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Welcome to the 2017 IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony Gala!
The inaugural IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit presents a unique opportunity to meet, mingle, and
network with peers and some of the top technology giants in the world. We have created a dynamic one-day event
to showcase the breadth of engineering by bringing innovators, visionaries, and leaders of technology to the Silicon
Valley area to discuss what is imminent, to explore what is possible, and to discover what these emerging areas mean
for tomorrow. The day sessions will look to the future of the industry and the impact engineers will have on serving the
global community. The Summits activities culminate with this evenings IEEE Honors Ceremony Gala.
Tonights awards ceremony truly reects the universal nature of IEEE, as the visionaries and innovators we celebrate
herald from around the world. We are proud of the collective technical prowess of our members and appreciate the rich
diversity of the engineering, scientic, and technical branches in which our colleagues excel. At IEEE, we are focused on
what is nextenabling innovation and the creation of new technologies. IEEE, as a global community, has for decades
seen the challenges facing our world. Time and time again, IEEE members have risen to face those challenges and
have leveraged the power of technology to improve the human condition. Technology can overcome tough challenges.
It always has. And at no other point in history have we had such opportunities for technical innovation available to us,
ready to shape our world.
The IEEE Honors Ceremony is a celebration of those visionaries, leaders, and legendsour members and
colleagues who continue to dene technologys state of the art. And it is our hope that the IEEE VIC Summit will
become IEEEs most external-facing annual event, looking to the future of the industry and sharing the impact
engineers have on serving the global community. This year we are also excited to celebrate a milepost in IEEE
history: It is the 100th anniversary of the IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEEs highest award. Established in 1917, its
recipients include Guglielmo Marconi, Claude E. Shannon, William Shockley, Robert M. Metcalfe, and Gordon
E. Mooreand we are so pleased that Kees Schouhamer Immink will be given the Medal of Honor this evening.
On behalf of IEEEs Board of Directors, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our generous awards
sponsors and to all of the nominators, endorsers, volunteers, and professional staff for their dedication to making
our Awards Program such a success. We would like to acknowledge all of this years speakers, panelists, and well-
qualied award nomineesthe diverse array of educators, engineers, scientists, innovators, visionaries, leaders,
entrepreneurs, and practitionerswho exemplify the mission of the IEEE of advancing technology for the benet
of humanity.
www.ieee.org/awards
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PRESENTATION
FOR IEEE VISION,
OF AWARDS
INNOVATION,
AT IEEE AND
HONORS
CHALLENGES
CEREMONY
SUMMIT
9:45 AM Keynote: Engineering the 21st Century: James D. Plummer, Professor, and Former Dean of Engineering,
Stanford University
10:30 AM Energy & Powering the Planet: Wanda Reder, Chief Strategy Ofcer, S&C Electric Company
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM Healthcare Innovations Vision into the Future: Sarah Audet, Program Director, Medtronic
11:45 AM Pioneering the Autonomous Driving Space: Alberto Broggi, General Manager at VisLab srl
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM The Evolution of Secure Things: Alex Gantman, Vice President of Engineering for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
3:45 PM Impact on Society: Systems Engineer to Systems Entrepreneur for Global Change:
Erna Grasz, Co-Founder Asante Africa Foundation
4:15 PM A Century of Innovation: Thomas Lee, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
SPEAKERS
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James D. Plummer supported and lead Wanda Reder is the chief strategy officer at
major innovations at Stanford Universitys S&C Electric Company, a global provider of
School of Engineering that have changed electric power switching, protection, and con-
the way engineering research and teach- trol solutions. She has responsibility for strat-
ing is carried out, impacting industry and egy, competitive positioning, and acquisitions,
academia worldwide. As the longest-serving and she built an engineer-procure-construct
dean (1999-2014), he led the efforts at Stan- organization that has positioned S&C as a
ford to build major interdisciplinary centers leader in wind, solar, and energy storage mar-
to address challenges facing engineering kets. Prior to S&C, she served as vice presi-
such as energy, the environment, and biomedicine. He also helped dent at Exelon, overseeing asset management, engineering, planning,
develop online education courses and technologies and the worlds and standards for electric utility power operations in Philadelphia, PA,
first massively open online courses (MOOCs) to provide unlim- and Chicago, IL.
ited participation and open access to learning through the Internet. Ms. Reder has also been a long-time IEEE volunteer. She served
Plummers contributions to the school have been instrumental in as the first woman president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society.
increasing the number of students choosing engineering majors, During her tenure, she created trendsetting programs such as the
especially in computer science, product design, and bioengineer- launch of IEEE Smart Grid, which carved a leadership position
ing. An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy for IEEE. It has become the definitive source for information on
of Engineering, Plummer holds the John Fluke Professorship in smart grid technology using social media and Web presence.
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Sarah Audet has worked in the area of Alberto Broggi is general manager at
sensor and medical device, design, develop- VisLab srl (spinoff of the University of
ment, and manufacture at several companies Parma, acquired by Silicon-Valley company
including AT&T, Princeton Gamma-Tech, Ambarella Inc. in June 2015) and a professor
Motorola, and Medtronic. She is currently of computer engineering at the University
a program director at Medtronic, where she of Parma, Italy, and has been pioneering the
has worked since 1997. She is also on the field of machine vision applied to driverless
Board of Directors of Starbase Minnesota, a cars and unmanned vehicles in general.
501c nonprofit whose mission is to educate Broggi has organized milestone events in
and inspire youth in science, technology, engineering, and math, the development of vehicular robotics including the 1998 Mil-
and to mentor women in science fields. leMiglia in Automatico, the TerraMax 14-ton driverless truck, the
She received her B.S. degree from the State University of New 2010 VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge, and the
York at Upstate Medical Center in the area of medical technology, 2013 BRAiVE project, which involved an autonomous vehicle
M.S. in electrical engineering from Boston University, and her Ph.D. negotiating two-way narrow rural roads, pedestrian crossings, traf-
in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Delft, the fic lights, and roundabouts in the middle of the day in downtown
Netherlands. Sarah has also earned an M.B.A., project management Parma without human intervention and representing the first
professional certification, and Six Sigma Black Belt certification. time an autonomous vehicle was driven on public roads with no
one in the drivers seat for part of the test.
Mario Milicevic is a Ph.D. candidate in Kurt Petersen received his B.S. with
the Department of Electrical and Com- honors in electrical engineering from
puter Engineering at the University of the University of California, Berkeley,
Toronto, where his research focuses on the in 1970, and a Ph.D. in electrical engi-
integrated circuit design of error-correction neering from the Massachusetts Institute
decoders for wireless, optical, and quantum of Technology in 1975. Since 1982, he
security systems. He served as the 2015- has cofounded six successful, high-tech
2016 chair of the global IEEE Young Pro- companies in Silicon Valley, including
fessionals committee where he was involved Cepheid. In 2001, he was awarded the IEEE
in launching IEEEs technology entrepreneurship community and Simon Ramo Medal for his contributions to micro-electrome-
bringing exposure to the IEEE Young Professionals at high-pro- chanical systems (MEMS). Petersen is a member of the U.S. Na-
file global events such as the Consumer Electronics Show, South tional Academy of Engineering and is a Life Fellow of the IEEE
by Southwest Conference, and the Web Summit. in recognition of his contributions to the commercialization of
MEMS technology. In 2011, Petersen joined the Silicon Valley
Band of Angels. Today, he spends most of his time helping and
mentoring early stage, high-tech start-up companies.
