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THE WORLDS NEWSSTAND
LETTER FROM THE IEEE PRESIDENT AND AWARDS BOARD CHAIR
Dear IEEE Members, Honorees, Colleagues, and Friends:

Welcome to the 2014 IEEE Honors Ceremony!
From the furthest reaches of deep space to the tiniest corners of the subatomic world, you will nd this years
honorees doing remarkable work, inspiring the world around them to engage in similar pursuits. IEEE is
proud to recognize a diverse array of educators, engineers, scientists, innovators, visionaries, leaders, and
practioners whose work has been, in the words of the IEEE tagline, Advancing Technology for Humanity.
For this years Honors Ceremony, we have chosen the theme Inspire Simply put, that is what every
honoree in the following pages has done. There are those who have served to inspire others as leaders
within industry and academia; there are those whose work itself is the inspiration that drives successors
to keep moving the state-of-the-art ever forward.
At IEEE we often quote the phrase made famous by Sir Isaac Newton: If I have seen further it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants. Those giants served to inspire Newton; they inspire many of the
men and women whose accomplishments we honor this year. And, as future years unfold, the giants
we honor this year will continue to inspire tomorrows generations of technologists.
It gives us great pleasure to salute the many individuals and organizations whose dedication and hard
work make the IEEE Awards program possible. First, we commend those who believe in the importance
of sponsoring the awards in our program; their contributions are greatly appreciated. We thank the
many nominators, endorsers, and volunteers who have taken time from their busy schedules to support
the awards efforts. Most of all, however, we are pleased to thank those we are honoring in 2014, for
their work has truly served to advance technology to benet humanity.
J. Roberto B. de Marca
IEEE President and CEO
Lewis M. Terman
IEEE Awards Board Chair
www.ieee.org/awards
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______________________________________________
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AT IEEE HONORS CEREMONY
Saturday, 23 August 2014

RAI Convention Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
OPENING REMARKSIEEE President and CEO, J. Roberto B. de Marca, Master of Ceremonies
IEEE President-Elect, Howard E. Michel
IEEE Presidents Change the World Competition

and Class of 2014 IEEE Fellows .................................................................................................................
CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS
Corporate Innovation Award ..........................................Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award............................................................................. Paul E. Jacobs
SERVICE AWARDS
Richard M. Emberson Award.................................................................................................. Wanda Reder
Haraden Pratt Award .........................................................................................................V. Prasad Kodali
IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP

Honorary Member ........................................................................................................ Shirley M. Tilghman
IEEE JOINT AWARD

IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award .....................................................................Sir David Payne
IEEE MEDALS
Edison Medal ....................................................................................................................... Ralph H. Baer
Alexander Graham Bell Medal ............................................................................................ Dariush Divsalar
Founders Medal....................................................................................................................... Eric Schmidt
Richard W. Hamming Medal........................................................ Thomas J. Richardson and Rdiger Urbanke
Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology........................................................................... Leroy Hood
James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal ................................................................................ John G. Proakis
Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal................................................................. Thomas Pinkney Barnwell, III
Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal .......................................................................... Franz Laermer and Andrea Urban
Robert N. Noyce Medal ...................................................................................................... John E. Kelly, III
Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications ............................................Yuri Abramovich
Medal in Power Engineering ................................................................................................ Thomas A. Lipo
Simon Ramo Medal.........................................................................................................Lyndon Rees Evans
John von Neumann Medal .................................................................................................... Cleve B. Moler
Medal of Honor................................................................................................................. B. Jayant Baliga
CLOSING
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REMARKS
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2014 AWARDS SPONSORS
IEEE proudly acknowledges the sponsorship of its 2014 awards by

some of the worlds leading corporations, foundations, societies,
and individuals who are interested in the technological disciplines
within the scope of interest of IEEE. These sponsors (funders) include:
The awards presented at the 2014 IEEE Honors Ceremony

are supported by the generosity of the following organizations,
funders, and societies.
Brunetti Bequest
Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship Fund
FEPC
The Federation of Electric Power

Companies of Japan
The Grainger Foundation

Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation
in Memory of Herman and Edna Halperin
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Ltd.
Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Motorola Foundation
NEC Corporation
Nokia Corporation
Philips Electronics N.V.
Sarnoff Award Fund
Sony Corporation
Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology
Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Education Society
IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
IEEE Electron Devices Society
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
IEEE Information Theory Society
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
IEEE Photonics Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
IEEE Standards Association
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
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2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter from the IEEE President and Awards Board Chair ....................................................................... Inside Front Cover
Honors Ceremony Program......................................................................................................................................1
2014 IEEE Award Sponsors .....................................................................................................................................2
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MEDALS, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
The following awards are presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony
IEEE Presidents Change the World

Competition .................................................................4
IEEE Corporate Innovation Award ...................................4
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award..............5
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award...................................5
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award .............................................6
IEEE Honorary Membership ...........................................6
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award ...............7
IEEE Edison Medal ........................................................7
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal ................................8
IEEE Founders Medal.....................................................8
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal...................................9
IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare

Technology...................................................................9
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal .................10
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal....................10
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal.....................................11
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal .......................................11
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies
and Applications ........................................................12
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering .................................12
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal..............................................13
IEEE John von Neumann Medal ....................................13
IEEE Medal of Honor...................................................14
IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS & PRIZE PAPERS

The following awards are presented annually at an IEEE technical conference
IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award .............................15

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award ...........................................15
IEEE Components, Packaging,
and Manufacturing Technology Award ..........................15
IEEE Control Systems Award.........................................15
IEEE Electromagnetics Award .......................................16
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio
Processing Award .......................................................16
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award ......................................16
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and
Distribution Award ......................................................16
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information
Storage Systems Award ...............................................17
IEEE Internet Award.....................................................17
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award ..........................17
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation
and Measurement .......................................................18
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award .............................18
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award .......18
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and
Communications Award...............................................18
IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award ...........19

IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for
Emerging Technologies ................................................19
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in
Solid-State Circuits ......................................................19
IEEE Frederik Philips Award..........................................19
IEEE Photonics Award..................................................20
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award............................20
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award........................................20
IEEE David Sarnoff Award ...........................................20
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award ............................21
IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award..............21
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award...........................21
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award ..........................................22
IEEE Nikola Tesla Award..............................................22
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award...........................................22
IEEE Transportation Technologies Award........................22
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award ............................23
IEEE Donald G. Fink Award .........................................23
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award ...........................................23
IEEE Fellows Class of 2014.............................................................................................................................. 2430

IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award......................................................................................................30
IEEE Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award ....................................................................................................................30
Congratulatory Ads......................................................................................................................................... 3132
IEEE Board of Directors, Awards Board & Fellow Committee Rosters ..................................................... Inside Back Cover
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2014 IEEE PRESIDENTS CHANGE THE WORLD COMPETITION
IEEE Presidents Change the World Competition
2014 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS
IEEE Corporate Innovation Award

Sponsored by IEEE
Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency (DARPA)
For many decades driving world-changing technological
innovations
The IEEE Presidents Change the World Competition recognizes

and rewards students or a team of students who, through the identification of humanitarian needs and the development of projects
to meet those needs, demonstrate the capacity to improve the
lives of many people.
Participants may compete as an individual or as a team. Individuals or team members must be at least 18 years of age and an IEEE
member at the time their entry is submitted. The leader of the
team or the individual whose entry is chosen as the top prize will
be invited to receive his/her prize at the IEEE Honors Ceremony.
First-Place winners receive US$10,000. If a team is selected for
First Prize, the cash is split equally among the team winners.
First-Place winners of the Competition include:

2013Low-Cost Spirometer, Team Members: Andrew Brimer
and Abigail Cohen
2012Clean Water: Transforming a Natural Disaster into a
Natural Resource, Team Members: Stephen Honan,
Kevin Baum, Sarah Yazouri
2011PoaS@de Telemedicine Project, Team Members:
Alecio Binotto, Flavio Avila, Diego Bonesso, Mateus
Bisotto, Alexandro Bordignon
2010e.quinox, Team Members: Mohammad Mansoor
Hamayun and students at Imperial College London,
London, U.K.
2009NanoLab: A Hand-Held Diagnostic Laboratory, Team
Members: Drew Hall and Richard Gaster
For more information, visit http://www.ieee.org/changetheworld
The visionary innovations conceived or funded by the Defense

Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have changed
society for the better around the world. Established in 1958 with
the mission of reducing technology surprise for the U.S. military by developing technology first, DARPAs contributions to
cutting-edge technology have impacted peoples lives beyond
defense applications. The birth of companies and in some cases
entire industries have resulted from DARPA-funded projects.The
creation of the first wide-area, packet-switched communications
network using computers running similar software and switching protocols, known as ARPANet, during the 1980s was the
precursor to the Internet that we know today. DARPA also drove
the fundamental technologies for triangulating satellite signals
with accurate clocking for global positioning systems. It also
enabled the miniaturization of devices to create small, batterypowered GPS receivers, first for military platforms but now also
pervasive in our automobiles and recreational gadgets. Research
sponsored by DARPA also resulted in the computer-aided design tools that spurred the rebirth of the semiconductor industry
in the U.S. and enabled creation and continued scaling of the
more complex and powerful chips found in our computers and
mobile devices. DARPAs contributions also include the creation
of microelectromechanical systems combining sensors, actuators,
and computing elements for applications such as air-bag sensors.
The United States has enjoyed a substantial advantage in electronic warfare over the past several decades thanks to DARPAsponsored innovations. DARPAs successes in the military arena
include major breakthroughs in radar, radio, directed energy,
positioning/navigation/timing, cyber, sensing, engineered biology, intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance, command/control/
communications, electronic warfare, manufacturing, photonics,
and thermal management. DARPAs current research focus is on
areas including processing information at a massive scale, biology
as technology, and rethinking complex systems.
Located in Arlington, Va., DARPA is under the direction of
IEEE Fellow Dr. Arati Prabhakar.
Scope: For an outstanding and exemplary innovation by an industrial entity, governmental or academic organization, or other
corporate body, within the fields of interest to the IEEE
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2014 IEEE SERVICE AWARDS
2014 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS
IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial

Leadership Award
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Technical
Activities Board
Sponsored by IEEE
Paul E. Jacobs
Wanda Reder
For leadership in the development and

commercialization of mobile technologies that contributed signicantly to the
growth of its global industry
For leadership in the IEEE Smart Grid

program and in the continued growth of
the Power & Energy Society, including
the creation of its Scholarship Fund
The mobile innovations of Paul E. Jacobs have been integral to

the success of the communications industry and have transformed
how we use and share information. A leader in the field for over
two decades, Dr. Jacobs recognized early on that the true power
of the mobile phone was its potential for data and not just voice.
As architect of Qualcomms vision, Dr. Jacobs introduced innovations that simplified mobility. He saw the importance of bringing
together standard computing, directional/sensor capabilities, and
office productivity in a single mobile device. He also recognized
consumer interest in having mobile access to entertainment and
gaming content on the small screen. Among the groundbreaking
work developed under his direction, Dr. Jacobs introduced GPS
capabilities, technology for over-the-air downloading of applications, and push-to-talk functionality to mobile phones. The reflective display technology developed under Dr. Jacobs improves
screen visibility in sunlight and helps maximize battery life. He
also introduced solutions to handle spectrum-sharing problems.
Small cells are starting to bring the network closer to users, adding
capacity where it is needed most.Video downloading is smoother,
thanks to technologies that improve the way video is transmitted. And carrier aggregation systems are making 3G and 4G LTE
connections faster. Dr. Jacobs has also been a proponent of mobile health initiatives. He sees them as being crucial to lowering healthcare costs and outcomes, and empowering patients. In
2005 when Dr. Jacobs became CEO, there were only a handful
of smartphones, and about 309 million 3G connections. Today
nearly one billion smartphones are sold each year, and there are
about 2.4 billion 3G and 4G connections.
An IEEE Member and recipient of the Edison Achievement
Award (2013) and GSMA Chairmans award (2014), Dr. Jacobs is
executive chairman with Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, Calif.
An exemplary volunteer leader, Wanda Reders initiatives cultivated new membership, established a successful scholarship fund,
and positioned IEEE as the source for expert smart grid information. The first woman to serve as president of the IEEE Power
& Energy Society, Ms. Reders trendsetting programs instituted
during her 2008-2009 tenure serve as models.When other Societies were losing members, she targeted marketing toward earlycareer engineers that jumped Society membership from 20,000
to 30,000+ in a few short years. Changing the Societys name
from the IEEE Power Engineering Society to the IEEE Power &
Energy Society to better represent the field of interest and to attract a broader audience was pivotal to her campaign. Reder also
launched IEEE Smart Grid, which carved a leadership position
for IEEE as the definitive source for information on smart grid
technology using social media and Web presence. It has set the
example across IEEE for multidisciplinary technology collaboration and has enhanced IEEEs brand.The program enjoys continued growth and global participation with 1.4 million portal page
views, 21,800 LinkedIn members, and 7,500 Twitter followers.
Another flagship program that Ms. Reder instituted was the IEEE
PES Scholarship Plus Initiative, aimed at attracting the best and
brightest into the power industry. Since 2011, over $1.1million
has been distributed via 549 scholarships to 364 undergraduate
engineers attending 137 US and Canadian universities. Since
program inception, over 160 companies have hired a PES Scholar
and there have been substantial increases in the enrollment of
power engineering electives. To raise the funds, Ms.Reder created a partnership with the IEEE Foundation to launch IEEEs its
first capital campaignwhich is now being emulated for other
strategically aligned needs.
An IEEE Fellow, Ms. Reder is the Vice President of Power
Systems Solutions at S&C Electric Company, Chicago, Ill., USA.
Scope: For exceptional managerial leadership in the fields of

interest of IEEE
Scope: For distinguished service to the development, viability,

advancement, and pursuit of the technical objectives of IEEE
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2014 IEEE SERVICE AWARDS
2014 IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award
IEEE Honorary Membership
Sponsored by the IEEE Foundation
Sponsored by IEEE
V. Prasad Kodali
Shirley M. Tilghman
For sustained contributions to IEEE, its

