INESC-ID
Merrimack, NH, USA for contributions to algorithmic paradigms for Lisboa, Portugal
for leadership in RF/microwave circuits for database technology for contributions to decision and optimization
military and commercial applications algorithms for propositional logic
Kai Liu
Akhlesh Lakhtakia University of California- Davis Frank Marzano
Pennsylvania State University Davis, CA, USA Sapienza University of Rome
University Park, PA, USA for contributions to the understanding of Rome, Italy
for contributions to isotropic chiral, bianisotropic magnetotransport effects and magnetization for contributions to microwave remote sensing in
materials, and metamaterials reversal in nanostructures meteorology and volcanology
Erik Larsson Blake Lloyd Shinji Matsuo

Linkoping University Iris Power Engineering NTT Device Technology Laboratories
Linkoping, Sweden Mississauga, ON, Canada Kanagawa, Japan
for contributions to the technology of multi- for development of non-intrusive diagnostics for for contributions to heterogeneous integration of
antenna wireless communications electrical motors and generators semiconductor lasers
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Clyde Maughan Satoshi Nakamura Fernando Perez-Gonzalez

Maughan Engineering Consultants Nara Institute of Science and Technology University of Vigo
Schenectady, NY, USA Nara, Japan Vigo, Spain
for contributions to large generator insulation for contributions to speech recognition and for contributions to multimedia security
systems and generator failure mechanisms speech-to-speech translation
Luca Perregrini
Sudip Mazumder Thyagarajan Nandagopal University of Pavia
University of Illinois at Chicago National Science Foundation Pavia, Italy
Chicago, IL, USA Arlington, VA, USA for contributions to numerical techniques for
for contributions to analysis and control of for contributions to wireless network electromagnetic modeling
power electronics systems optimization, RFID systems, and network
architectures Zhouyue Pi
Nenad Medvidovic Consultant
University of Southern California Antonio Napolitano Allen, TX, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA University of Naples - Parthenope for leadership in millimeter wave communication
for contributions to the architecture of complex Napoli, Italy technology
software systems for contributions to the statistical theory of
nonstationary signal processing William Plant
University of Washington
Farid Melgani Seattle, WA, USA
Robert Nelson
University of Trento for contributions to the modeling
Trento, Italy Siemens
Orlando, FL, USA electromagnetic scattering from the sea
for contributions to image analysis in remote surface and its application to microwave
sensing for contributions to flexible AC transmission system
(FACTS) devices and wind power generation remote sensing
Ellis Meng Andrea Neto Ajay Poddar
University of Southern California TU Delft- Delft University of Technology Synergy Microwave Corporation
Los Angeles, CA, USA Delft, Netherlands Paterson, NJ, USA
for contributions to biomedical for contributions to dielectric lens antennas and for contributions to microwave oscillators
microelectromechanical systems wideband arrays
Ting-Chung Poon
Dimitri Metaxas Branislav Notaros Virginia Tech
Rutgers University Colorado State University Blacksburg, VA, USA
Piscataway, NJ, USA Fort Collins, CO, USA for contributions to optical image processing
for contributions to computer vision, medical for contributions to higher order methods in and digital holography
image analysis, and sparse learning methods computational electromagnetics
Petar Popovski
Risto Miikkulainen Richard Nute Aalborg University
University of Texas at Austin Consultant Aalborg, Denmark
Austin, TX, USA Bend, OR, USA for contributions to network coding and
for contributions to techniques and applications for contributions to safety engineering of multiple access methods in wireless
for neural and evolutionary computation electrical and electronic products communications
Federico Milano Claude Oestges Alexandros Potamianos