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Erna Grasz cofounded Asante Africa Thomas Lee, IEEE Member and Packard
Foundation with two visionary African Foundation Fellow, has been at Stanford
women from Kenya and Tanzania. She re- University since 1994, having previously
fers to herself as a systems engineer turned worked at Analog Devices, Rambus, and
systems entrepreneur for global impact. other companies. Hes helped design PLLs
Originally trained as an electrical-system for several microprocessors (notably AMDs
engineer, she spent her early career at Law- K6-K7-K8 and DECs StrongARM) and
rence Livermore National Laboratory and has founded or cofounded several compa-
then in Silicon Valley. While spending 25 nies, including the first three-dimensional
years in the corporate world as a senior executive, she earned memory company, Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk),
the reputation as a strategic leader and organizer of chaos, with and IoE companies ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip) and
demonstrated success in diverse industries, including medical de- Ayla Networks. Lee is a member of the board of Xilinx, served as
vice, defense research, and semiconductor capital equipment. In director of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's
2011 she left the corporate world to manage Asante Africa Foun- Microsystems Technology Office (for which he was awarded the
dation full time. She brings her business savviness to the nonprofit U.S. Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Ser-
world and is the visionary behind many of the organizations in- vice), holds ~70 patents, and has written several textbooks. He
novative programs and practices. She has a strong belief in local owns about 200 oscilloscopes, thousands of vacuum tubes, and
staff, local partnerships, and developing local talent for long-term kilograms of obsolete semiconductors. No one, including himself,
sustainability. quite knows why.
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IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award....... 6 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal ....................................... 11
IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award ........................... 6 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal .......................... 11
IEEE Corporate Innovation Award ......................................... 6 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal ........................................... 12
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award ......................................... 7 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal ............................................. 13
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award.................................................... 7 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar
IEEE Honorary Membership.................................................. 8 Technologies and Applications......................................... 13
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal ...................................... 8 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering ....................................... 14
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal ...................................................... 9 IEEE John von Neumann Medal .......................................... 14
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal .......................... 9 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies .......... 15
IEEE Founders Medal ......................................................... 10 IEEE Edison Medal ............................................................ 15
IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology ............ 10 IEEE Medal of Honor ......................................................... 16
Letter from the IEEE President 2016 IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding
and Awards Board Chair ..........................Inside Front Cover Staff Member Award ..................................................... 26
IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit IEEE Fellows Class of 2017 and
Program and Speakers ..................................................13 Fellow Committee Roster............................................2733
Honors Ceremony Program.................................................. 4 IEEE Board of Directors and Awards
IEEE Technical Field Awards .........................................1726 Board Committee Rosters ........................... Inside Back Cover
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A dedicated IEEE volunteer leader, David A. Hodges has never With volunteer service spanning the Society level to the IEEE
shied away from making difficult proposals and decisions in trying Board of Directors, John T. Barr, IV has been instrumental in ef-
to do whats best for IEEE and its members. As chair of the IEEE fecting change to make IEEE a better organization. Known for
Publication Services and Products Boards (PSPB) Joint Products/ his honesty and transparency and putting the facts of a situa-
Services Committee, Hodges was instrumental in changing the tion above anyones ownership of an idea, Barrs leadership style
formula for distributing income among IEEE Societies to reflect has proven invaluable in helping IEEE achieve its goals. As the
the value of electronic access.With the launch of IEEEs Electron- IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Periodicals Packages
ic Library for disseminating publications, Hodges had the vision Committee (20022004) chair, Barr led creation of a perfor-
to realize that basing revenue on the number of times articles were mance-based algorithm to fairly distribute IEEE Electronic Li-
accessed was a fairer method than using page counts of printed brary (IEL) revenue to Societies based on online readership of
publications. He patiently guided the institutional changes needed articles, replacing an outdated formula and emphasizing the role
to make the new formula a reality. Also while chair of the PSPB, that electronic delivery would play in the technical publishing.
Hodges led the creation of an open-access journal called IEEE As Finance chair of the IEEE Publications Products and Services
Access. Launched in 2013, IEEE Access provides a venue for articles Board (PSPB) (20052008), Barr created a product development
that may not fit the tightly focused scopes of other IEEE publica- funding mechanism for platform enhancements of IEEE Xplore
tions. Gaining support for the project proved difficult, based on (IEEEs largest revenue source) by budgeting annually a portion
concerns that its broad scope would cannibalize existing IEEE of IEEEs electronic publishing revenue. This guaranteed devel-
publications. Hodges addressed these concerns over many meet- opment budget helped transform Xplore into the leading data-
ings to eventually convince the IEEE Technical Activities Board base for technical engineering information and helped protect
(TAB) to approve the launch of the publication. As vice president IEL revenue. As IEEE TAB Treasurer (20092012), Barr led the
of the PSPB, Hodges visionary leadership helped persuade the development of the first formal IEEE Reserves Policy to set an
IEEE Board of Directors and TAB to adopt the PSPBs interactive appropriate level of reserves needed to ensure that IEEE can sur-
content project to make IEEE articles accessible on any mobile vive considering unknown risks while still using its resources to
or desktop device. The 6-year, US$35-million effort is consid- support its mission. Barr joined the IEEE Board of Directors as
ered essential to IEEEs competiveness in science and technology Treasurer (20132014) and implemented the first comprehensive,
publishing. Hodges also helped streamline the IEEE Awards pro- multiyear summary of IEEEs infrastructure expenses to provide
gram as chair of the IEEE Awards Board, retiring awards with few a consolidated view of infrastructure including the depreciation
nominees and spurring the creation of new awards representing and maintenance costs of IT-related projects. At the Society level,
evolving disciplines. Barrs contributions to the IEEE Microwave Theory and Tech-
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the 1997 IEEE Educa- niques Society (MTT-S) included roles as President (2002), 2006
tion Medal (now the James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal), International Microwave Symposium General Chair, and 2012
Hodges is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor Emeritus Radio & Wireless Week General Chair.
at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the 2013 IEEE MTT-S
N. Walter Cox Award, Barr was a Research and Development
Manager/Director (retired) with Agilent Technologies/Hewlett-
Packard, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
Scope: For distinguished service advancing the technical objectives Scope: For outstanding volunteer service to the IEEE.
of the IEEE.
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The developer of the worlds first bagless vacuum cleaner and Continually expanding the frontiers of digital communications,
many other novel products pervasive in todays society, Sir James H. Vincent Poors development of advanced signal processing
Dyson has reignited the spirit of invention around the world and methods for wireless networks not only eased the early transition
championed the role that engineering and design can play in af- to digital mobile networks but also plays a key role in advanc-
fecting positive change. Creating a multibillion-dollar industry ing todays communications systems in which the need for new
based on his own inventions, Dyson is a shining example of how capacity must overcome the challenges of bandwidth limitations.
perseverance in the face of failure can lead to great accomplish- During the 1980s and early 1990s, Poor tackled the obstacles of
ments. Unhappy with the suction performance of a new vacuum interference and insufficient capacity with innovations in inter-
cleaner, Dyson developed the idea of a bagless system using cy- ference mitigation that allowed wireless receivers to operate ef-
clonic separation to create a vacuum that would not lose suction fectively in areas limited by interference. His fundamental work
as it picked up dirt. Over the course of five years and over 5,127 on multiuser detection includes the concept of turbo multiuser
prototypes later, Dyson perfected his concept and introduced the detection, which introduced the principle of cross-layer inter-
G-Force cleaner. Facing industry opposition in the United King- action in wireless networks; adaptive methods, which allow for
dom, Dyson brought the product to Japan in 1983. Despite be- interference suppression while having only limited knowledge
ing limited only to catalog sales, the cleaner was very popular in of the structure of the interference; and space-time methods ap-
Japan, and Dyson used the proceeds to build his own company in plicable to the multiple antenna systems that have been integral to
Britain. He was then able to launch the Dyson DC01 vacuum in the success of modern high-capacity networks. These contribu-
1993, and it quickly became Britains best-selling vacuum. Dyson tions have impacted modern mobile technology, satellite systems,
is committed to creating environments that position engineer- and local-area networks, coinciding with the rise of widespread
ing as an attractive option for students seeking careers in science consumer wireless communications and providing key method-
and technology, so he launched the James Dyson Foundation in ologies for addressing the explosive demand for capacity. Poors
2002. Encouraging students to realize their engineering potential recent work has focused on communications problems arising
by thinking differently and by not being afraid to make mistakes, in emerging smart-grid and social networking applications, in-
the Foundation provides resources for schools and also awards cluding the development of privacy-preserving communication
students for innovative product designs. Dyson has also demon- techniques. Poor has also introduced new approaches based on
strated his commitment to engineering and design innovation by game theory for modeling the behavior of wireless networks of
supporting research facilities such as a new technology hub at autonomous terminals.