Boards and Committees, and for pioneering the development of Region 10
For leadership in bridging quantitative biology and engineering and for

advancing higher education
V. Prasad Kodali has worked tirelessly as an IEEE volunteer at

many levels for four decades to promote the growth and visibility
of IEEE in India and other countries. Dr. Kodali has served IEEE
at the Society, Section, and Regional levels as well as IEEE secretary and as a member of Institute-level boards and committees.
Dr. Kodali was the first person from India elected by the membership to serve as director of Region 10, which encompasses the
Asia Pacific area. As director, Dr. Kodali made a policy of initiating discussions with national engineering societies in Japan,
Australia, and India for cooperation agreements that eventually led to the development of programs in Japan, Singapore,
India, Hong Kong, andAustralia that were instrumental in growing Region 10s membership to one of the largest within IEEE.
As Chair of the IEEE Educational Activities Boards Transnational
Committee, Dr. Kodali brought together educational activities
chairs from Regions 7 through 10 to identify common concerns
so these transnational members could receive the greatest benefit
from IEEE educational programs. Dr. Kodali was also instrumental
in the success of the volunteer-driven exhibits project displayed
at the Birla Science Center in Hyderabad, India in 2013, which
was designed to spur interest in engineering and sciences among
high school students. Dr. Kodalis other volunteer positions include founder and chair of the IEEE India Councils Aerospace
and Electronic Systems Society/Communications Society Joint
Chapter and the following Institute-level groups: IEEE Constitution, Bylaws and Policy Statements Committee; IEEE Executive
Committee; IEEE Finance Committee; IEEE Ethics Committee;
IEEE Long Range Planning Committee; IEEE Fellows Committee; IEEE Membership Development Committee; IEEE Life
Member Committee; IEEE Accreditation Policy Council; IEEE
Awards Board; and IEEE Publications Board.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal, Dr. Kodali retired in 1997 as an adviser to the government of Indias Department of Electronics, New Delhi, India.
A champion of integrating biological sciences and engineering

for the advancement of technology, Shirley M. Tilghman is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and leading Princeton Universitys engineering program to substantial
growth by incorporating exposure to many scientific disciplines.
Dr. Tilghman participated in cloning the first mammalian gene
and also identified the H19 gene, which was important to
genomic imprinting. She was one of the founding members of
the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project
for the U.S. National Institutes of Health and helped set the blueprint for the U.S. effort in the Human Genome Project. As a
professor at Princeton University, Dr. Tilghman envisioned the
need to bring multiple scientific disciplines together to better
interpret genomic data. In 1998, she became founding director
of Princetons Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,
which promoted collaboration among chemical engineering,
computer science, molecular biology, physics, and chemistry. Under Dr. Tilghmans leadership as president of Princeton (2001
to 2013), the engineering program realized increases in enrollment, sponsored funding, and facility space. During her tenure,
Dr. Tilghman promoted integration between the engineering
program and the liberal arts, and she instituted key educational
initiatives. The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment was established to conduct research on new energy and environmental technologies, and the Keller Center for Innovation
in Engineering Education was created to promote experiential
learning, entrepreneurship, and leadership. She also helped launch
the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Princeton Center for
Theoretical Science. Dr. Tilghman is also known for her national
leadership in advancing the careers of women in science and engineering, serving as a role model and mentor.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of London and member of the
U.S. Institute of Medicine, Dr.Tilghman is President Emerita and
a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, N.J.
Scope: For outstanding service to IEEE
Scope: For those who have rendered meritorious service to humanity in IEEEs designated fields of interest and who are not
members of IEEE
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2014 IEEE JOINT AWARD
2014 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk

Maxwell Award
IEEE Edison Medal

Sponsored by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sponsored by Wolfson Microelectronics plc
Sir David Payne
Ralph
H. Baer
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For ground-breaking contributions to

optical ber technologies and their
application to optical communications
For pioneering and fundamental contributions to the video-game and interactive

multimedia-content industries
An internationally renowned photonics engineer, David Paynes

innovations have revolutionized high-speed and long-distance optical communications by providing the ability to efficiently transfer
vast amounts of data over large distances. With pioneering fiber
fabrication research spanning 40 years that has impacted practically all of todays optical fiber technology, Dr. Paynes most crucial innovations were the development of the end-pumped fiber
laser and the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) during the
1980s. Still by far the most successful optical amplifier, the EDFA,
pumped by a tiny diode laser, allows the optical signals carrying
internet data to be periodically boosted within the fiber itself.This
eliminated the need for expensive, capacity-choking, electronic
signal regenerators and allowed todays optical fiber transmission
systems to span oceans without regeneration and with vast bandwidth. Dr. Paynes work made massive deployment of optical fiber networks cost-effective, and the EDFA became a key enabling
technology that led to the explosive growth of the Internet. Dr.
Payne also made ground-breaking contributions to spun fibers for
control of dispersion currently used in undersea fiber cables, the
erbium/ytterbium cladding-pumped fiber amplifier used for cable
television distribution, the distributed fiber temperature sensor
used in oil wells and offshore wind farms, the bow-tie polarization-maintaining fiber used in many aircraft/spacecraft navigation
gyroscopes, and the fiber preform analyzer used throughout modern fiber factories. Dr. Payne was also the first to identify the bandwidth advantage of the 1.3-m wavelength window. Dr. Payne
also conducted research for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) during 20002004, which included
ideas for using parallel, beam-combined laser circuits for missile
defense and demonstrated the first kilowatt fiber laser. This technology is now being explored for the next generation of particle
accelerators at CERN. Dr. Paynes current research focuses on
high-power industrial fiber lasers for cutting, welding, and marking as an alternative to conventional lasers.
An IEEE Member and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the Royal Society (UK), and the Russian Academy
of Sciences, Dr. Payne is the director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
Known as the father of video games, Ralph H. Baers development and commercialization of video-game technology spurred
the creation of a multibillion-dollar industry and has greatly influenced the way we play and work.With a vision of using home
televisions for more than just passively watching broadcasts, Baers
pioneering work turned televisions into interactive instruments
by creating the concept of home video games and developing
the critical technology to make it a reality. His 1971 patent on a
television gaming and training apparatus is the pioneer patent
of video-game technology and was based on his Brown Box
console. Enshrined in the Smithsonian Institutes National Museum of American History, Baers Brown Box concept became the
Magnavox Odyssey video-game console in 1972 and sold over
200,000 units. From the original ball-and-paddle concept of the
Odyssey to subsequent patents that enable the delivery of content and game-related data via video tape and disc and the use of
digitized faces of famous persons in video games, Baers innovations have become standard features of current-generation video
games. He was also the first to develop interactive quiz games, a
television shooting game using a light gun, and one of the first
microprocessor-controlled handheld sequence games, which became commercially known as Milton-Bradleys Simon. Baer
also foresaw the application of his technology for training and
simulation, which has benefitted the military and the airline and
medical industries. Baers current projects include updates to his
earlier work as well as products involving skateboards, race cars,
programmable interactive books, and electronic training kits.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame, Baers honors include the 2006 U.S. National
Medal of Technology and the 2013 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award. Baer is currently the owner of R.H. Baer
Consultants, Manchester, N.H.
Scope: For groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical
engineering or related fields
Scope: For a career of meritorious achievement in electrical

science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts
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IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
IEEE Founders Medal
Sponsored by Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Dariush Divsalar
Eric Schmidt
For fundamental contributions to the

theory and practice of channel codes that
transformed deep space and other forms
of wireless communications
For transforming global access to

information through his leadership and
technological contributions
For more than three decades, Dariush Divsalars innovative contributions to information theory and communications technology have provided advancements leading to more reliable and
efficient near-capacity transmission and reception of data for
wireless networks and deep-space communications. Dr. Divsalars
channel coding innovations have led to state-of-the art technology and represent the most advanced high-performance coding schemes standardized for deep-space communications today.
Channel codes are used to protect data transmission and storage
in the presence of noise or errors. Perhaps best known for his
work on understanding turbo codes, which were the first practical
codes to closely approach channel capacity, Dr. Divsalar optimized
and standardized turbo codes for deep-space applications. He also
co-invented a new class of protograph-based low-density paritycheck (LDPC) codes for efficient information transfer over noisy
channels. Known as Accumulate Repeat Accumulate codes, the
technique is based on accumulators, puncturing, and a precoder to
further improve performance.These new codes are themselves an
enhanced version of Repeat Accumulate codes previously co-invented by Dr. Divsalar.These new protograph-based LDPC codes
have become Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
(CCSDS) international standards and are being used in NASA
missions. Dr. Divsalar has also contributed significantly to bandwidth-efficient coded modulation, with work that paved the way
to trellis coded modulation design for wireless fading channels
that became the basis of the modern approach of bit-interleaved
coded modulation. This is an integral component of todays WiFi
and 4G wireless systems. He also developed the parallel partial
interference cancellation scheme for multiuser systems, analyzed
it, and showed its superiority in improving code division multiple
access (CDMA), which was an important building block of multiple access communications systems. Dr. Divsalars latest discoveries are impacting the use of wireless, deep-space, and free-space
optical communications for high-speed data links.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the NASA Exceptional
Engineering Achievement Medal (1996), Dr. Divsalar is currently
a senior research scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.
Eric Schmidts technical and business ingenuity has helped guide

Google to its status of the worlds premier search engine and
one of the most successful information technology companies.
With a visionary perspective of the Internets potential since its
early days, Dr. Schmidts leadership at Google has provided technology that has revolutionized how the world seeks information
and how people connect with each other. As chief executive officer from 20012011, Dr. Schmidt helped guide Google from a
start-up company to provider of the Internets fastest and largest
search engine used by hundreds of millions of people. He has
been a driver of innovation, seeking methods to improve search
performance and establishing features such as Google Maps and
Gmail. Dr. Schmidt has helped grow the company that began
by offering Web search in a single language into one that now
offers dozens of products and services in many languages, including various forms of advertising and Web applications for diverse tasks.Today, Dr. Schmidts responsibilities at Google include
building partnerships and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership, and advising
senior leadership on business and policy issues. With a career
spanning over 30years of technology development, management,
and marketing contributions, Dr. Schmidt also coauthored the
lexical analyzer for UNIX while at the University of California, Berkeley. This program changed how software engineers approached the problem of creating compilers. As chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems
from 19831997, Dr.Schmidt led the development of the Java
platform-independent programming software that has become a
key enabler of todays Web-connected services.
An IEEE Member and member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology (U.S.), and the Prime Ministers Advisory Council (U.K.), Dr. Schmidt is currently executive chairman at Google,
Inc., Mountain View, Calif.
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Scope: For outstanding contributions in the leadership, planning,