University College Dublin Universite Catholique de Louvain National Technical University of Athens
Dublin, Ireland Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Athens, Greece
for contributions to power system modeling and for contributions to channel characterization for contributions to human-centered speech and
simulation and modeling for multiple-input multiple-output multimodal signal analysis
wireless communications
Lamine Mili Domenico Prattichizzo
Virginia Tech Haruhiko Okumura Universita di Siena
Blacksburg, VA, USA Toshiba Siena, Italy
for contributions to robust state estimation for Tokyo, Japan for contributions to haptics and multi-fingered
power systems for contribution to image processing and display robotic hands
technologies
Hlaing Minn Calton Pu
University of Texas at Dallas Peggy ONeill Georgia Institute of Technology
Richardson, TX, USA NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center Atlanta, GA, USA
for contributions to synchronization and channel Greenbelt, MD, USA for contributions to system software
estimation in communication systems for contributions to the remote sensing of soil specialization, information security, and services
moisture computing
Vishal Misra
Kenichi Osada Min Qiu
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA Hitachi LTD. Zhejiang University
for contributions to network traffic modeling, Tokyo, Japan Zhejiang, China
congestion control and Internet economics for contributions to reliable and low-power for contributions to nanophotonic devices
nanoscale SRAM
Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman
Daniele Mortari University of Rochester
Pablo Parrilo
Texas A&M University Rochester, NY, USA
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
College Station, TX, USA for contributions to algorithms, protocols, and
Cambridge, MA, USA
for contributions to navigational aspects of architectures for wireless sensor and mobile
for contributions to semidefinite and sum-of-
space systems networks
squares optimization
David Moss Mahendra Patel Stojan Radic
RMIT University Electric Power Research Institute University of California, San Diego
Melbourne, VIC, Australia Palo Alto, CA, USA La Jolla, CA, USA
for contributions to all-optical signal processing for contributions to synchrophasors for contributions to optical signal processing by
chips and commercial products for fibre optic standardization leveraging optical fiber non-linearities
communications
Keith Paulsen B. M. Azizur Rahman
Frank Mueller Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth City University London
North Carolina State University Hanover, NH, USA London, United Kingdom
Raleigh, NC, USA for leadership in biomedical technologies in for contributions to the application of fully
for contributions to timing analysis of real-time medical imaging for diagnosis and intervention vectorial finite element methods to photonics
systems design
Joao Abel Pecas Lopes
Annette Muetze INESC-Instituto de Engenharia de Sreeranga Rajan
Graz University of Technology Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Cincia Fujitsu Laboratories of America
Graz, Austria Porto, Portugal Sunnyvale, CA, USA
for contributions to the analysis and mitigation for contributions to microgrids and the for contributions to scalable formal verification
of bearing currents in variable-speed drives integration of wind generation of software and hardware systems
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Rajeev Ram Jagannathan Sarangapani Matteo Sonza Reorda