Cambridge University and the Dyson School of Design Engi- An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Acad-
neering at Imperial College London. emies of Engineering and Sciences, Poor is the Michael Henry
A member of the United Kingdom Order of Merit and Fellow Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princ-
of the Royal Society of London, Dyson is the chief executive of- eton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
ficer of Dyson Company, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Scope: For those who have rendered meritorious service to hu- Scope: For exceptional contributions to communications and net-
manity in the IEEEs designated fields of interest and who are not working sciences and engineering.
members of IEEE.
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Recognized worldwide as a visionary leader of systems engineer- Stephen P. Boyd has revolutionized the field of optimization as an
ing, John S. Baras development, commercialization, and advance- essential core of many engineering disciplines through immensely
ment of Internet-over-satellite (IoS) systems created a new industry popular courses, foundational textbooks, and open-source soft-
that is bringing fast Internet services to tens of millions of people ware tools.Teaching some of the largest graduate courses at Stan-
who may otherwise not have access. During the 1990s, the com- ford University, Boyds classes target a wide range of engineers
mercial use of satellites was limited to broadcast television ap- and scientists and have introduced thousands of students to con-
plications. However, Baras envisioned a system in which direct vex optimization techniques. His graduate course on Introduc-
broadcast satellites could utilize small satellite dishes to deliver tion to Convex Optimization with Engineering Applications
Internet service and customers could send information to the evolved into the Convex Optimization I/II courses, which attract
Internet using ordinary telephone modems. The result was the over 300 students representing 25 departments. Similar courses
first-ever fast asymmetric IoS system. While it was believed that based on the materials he has developed at Stanford are taught at
IoS would never be a viable product, Baras provided the technical universities worldwide. Among his influential textbooks, Boyds
breakthrough of modifying transmission control protocol (TCP) 2004 Convex Optimization (with L. Vandenberghe) has become
to overcome its natural failure in the presence of physical delay by one of the most highly cited books on optimization. It introduces
incorporating connection splitting, address spoofing, and selec- readers to the mathematical theory and algorithms for convex
tive acknowledgement to inform the TCP protocol that a delay optimization and teaches them through numerous examples how
in receiving a request at the receiver end was due to the satellites to build convex optimization models for practical applications. A
physical path delay and not congestion. Working with Hughes strong proponent of open-source initiatives, Boyd takes pride in
Network Systems, Baras commercialized IoS to provide inex- making his books, software, and course materials publicly avail-
pensive high-speed Internet connectivity even to rural and unde- able. This includes his CVX optimization parser-solver program
veloped areas, and it has greatly impacted applications including for MATLAB, which has become an invaluable tool for optimi-
telemedicine, disaster relief, and ship communications. Baras also zation classes and research. Software developed by Boyds research
provided innovations for secure operation of IoS, such as layered group has lowered the threshold to optimization technology for
encryption security, which has become an international standard. nonexperts and has greatly expanded the use of optimization in
As founding director of the University of Marylands Institute for industry. His website serves as an indispensable resource for stu-
Systems Research (ISR), Baras has championed the development dents and researchers and receives more than 1.6 million visits
of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with a foundational per year. A sought-after speaker for lectures and short courses
framework that has been successfully applied to industrial applica- around the world, Boyd is known for energizing his audiences
tions. He has demonstrated MBSE methodologies to be essential and inspiring them to take the power of optimization further.
for addressing challenges in software-intensive systems; modular An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of
product development in the automotive, aerospace, and energy Engineering, Boyd is the Samsung Professor in the School of En-
industries; cyber-physical systems; and smart manufacturing. gineering and professor of electrical engineering, with courtesy
An IEEE Life Fellow and fellow of the U.S. National Academy appointments in the Department of Management Science and
of Inventors, Baras is a professor at the University of Maryland, Engineering and the Department of Computer Science Engi-
College Park, MD, USA. neering, at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Scope: For exceptional achievement in systems engineering and Scope: For a career of outstanding contributions to education in
systems science. the fields of interest of IEEE.
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Shaping the field of computer vision since its infancy, Takeo The innovations of Yulun Wang concerning remotely operated
Kanade, beginning with his Ph.D. thesis in 1973 on computer face surgical robots and his development and application of telemedi-
recognition, has demonstrated the real-world value of robotics to cine systems have improved the quality of healthcare around the
industries ranging from automotive to medical with concepts of- world, providing care to patients who otherwise would not have
ten ahead of their time. It was Kanades pioneering work since the access and lowering the costs of treatment. Pursuing his vision
mid 1980s that paved the way for todays driverless cars with one that surgical robotic tools could enable surgeons to perform pro-
of the first demonstrations of robotics technology for a driverless cedures with increased dexterity and control compared to con-
vehicle. He incorporated computer vision systems and other sen- ventional hand-held instruments, Wang brought medical robots
sors to detect lane lines and other cars and to control both steer- to mainstream research and development and established the role
ing and speed automatically. This culminated in 1995 with the of the surgical robot for minimally invasive surgery. Surgical ro-
NavLab autonomous land vehicle, which drove 3,000 miles across bots provide the advantages of precision, smaller incisions, de-
the United States under autonomous control. Kanades impact on creased blood loss, less pain, and quicker healing time for patients
medicine can be seen in his early image overlay system that gave undergoing robotic-assisted surgeries. Wang invented the Auto-
surgeons X-ray-like vision in visualizing anatomic structures in- mated Endoscopic System for Optical Positioning (AESOP). AE-
side a patient. It was one of the first systems to demonstrate what SOP is a voice-controlled robotic arm that can hold and move a
is now commonly referred to as medical augmented reality, and laparoscope for a surgeon, and it was the first FDA-cleared surgi-
this work was closely related to his development of the HipNav cal robot. He also developed the ZEUS robotic surgical system,
surgical navigation system for orthopedics research. In what he which performed the worlds first trans-Atlantic surgery. Many
calls virtualized reality, Kanade developed the EyeVision camera of the technical innovations developed for ZEUS were incorpo-
system, in which a camera operated by one person drives 30 ad- rated into the very popular da Vinci surgical robot. To improve
ditional remote cameras to enable three-dimensional freeze-frame patient access to quality treatment and to fight the rising costs of
views of an activity. The successful debut of EyeVision at Super healthcare,Wang created the first remote-presence robotic system
Bowl XXXV in 2001 brought enormous attention to computer to enable a clinician to be in two places at one time to perform
vision and spurred research in the field. To address his lifelong medical triaging, diagnosis, and consultations from a distance. He
passion for developing robotics to assist people in their everyday applied this system to a tele-stroke treatment network in which
activities, Kanade led the creation of Quality of Life Technology a hub hospital places remote presence robots in smaller spoke
Center at Carnegie Mellon University to help develop intelligent hospitals to provide these hospitals and their patients with access
systems to transform the lives of people with disabilities or re- to stroke specialists who can remotely examine and care for stroke
duced capabilities due to aging. victims.Wangs telemedicine system has also been used for inten-
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of sive care and psychiatric clinical consults. The surgical robotics
Engineering, Kanade is the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University and telemedicine innovations that Wang helped to develop have
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon now benefited several million patientsand are continuing to
University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. help over a million patients every year.
A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and
recipient of the 2005 Innovation Award from the American Tele-
medicine Association, Wang is chairman and founder of InTouch
Health, Goleta, CA, USA.