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IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
IEEE Medal for Innovations

in Healthcare Technology
Sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc.
Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering

in Medicine and Biology Society
Thomas J.
Richardson and
Rdiger Urbanke
Leroy Hood
For fundamental
contributions to coding
theory, iterative
information processing,
and applications
For pioneering contributions to

DNA sequencing technologies that
revolutionized life and health sciences
Considered the worlds leading experts on iterative decoding,

Thomas J. Richardson and Rdiger Urbanke have helped optimize data transmission rates for wireless and optical communications with techniques that realize near-channel capacity. To
approach Shannons limit, which established the maximum
rate for communications over a noisy channel, they expanded on
low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and provided a better
understanding of iterative decoding procedures. The result has
been reliable data transmission at rates close to channel capacity
with low errors. Known for the ability to transfer coding theory
to practical applications, their work has been integral to todays
high-speed communications and data storage systems. LDPC
codes are components of many communications standards: WiFi
(IEEE 802.11); Digital Video Broadcasting standards; 10GBase-T
Ethernet; and the ITU-T standard for networking over power
lines, phone lines, and coaxial cable.Three landmark papers by Drs.
Richardson and Urbanke, one coauthored by Amin Shokrollahi,
that appeared in the February 2001 issue of the IEEE Transactions
on Information Theory, successfully addressed the obstacles facing
the development of capacity-approaching codes. They demonstrated that LDPC codes could very closely approach Shannons
limit, showed how to design irregular LDPC codes, and provided methods for efficiently encoding LDPC codes. They also
introduced the density evolution technique, which is a primary
tool in the design of iterative systems that allows engineers to
quickly assess the quality of code structure. The error-floor prediction technique developed by Dr. Richardson enabled the use
of LDPC codes for data storage devices and has found commercial application in computer hard drives. More recently (2014), in
a paper coauthored with Shrinivas Kudekar, Drs. Richardson and
Urbanke showed that a special class of LDPC codes can achieve
the Shannon limit with iterative decoding.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, Dr. Richardson is currently vice president of
engineering at Qualcomm, Inc., Bridgewater, N.J. An IEEE
Senior Member and co-recipient (with Dr. Richardson) of the
2011 IEEE Kobayashi Award, Dr. Urbanke is currently a professor
with the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Leroy Hoods development of five groundbreaking instruments,

including the automated DNA sequencer, has helped unlock the
mysteries of human biology and provided the foundation for the
field of genomics, revolutionizing our understanding of genetics
in the process. Moreover, two of these instrumentsthe automated DNA sequencer and the ink-jet DNA synthesizerled to
the concepts of high throughput biology and big data. A pioneer
in bringing engineering to biology, Dr. Hoods development of
the DNA sequencer in 1986 allowed the rapid automated sequencing of human genomes. This instrument became the driving force of the Human Genome Project, enabling the reading
of the entire human genetic code. Prior to the DNA sequencer,
it took 30 years to map the genome of the cold virus. With the
DNA sequencer, genomes of some viruses can now be mapped
in less than an hour. Dr. Hoods creation of the DNA synthesizer
in 1987 made it possible to synthesize DNA fragments for sequencing and cloning complete genes. His development of the
inkjet DNA synthesizer in 2004 enabled the creation of DNA
chips that can measure the expression levels of tens of thousands
of genes. Dr. Hood also developed a protein synthesizer (1981)
and protein sequencer (1985) that helped establish the field of
proteomics. His protein sequencer made it possible to determine
the amino acid sequence of proteins present at vanishingly small
concentrations.This resulted in the characterization of many new
proteins and the cloning of their corresponding genesopening
up many new biological fields including the identification of the
first oncogene. His protein synthesizer enabled the creation of
an AIDS protease inhibitor, which was highly effective in treating AIDS. Dr. Hood has combined his genomic and proteomic
expertise with mathematical modeling to form the discipline of
systems biology, which has transformed biology and will be a key
enabler of predictive and personalized medicine.
One of only 15 individuals elected to all three U.S. National Academies (the National Academy of Science, the National
Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine), Dr.
Hood is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems
Biology, Seattle, Wash.
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Scope: For outstanding contributions and/or innovations in

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IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education

Medal
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing

Medal
Sponsored by MathWorks; Pearson Education,

Inc.; and the IEEE Life Members Fund
Sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc.
John G. Proakis
Thomas Pinkney Barnwell, III
For contributions to electrical engineering

education through inuential textbooks
and inspiring leadership in integrating
research and education
For leadership in and contributions to

speech processing, lter banks and wavelets, DSP hardware and architectures,
and technology-enhanced education
Known as a digital communications expert, inspiring educator,

and prolific writer, John G. Proakis has helped shape electrical
engineering and digital communications programs and composed
textbooks that have influenced graduate students worldwide. Dr.
Proakis developed an outstanding reputation of providing inspired
teaching and supervision of students with an academic career
that began in 1969 with the Electrical Engineering Department at Northeastern University. As the chair of Northeasterns
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Proakis
helped transform the department from a teaching environment to
a dynamic research-active department. Dr. Proakis also served as
associate dean and director of Northeasterns Graduate School of
Engineering. Of his 10 textbooks on digital communication and
signal processing, Digital Communications (McGraw Hill) is perhaps the best known. Considered the most influential resource on
the topic and now in its fifth edition, the textbook has educated
generations of students and engineers about the fundamentals associated with the digital information age. His other influential
textbooks include Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (Prentice
Hall), Communication Systems Engineering (Prentice Hall), and Fundamentals of Communication Systems (Prentice Hall). Dr. Proakis has
also expanded engineering education beyond theory to laboratory experiments and simulation techniques using computers and
software. His textbooks in this area include Digital Signal Processing
Using MATLAB (CL-Engineering) and Contemporary Communication Systems Using MATLAB and Simulink (Cengage Learning).
Through these approachable books, Dr. Proakis has helped expose
students early on to the MATLAB development and simulation
tool that they will likely need to use throughout their professional
careers. Dr. Proakis also served as editor of the five-volume Wiley
Encyclopedia of Telecommunications.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award (2004), Dr. Proakis is a Professor
Emeritus with Northeastern University, and an Adjunct Professor
at the University of California in San Diego.
Thomas Pinkney Barnwell, III is considered one of the historically most important contributors to the field of signal processing
over the last 50 years for the breadth of his digital signal processing (DSP) innovations that have advanced the very foundations
of the field. Credited with some of the most definitive work in
speech processing, Dr. Barnwell developed what is known as the
Barnwell Windowing technique.This made possible the G.728
international standard for 16 kbit/second speech coding, which
is used for Internet telephony. He also introduced the mixedexcitation linear prediction (MELP) speech coding standard,
which is considered the most influential speech coder of the past
20 years. It became a standard for government and military secure communications and has been incorporated in commercial
products such as digital answering machines and speech synthesis
chips. His pioneering work on filter banks and wavelets has been
integral to image compression, digital audio, and wireless communication applications. Dr. Barnwell founded the DSP research
group (now known as the Center for Signal and Information
Processing) at the Georgia Institute of Technology and helped
grow it into a world-class research center. As cofounder of Atlanta Signal Processors, Inc. (ASPI, now a division of Polycom,
Inc.), Dr. Barnwell was instrumental in providing important DSP
hardware to industry such as the first DSP chip for a PC, the
first DSP speech coder on a DSP microprocssor, and other highspeed DSP microprocessors. A champion of E-learning initiatives,
Dr. Barnwells contributions to technology-enhanced education
include one of the first computer-based textbooks for teaching
with hands-on engagement.
An IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of two IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Awards and an IEEE Signal Processing
Society Technical Achievement Award, Dr. Barnwell is a Professor Emeritus with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Scope: For a career of outstanding contributions to education in

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2014 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal
Sponsored by The Federation

of Electric Power Companies, Japan
Sponsored by Intel Foundation
Franz Laermer
and Andrea Urban
John E. Kelly, III
For inventing and developing the Bosch deep reactive ion etching process
that has impacted the
micro-electro-mechanical
systems (MEMS) eld
For global executive leadership in

semiconductor technology R&D
The development of the deep reactive ion etching process by

Franz Laermer and Andrea Urban revolutionized the microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) industry by enabling costeffective production and proliferation of devices such as the tiny
sensors found in automobile air bag and anti-skidding systems,
as well as in todays smartphones and laptop computers. Patented
in 1994, the process allowed for precise manufacturing of complex structures in high-quality mono- and poly-crystalline silicon
compared to existing anisotropic wet etching methods. Considered a major turning point in the commercialization of MEMS
technology, the process enabled the design of more sophisticated
and compact devices but at lower cost. It helped overcome the
cost barrier to widespread use of silicon accelerometers for air
bag sensors, and yaw-rate sensors for car stability control, making
these important safety features accessible to more than just highend automobiles.The process also made possible new generations
of affordable sensors used in mobile phone applications, hard-disk
protection in laptops, and human-gesture recognition in video
game controllers. The technology has also impacted MEMS devices in healthcare, such as DNA chips and disposable blood pressure sensors. Dr. Laermer and Ms. Urban were also instrumental
in guiding Bosch to license the process to other manufacturers
instead of tightly guarding the intellectual property. This helped
in the tremendous growth and commercial success of the MEMS
industry, with large manufacturers using the process for their own
MEMS-based devices and enabling the start-up of many smaller
companies to provide contributions to MEMS technology. The
pair was honored with the 2007 European Inventor of the Year
Award (Industry Category) for their work on and subsequent
success of the deep reactive ion etching process.
Dr. Laermer is vice president of corporate sector research and
advance engineeringmicrosystems, with Robert Bosch GmbH,
Stuttgart, Germany. Ms. Urban is a senior expert with the Engineering Sensor Process Technology Department, Robert Bosch
GmbH, Reutlingen, Germany.
The technical and business leadership skills of John E. Kelly, III

have driven technology advancements at IBM and have impacted the global semiconductor industry, resulting in cutting-edge
semiconductor research. The founder of IBMs Semiconductor
Research and Development Center in 1996, Dr. Kelly was the
driving force in merging IBMs separate R&D organizations into
a seamless structure, increasing innovation and bringing technology to market more quickly. Under Dr. Kellys leadership, IBM
set the pace in semiconductor technology development, unveiling back-end-of-the line copper interconnect technology ahead
of industry, introducing the transition to 200-mm wafer scale, and
bringing silicon-on-insulator technology to the high-end processor market. Dr. Kelly is responsible for 12 research laboratories
and over 3,000 scientists located around the world, and he has
opened IBMs labs to close collaborations with clients, bringing
leading-edge research to bear on their toughest challenges. He
has been instrumental in establishing important IBM alliances
with many of the worlds leading semiconductor companies, such
as Samsung and Toshiba, that have helped to disseminate leadingedge process technology throughout the industry at a significantly reduced cost through resource sharing. He also helped develop
a new patent strategy that opened up access to much of IBMs
intellectual property, allowing collaborative efforts with partner
firms across organizational and industrial boundaries. Dr. Kelly
also cofounded the Center for Semiconductor Research at the
State University of New York, Albany, which serves as a model
of collaboration among corporate entities, university faculty and
students, and government agencies. His reputation and network
of global relationships have attracted a literal whos who of semiconductor technology to the Center. He has authored numerous
technical publications and recently published the book Smart Machines: IBMs Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing with writer
Steve Hamm on Columbia University Press.
Dr. Kelly is senior vice president and director of research with
IBM Corporation,Yorktown Heights, N.Y. He is an IEEE Fellow,
recipient of the 2010 IEEE Frederik Philps Award, a member of
the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and in October 2013
he received the NAEs Arthur M. Bueche Award.
Scope: For outstanding contributions to material and device

science and technology, including practical application
Scope: For exceptional contributions to the microelectronics

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IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar

Technologies and Applications
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering

Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications,
Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, and
Power & Energy Societies
Sponsored by Raytheon Company
Yuri Abramovich
Thomas A. Lipo
For seminal contributions to adaptive

radar signal processing algorithms and
Over-The-Horizon Radar
For contributions to electrical machine

and drive topologies
Yuri Abramovichs solutions for handling interference and jamming have helped advance the capabilities of long-range radar
and are integral to some of the worlds most advanced radar systems. Dr. Abramovich is most known for his work on suppressing interference in Over-The-Horizon Radars caused by natural sources such as thunderstorms or deliberate jamming. These
systems can detect air and sea targets up to thousands of miles
away and are used for military applications, maritime reconnaissance, and drug enforcement. He has conceived, developed, and
evolved powerful adaptive signal-processing techniques that have
demonstrated their ability to protect Over-The-Horizon Radar
systems from interference while preserving the ability to detect
targets. His techniques are known for achieving near-theoretical
performance when applied in real-world situations where other
proposed methods fell short. His diagonal loading principle for
regularization of adaptive radar is used to improve adaptive filters. Dr. Abramovich also explored alternatives to diagonal loading, developing methods applicable to passive direction finding
in nonuniform adaptive arrays and source detection. Considered
one of the important developments in signal-processing theory
in the past decade, he introduced the expected likelihood concept to normalize general likelihood ratio detectors for improved
performance. Already a leading research engineer in the Ukraine,
where he personally engineered many of his solutions into naval
long-range radars and anti-ballistic missile multifunction radars,
Dr. Abramovich emigrated to Australia in 1994 where he was
in charge of a technical team that implemented a number of
patented adaptive and signal-processing algorithms in a fielded
high-frequency surface demonstrator. He helped to commercialize this system while also developing adaptive processing algorithms for advanced maritime detection and tracking for Australias Over-The-Horizon Radar defense network.
An IEEE Fellow and recipient of the European Association
for Signal Processings Technical Achievement Award (2011),
Dr. Abramovich is currently a principal research scientist with
WR Systems Ltd., Fairfax,Va.
An international authority on the design and analysis of electric

machines and power electronics drives for over 40 years, Thomas A. Lipos innovative contributions have advanced the state of
the art and improved the efficiency and reliability of motors
and drives. Prof. Lipo began his pioneering work in 1968 with
the analysis, simulation, and control of early alternating-current
motor drives, impacting electric traction control for subway cars
and open pit mining equipment, among other applications. He
has pioneered or improved upon electrical machine topologies,
including flux switched machines, high torque vernier machines,
axial flux permanent magnet machines, brushless doubly fed reluctance machines, open winding machines, and double air gap
machines. He also pioneered modern, multiphase fault-tolerant
machines, demonstrating that a new family of five-phase induction and synchronous reluctance motors could provide more
torque and higher robustness compared to traditional three-phase
motors. Prof. Lipos work with his students on permanent magnet motors has provided a key element for the design of traction
applications in hybrid and electric vehicles, known as the characteristic current. Also among his trend-setting research that has
helped move power technology from concept to practical applications, Prof. Lipo and his students were the first to investigate
methods of eliminating the effects of input voltage unbalance on
motor drives. This work has been widely referenced and used in
many commercial applications. In 1980, Prof. Lipo cofounded the
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
at the University of Wisconsin, which has become an internationally renowned collaborative effort of industry sponsors, professors,
and students in the research and development of new power electronics technologies.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering,
Prof. Lipo is an Emeritus Professor with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields

of radar technologies and their applications
Scope: For outstanding contributions to the technology associated

with the generation, transmission, distribution, application, and
utilization of electric power for the betterment of society
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IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation
Sponsored by IBM Corporation
Lyndon Rees Evans
Cleve B. Moler
For systems leadership of the Large

Hadron Collider Project from conceptual
design through completion of construction
For fundamental and widely used contributions to numerical linear algebra and
scientic and engineering software that
transformed computational science
A master of accelerator physics, Lyndon Rees Evans leadership

in the design and successful development of the Large Hadron
Collider has resulted in one of engineerings greatest milestones
and is allowing scientists to expand our knowledge of fundamental physics. As the project director (19952009) of the highestenergy particle collider ever created, Dr. Evans was responsible
for the research and development of the large superconducting
magnets, the 27-km-long super-fluid cryogenic system, the integration of thousands of highly accurate power supplies, the optical
design of beam collision regions, and the related instrumentation
and control systems. He coordinated the efforts of thousands of
engineers from around the world, and his ability to make difficult
decisions when was faced with problems was critical to keeping the project on track. The Large Hadron Collider went live
in 2008, but during start-up operations it faced one of its most
serious challenges when a superconducting splice between two
of the magnets failed near the peak design current during a sector test. This caused a large number of magnets to terminate in
an uncontrolled way. Dr.Evans and his team analyzed the failure,
determined how to prevent this type of failure in the future, and
executed the work that was needed to resume operations. After a
one-year interruption, beam commissioning was completed very
quickly and science operations began in 2010. In 2012, the large
detectors, center of mass energy, and luminosity provided by the
Large Hadron Collider enabled the discovery of the elusive Higgs
boson, which had been the object of intense searches for 30 years.
This discovery allows scientists to validate the standard model of
particle physics.
A Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), Dr. Evans is currently
director of linear collider collaboration with the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
Cleve B. Moler is considered one of the most influential contributors to computational science and engineering for his development of the MATLAB high-level programming environment
that changed the face of numerical computation and provided
an indispensable tool for engineers worldwide. Dr. Moler developed MATLAB, which stands for matrix laboratory, as a simple
matrix calculator for student use in mathematical courses, but it
soon found broader acceptance in engineering. MATLAB makes
computing easier for scientists and engineers and increases productivity by allowing them to focus on solving the problem at
hand without needing to write their own code to perform matrix computations. In 1984, Dr. Moler founded MathWorks with
Jack Little to commercialize MATLAB.Today, MATLAB has over
1million users representing universities, industry, and government
worldwide. It is an important tool in industries including automotive, aerospace, communications, electronics, industrial automation, financial services, and computational biology. MATLAB
is used at over 5,000 universities, and it is often the first programming language taught to science and engineering students. Other
impactful contributions from Dr. Moler include the LINPACK
and EISPACK linear algebra software libraries for computation
involving matrices, which he helped develop during the 1970s.
LINPACK and EISPACK gave scientists the ability to solve complex problems without requiring them to be experts in the algorithms and software.The LINPACK Benchmark, used to rank the
worlds fastest supercomputers, is named after the LINPACK software library. Dr. Moler also contributed to linear algebra during
the 1960s by writing reliable state-of-the-art Fortran subroutines
for matrix computations and creating (with Pete Stewart) the QZ
algorithm for the generalized eigenvalue problem prevalent in
many applications.
A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
andrecipient of IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award (2012),
Dr. Moler is currently chief mathematician with MathWorks,
Natick, Mass.
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systems science
Scope: For outstanding achievements in computer-related science

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IEEE Medal of Honor

B. Jayant Baliga
For the invention, implementation, and commercialization of

power semiconductor devices with widespread benets to society
B. Jayant Baliga is considered the worlds preeminent power semiconductor scientist. His development of the insulated
gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) transformed the way we utilize
power and has improved the comfort, convenience, and health
of billions of people around the world while reducing environmental impact. Dr. Baligas invention of the IGBT in 1979
and subsequent development and commercialization while with
General Electric led to the worlds most important semiconductor switch. Dr. Baliga combined the physics of bipolar and
metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
technologies to create a device far superior to both, resulting
in lighter and more efficient power converters. His leadership
and perseverance in convincing General Electric to continue
investing in IGBT development and his ability to address and
overcome design and technology challenges were critical to the
IGBTs successful commercialization. IGBTs enabled the creation of cost-effective and efficient automobile electronic ignition systems that have reduced gasoline consumption by an
estimated 1.1 trillion gallons, resulting in reduction of carbon
dioxide emissions by 22 trillion pounds. The IGBT also made
possible the adjustable speed motor drives for refrigeration and
air conditioning and the miniature electronic ballast in energysaving compact fluorescent bulbs. The improved efficiency of
these devices due to IGBTs has resulted in a reduction in energy
usage of over 50,000 terawatt hours and 56 trillion pounds in
carbon dioxide emissions. IGBTs are also an essential component of compact and lightweight portable defibrillators used to
control the shock delivered to victims of cardiac arrest and save

the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year. All commercially available electric and hybrid vehicles use IGBTs to
control the transfer of power from the battery to the electric
motors. IGBTs are also important in wind- and solar-power
generation stations, converting electricity to power suitable for
consumer and industrial use.
Dr. Baligas pioneering contributions include the Baliga Figure
of Merit for evaluating the pros and cons of materials and devices
operating in high-frequency circuits. He was able to demonstrate
that wide bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide (SiC)
and gallium nitride (GaN) could provide significant performance
improvements over silicon for power electronics. His SiC power
device innovations have been commercialized since 2005 by numerous companies for use in solar inverters and motor control applications. Dr. Baliga is also responsible for four successful spin-off
companies from his research at North Carolina State University.
Inventions that have been commercialized by these companies include the TMBS rectifier used as bypass diodes for solar panels, the
super-linear RF silicon power MOSFETs used in cell-phone base
station amplifiers, and MOSFETs used to deliver power to microprocessors and graphics chips in laptops and servers.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Baliga received the 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barrack
Obama, the highest honor conferred by the U.S. Government to
an engineer. Dr. Baliga is currently a Distinguished University
Professor at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
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IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society
Sponsored by the Brunetti Bequest
Lihong Wang
Martin A. van den Brink
For pioneering photoacoustic

tomography
For designing new lithography tool

concepts and bringing these to the
market, enabling micrometer to
nanometer imaging
Lihong Wangs development of photoacoustic tomography for

high-resolution imaging of living tissue at scales ranging from
subcellular organelles to organs has profoundly impacted biology
and medicine. Photoacoustic tomography overcomes the limits
of optical diffusion for high-resolution cross-sectional imaging
of living tissue at levels deeper than alternative optical imaging methods, and Prof. Wang has developed the most important
breakthroughs in the field. He invented and demonstrated the first
in vivo photoacoustic microscopy system for functional imaging
of the concentration and oxygen saturation in blood, which is
important in cancer detection. His ring-shaped photoacoustic
computed tomography achieved the first functional imaging of
the brain and provided cross-sectional imaging of liver, kidneys,
and bladder of small animals.
An IEEE Fellow, Prof.Wang is the Gene K. Beare Distinguished
Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University, St.
Louis, Mo.
For over 30 years, Martin A. van den Brinks vision has driven
advances in optical lithography methods that enable smaller,
faster, and more energy-efficient chips. Optical lithography, a
microfabrication process in which light-sensitive chemicals are
used to transfer circuit patterns onto chip wafers, is the technology of choice for mass production of integrated circuits
and a key enabler of the continued miniaturization of chips.
Under Dr. van den Brinks leadership, innovations including
alignment modules, focusing and leveling methods, and staging concepts have continued to drive the industry forward, providing nanometer-scale accuracy. The TWINSCAN exposure
platform, 193-nm immersion lithography scanners, and extreme
ultraviolet scanners, have allowed printing at smaller and smaller
dimensions every year. His work has truly shaped the optical
lithography field.
Dr. van den Brink is President of ASML, Veldhoven, The
Netherlands.
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing

Technology Award
IEEE Control Systems Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society
Sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing

Technology Society
Avram Bar-Cohen
Tamer Bas ar
For contributions through leadership,

education, and advocacy to thermal
design, modeling, and analysis of
electronic components, and for original
research on heat transfer and liquidphase cooling
For seminal contributions to dynamic

games, stochastic and risk-sensitive
control, control of networks, and
hierarchical decision making
Avram Bar-Cohen has defined and guided the emergence of thermal packaging as a critical engineering domain, addressing the
consequences of heat generation within ever-shrinking electronic
components. He has laid the scientific foundations for the thermal
management of electronic components with seminal research on aircooled heat sinks and liquid cooling of logic and radio-frequency
devices. Engineered thermal management devices and heat flow
paths are necessitated by the consequences of heat generation within
electronic components, as uncontrolled temperatures can cause degradation in performance and reliability of solid-state devices. Dr. BarCohens work has formed the basis of thermal courses taught today
and has driven advances in applications ranging from consumer electronics to super-computing platforms. He is also leading the way in
the emerging area of embedded microfluidic cooling techniques.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Bar-Cohen is a Distinguished University
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Tamer Basar has made fundamental contributions to the field of

decision and control for over 40 years. He has led the way in
establishing a comprehensive theory for dynamic games, which
has helped the decision and control field grow from addressing
single-criterion problems to frameworks with multiple criteria
and complex information structures. This work has had renewed
applicability to wireless communication networks, Internet data
structure and routing, and network security. Dr. Basar has also
pioneered the game-theoretic approach to robust estimation and
control, which has had significant impact in other fields as well,
such as economics. Through his work in hierarchical decisionmaking, he has revolutionized the way dynamic multilevel optimization problems are solved.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Basar is the Swanlund Endowed
Chair and CAS Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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IEEE Electromagnetics Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio

Processing Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Allen Taove
Biing-Hwang Juang
For contributions to the development

and application of nite-difference timedomain (FDTD) solutions of Maxwells
equations across the electromagnetic
spectrum
For pioneering contributions to

automatic speech recognition and
speech coding
Allen Taflove is considered the researcher most responsible for

the worldwide use of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
methods for solving scientific and engineering problems involving electromagnetic wave interactions with material objects. Since
1972, his FDTD research has pioneered fundamental theory, algorithms, and applications of the numerical technique for Maxwells
equations published by K.S. Yee in 1966. Through Prof. Tafloves
research, FDTD has become the primary method to model complex electromagnetic interactions ranging across the spectrum
from ultralow-frequency geophysical phenomena spanning the
entire Earth to nanometer-scale photonics. His publication, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, is the seventh most-cited book in physics.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr.Taflove is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois. Here, he is applying FDTD to develop novel hyperspectral
microscopy techniques for early detection of deadly human cancers.
Biing-Hwang Juang has developed speech recognition and

coding technologies found in practically all of todays cell
phones, smartphones, and voice-enabled applications. He was
one of the first to realize the potential of Hidden Markov
Models (HMMs) for speech recognition systems, which enable computers to identify spoken words and sentences. His
mixture density HMM became the dominant technology
for speech recognition systems used in cell phones, voice-enabled navigation systems, and customer service telecom lines.
Dr. Juang was one of the first to develop vector quantization
methods for low-bit-rate speech coding. He also codeveloped
an efficient speech representation method that is at the heart of
speech coders used in cell phones and for Voice over Internet
applications.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Juang is the Motorola Foundation Chair
Professor and GRA Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta.
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission

and Distribution Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society
Sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory of

Herman and Edna Halperin, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society
Sanjay Kumar Banerjee
Willem Boone
For contributions to column-IV MOSFETs

and related materials processing
For successful international leadership

and guidance in understanding critical
factors affecting power cable life and in
improving diagnostic test procedures
Sanjay Kumar Banerjees innovative contributions to metal-oxide

field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) have driven advances in static
random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), and flash memory prevalent in todays computers
and mobile devices. Dr. Banerjees work has been integral to the
continued scaling of MOSFETs and enabling low-power electronics. Dr. Banerjee was a leader in the development of the vertical trench transistor/capacitor used by Texas Instruments in the
worlds first 4-Mb DRAM. His patented work on polysiliconon-insulator MOSFETs advanced SRAM technology. He also
demonstrated the first three-terminal MOS tunnel FET as well as
the first high-k dielectric/silicon-germanium quantum dot gates
for flash memories.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Banerjee is the Cockrell Regents Chair
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Microelectronics Center at the University of Texas,
Austin.
Willem Boones pioneering diagnostic and condition-assessment

methods for power cables have been invaluable to the electric
power industry in determining product life and avoiding electrical failure. Among Mr. Boones major contributions was his development of testing methods to detect water treeing in both aged
and new cables. Water treeing can advance degradation and lead
to electrical failure in buried or water-immersed high-voltage cables. Mr. Boones methods aide utility companies in determining
when to replace existing cables. For testing new cables, he created
a high-frequency (500 Hz) accelerated method, which reduced
the ageing test duration to 4 months compared to approximately
2 years. Mr. Boone has also improved partial discharge detection
tools helpful in estimating remaining cable life, and he has been
very active in preparing related international user guides and standards within CIGRE, IEC, and ICC.
An IEEE Senior Member, Willem Boone is a senior consultant
with KEMA, now called DNV GL, Oosterbeek,The Netherlands.
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IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award

Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
John K. Ousterhout and Mendel Rosenblum
For fundamental contributions to the design and implementation of log-structured

le and storage systems
John K. Ousterhout and Mendel Rosenblum are computer

scientists who introduced a radically different approach to file
system design with their log-structured file system (LFS), first
presented in 1992. LFS treats disks more like a tape drives, appending all new data sequentially rather than making random
accesses, and it has provided a more efficient and cost-effective
data storage process to meet the demands of larger memory devices. Before LFS, file systems assigned each block of data a specific location on the disk; when the data was modified, the new
value was stored in the same place as the old. Log-structured
file systems use a different approach, where all new information
is written sequentially to disk, like a log; if a block is overwritten, the new contents are assigned a new location on disk at the
head of the log. This improved write speed as much as 10x by
avoiding expensive disk-head movement, and also enabled faster
recovery from computer crashes. The work of Drs. Ousterhout
and Rosenblum has influenced storage systems at all levels, from
remapping layers on magnetic disks, to flash translation layers, to
large-scale datacenter storage systems.
IEEE Internet Award
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
Sponsored by Nokia Corporation
Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society
Drs. Ousterhout and Rosenblum are both IEEE Members and

professors at Stanford University, Calif.
Jon Crowcroft
Robert D. Lorenz
For contributions to research in and

teaching of Internet protocols, including
multicast, transport, quality of service,
security, mobility, and opportunistic
networking
For contributions to the development of

methodologies and sensors for precision control of electric motor drives and
coordinated drive systems
Jon Crowcroft has been one of the most influential forces on the
growth of the Internet.With early contributions to transport protocols (TCPs) for reliably sending data from one network device to another and TCP congestion-avoidance techniques, Dr.
Crowcroft is best known for his work during the late 1980s on
Internet protocol (IP) multicast. IP multicast enables sending data
to multiple interested receivers with a single transmission, and his
ideas have become the centerpiece for modern multicast routing.
He has also been a champion of opportunistic networks, which
provide a more flexible means of connectivity for remote/rural
areas, where information is transferred using a combination of
remote and fixed networking nodes compared to traditional fixed
network infrastructures.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Crowcroft is the Marconi Professor of
Communications Systems at the University of Cambridge, U.K.
Robert D. Lorenzs pioneering development of self-sensing

motor drives has provided one of the most important concepts
in advanced machine control. Prof. Lorenz is considered the
leading expert in self-sensing machines methods, where the
sensing functions are fully integrated on a drive to detect key
operating characteristics including rotor position, torque, speed,
temperature, and motor/load diagnostics. Avoiding the need for
conventional position sensors reduces cost and increases motor
efficiency. His electronic line shaft control methodology coordinates multiple drives along a manufacturing line to act as if
they were directly coupled by a shaft. This has been invaluable
to the paper and printing industries, where web rolls are sensitive to even minor differences in speed among motor drives.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Lorenz is a professor of mechanical engineering and Co-Director of WEMPEC at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
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IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and

Measurement
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Sponsored by Keithley Instruments, Inc. and the IEEE Instrumentation

and Measurement Society
Thomas E. Linnenbrink
C.L. Liu
For pioneering charge-mode analogto-digital converters and for developing

IEEE-standard converter terminology
and test methods
For seminal, long-lasting contributions

to design automation for circuits and
systems
Thomas E. Linnenbrinks development of high-speed devices for

data acquisition/conversion and passion for crafting industry standards have greatly impacted the signal processing field. Linnenbrink
created high-speed charge-couple device (CCD) technology that
set the state-of-the-art for data acquisition and signal processing
electronics during the 1970s, when his analog and digital converters
realized significant power savings over other converters. He has also
contributed to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Societys Waveform Generation, Measurement, and Analysis Committee
(TC-10) since its inception in 1977. Serving as TC-10s chair from
1997 through October 2013, Linnenbrink has expanded its scope
from two standards to six by establishing terminology and test standards for digital waveform recorders, dataconverters, circuit probes,
pulse measurements, and jitter.
An IEEE Fellow, Mr. Linnenbrink is the Principal of Teqnovations, LLC, Colorado Springs, which he founded in 2013.
A circuits and systems design visionary, C.L. Liu reshaped the

electronic design automation (EDA) field by providing the tools
that make todays complex integrated circuits possible. EDA tools
provide a more efficient and reliable means of creating and testing chips. To overcome the limitations that ad-hoc EDA methods
faced as circuit integration became more complex, Prof. Liu pioneered the use of formal, mathematically rigorous tools for design
automation. Prof. Lius algorithm-based EDA tools paved the way
to solving complex design problems with techniques such as dynamic programming, linear programming, and simulated annealing. Prof. Liu is also particularly known for his work in floorplanning algorithms for realistic circuit design as well as scheduling
algorithms for real-time tasks.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Liu is a professor with the Computer Science Department at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan.
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and

Communications Award
Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Sponsored by NEC Corporation
John M. Ciof
George Varghese
For educating a stellar array of graduate

students in digital communications and
for inspiring them to make a difference
For contributions to the eld of network

algorithmics and its applications to highspeed packet networks
Known as the father of digital subscriber line technology, John M.

Cioffi also applied his expertise in the classroom at Stanford University. He created some of the most popular yet most demanding
electrical engineering graduate courses at Stanford. He was one
of the first to present topics such as multicarrier communications,
which today is the most widely used transmission technique. Being accepted to Dr. Cioffi s research group was considered by
many of his students to be an accomplishment on par with being
accepted to graduate school. He taught his students to believe in
themselves and to strive for their goals with determination and
perseverance. His guidance created a close-knit community of
digital communications experts now representing many facets of
industry and academia.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Cioffi is the Hitachi America Professor of
Engineering (Emeritus) at Stanford University, Calif.
George Vargheses powerful algorithms for packet-switching networks are an integral part of Internet routers, enabling data transfer that is safer, faster, and more reliable. Dr. Varghese pioneered
the development of network algorithmics, which has enabled the
proliferation of packet-switched networks. Network algorithmics
involves changing hardware and operating systems and applying
efficient algorithms to reduce Internet bottlenecks. Dr.Vargheses
Deficit Round Robin packet scheduling algorithm supports realtime audio and video over the Internet and has been incorporated
into practically every Internet router used. His algorithms for fast
Internet protocol lookups overcame the perception that route
lookup was slow.
An Association for Computing Machinery Fellow, Dr.Varghese
is currently a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, Mountain View, Calif. He was formerly a professor at University of
California, St Louis and earlier at Washington University, St. Louis.
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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 Foundation
Frede Blaabjerg
Gabriel M. Rebeiz
For contributions to power electronics in

renewable energy and adjustable speed
drives
For pioneering contributions enabling

commercialization of RF MEMS technology and tunable micro- and millimeterwave systems
Frede Blaabjergs innovations in applying power electronics for

the control and conversion of electric power have increased energy efficiency and provided more reliable connection of renewable
energy sources to the power grid. His power converters for wind
turbine systems have helped overcome scaling challenges. He also
developed module and string inverters for solar photovoltaics that
have found industry use. Prof. Blaabjergs grid-interfacing techniques include synchronization, smart monitoring, and design and
control of filters for improving the quality of power being fed to
the grid. His innovations involving adjustable speed drives include
techniques for reducing noise in heating and cooling systems and
lowering the cost of industrial drives by reducing the sensors
needed while still maintaining failure protection.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Blaabjerg is a professor with the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Gabriel M. Rebeizs vision in guiding microelectromechanical

systems (MEMS) technology to market for radio-frequency (RF)
applications has resulted in reliable and efficient components
essential to smartphone operation and defense communications.
Dr. Rebeiz was one of the first to introduce MEMS technology to
the RF/microwave field, where moving submillimeter-sized components provide RF functionality, resulting in tunable filters and
antennas and wideband switches for wireless applications. His contributions have allowed high-performance RF components that
provide higher data rates, lower power consumption, and higher
power handling than traditional solid-state devices. Recognizing
reliability issues that threatened commercialization of RF MEMS
technology, Dr. Rebeiz provided solutions to stress, temperature,
dielectric charging, and packaging concerns.This work was instrumental in the continued advancement of the technology.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Rebeiz is a Distinguished Professor with
the University of California, San Diego.
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 NV
Robert G. Meyer
Henry T. Nicholas, III
For pioneering contributions to the

design and modeling of analog and
radio-frequency circuits
For exemplary leadership and entrepreneurial vision in the commercialization of

communications semiconductors that enable ubiquitous broadband connectivity
Robert G. Meyer revolutionized the use of on-chip inductors in

silicon radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) for communications. Prior to his work during the 1990s, on-chip inductors
were thought to be too bulky and inefficient for high-performance RF applications. Dr. Meyer took a new direction and demonstrated their potential. Today, on-chip inductors are an integral
part of cellular device technology with nearly all high-speed chips
using one to several dozen integrated inductors. His design for a
precision silicon IC power detector has also been used in large
volumes in the cell-phone industry. He also contributed the first
tunable, completely monolithic silicon oscillator in the gigahertz
frequency.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Meyer is Professor Emeritus and professor in the Graduate School with the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
The creativity, vision, and technical expertise of Henry T. Nicholas,