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Missouri Politecnico di Torino
Cambridge, MA, USA Rolla, MO, USA Torino, Italy
for contributions to semiconductor lasers and for contributions to nonlinear discrete- for design of test algorithms for reliable circuits
integration of photonics with CMOS electronics time neural network adaptive control and and system
applications
Sundeep Rangan Mehmet Soyuer
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Lorenz Schmidt IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Brooklyn, NY, USA University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
for contributions to orthogonal frequency Erlangen, Germany for contributions to the design of high-
division multiple access cellular communication for contributions to millimeter-wave and frequency integrated circuits for clocking and
systems terahertz imaging systems communications
Gregory Raybon Noel Schulz Giovanni Spagnuolo
Bell Labs Kansas State University University of Salerno
New Providence, NJ, USA Manhattan, KS, USA Salerno, Italy
for contributions to high-speed optical for leadership in advancing women in for contributions to control of photovoltaic systems
communication systems engineering and electric ship technologies
Thomas Stuetzle
Leonard Register Karsten Schwan Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
University of Texas At Austin Georgia Institute of Technology Brussels, Belgium
Austin,TX, USA Atlanta, GA, USA for contributions to the design and engineering
for contributions to modeling of charge transport for contributions to high-performance, real-time of heuristic optimization algorithms
in nanoscale CMOS devices and virtualized computing systems Il Hong Suh
Andreas Reigber Hanyang University
Ivan Selesnick
German Aerospace Center (DLR) Seoul, South Korea
Wessling, Germany NYU - Polytechnic School of Engineering for contributions to the design and control of
for contributions to SAR tomography and Brooklyn, NY, USA redundant and multiple-arm robot systems
airborne multi-band SAR for contributions to wavelet and sparsity based
signal processing Sun Sumei
Kui Ren Institute for Infocomm Research
State University of New York at Buffalo Subhabrata Sen Singapore, Singapore
Buffalo, NY, USA AT&T Labs Research for leadership in design and standardization of
for contributions to security and privacy in cloud Bedminster, NJ, USA wireless communication systems
computing and wireless networks for contributions to analysis of cross-layer
interactions in cellular networks Toru Tanzawa
Wei Ren Micron Technology, Inc. - Japan
University of California- Riverside Sudipta Sengupta Tokyo, Japan
Riverside, CA, USA Microsoft Research for contributions to integrated high-voltage
for contributions to distributed coordination and Redmond, WA, USA circuits
control of multi-agent systems for contributions to network design, routing and
applications to Internet backbone, data centers, Vladimir Terzija
Stefan Ritt and peer-to-peer systems University of Manchester
Paul Scherrer Institute Manchester, United Kingdom
Aargau, Switzerland Weisong Shi for contributions to power systems protection
for the development of the Domino Ring Sampler Wayne State University
series of chips Detroit, MI, USA Diane Thiede Rover
for contributions to distributed systems and Iowa State University
Pablo Rodriguez internet computing Ames, IA, USA
Telefonica for contributions to active learning methods in
Madrid, Spain Yuhui Shi engineering education
for contributions to the design and development Xian Jiaototng - Liverpool University
of content distribution architectures in the Suzhou, China John Thompson
Internet for contributions to particle swarm optimization University of Edinburgh
algorithms Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Stergios Roumeliotis for contributions to multiple antenna and
University of Minnesota Thomas Silva multi-hop wireless communications
Minneapolis, MN, USA National Institute of Standards and Technology
for contributions to visual-inertial navigation and (NIST) Qi Tian
cooperative localization Boulder, CO, USA University of Texas at San Antonio
for contributions to the understanding and San Antonio, TX, USA
Chris Rowen applications of magnetization dynamics for contributions to multimedia information retrieval
Cadence Design Systems
San Jose, CA, USA Osvaldo Simeone Akira Toriumi
for leadership in the development of NJIT - New Jersey Institute of Technology University of Tokyo
microprocessors and reduced instruction set Newark, NJ, USA Tokyo, Japan
computers for contributions to cooperative cellular systems for contributions to device physics and materials
and cognitive radio networks engineering for advanced CMOS technology
Xinbo Ruan
Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Marcelo Simoes Sennur Ulukus
Astronautics Colorado School of Mines University of Maryland
Nanjing, China Golden, CO, USA College Park, MD, USA
for contributions to switching-mode power for application of artificial intelligence in control for contributions to characterizing performance
converter topologies and modulation strategies of power electronics systems limits of wireless networks
Daniel Rueckert Theodore Sizer Ben U Seng Pan

Imperial College Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Synopsys Macau Limited
London, United Kingdom New Providence, NJ, USA Macau, Macao
for contributions to biomedical image computing for leadership in wireless communications for leadership in the analog circuit design
technology
Daniel Sabin K. Venugopal
Electrotek Concepts, Inc. Bruce Smith University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering -
Beverly, MA, USA Rochester Institute of Technology Bangalore
for leadership in power quality database Rochester, NY, USA Bangalore, India
management and analysis software for contributions to semiconductor lithography for contributions to computer science and
electrical engineering education
David Sampson Jian Song
University of Western Australia Tsinghua University Silverio Visacro
Western Australia, Australia Beijing, China Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: UFMG
for contributions to fiber-optic biophotonics and for contributions to digital television Belo Horizonte, Brazil
biomedical optical imaging broadcasting for contributions to lightning protection
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Martin Vossiek for contributions to mobility management Kiat-Seng Yeo