Scope: For outstanding contributions in the leadership, planning, Scope: For exceptional contributions to technologies and appli-
and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and cations benefitting healthcare, medicine, and the health sciences.
electronics engineering profession.
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Considered one of the most influential and productive informa- One of the founding fathers of filter bank and wavelet theory, the
tion theorists of today, the fundamental and cutting-edge contribu- signal processing algorithms and architectures developed by Mar-
tions of Shlomo Shamai have been central to continued progress tin Vetterli have helped advance the audio coding, image compres-
in wireless communications systems by addressing areas such as sion, and wireless technologies critical to our multimedia commu-
channel capacity, secure transmission, and the building blocks for nications world.Vetterlis Ph.D. thesis established a theory of filter
next-generation wireless systems. Multiple-input, multiple-output banks and efficient implementations that made filter banks an es-
(MIMO) technology multiplies the capacity of wireless commu- sential signal processing tool and launched a new wave of applica-
nications networks, and Shamai has provided the most conclusive tions. In this research he proposed multidimensional subband cod-
results on MIMO broadcast channels as an enabler of capacity ex- ing, which is now an integral component of the JPEG2000 image
pansion. He demonstrated that Costa (dirty paper) coding is the compression standard. His concept of perfect transmultiplexing
fundamental method for capacity-optimal signaling. His work has now allows designers to perfectly modulate signals onto a single
inspired much follow-up research toward the goal of achieving channel, enabling orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in
full capacity in MIMO broadcast channels. Shamai is among the WiFi systems. And his concept of nonseparable multidimensional
first who introduced large random matrix concepts into informa- filter banks are used in todays high-dimensional image and video
tion theory, which has had important implications for analyzing processing methods.Vetterli then went on to propose solutions for
the performance of multiuser detection algorithms and quantify- joint source-channel coding based on multiresolution concepts.
ing the theoretical limits of multiantenna communication. Shamai This work has been critical to enabling video over the Internet.
and his collaborators provided inspiring and fundamental analytic He also introduced multiresolution for broadcast television, which
connections between information and estimation in a Gaussian re- allows graceful degradation and backward compatibility between
gime. His outage capacity concept has spanned beyond informa- HDTV and standard television. His contributions to joint source-
tion theory as a useful tool to study the impact of antenna design channel coding for video multicasting over the Internet accom-
on channel capacity. Shamai was instrumental in developing an un- modates multiple users with varying channels or access rates.
derstanding of efficient communications of fading channels, where Vetterli has also made groundbreaking contributions to sampling
severe interference from obstacles and propagation can degrade and quantization techniques for bridging the analog and digital
signal quality. He was among the first to study cellular communica- worlds. He derived a new sampling theory for signals of finite
tions in the fading regime and also presented the concept of block- rate innovation related to compressed sensing, which provides
fading channels.This concept has become a standard model allow- improvements to oversampling methods for analog-to-digital
ing for progress in understanding fading channels. Shamais recent conversion (ADC). This permits high bandwidth signals with
work has addressed a rich variety of aspects in cooperative cellu- low-dimensional representation to be sampled at radically lower
lar communication models and physical-layer security in wireless bandwidth signal with a low-dimensional representation to be
networks, including developing basic security results for MIMO sampled at radically lower rates. Vetterlis work on FRI has made
systems and characterizing the ability of fading broadcast channels compressed sensing one of the hottest topics in signal processing
to support variable-rate secured data transmission. He is also con- and has important implications for the design of new ADCs, cam-
tributing to the foundations for cloud-based radio networks and eras, radars, and medical imaging devices.
next-generation (5G and beyond) wireless network architectures. An IEEE Fellow,Vetterli is the president of and a professor in the
An IEEE Fellow and recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon School of Computer and Communications Sciences at Ecole Poly-
Award, Shamai is a Distinguished Professor, The Andrew & Erna technique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Insti-
tute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Scope: For exceptional contributions to information sciences, sys- Scope: For outstanding achievements in signal processing.
tems, and technology.
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With over five decades of pioneering contributions and well- A world-renowned radar researcher, Hugh Griffiths pioneering
before-their-time inventions, Henry I. Smiths nanopatterning work on multistatic radar and creating and advancing passive ra-
technologies have been critical to the semiconductor industrys dar technologies changed traditional thinking of radar methods
ability to produce the high-performance, low-cost electronics we and has provided solutions for dealing with the challenges of in-
take for granted today. Smith pioneered the field of nanofabrica- creasing spectrum congestion. Utilizing nonradar transmitters,
tion and helped establish it as an academic discipline through his passive radar uses bistatic techniques. Griffiths conducted some
publications and by founding the Nanostructures Laboratory at of the first experiments on passive bistatic radar and published
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many im- the first paper on the topic. Although real-time signal process-
portant contributions to nanopatterning are the attenuated phase- ing constraints initially proved to be challenging, he overcame
shift mask and liquid-immersion lithography. He demonstrated early roadblocks to create the commensal passive bistatic radar, in
that using a partially transparent metal film to attenuate an optical which broadcast or communications waveforms, such as televi-
signal, while simultaneously inverting its phase, yields a sharper sion signals, are optimized not only for their primary function
intensity gradient in patterns on semiconductor wafers. Improved but also as radar signals. Griffiths work spurred further research
image contrast and higher resolution for dense and isolated fea- into passive radar, the results of which can be seen in todays tech-
tures were made possible. Smiths attenuated phase-shift mask is nologies where passive radar receivers with embedded high-per-
now used in manufacturing practically every high-performance formance computers may provide an alternative to active radars
semiconductor chip. Smith was also the first to demonstrate en- for operation in spectrally congested environments. Griffiths has
hanced resolution in optical-projection lithography with liquid also led a program to measure the bistatic radar signatures of sea
immersion, long before the semiconductor industry anticipated clutter and small maritime targets. He helped develop a unique
the need for such methods. In liquid immersion, the shorter ef- multistatic radar system called NetRAD that demonstrated bi-
fective wavelength of light enables a higher numerical aperture, static sea clutter as less spiky than monostatic clutter and pro-
allowing deep-sub-wavelength patterning of features on the wa- vided performance advantages of several decibels. Called clutter
fer surface. Smiths work inspired the development of what is now diversity, this work is being extended to other radar frequencies
the state of the art in nanolithography for the latest high-perfor- and configurations. He also initiated and led a program using
mance chips. Smith also demonstrated that soft x-ray lithography synthetic aperture sonar to detect and classify objects such as na-
can be used to fabricate sub-100-nm structures and complicated val mines, pipelines, or wrecks using an autonomous underwater
integrated circuits. This led to extreme ultraviolet lithography, vehicle incorporating algorithms that correct for irregular vehicle
which many consider the main contender for future integrated motion and propagation inhomogeneities through seawater. The
circuit manufacturing. results, featuring well-focused images of targets at ranges in excess
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Acad- of 200 meters with spatial resolution of a few centimeters, were
emy of Engineering, Smith is a Professor Emeritus with the Mas- some of the first of their kind.
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. An IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the U.K. Royal Academy of
Engineering, Griffiths is the THALES/Royal Academy Chair of
RF Sensors in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engi-
neering at University College London, London, UK.