III drove one of the most successful producers of communications
semiconductor technology to bring broadband connectivity to
the masses.Working out of out a spare room in his apartment with
a $5,000 investment, Dr. Nicholas cofounded Broadcom Corporation with Dr. Henry Samueli in 1991. Under Dr. Nicholass
direction, Broadcom pioneered the broadband communications
semiconductor industry by being the first to introduce semiconductor solutions for broadband access over cable TV networks. He
created and drove an environment that thrived on and rewarded
invention, resulting in products such as Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11g
WiFi, and digital cable modems. Broadcom continues as a leader
of products that seamlessly provide multimedia connectivity in
home, office, and mobile environments.
An IEEE Member, Dr. Nicholas retired from Broadcom in
2002. He currently resides in Newport, Calif.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society
Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
James G. Fujimoto
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Shigeo Hirose
For pioneering the development and

commercialization of optical coherence
tomography for medical diagnostics
For contributions to the design and

construction of multiple nonconventional robotic systems such as snakelike,
quadruped walking, wall climbing, and
swarm robots
Considered the father of optical coherence tomography (OCT),

James G. Fujimoto provided the medical industry with a powerful imaging tool for diagnosis and monitoring treatment response
in ophthalmology and intravascular and endoscopic imaging. His
group and collaborators are credited with the invention and development of OCT. His group has made many advances in OCT technologies including photonic sources, systems, medical devices, and
signal processing. Working in collaboration with leading physicians,
they performed the first studies demonstrating many of the technologys medical imaging applications. OCT became the standard of
care in diagnostic ophthalmology worldwide and is an emerging
imaging modality in interventional cardiology and endoscopy.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Fujimoto is the Elihu Thomson Professor
of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Dr. Fujimoto is a member of the National
Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Shigeo Hiroses unique approach to robot development has positioned him as a leading designer of snakelike and multilegged
robots. Dr. Hirose is considered the founder of biologically inspired robots that demonstrate the types of movement found in
naturally occurring biological systems. His pioneering work in
snakelike locomotion began in 1972 when he was the first to
demonstrate smooth, undulating motion of a snakelike robot. He
developed the first terrain-adaptive quadruped walking robot,
which can walk on stairs by using tactical sensors on its soles.
Dr. Hiroses snakelike and crawler-type robots are suited for areas
deemed too dangerous for humans. His robots have been used for
search and rescue missions, detecting and clearing landmines, and
inspecting high-voltage power lines.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Hirose is professor emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology and chief technology officer of HiBot Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
IEEE David Sarnoff Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Sponsored by the Sarnoff Award Fund
Geoffrey E. Hinton
Larry A. Coldren
For contributions to neural networks and

deep learning
For contributions to semiconductor lasers

and photonic integrated circuits
Geoffrey E. Hinton helped establish the field of machine learning

and has dedicated his research to understanding how the human
brain works and how this knowledge can be applied to provide
machines with brainlike capabilities for performing complex tasks.
Prof. Hinton pioneered backpropagation learning algorithms for
training neural networks and has revolutionized machine learning
several times over. His work on deep learning provides a better
model of biological learning than previous methods. By employing multiple levels, it is capable of producing the type of deep
hierarchy of abstract representations that are known to exist in
the brain. His work has provided revolutionary changes in speech
recognition technology and his algorithms have been applied to
collaborative filtering and object recognition.
Dr. Hinton is a University Professor with the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Canada and a
Distinguished Researcher at Google, Inc.
Larry A. Coldrens development and commercialization of key laser and photonics technologies have been integral to enhancing
the capacity and spectral efficiency of high-capacity optical transmission systems. Perhaps his most outstanding innovation was the
conception, development, and commercialization of the sampledgrating distributed-Bragg-reflector laser. Containing a modulator
and amplifier fabricated on the same chip as a widely tunable laser,
this device is the workhorse transmitter for high-capacity lightwave transmission systems in many of todays telecom networks.
He also made seminal contributions to the design of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, which are integral to routing e-mail and
Internet traffic. He is a technical authority on photonic integrated
circuits, whose functionality, low cost, and small footprint will play
an important role in ultra-high-speed optical systems.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Coldren is the Fred Kavli Professor
of Optoelectronics and Sensors, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
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IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
Harold Malcolm Hudson, Brian F. Hutton,

and Lawrence A. Shepp
For developing maximum-likelihood image reconstruction in
emission tomography leading to its widespread and effective
use in healthcare
The collective work of Harold Malcolm Hudson, Brian F. Hutton,

and Lawrence A. Shepp has resulted in reconstruction algorithms
that propelled the success of emission tomography as a clinically
feasible method for medical imaging. Dr. Shepp developed the
maximum-likelihood expectation-maximization (ML-EM) algorithm in 1982, which provided improved image quality compared
to Fourier-based algorithms of the time. However, its heavy computational burden was a barrier to clinical use. Profs. Hudson and
Hutton were motivated to overcome the computational workload
with faster image reconstruction solutions. First published in 1994,
their ordered-subsets expectation-maximization (OS-EM) algorithm applied the ML-EM algorithm successively to well-chosen
data blocks. This was key to bringing ML estimation into daily
practice for emission tomography. The trios work paved the way
for techniques that improve image accuracy and precision, while

potentially shortening scan duration or helping to reduce the activity of tracer administered to the patient.
Dr. Hudson is an Emeritus Professor with the Department of
Statistics at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia.
An IEEE Senior Member, Dr. Hutton is Professor of Medical
Physics in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Science at
the Institute of Nuclear Medicine at University College London,
U.K. and a Professor in the Department of Medical Radiation
Physics at the University of Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia.
Dr. Shepp, who passed away in April of 2013, was the Patrick
T. Harker Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and a Professor with the
Department of Statistics at Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J.
IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
Sponsored by Hitachi, Ltd. and the IEEE Computer Society
Sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association
Balaji Prabhakar
Mark McGranaghan
For his demonstration of the innovative use of information technology and

distributed computing systems to solve
long-standing societal problems, in
areas ranging from transportation to
healthcare and recycling
For sustained leadership in IEEE standards

and global harmonization of standards
including power quality, system monitoring, transients and harmonics, smart grid
interoperability, and applications
Balaji Prabhakars distributed computing architectures are being

used to solve pressing societal issues. A key aspect of Dr. Prabhakars work is the use of incentives, such as offering commuters a reward for using transportation during off-peak hours. A
network of embedded sensors can monitor traffic on roads and
smartphone-based mobility apps can determine how commuters
are using the system. The network can provide operators with
data to help determine when incentives need to be applied to
influence users to make the most efficient use of the system. Dr.
Prabhakars programs have reduced peak hour use of public transportation in Singapore, off-peak and eco-friendly commuting at
Stanford University in the U.S., and have improved participation
in wellness and education programs at major corporations.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Prabhakar is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, Calif.
Mark McGranaghans expertise and dedication to powerengineering standards development have improved power quality
worldwide. Mr. McGranaghan has been a pioneer in the advancement of power quality standards since the creation of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 22 in the early 1990s. He was a
leading force in the development of industry standards for power
system harmonics (IEEE 519) and has contributed to standards
and industry guides in a variety of other power quality areas including flicker, voltage sags, and transients. He is also known for
his contributions to IEEE Standard 1547 regarding the connection of distributed generation sources to the power grid, which is
considered one of the most important power-engineering standards of the past decade.
An IEEE Fellow, Mr. McGranaghan is vice president of power
delivery and utilization with the Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, Tenn.
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IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
Sponsored by Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Sponsored by the Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power &

Energy Society
Alan Eli Willner
Hamid A. Toliyat
For contributions to high-capacity, multiplexed, optical communication systems
For contributions to the design, analysis,

and control of fault-tolerant multiphase
electric machines
Alan Eli Willners expertise in optical communication systems

has helped advance the high-capacity pathways that process everincreasing data streams. His research has addressed several key
challenges facing optical communications networks and helped
to increase system capacity and reconfigurability. Dr. Willners
advancements include a tunable chromatic dispersion compensation module to help minimize data distortion caused by an optical
fiber; a technique that emulates the harmful effects of polarization mode dispersion; and cost-effective, real-time performance
monitoring methods that isolate data-degrading impairments in
optical networks. His latest work on orbital angular momentum
focuses on multiplexing together many different data-carrying
optical beams, each having a different phase-front twist, to increase capacity in future optical communication systems.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr.Willner is the Steven and Kathryn Sample
Chair in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles.
Hamid A.Toliyats pioneering development of multiphase induction motors has provided industry with more reliable and efficient power alternatives for transportation applications. His cutting-edge work on fault-tolerant five-phase motors during the
late 1980s improved on traditional three-phase motors. He demonstrated that multiphase motors can produce more than a 15%
improvement in torque while using the same amount of copper
and iron as in three-phase machines. Multiphase machines are
also more fault tolerant, resulting in more reliable operation. Prof.
Toliyat also extended his work to synchronous and permanent
magnet motors, realizing the same benefits. His contributions are
integral to todays electric motor applications for aircraft, electric
and hybrid vehicles, and electric ship propulsion.
An IEEE Fellow, Prof. Toliyat is a professor and the director of
the Electric Power and Electronics Program at Texas A&M University, College Station.
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
IEEE Transportation Technologies Award
Sponsored by Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote

Sensing Society, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society
Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics,

Microwave Theory and Techniques, Power Electronics, Power & Energy,
and Vehicular Technology Societies
George Chrisikos
Linos J. Jacovides
For contributions to heterogeneous

network architectures with ubiquitous
wireless access
For pioneering contributions to the

analysis and design of electromechanical systems and power electronics for
transportation applications
George Chrisikos patented innovations have advanced the performance and reliability of communication networks. He developed interoperability control algorithms which coordinate and
allocate system resources to mitigate the interference issues associated with multiradio coexistence and to optimize flow-control
and connection management for seamless wireless connectivity of
voice, video, and data traffic while reducing network congestion.
His contributions to adaptive antenna allocation, diversity combining, and Rake reception have been a key enabler in the realization of smart antenna technology and spread-spectrum systems.
He led the development and architecture of an electronic design
automation suite incorporating hierarchical computational modeling, transforming computer simulation methodologies into a
predictive tool for the design of wireless system-on-chip solutions.
An IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Chrisikos is
with Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, Calif.
A driving force in automotive electrical systems, Linos J. Jacovides

visionary development of electric drives and systems has set the
foundation for the technologies that power todays electric and
hybrid vehicles. Among Dr. Jacovides essential innovations that
span over 40 years was the development a 4,000-horsepower induction motor drive for locomotives. He and his team also introduced automotive electronic systems, including exhaust oxygen
sensors, micromechanical accelerometers, fuel injectors, electric
power steering, and permanent magnet motors for propulsion and
accessories. The design tools he developed during the 1970s are
still in use for producing drives for todays electric/hybrid vehicles. Since retiring as director of Delphi Research Labs in 2007,
Dr. Jacovides has participated in several National Academies studies on fuel efficiency and hybrid vehicles.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Jacovides lives in Grosse Pointe, Mich.
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IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
IEEE Donald G. Fink Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society
Sponsored by the IEEE Life Members Committee
Dipankar
Raychaudhuri
and Narayan
B. Mandayam
Hsi-Tseng Chou
For inspirational teaching and

innovations in undergraduate
engineering education
For the paper Frontiers

of Wireless and Mobile
Communications
Hsi-Tseng Chous innovative course development and teaching

methods have quickly grown Yuan Ze Universitys College of Electrical and Communication Engineering (CECE) into an awardwinning program in Taiwan. Dr. Chou implemented a new teaching
system in 2006 that transformed the CECE and earned recognition
by receiving important funding from Taiwans Ministry of Education. He integrated the CECEs course structures among its departments to allow students to pursue multiple degrees. He introduced
courses on antennas and propagation, microwave engineering, and
fundamental communication theory and created project-based laboratories for these courses. He incorporates industrial knowledge
within his courses and exposes students to industry experts through
off-campus opportunities. His methods have prepared students to
play an important role in the global wireless technology industry.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Chou is a professor and dean of Research
and Development with the Department of Communications
Engineering,Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
The paper by Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Narayan B. Mandayam,

which appeared in the April 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the
IEEE (vol. 100, no. 10, pp. 824840), was one of the top 100
most downloaded IEEE papers of 2012 and reviews new strategic research areas in wireless communications and the applications they will enable. Drs. Raychaudhuri and Mandayam review
the full range of wireless technologies, providing readers with
big picture of wireless technology evolution.They identify recent
trends such as cognitive radio, vehicular networks, peer-to-peer
networks, and location-aware pervasive computing networks.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Raychaudhuri is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of
the Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB) at Rutgers
University, Piscataway, N.J. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Mandayam is
currently the Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar and associate
director of WINLAB at Rutgers University.
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Communications, IEEE Control Systems, IEEE Information Theory,
IEEE Power & Energy, IEEE Signal Processing, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Societies
Stephen J. Wright, Robert D. Nowak,

and Mrio A.T. Figueiredo
For the paper Sparse Reconstruction by Separable
Approximation
The paper by Stephen J. Wright, Robert D. Nowak, and Mrio