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in wireless networks and demand side Singapore University of Technology & Design
Erlangen, Germany management in smart grid Singapore, Singapore
for contributions to the design of wireless and for contributions to low-power integrated circuit
radar positioning systems Kaikit Wong design
University College London
Sarma Bala Vrudhula London, United Kingdom Jinhong Yuan
Arizona State University for contributions to multiuser communication University of New South Wales
Tempe, AZ, USA systems Sydney, NSW, Australia
for contributions to low-power and energy- for contributions to multi-antenna wireless
efficient design of digital circuits and systems Jieh Wu communication technologies
National Chiao-Tung University
Bernhard Walke Hsin-Chu, Taiwan Luca Zaccarian
RWTH Aachen University for contributions to design and calibration of University of Trento
Aachen, Germany high-performance data converters Trento, Italy
for contributions to packet switching and for contributions to the development and
relaying in cellular mobile system Ernest Wu application of nonlinear and hybrid control systems
IBM Microelectronics- Avent, Inc.
Pengjun Wan Burlington, VT, USA Daniel Zeng
Illinois Institute of Technology for contributions to gate oxide reliability of University of Arizona
Chicago, IL, USA CMOS devices and CAS Institute of Automation
for contributions to scheduling and resource Tucson, AZ, USA
allocation in wireless networks Liang-Liang Xie for contributions to collaborative computing with
Universiy of Waterloo applications to security informatics
Cliff Wang Waterloo, ON, Canada
US Army Research Office for contributions to fundamental limits of Bing Zeng
Durham, NC, USA feedback control systems and wireless networks University of Electronic Science
for leadership in trusted computing and and Technology of China
communication systems Chenyang Xu Sichuan, China
Siemens Technology-To-Business Center for contributions to image and video coding
Jia Wang Berkeley, CA, USA
AT&T Labs Research for contributions to medical imaging and image- Xi Zhang
Bedminster, NJ, USA guided interventions Texas A&M University
for contributions to measurement and College Station, TX, USA
management of large operational networks Shugong Xu for contributions to quality of service in mobile
Intel Labs Research wireless networks
Yue Wang Santa Clara, CA, USA
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University for contributions to the improvement of wireless Jianzhong Zhang
Blacksburg, VA, USA networks efficiency Samsung Research America
for contributions to genomic signal analytics and Mountain View, CA, USA
image-based tissue characterization Chengzhong Xu for leadership in standardization of cellular
Wayne State University systems
Zhengdao Wang Detroit, MI, USA
Iowa State Universiety for leadership in resource management for Yi Zhang
Ames, IA, USA parallel and distributed systems Sichuan University
for contributions to multicarrier communications Chengdu, China
and performance analysis of wireless systems Li Xu for contributions to convergence theory for
Old Dominion University neural networks and subspace learning
Zhong Feng Wang Norfolk, VA, USA
Broadcom Corporation for contributions to theory and applications of Lizhong Zheng
Irvine, CA, USA enterprise information systems MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for contributions to VLSI design and Cambridge, MA, USA
implementation of forward error correction coding Lie Liang Yang for contributions to the theory of multiple
University of Southampton antenna communication
David Wolpert Southampton, United Kingdom
Santa Fe Institute for contributions to multicarrier communications Ping Zhou
Santa Fe, NM, USA and wireless transceivers ANSYS Incorporated
for contributions to optimization, machine Canonsburg, PA, USA
learning, distributed control, and game theory Mark Yeary for contributions to finite element methods
University of Oklahoma applied to electromagnetic devices and
Vincent Wong Norman, OK, USA electrical machines
University of British Columbia for contributions to radar systems for
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PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AT IEEE HONORS CEREMONY

Saturday, 18 June 2016

IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award..................................................................................... Stephen Weinstein

IEEE Honorary Membership .................................................................................................. Serge Haroche

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal ................................................................................... Roberto Padovani

2016 AWARDS SPONSORS

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2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS

IEEE MEDALS, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS & PRIZE PAPERS

The following awards are presented at 2016 IEEE technical conferences

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award............................ 20 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and

IEEE Spectrum Feature Article ........................................................................................................................... 1629

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2016 IEEE SPECTRUMS CORPORATE AWARDS

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2016 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS

IEEE Corporate Innovation Award IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial

Intel Corporation David Fairbank Welch

For leadership in enabling the growth of

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2016 IEEE SERVICE AWARDS

IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award IEEE Haraden Pratt Award

Stephen Weinstein Moshe Kam

For original and high-impact contribu-

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2016 IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE Honorary Membership IEEE Honorary Membership

Serge Haroche Rodolfo Zich

For the development of cavity quantum

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2016 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal IEEE Edison Medal

Roberto Padovani Robert Brodersen

For innovations enabling efficient, wide- For contributions to integrated systems

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2016 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal IEEE Medal for Innovations

Abbas El Gamal Charles A. Mistretta

For contributions to network multi-user For the development of imaging

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2016 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Jack S. Kilby IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

Louis Scharf Geoffrey Hinton

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IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Simon Haykin Masayoshi Esashi

For pioneering contributions to micro-

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2016 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for

Takuo Sugano Nadav Levanon

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2016 IEEE MEDALS

IEEE Medal in Power Engineering IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Arun G. Phadke Christos H. Papadimitriou

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2016 IEEE MEDALS