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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With a career dedicated to improving the performance and avail- A living legend in the field of machine learning largely respon-
ability of modern electric drives, Marian P. Kazmierkowskis pi- sible for its historical and current success, Vladimir Vapnik has
oneering innovations to processing and controlling the flow of shaped the way modern researchers address the challenges of ma-
electric energy using power electronic converters have impacted chine learning and how the field is practiced every day in appli-
applications ranging from industrial machines to transportation cations ranging from large computer systems such as Google and
systems to renewable energy sources. Kazmierkowski developed Facebook to next-generation smart devices. Vapnik, with col-
the first speed sensorless vector control system for high-power league Alexey Chervonenkis, developed the fundamental basis of
current-source inverter-fed induction motor drives. He also in- statistical learning theory, which is at the foundation of practically
vented current control methods for transistor voltage source in- all machine-learning techniques. Vapnik established an approach
verters with reduced switching frequency that have been used in to machine learning based on the principle of fitting available
a commercial series of transistor pulse-width-modulation (PWM) training data while balancing the complexity of the learned mod-
inverter-fed alternating current (ac) servo drive systems manu- el (known as the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension). This work
factured in Poland. His digital-signal-processing-based sensorless helped researchers to understand basic issues about the nature
control system has improved the performance of induction mo- of learning in general, and about what it means for a model or a
tors used for drives in trams, trolleys, and subways, permitting a theory to be simple or complex. It has provided the mathematical
wide range of speed and torque adjustments while enabling full foundations for the entire optimization-based approach to ma-
utilization of the direct current voltage supply. The work done chine learning. Another of Vapniks breakthroughs was the sup-
by Kazmierkowski and his team has had important implications port vector machine (SVM) algorithm, which has become one of
for renewable energy applications. He has created methods for the most widely used techniques in machine learning. Building
ac sensorless direct power control of three-phase grid connected on Vapniks statistical learning theory, this computationally effi-
PWM converters based on the concept of virtual flux, which cient learning algorithm satisfies strong generalization guarantees.
have been used for active and reactive power estimation. He has When combined with kernel functions, SVMs produce a highly
also developed power electronics grid interfaces for Europes flexible learning system for a wide range of data types and induc-
Wave Dragon offshore ocean-wave renewable energy converter. tive biases, effectively using a linear-separator learning algorithm
Controllers based on his theories can also be found in photovol- to perform well even for data requiring highly nonlinear separa-
taic systems and wind farm converters. In 2003 Kazmierkowski tion boundaries. SVMs have been applied to a tremendous range
founded the Centre of Excellence in Power Electronics and Intel- of commercial, governmental, scientific, and academic problems,
ligent Control for Energy Conservation at the Warsaw University from spam and fraud detection, to the face detector in an iPhone,
of Technology, which has become an internationally recognized to supporting cutting-edge biological discoveries.
leader of power electronics research and teaching. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and
An IEEE Life Fellow and Full member of the Polish Academy recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2012),Vapnik is a pro-
of Sciences, Kazmierkowski is a professor with the Institute of fessor with the Department of Computer Science at Columbia
Control and Industrial Electronics, Warsaw University of Tech- University, New York, NY, USA, and a research consultant with
nology, Warsaw, Poland. Facebook AI Research, Menlo Park, CA, 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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Alberto Broggis innovations in vehicular perception have played An innovator of light-emitting diode (LED) technology for over
an integral part in milestone projects in the development and 45 years, M. George Crafords pioneering contributions are illu-
advancement of intelligent vehicles, increasing awareness of the minating the world with higher-efficiency, lower-cost, and more
safety and environmental benefits driverless vehicles can bring to environmentally friendly solid-state alternatives to traditional in-
the world. With an early vision of the potential for the driver- candescent light bulbs. Using gallium arsenide phosphide tech-
less vehicle, a hallmark of Broggis work has been to incorporate nology, Craford created the first yellow LED and increased the
low-cost machine vision sensors such as cameras for vehicle per- performance of red LEDs by ten. Craford then led the develop-
ception instead of the more costly laser-based sensors. Broggi led ment of the worlds highest-performance red, orange, and amber
the MilleMiglia in Automatico project in 1998, which was the LEDs based on aluminum gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP),
first test of autonomous driving using off-the-shelf components. demonstrating 100 lumens per watt (lm/W).To achieve this, Cra-
Demonstrating the importance of artificial vision for safety, this ford focused on using metal organic chemical vapor deposition
project involved driving over 2,000 km on regular roads with (MOCVD), which at the time was considered high risk for low-
real traffic in Italy. Lessons learned from MilleMiglia led to per- cost LED manufacturing. However, Craford had the vision to
ception systems developed by Broggis that were installed on the realize that MOCVD technology was evolving and was critical to
TerraMax 14-ton driverless truck.TerraMax competed in the U.S. making high-volume production of efficient LEDs a reality. Cra-
Defense Advanced Research Project Agencys Grand Challenge ford and his team led the development of processes for the suc-
project and was the only driverless vehicle to reach the finish us- cessful, high-volume, commercial implementation of MOCVD
ing vison as its primary sensor. In 2010 he organized the VisLab for LEDs.Today, almost all of the worlds multibillion-dollar LED
Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge, which was the longest- industry is based on MOCVD. Further advances by Craford and
ever test for driverless vehicles. Four electric vans equipped with his team incorporating compound semiconductor wafer bonding
sensors and actuators were driven on a 13,000-km route from enabled yellow-orange-red spectrum AlGaInP LEDs with effi-
Parma, Italy, to Shanghai, China, providing invaluable data for im- ciencies exceeding unfiltered incandescent lamps. Another first
proving autonomous driving systems. Another milestone came in was an LED with efficiency exceeding 100 lm/W, revolution-
2013 when Broggis lab tested the BRAiVE vehicle in downtown izing the LED industry and ushering in the viability of solid-state
Parma, which negotiated two-way narrow rural roads, pedestrian lighting. Crafords team then led the field in the development
crossings, traffic lights, and roundabouts in the middle of the day. and commercialization of the first high-power, high-brightness
The test required no human intervention and represented the first LEDs with an output greater than 1020 lm across the entire
time an autonomous vehicle was driven on public roads with no visible spectrum.These high-power white LEDs were used in the
one in the drivers seat for part of the test. creation of the first LED light bulbs to meet the requirements of
An IEEE Fellow and recipient of multiple grants from the the U.S. Department of Energys L Prize, awarded to a company
European Research Council, Broggi is full professor at the Uni- that could provide, on a commercial scale, an LED light bulb to
versity of Parma, Italy and currently general manager of Vis- replace the conventional 60W incandescent bulb.
Lab, a University of Parma spinoff company recently acquired by An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the 2015 U.S. National
Silicon Valley company Ambarella. Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize and the
2002 National Medal of Technology, among other awards, Cra-
ford is currently Solid State Lighting Fellow at Lumileds LLC,
San Jose, CA, USA.
Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in the application of Scope: For a career of meritorious achievement in electrical sci-
technology in the fields of interest of IEEE that improve the en- ence, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts.
vironment and/or public safety.
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For pioneering contributions to video, audio, and data recording technology, including
compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray
Scope: For an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest.