A.T. Figueiredo on the reconstruction of sparse signals is considered to be one of the more significant recent advances in
signal processing. Many signals and systems can be represented
as a linear combination of elementary mathematical functions.
The paper addresses the problem of selecting a small number
of such functionsa subset of a large set of possible functionsso that the signal or system can be represented effectively
as a linear combination of this subset. The algorithmic framework presented in the paper, which appeared in the July 2009
issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (vol. 57, no.7,
pp. 24792493), unifies and extends previous iterative algorithms. Called SpaRSA, this powerful tool combines aspects of
convex optimization, linear algebra, and dimensionality reduction to automatically determine near-optimal sparse approximations. The method has impacted signal processing applications in
image processing, medical imaging, sampling, digital-to-analog
conversion, wireless communications, radar, sonar, and machine
learning. It has provided the foundation for further research
activity in this increasing important field.
Dr.Wright is a professor in the Computer Sciences Department
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. An IEEE Fellow, Dr.
Nowak is the McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Figueiredo
is a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the Instituto Superior Tcnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Amr El Abbadi
University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
for contributions to the design of fault-tolerant
large-scale data management systems
Nader Bagherzadeh
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
for contributions to the design and analysis
of coarse-grained recongurable processor
architectures
Brice D. Achkir
Cisco Systems, Inc.
San Jose, CA, USA
for contributions to diagnostics of physical layer
design in gigabit digital transmission systems
Chandrajit Bajaj
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA
for contributions to image processing, scientic
visualization, and computational biology
Thomas L. Ainsworth
US Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC, USA
for contributions to the interpretation and
analysis of polarimetric SAR imagery
Poras T. Balsara
University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas, TX, USA
for contributions to the design of all-digital
frequency synthesis
Mohammad Showkat-lul Alam

University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL, USA
for contributions to pattern recognition and high
resolution image reconstruction
Soumitro Banerjee
Indian Institute of Science,
Education & Research
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
for contributions to the understanding of
nonlinear phenomena in power electronic
circuits, and to the theory of border collision
bifurcation
Kevin C. Almeroth
for contributions to multicast communication,
wireless networks, and educational technology
Matthew J. Barth
University of California-Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
for pioneering research in intelligent
transportation systems
Gustavo Alonso
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
for contributions to data management and
distributed systems
Andrea Alu
Austin, TX, USA
for contributions to the theory and applications
of electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonic
phenomena
Bjarne R. Andersen
Andersen Power Electronic Solutions Ltd.
East Sussex, UK
for leadership in High Voltage DC Transmission
Systems, AC Power Electronics, and Reactive
Power Compensation
William H. Bartley
Newington, CT, USA
for contributions to the development of generator
and transformer standards for life cycle planning
and risk assessment
Evert Bert Basch
Verizon, Inc.
Waltham, MA, USA
for advancing the deployment of ber-optic
communication systems in carrier networks
Andrea Baschirotto
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
for contributions to analog lters
Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg
European Space Agency (ESA)
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
for leadership in satellite communications,
navigation, and remote sensing
Elizabeth M. Belding
for contributions to mobile and wireless
networking and communication protocols
Seiichi Aritome
SK Hynix Inc.
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
for contributions to ash memory technologies
Robert G. Arno
ITT Exelis Advanced Information Systems
Rome, NY, USA
for contributions in applying stochastic modeling
techniques to power distribution systems for
critical facilities
Carl L. Benner
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
College Station, TX, USA
for contributions to development of waveformbased analytics for electric power distribution
Randall A. Berry
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
for contributions to resource allocation and
interference management in wireless networks
Krste Asanovic
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
for contributions to computer architecture
Nicola Bianchi
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
for contributions to the theory and practice of
electric machine design and control
Phaedon Avouris
IBM Research
Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
for contributions to carbon electronics and
photonics
Gautam Biswas
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
for contributions to the modeling and simulation,
diagnosis, and fault-adaptive control of complex
dynamic systems
Igal Brener
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM, USA
for contributions to terahertz science and
technology
Alberto Broggi
University of Parma, Parma, Italy
for contributions to the design of automated
vehicles
Kent W. Brown
Tennesse Valley Authority
Ooltewah, TN, USA
for leadership in standards development for
design, testing, and utilization of electrical
equipment for the nuclear power industry
Richard B. Brown
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
for contributions to microsystem design
Klaas Bult
Broadcom Corp.
Bunnik, The Netherlands
for contributions to the design of high frequency
analog and mixed signal circuits
Martin Buss
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Muenchen, Germany
for contributions to haptic telepresence systems
and autonomous robots
Kathleen M. Carley
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
for contributions to multi-dimensional human and
cyber dynamic networks
Domenico Casadei
Bologna University
Bologna, Italy
for contributions to direct torque control and
matrix converters in electric drives
Branko G. Celler
Commonwealth Industrial and
Scientic Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Epping, NSW, Australia
for contributions to telehealth services for the
management of chronic disease
Babu R. Chalamala
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.
St. Peters, MO, USA
for contributions to the development of advanced
materials and device technologies for vacuum
microelectronics and eld emission displays
Ambrish Chandra
Ecole de Technologie Superieure
Montreal, QC, Canada
for contributions to power distribution and
renewable energy systems
Edward Yi Chang
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
for contributions to compound semiconductor
heterojunction transistor technologies
Shoou-Jinn Chang
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
for contributions to nano scale photonic,
electronic, and sensing devices
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Danny Ziyi Chen

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
for contributions to computation techniques
for geometric optimization and medical
applications
Kevin Jing Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
Hong Kong, China
for contributions to compound semiconductor
heterojunction transistor technologies
Kwok W. Cheung
Alstom Grid
Redmond, WA, USA
for development and implementation of energy
and market management systems for control
centers
Robert L. Ewing
Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
for contributions to electronic system design in
avionics
Liyi Dai
US Army Research Ofce
Durham, NC, USA
for leadership and contributions to discrete event
systems and singular systems
Paolo Faraboschi
Hewlett-Packard, Barcelona, Spain
for contributions to embedded processor
architecture and system-on-chip technology
Michael P. De Lisio
Wavestream Corp.
San Dimas, CA, USA
for leadership and commercialization of
high power microwave and millimeter-wave
technologies
Sunghyun Choi
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
for contributions to development of wireless
LAN protocols
Tobias Delbruck
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
for contributions to neuromorphic visual sensors
and processing
Hean Teik-Chuah
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahma,
Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia
for leadership in engineering education
Sujit Dey
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
for contributions to the design and testing of
low-power systems and system-on-chips
Judson Sidney Clements

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC, USA
for contributions to the evaluation and
elimination of electrostatic hazards
Inderjit Dhillon
Austin, TX, USA
for contributions to large-scale data analysis and
computational mathematics
J. Edward Colgate
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
for contributions to the eld of haptics
Jorge Cortes
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
for contributions to geometric control, nonsmooth
dynamical systems, and distributed control of
multi-agent systems
Jan Craninckx
Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC)
Leuven, Belgium
for contributions to the design of CMOS RF
transceivers
Andres Cuevas
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, Australia
for contributions to the science and technological
development of silicon solar cells
Michael E. Cuneo
Sandia National Laboratories
for developments in inertial connement
fusion with magnetically-driven-implosions and
electrode cleaning
Manuel A. dAbreu
SanDisk Corp
EL Dorado Hills, CA, USA
for contributions to the design of resilient
manufacturing processes for electronic products
Christos Davatzikos
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
for contributions to automatic analysis and
interpretation of biomedical multi-dimensional data
Dmitry Chizhik
Bell Labs
Holmdel, NJ, USA
for contributions to wireless channel modelling
Steven T. Cundiff
JILA, NIST & University of Colorado
Boulder, CO, USA
for contributions to self-referenced optical
frequency combs and ultrafast nonlinear solidstate spectroscopy
Joachim Ender
Fraunhofer Group, Wachtberg, Germany
for contributions to multi-channel synthetic
aperture radar and radar array signal
processing
Hooman Darabi
Broadcom, Irvine, CA, USA
for contributions to radio frequency integrated
circuits and systems
Tihao Chiang
Ambarella Taiwan Ltd.
Hsinchu, Taiwan
of video coding algorithms
Shuguang Robert Cui