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TABLE MEDALS
OF CONTENTS
IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award.................................... 18 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.............. 22
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award ................................................. 18 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award . 22
IEEE Components, Packaging, IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award.................. 22
and Manufacturing Technology Award ............................. 18 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies ........ 22
IEEE Control Systems Award............................................... 19 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits.......... 23
IEEE Electromagnetics Award.............................................. 19 IEEE Frederik Philips Award................................................ 23
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio IEEE Photonics Award ........................................................ 23
Processing Award .......................................................... 19
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award.................................. 24
IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing............................. 19
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award .............................................. 24
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award ............................................ 20
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award................................... 24
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and
Distribution Award ......................................................... 20 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award .................... 24
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award................... 20 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award ................................. 25
IEEE Internet Award........................................................... 21 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award................................................. 25
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award ................................ 21 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award.................................................... 25
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award ................................................. 25
and Measurement .......................................................... 21 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award .............................. 26
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award.................................... 21 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award .................................. 26
Brunetti Bequest IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation IEEE Components, Packaging, and Society
in Memory of Herman and Edna Manufacturing Technology Society IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Halperin IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Society
Hitachi, Ltd. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society
Keithley Instruments, a Tektronix IEEE Computer Society
company IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
IEEE Control Systems Society Society
Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund IEEE Education Society IEEE Photonics Society
Motorola Solutions Foundation IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility IEEE Power & Energy Society
NEC Corporation Society
IEEE Power Electronics Society
Nokia Bell Labs IEEE Electron Devices Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Nokia Corporation IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society IEEE Signal Processing Society
Philips Electronics N.V.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Sony Corporation Sensing Society IEEE Standards Association
Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu IEEE Industry Applications Society IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Wolong Electric Group Co., Ltd. IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
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The pioneering work of Bin He has transformed electroencepha- Guido Groeseneken has been dedicated to tackling the most
lography (EEG) from a one-dimensional detection modality to an critical reliability issues facing the continued scaling of semicon-
important noninvasive three-dimensional neuroimaging tool for ductors to help enable todays smaller, more powerful, and more
brain research and management of brain disorders. He developed efficient electronics. He developed the charge pumping tech-
anatomically constrained brain source localization by introduc- nique, which quickly became a powerful method for the char-
ing the boundary element method, which has significantly ad- acterization of metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
vanced the field of multimodal neuroimaging. He has changed (MOSFET) devices. He used the technique to better understand
the understanding of what noninvasive brain-computer interfaces hot-carrier injection, which allowed the semiconductor industry
(BCIs) can do. Using an array of electrode sensors placed over the to optimize technologies to achieve longer lifetimes. He and his
scalp, He developed novel BCI techniques to demonstrate that a team developed the percolation model to explain time-dependent
human can control the flight of a drone with their mind through dielectric breakdown, identified transient charging effects as a
reading the EEG signals. Hes neuroimaging innovations are play- limitation to the commercialization of high-k dielectrics, and
ing an important role in the diagnosis and management of disor- developed a measurement method to quantify these effects. His
ders including epilepsy, stroke, and Alzheimers disease. work has facilitated the development of very thin, high-k ma-
An IEEE Fellow, He is the Distinguished McKnight University terials important to the further miniaturization of micro- and
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Insti- nanoelectronic devices.
tute for Engineering in Medicine at the University of Minnesota, An IEEE Fellow, Groeseneken is a Research Fellow with IMEC
Minneapolis, MN, USA. and professor with the KU Leuven, Belgium.
The patented innovations of Paul S. Ho and King-Ning Tu and high reliability. Ho and Tu also provided insights and solu-
overcame the roadblocks caused by electromigration that limit- tions regarding the failure mechanisms associated with low-k
ed high-performance chip reliability for the semiconductor and dielectric materials, tin whiskers, and electromigration in inter-
electronics industry. First addressing the issues with aluminum connects critical to the success of high-performance flip-chip
wiring, then copper, and eventually solder-bump connections, technologies.
their work provided the foundation to understanding the sci- An IEEE Fellow, Ho is director of the Laboratory for Intercon-
ence of the failure mechanisms and guided high-performance nect and Packaging at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
chip designs and manufacturing processes that enabled high- TX, USA. Tu is the TSMC Chair Professor at National Chiao
volume manufacturing of many silicon nodes with low cost Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
For contributions to the theory and ap- For contributions to electromagnetic so-
plications of nonlinear and networked lutions of complex multiphysics problems
control systems and inverse scattering methods
Richard M. Murrays efforts in applying control techniques to im- Weng Cho Chews pioneering contributions to computational
prove engineering and industrial processes are impacting applications electromagnetics have made solutions to large real-world problems
including autonomous vehicles, networked control systems, and syn- possible, greatly impacting a diverse range of fields including device
thetic biology. Murrays work in autonomous vehicles include ad- design, antennas, and photonics. Among Chews fast solvers that
vances in nonlinear control theory that exploit geometric structure make it possible to simulate the electromagnetic behavior of struc-
for real-time trajectory generation and tracking, as well as analysis tures of unprecedented size, his multilevel fast multipole algorithm
and design of cooperative and consensus-based control systems for (MLFMA) changed the size of problems that can be solved by six
networked, multiagent systems. Murrays contributions to molecular orders of magnitude, permitting the solution of problems of enor-
and synthetic biology include identification, modeling, and design mous geometrical complexity. Chews numerical mode matching
techniques to allow bioengineers to analyze and synthesize biological method has become the standard technology in electromagnetic
pathways and circuits inside living cells. Murrays group has also de- well logging tools for the oil industry and is also used to solve micro-
veloped computationally tractable approaches for synthesis of reactive wave and optical waveguide problems. His distorted Born iterative
control protocols applicable to control systems in which the decision- method for multiple scattering inverse problems and multiphysics
making logic satisfies safety, fairness, and reactivity constraints. methods are impacting disciplines beyond electromagnetics.
An IEEE Fellow, Murray is the Thomas E. and Doris Everhart An IEEE Fellow, Chew is a Fisher Distinguished Professor of
Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering Engineering with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Urbana, IL, USA.
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing
Award Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the
Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Signal Processing Society
Mark Yoffe Libermans trailblazing efforts in creating the Linguis- A founding father of multidimensional signal processing, Rus-
tic Data Consortium (LDC) have fueled the development and sell Mersereau has been a pioneer in developing the fundamen-
advancement of human language technologies (HLTs) including tal concepts, methodologies, and tools in sampling, representing,
speech and speaker recognition, machine translation, and semantic and processing digital signals of two and higher dimensions. His
analyses. Founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, the Multidimensional Signal Processing (Prentice-Hall, 1984) was the
LDC became the largest developer of shared language resources, first textbook on this subject and remains the fields definitive re-
distributing more than 120,000 copies of over 2,000 databases cov- source. His work on two-dimensional digital filtering, hexagonal
ering 91 different languages to more than 3,600 organizations in sampling, and reconstruction of multidimensional signals from
over 70 countries. Liberman has also helped to create a speech ac- their projections has directly impacted diverse fields including
tivity detector that regularly processes LDC speech data to reduce crystallography, fluorescence microscopy, medical imaging, and
annotation cost and increase accuracy and a forced aligner that was robotics. Mersereau cofounded Atlanta Signal Processors, Inc.
integrated into the Forced Alignment and Vowel Extraction service (now part of Polycom, Inc.) to take multidimensional signal pro-
that has revolutionized phonetic and sociolinguistic research. cessing from the classroom to commercial success.
Liberman is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Profes- An IEEE Fellow, Mersereau is a Regents Professor Emeritus
sor of Linguistics and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia
at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
A visionary device physics researcher, Sorin Cristoloveanu saw George Dorwart Rockefellers prescient work on how to use
the potential that silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology held for computers to provide real-time analysis of voltages and currents
the semiconductor industry in producing competitive micro- for fault detection laid the foundation for todays digital protec-
electronics components with improved performance when oth- tion, control, and monitoring of the electric power grid. Known
ers considered it a niche field. As early as 1976, he discovered as the father of digital protection, Rockefeller invented the con-
key mechanisms of thin-body devices that have led to the devel- cept of on-line, real-time protective relaying of electric power sys-
opment of transistors from the simplest (zero gate) to the most tems in 1967 while with Westinghouse Electric Corporation
complicated (four gates). Among several concepts unveiled by his well before the advent of microprocessors made it a cost-effective
group, the demonstration during the 1980s that volume inversion reality. His development of the Prodar 70 digital relay, installed in
occurs in all nano-body devices was revolutionary at the time a California transmission substation in 1971 by Westinghouse and
and helped drive research that led to double-gate transistors and Pacific Gas and Electric, transformed protective relaying of power
todays tri-gate FinFET devices. His Pseudo-MOSFET method systems and set the standards for modern microprocessor relay
developed in 1992 has become an industry standard for wafer products. Rockefellers contributions inspired the industry to look
monitoring without having to actually fabricate devices. More re- at protection and control in a completely new, and smarter, way.
cently, Cristoloveanus SOI expertise has led to innovative devices An IEEE Life Fellow, Rockefeller is retired and works as an
for low-power memory and sharp-switching circuits. engineering consultant in Laguna Hills, CA, USA.
An IEEE Fellow, Cristoloveanu is the director of research at
CNRS at IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble, France.
The efforts of John OSullivan, David Skellern, and Terence Per- led a pioneering project on wireless local area networks at Mac-
cival in developing and commercializing high-speed WiFi pro- quarie University and in 1997 cofounded, with Percival and Neil
vided the milestone technology for practically all in-home and Weste, Radiata Communications to commercialize the CSIRO-
local area mobile Internet communications. OSullivan initiated Macquarie research. OSullivan joined Radiata in 1999. In 2000
and led the early efforts in techniques for very high-speed wire- Radiata demonstrated the first working WiFi system based on the
less networks at Australias Commonwealth Scientific and Indus- IEEE 802.11a 5-GHz standard.
trial Research Organization (CSIRO). Percival took over and led An IEEE Senior Member, OSullivan is a physicist and electrical
the CSIRO project that modeled and prototyped the high-speed engineer (retired) in NSW, Australia. An IEEE Life Fellow, Skellern
modulation schemes and hardware needed for successful WiFi is chairman of CMCRC Ltd, Sydney,Australia. Percival is an electri-
communications. Working in conjunction with CSIRO, Skellern cal engineer and director of TMPP Pty Ltd, Northbridge, Australia.
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2017 IEEE IEEE MEDALS
TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
Deborah Estrins innovative ideas and leadership have combined With a career dedicated to developing practical approaches to
to realize powerful new ways of adapting the Internet to applica- improving electrical safety, Erling Hesla has championed the safe
tions of great importance to modern society. Estrin helped design switching and clearing of power systems through critical con-
the replacement of the Internets original global routing protocol tributions and by educating engineers. He developed the first
and also championed multicast protocols, which support aggre- software-driven analytical approach to the planning and control
gate communication among a collection of hosts compared to of lockout/tagout analysis for qualified operators to confidently
traditional point-to-point communication. She was the founding perform the switching and clearing of complex power distribu-
director of the National Science Foundations Center for Embed- tion systems. Hesla led the creation of IEEE Standard 902-1988
ded Networked Sensing (CENS), which pioneered the develop- (Guide for Maintenance, Operation and Safety of Industrial and
ment of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real- Commercial Power Systems), which was the first IEEE standard
time data about the physical world and the people who occupy it. to provide guidance for safe workplace practices regarding in-
She then applied this participatory sensing technology to improv- dustrial electrical systems. Considered the accepted expert in ap-
ing health outcomes as the undisputed thought leader in mobile plying safe switching procedures, Hesla has also disseminated his
health (mHealth) applications. safety knowledge to engineers worldwide through his consulting
An IEEE Fellow, Estrin is a professor of computer science at practice, many publications, and numerous lectures.
Cornell Tech, New York, NY, USA. An IEEE Life Senior Member, Hesla is owner of Hesla & As-
sociates, Camano Island, WA, USA.
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and IEEE Gustaff Robert Kirchhoff Award
Measurement Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Sponsored by Keithley Instruments, a Tektronix company, and the
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
The innovations developed by Jerome Blair concerning analog and Known to circuit designers around the world for his formulation of
digital converters and waveform recorders have improved efficiency of the random variation (mismatch) behavior between two otherwise
equipment and benefited national security efforts. His sine wave his- identical components, Marcel J.M. Pelgrom has dramatically im-
togram tests provided a new way to thoroughly test analog-to-digital pacted the efficiency of analog designers. An essential performance
converters for integral and differential nonlinearity and missing codes metric for optimization, the Pelgrom model provides the device
using significantly less data than previous methods. His improvements and design community with an elegant description for mismatch.
enabled much shorter test times and relaxed the requirements on test Mismatch characterization is important because statistical variations
equipment. Blair patented an algorithm to quantify gamma-ray radial between individual devices critically affect the performance of ana-
energy deposition in conventional semiconductor detectors, to aid the log circuits. Due to device scaling and power supply reduction, the
detection of contraband nuclear materials. His work has enabled size impact of local variability increases to a level where even full-swing
and weight reduction of portable detection systems and increased sen- noise margins in digital memories are affected. Pelgroms model will
sitivity of fixed stations monitoring traffic by eliminating background remain instrumental in achieving optimized solutions in many types
radiation coming from directions other than a particular vehicle. of semiconductor devices, creating lasting economic benefits.
An IEEE Fellow, Blair is a chief scientist with Keystone Inter- An IEEE Member, Pelgrom is a consultant with Pelgrom Con-
national, Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA. sult, Helmond, the Netherlands.
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IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and
Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund Communications Award
Sponsored by NEC Corporation
Ask students and colleagues to describe C.-C. Jay Kuo and you The methods developed and made practical by Kannan Ram-
will hear words such as passionate teacher, outstanding schol- chandran for distributed source coding and distributed storage
ar, great professional leader, and unparalleled innovator. Since coding are benefiting image and video communications and large
1989 at the University of Southern California, Kuo has taught data storage systems. Ramchandran connected distributed source
over 3,000 students, guided over 130 students to Ph.D. degrees, coding theory to channel coding approaches that could be ap-
and supervised 25 postdoctoral research fellows. His Introduction plied to real applications, such as video. To overcome the unreli-
to Digital Image Processing is one of the most popular courses ability of nodes in large distributed systems where data is stored
among electrical engineering graduate students, and he continu- over multiple nodes for redundancy, Ramchandran created regen-
ally revises the curriculum to address current trends. His Multi- erating codes. With these codes, he demonstrated how consider-
media Data Compression graduate course is based on his own ably less data is needed to be transferred over the network when
lecture notes. Keys to Kuos popularity in the classroom are his a failed node is repaired, while maintaining minimal storage over-
enthusiastic teaching style and his broad and deep knowledge of head.Variants of these codes have saved companies like Microsoft
the technology and product trends of the multimedia industry. hundreds of millions of dollars in data center costs and will be part
An IEEE Fellow, Kuo is a Deans Professor in Electrical En- of future releases of the Apache Hadoop open-source framework.
gineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, An IEEE Fellow, Ramchandran is a professor of electrical engi-
CA, USA. neering and computer science with the University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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
An international leader in power electronics technologies, Seung- In creating the field of neuroengineering, Miguel A.L. Nicole-
Ki Suls innovations concerning sensorless control techniques are lis pioneering work on brain-machine interfaces has complete-
improving the reliability and reducing the cost of motor drive ly changed peoples perception of what brains can do and how
systems critical to a wide range of applications. Sul developed a si- such research can be rapidly applied to help humans. Nicolelis
nusoidal pulsating injection method for sensorless control to real- demonstrated that humans can use raw brain activity to directly
ize high-performance alternating-current motor control without communicate with mechanical, electronic, and virtual devices in
using a position or speed sensor even at low speeds. Suls methods real time and in a closed control loop. He played a key role in
have been commercialized and applied to motion and traction the development of a robotic exoskeleton that can help paralyzed
control in elevators to enable smooth starting, oil pump drives in individuals to walk. He focused on methods to read a paraplegic
automobiles that reduce cost and improve vehicle reliability, sen- persons brain waves and decode and use them to move hydraulic
sorless traction motors in electric and hybrid vehicles, and even drivers on the suit. His work has great implications for patients
washing machines. His recently developed sensorless drive featur- with epilepsy, Parkinsons disease, and spinal cord injury.
ing pulsating square wave voltage has important implications for An IEEE Member, Nicolelis is the Duke School of Medicine
traction control in humanoid robots. Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University,
An IEEE Fellow, Sul is a professor with Department of Elec- Durham, NC, USA.
trical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea.
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The groundbreaking contributions of Takao Nishitani and John they chose to modify the computation model developed from
S. Thompson to the development of the first single-chip, real- the 1950s that had dominated computer architectures.Their con-
time programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) revolution- cepts featured high-speed, real-time, multiply-accumulate opera-
ized communications networks and changed how society works, tions via hardware multipliers and split-memory architectures to
is educated, and is entertained. While their work was conducted independently and simultaneously address program instructions.
independently (Nishitani at NEC and Thompson at Bell Labs), it Their realization of DSPs has played an important role in the
culminated with the simultaneous publication of two pioneering development of the advanced networks and devices we take for
papers at the 1980 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Con- granted today.
ference and, later, the first commercial DSPs. To overcome the An IEEE Life Fellow, Nishitani is a principal with LAISIP,
bottlenecks that prevented a conventional microprocessor from Kanagawa, Japan. An IEEE Life Senior Member,Thompson is re-
executing voiceband signal processing algorithms in real time, tired in Tucson, AZ, USA.
For industry influence and leadership in For pioneering research in silicon pho-
the development of leading-edge micro- tonics, including hybrid silicon lasers,
electronics technology and collaborative photonic integrated circuits, and ultra-
research low-loss waveguides
Gary L. Pattons innovative leadership methods and pioneering con- The pioneering efforts of John E. Bowers to advancing hybrid
tributions have resulted in the development and implementation silicon photonics is transforming the way computers connect and
of semiconductor products that have impacted applications rang- how data moves around the world, improving business and con-
ing from consumer handheld devices to high-performance servers. sumer experiences via thin strands of fiber with silicon photonics
Over the past 30 years, he has driven the industrys semiconduc- on either end. Bowers developed a bonding process that over-
tor roadmap through senior leadership positions within IBM and comes the challenges of trying to get light out of silicon and has
GlobalFoundries where he led the development of leading-edge demonstrated high-quality photonic devices that can be manu-
technologies. Among his many technical leadership achievements, factured at high volumes and low cost. His work on the hybrid
Patton drove the introduction of high-performance embedded dy- silicon laser has made photonic integrated circuits in silicon a re-
namic random access memory into IBM processors at 45 nm as ality, which is critical to enabling lower-cost, higher-speed, and
well as led the development of the IBM Alliances 32/28-nm high-k smaller-footprint devices to meet the bandwidth needs of Inter-
technologies currently used today in a wide range of consumer and net service providers and to create the data centers of the future.
industrial applications. His pioneering work on silicon germanium An IEEE Fellow, Bowers is director of the Institute of Energy
heterojunction bipolar transistors built the foundation for todays Efficiency, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
semiconductor components used in cell phones, wireless networks,
and global positioning system devices.
An IEEE Fellow, Patton is chief technology officer and senior
vice president of Worldwide Research and Development with
GlobalFoundries, Malta, NY, USA.
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Oussama Khatibs seminal work on robot planning and control Stephen Grossbergs foundational work on modeling how brain
has radically changed the basis of manipulation, interaction, loco- mechanisms give rise to behavior functions has played an impor-
motion, and other aspects of system design critical to the devel- tant role in understanding the human mind and enabling machines
opment of human-friendly robots. Khatib developed the artificial to adapt to unexpected changes.The ability of his models to adapt
potential field concept for reactive control of robots, which be- autonomously in real time to unexpected environments makes
came a fundamental framework for real-time obstacle avoidance. them suitable for applications including image processing, pattern
His pioneering contribution of control in operational space rath- recognition and prediction, and robotics. He is best known for
er than joint space has been integral to advances in whole-body his Adaptive Resonance Theory, which concerns how the brain
motion and force control, and in humanoid robotics. His group can learn new objects without forgetting previously learned pat-
created macro-mini actuation for greater safety in medical robot- terns. He also developed the concept of Laminar Computing. His
ics and in applications where humans work in close proximity principle of Complementary Computing has demonstrated how
to robots. Khatibs recent work on a robotics-based approach to the brain is organized in pairs of parallel streams that compute
human motor control and human motion understanding is pro- complementary processes that allow for trade-offs necessary for
viding substantial benefits to restoring movement and improving adaptive intelligent systems.
human performance. An IEEE Fellow, Grossberg is the Wang Professor of Cognitive
An IEEE Fellow, Khatib is a professor with the Department and Neural Systems at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
of Computer Science at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Chandrashekhar Joshi is overcoming the challenges of providing Antonello Montis visionary research is delivering advances in
smaller, more cost-effective versions of arguably the most impor- providing stable, secure, and efficient energy supply systems in
tant instrument of scientific discoverythe high-energy particle buildings and urban environments. With a focus on automating
accelerator. Acknowledged as the undisputed leader in the drive complex power systems based on network dynamics and infor-
to make plasma accelerators a reality, Joshi has demonstrated that mation and communication technologies, his power hardware in
charged particles can be accelerated thousands of times more the loop (PhiL) simulation tools have made it possible to link real-
rapidly using plasma compared to traditional radio-frequency- life power equipment to real-time simulation of power systems
wave technology. To reduce the massive size of current machines, to validate the impact of dynamics and delay times of algorithms,
Joshi uses powerful laser pulses or charged particle bunches to controllers, converters, and communication systems on electri-
create charged-density waves in ionized gas. The results achieved cal distribution grids. He has also been a leader in exploring the
by Joshis plasma accelerator group have led to major national potential of cloud-based platforms for complete virtualization of
experimental facilities working toward building terra-volt-scale power infrastructures, which will revolutionize how utilities op-
plasma-based particle colliders needed at the frontier of particle erate by providing service-based energy solutions in extremely
physics while reducing their cost. short time periods.
An IEEE Fellow, Joshi is a Distinguished Chancellors Profes- An IEEE Senior Member, Monti is a professor and institute di-
sor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los rector with the E. ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen
Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. University, Aachen, Germany.
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David John Law has inspired a rich culture of professionalism, William C. Lindseys synchronization and communications re-
transparency, and a drive to go the extra mile to ensure the quality search has spearheaded the digital communications revolution
of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and other IEEE standards. His contribu- and created novel technologies for space and mobile wireless
tions share a central theme of demystifying standards and dem- communications. Lindseys work on carrier and clock synchro-
onstrating the value of a rigorous standards development process. nization methodologies for demodulation and decoder timing
As chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working group, under Laws significantly improved the performance and efficiency for both
leadership the breadth of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Standard has data communication and spacecraft tracking and reduced the size,
grown beyond enterprise and campus networks as he has worked weight, power, and complexity of these devices. Lindseys digital-
to see important expansion of capabilities into new, diverse ap- data transaction-tracking loop (DTTL) enabled the decoding of
plications. Law has provided expert guidance to other standards the first photos of Mars from NASAs Mariner spacecraft as well
efforts through his work with the IEEE-SA Standards Board, the as images from the Voyager missions, and it was critical to Space
IEEE Standards Education Committee, and the IEEE 802 LAN/ Shuttle and space station communications efforts. It also led to
MAN Standards Committees University Outreach Program. the concept of digital phase-locked systems on a chip used in
An IEEE Senior Member, Law is a distinguished technologist modern mobile radios and localization systems.
with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oban, Argyll, Scotland. An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Acade-
my of Engineering, Lindsey is a professor of electrical engineering
at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Karen A. Galuchie
For exceptional staff leadership and for support and service to IEEE volunteers in achieving the philan-
thropic objectives of the IEEE and the IEEE Foundation
Karen A. Galuchie drives the design and implementation of humanity through philanthropy. A trusted and respected
strategies and programs critical to building a culture of philan- leader, Galuchie credits the success of the Foundation to the
thropy within IEEE. Known as a go-to person who gets things highly effective and committed team she has assembled, which
done, Galuchie ensures that the day-to-day operations of the is considered among the most engaged and impactful among
IEEE Foundation are responsive, effective, efficient, and forward IEEE staff .
facing. She has been instrumental in developing and deploying Galuchie was the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Joyce E. Farrell
the Foundations strategic direction to further IEEEs mission to Award and now is executive director of the IEEE Foundation,
foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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