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA
for contributions to cognitive communications
and energy efcient system design
Anand G. Dabak
Texas Instruments
Dallas, TX, USA
for contributions to wireless and power-line
communications
Donald R. Disney
Avogy, Inc.
Cupertino, CA, USA
for contributions to power integrated circuits and
energy efciency applications
Rahul Dixit
Space & Airborne Systems
Raytheon Company
Redondo Beach, CA, USA
for leadership in microwave monolithic
integrated circuits technologies and in active
electronically steerable arrays application
Aly A. Farag
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY, USA
for contributions to image modeling and
biomedical applications
Hector Fenech
Eutelsat SA, Paris, France
for leadership in the denition of
telecommunications satellite architectures and
systems through innovation and technological
exploitation
Peter Fischer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Berkeley, CA, USA
for contributions to the development and
application of high resolution X-ray magnetic
imaging
Franco De Flaviis
Irvine, CA, USA
for contributions to recongurable antennas and
tunable dielectrics for wireless communication
systems
Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad
Sharif University of Technology
Tehran, Iran
for development of probabilistic techniques in
power system reliability evaluation
Kim R. Fowler
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA
for contributions to mission-critical and safetycritical systems engineering
Alejandro F. Farangi
University of Shefeld
Shefeld, UK
for contributions to medical image analysis and
image-based computational physiology
Ichiro Fujimori
Broadcom Corporation
Irvine, CA, USA
for contributions to oversampled data converters
and gigabit wireline transceivers
Minh N. Do
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
for contributions to image representation and
computational imaging
Huijun Gao
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
for contributions to the theory and industrial
applications of networked control systems
David S. Doermann
University of Maryland- College Park
College Park, MD, USA
for contributions to research and development
of automatic analysis and processing of
document page imaging
Phillip B. Gibbons
Intel Labs
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
for contributions to parallel computing and
databases
Mischa Dohler
Centre for Telecommunications Technologies of
Catalonia (CTTC)
Barcelona, Spain
for contributions to wireless machine-to-machine
communication systems
Peter Donalek
MWH Global, Chicago, IL, USA
for contributions to grid-connected pumped
storage hydro systems
Garth A. Gibson
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
for contributions to the performance and
reliability of transformative storage systems
Robert Gilmore
QUALCOMM, Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA
for contributions to high-performance and
low-power wireless portable communications
devices
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James R. Glass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA
for contributions to probabilistic segment-based
speech recognition and spoken dialogue interfaces
Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur
Microsoft Research
Los Altos, CA, USA
for contributions to spoken language processing
Zhu Han
University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA
for contributions to resource allocation and
security in wireless communications
Guang Gong
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
for contributions to sequences and cryptography
applied to communications and security
Antonio Gonzlez
Intel Labs Barcelona & Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
for contributions to the design of energy-efcient
and resilient processor architectures
Ramesh Govindan
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
for contributions to computer networking applied
to sensor networks
Vivek K. Goyal
Cambridge, MA, USA
for contributions to information representations
and their applications in acquisition,
communication, and estimation
Helmut E. Graeb
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Munich, Germany
for contributions to design centering and
structural analysis of analog circuits
Rmi Gribonval
INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France
of sparse signal processing
Sarath D. Gunapala
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
for contributions to infrared detectors and focal
plane arrays
Yingjie Jay Guo
Commonwealth Industrial and
Scientic Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Marseld, NSW, Australia
for contributions to smart recongurable and
high gain antennas for broadband wireless
communications systems
Bruce A. Gurney
HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital
San Jose, CA, USA
for contributions to spin valve Giant
Magnetoresistance sensors for magnetic
recording systems
Bjorn Gustavsen
Power Research Institute (SINTIFF)
Trondheim, Norway
for contributions to frequency-domain modeling
techniques
Adolfo Guzman-Arenas
Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN)
Mexico City, Mexico
for contributions to consistent labeling for 3-D
object recognition
Martin Haenggi
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
for contributions to the spatial modeling and
analysis of wireless networks
Li Haizhou
Institute for Infocomm Research
Singapore, Singapore
for leadership in multilingual speaker and
language recognition
Irena Hajnsek
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich and German Aerospace Center (DLR)
e.V. Microwaves & Radar Institute
Wessling, Germany
for contributions to synthetic aperture radar imaging
using airborne sensors and satellite missions
Majeed M. Hayat
University of New Mexico
for contributions to the modeling of impact
ionization and noise in avalanche-photodiode
devices
Yun He
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
for contributions to video coding and
communication technologies
John S. Heidemann
USC/Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey, CA, USA
for contributions to sensor networks, internet
measurement and simulation
Fred Heismann
JDS Uniphase Corp.
Colts Neck, NJ, USA
for contributions to understanding, control and
mitigation of polarization effects in beroptic
Scott Hensley
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, USA
for contributions to radar remote sensing of the
Earth and planetary bodies and advancement of
interferometric synthetic aperture radar
Peter Adam Hoeher
University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
for contributions to decoding and detection that
include reliability information
Axel Hoffmann
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL, USA
for contributions to nanomagnetism and
manipulation of spin current
Chris Horwill
Alstom Grid, Stafford, UK
for contributions to testing and commissioning of
exible AC transmission systems
Y. Thimas Hou
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
for contributions to modeling and optimization
of wireless networks
Hao Huang
GE Aviation, Troy, OH, USA
for contributions to electric power generation,
conversion, and control in aircraft
Toshio Iguchi
National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology
Tokyo, Japan
for contributions to spaceborne meteorological
instruments and radar
Ilko K. Ilev
U.S. Dept. of Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD, USA
for contributions to the development of
multifunctional optical sensing and imaging
methods in biophotonics technology and
medical devices
Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University
Osaka, Japan
for contributions to evolutionary multiobjective
optimization and fuzzy rule-based classier
design
Kazunari Ishimaru
Memory Division, Toshiba Corporation
Semiconductor and Storage Products
Company
Yokohama, Japan
for contributions to static random access
memory and complementary metal-oxide
semiconductor devices
Cursino Brando Jacobina
Federal University of Campina Grande/DEE
Campina Grande, Brazil
for contributions to the development of power
converters and machine drives
Ali Jadbabaie
for contributions to the theory of multi-agent
coordination and control
Syed Ali Jafar
Irvine, CA, USA
for contributions to analyzing the capacity of
wireless communication networks
Weihua Jiang
Nagaoka University of Technology
Nagaoka, Japan
for contributions to repetitive pulsed power
generation utilizing solid-state device
technology
Xicheng Jiang
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, USA
for development of communication systemson-chip products
Christopher R. Johnson
University of Utah
for leadership in scientic computing and
scientic visualization
Gary R. Johnson
Mortar Net Solutions, Chicago, IL, USA
for leadership in growth and manufacturing
processes of quartz
Mohan S. Kankanhalli
National University of Singapore
for contributions to multimedia content
processing and security
Krishna Kant
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
for contributions to enterprise server
performance, power management technologies
and domain name system robustness
George K. Karagiannidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
for contributions to the performance analysis of
wireless communication systems
W. Clem Karl
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
for contributions to statistical signal processing
and image reconstruction
Tanay Karnik
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, OR, USA
for contributions to error-tolerant circuits and
near-load voltage regulators
Ursula Keller
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
for contributions to ultrashort pulse modelocked
laser physics and technology
Michael D. King
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO, USA
for fundamental research in remote sensing of
clouds and aerosols
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Roger L. King
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS, USA
for contributions to power systems data analytics
to improve grid reliability
Daniel D. Lee
for contributions to machine learning algorithms
for perception and motor control
Thomas A. Mehlhorn
Naval Research Laboratory
Alexandria, VA, USA
for leadership in understanding intense pulsed
electron and ion beams
Hassan Ali Kojori

Honeywell, Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to the design and application
of predictive and diagnostic algorithms in power
electronics converters
Kwyro Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology Daejeon, South Korea
for management and R&D leadership in
semiconductor technology
Charles L. Melcher
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
for the discovery of a cerium-activated lutetium
oxy-orthosilicate scintillator and its application to
medical imaging
Robert Kozma
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
for contributions to pattern-based computation
based on large-scale networks and random graphs
Zachary J. Lemnios
IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
for leadership in advanced technologies for
defense and security systems
Daniel A. Menasce
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
for contributions to research and education in
performance evaluation of computer systems
Hermano Igo Krebs

Cambridge, MA, USA
for contributions to rehabilitation robotics and
the understanding of neuro-rehabilitation
John Joseph Leonard

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
for contributions to navigation and mapping
for mobile robots and autonomous underwater
vehicles
Francisco Mesa
University of Seville, Seville, Spain
for contributions to the theory and computation
of wave propagation in microwave planar
structures
Bing Liu
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
for contributions to data mining
Cecilia Metra
Universit di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
for contributions to the on-line testing and faulttolerant design of digital circuits and systems
Benjamin Kroposki
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, CO, USA
for leadership in renewable and distributed energy
systems integration in the electric power system
Mingyan Liu
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
for contributions to modeling of wireless ad-hoc
and sensor networks
Jen-Tsai Kuo
Chang Gung University
Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
for contributions to planar microwave
components and numerical electomagnetics
Sheng Liu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, China
for leadership in engineering development of
LED packaging
Flix Antonio Miranda

NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, OH, USA
for contributions to high-temperature
superconductors and ferroelectric tunable
microwave components for satellite
communications
Yu-Kwong Ricky Kwok

University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
for contributions to resource scheduling
algorithms in parallel and distributed systems
Angel Lozano
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
for contributions to multiple-input, multiple-output
antenna systems
Sam T. Kwong
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
for contributions to optimization techniques in
cybernetics and video coding
Stepan Lucyszyn
Imperial College London, London, UK
for contributions to monolithic microwave
integrated circuits and radio frequency
microelectromechanical systems
Ivan J. LaHaie
Integrity Applications Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
for contributions to near-to-far eld radar
signature transformations and radar
measurement error mitigation
Howard Cam Luong

Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong, China
for contributions to CMOS radio-frequency
transceiver design
Sanjay Krishna
University of New Mexico
for contributions to infrared detectors and focal
plane arrays
Yen-Shin Lai
Taipei Tech Taipei
Taiwan
for contributions to power converters and motor
drives controlled by pulse width modulation
David H. Laidlaw
Brown University Providence, RI, USA
for contributions to data visualization and
analytics
Germano Lambert-Torres
Itajuba Federal University / PS Solutions
Itajuba, Brazil
for contributions to the application of intelligent
systems to power systems
J. Nicholas Laneman
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
for contributions to multihop relaying and
cooperative communication for wireless
networks
Anders Larsson
Chalmers University of Technology
Goteborg, Sweden
for contributions to optoelectronic device
technology
Byoungho Lee
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
for contributions to diffractive optics and threedimensional display technologies
Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal
University of Essex
Colchester, UK
for contributions to electromagnetic modeling for
microwave devices
Paul V. Mockapetris
Nominum, Los Altos, CA, USA
for contributions to the design and implementation
of the Internet Domain Name Systems
Philip K.T. Mok
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Hong Kong, China
for contributions to the design of analog powermanagement integrated circuits
Paolo Montuschi
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
of digital arithmetic
Robert Magnusson
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX, USA
for contributions to the invention of a new class
of nanophotonic devices
Jeong-Sun Moon
HRL Laboratories, LLC Malibu, CA, USA
for contributions to GaN- and graphene-based
microwave and millimeter-wave devices
Mariusz Malinowski
Warsaw University of Technology
Warsaw, Poland
for contributions to the modulation and control
of power electronics converters
Yu Tong Morton
Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
for contributions to the understanding of
ionospheric effects on global navigation
satellitesignals
Weidong Mao
Comcast Cable, Philadelphia, PA, USA
for contributions to video on demand
technologies and cloud computing
Theodore D. Moustakas
Boston, University Boston, MA, USA
for contributions to the epitaxial growth of nitride
semiconductors
Thomas Mc Dermott
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
for contributions to modeling and analysis of
electric power distribution systems and lightning
protection
Yi Lu Murphey
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, MI, USA
for contributions to optimal energy control in
hybrid electric vehicles
William M. McEneaney
University of California,
San Diego La Jolla, CA, USA
for contributions to optimal control and
estimation in nonlinear systems
Samuel Naffziger
Advanced Micro Devices
Fort Collins, CO, USA
for leadership in the development of power
management and low power processor
technologies
William J. McFarland
Qualcomm Atheros, San Jose, CA, USA
for leadership in single-chip wi radio systemson-a-chip development
Nathan Newman
Arizona State University School of Energy,
Matter & Transport, Tempe, AZ, USA
production of novel thin lm materials and devices
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Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
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Katia Obraczka
University of California at Santa Cruz
SantaCruz, CA, USA
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Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
for contributions to and leadership in
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Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
Norristown, PA, USA
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Bilkent University,
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University of Applied Sciences Western
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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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Marina Ruggieri
University of Roma Tor Vergata
Rome, Italy
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Atlanta, GA, USA
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Paul Allen Ryan

Dublin, OH, USA
for contributions to aviation safety
Jean-Pierre Raskin
Universit catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
for contributions to the characterization of siliconon-insulator RF MOSFETs and MEMS devices
William Redman-White
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
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telecommunications systems and RFIC design
Robert Andrew Reed
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
for contributions to understanding the effects of
single-event particle radiation on integrated circuits
Fernando Paganini
Universidad ORT Uruguay
Montevideo, Uruguay
for contributions to robust control and
communication networks
Martin Reisslein
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA
for contributions to the design and performance
evaluation of metropolitan networks and
multimedia networking mechanisms
David Z. Pan
Austin, TX, USA
for contributions to design for manufacturability
in integrated circuits
Michael K. Reiter
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
for contributions to computer security and
fault-tolerant distributed computing
Marios C. Papaefthymiou
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
for contributions to the design of adiabatic
circuits for high-performance computing
Steve Renals
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
for contributions to speech recognition technology
and its use in spoken language processing
Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou
German Aerospace Center DLR
Wessling, Germany
for contributions to polarimetric interferometry
for synthetic aperture radar
Daniele Riccio
Universit di Napoli Federico II
Napoli, Italy
for contributions to satellite-based synthetic
aperture radar imaging
Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Boston University
Boston, MA, USA
for contributions to the control and optimization
of communication and sensor networks,
manufacturing systems, and biological systems
Martin Richardson
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, USA
application of high-power and ultrafast lasers
Jian Pei
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
for contributions to data mining and knowledge
discovery
Nick M. Ridler
National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex, UK
for contributions to traceability in precision highfrequency electromagnetic measurements
Fatih Porikli
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Cambridge, MA, USA
for contributions to computer vision and video
surveillance
Norma Weaver Riley

Northrop Grumman Corporation
for contributions to ultra-wideband phased array
technologies
Jinyi Qi
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA, USA
for contributions to statistical image reconstruction
for emission-computed tomography
Daniel J. Radack
Institute of Defense Analyses
Kensington, MD, USA
for leadership in microwave and millimeter-wave
integrated circuit technologies and packaging
techniques
Padma Raghavan
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
for contributions to robust scalable sparse
solvers and energy-efcient parallel scientic
computing
Faz M. Rahman
University of New South Wales,
Australia New South Wales, Australia
for contributions to direct torque control of
integrated permanent magnet machines
Bradford Pryor Roberts (deceased 10/15/13)

S&C Electric Company
Franklin, WI, USA
for contributions to the uninterruptible power
supply industry and battery energy storage
solutions in electric power grids
Pedro Rodriguez
Abengoa Research Sevilla, Spain
for contributions to the control of distributed
power generation
Simon Rowland
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
for contributions to the application of polymers
in high voltage systems
Ashutosh Sabharwal
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
for contributions to the theory and
experimentation of wireless systems and networks
Amir Said
LG Electronics Mobile Research. U.S.A.( L.L.C)
San Diego, CA 92131
for contributions to compression and processing
of images and videos
Magdalena Salazar-Palma
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
for contributions to the application of numerical
techniques to electromagnetic modeling
Bahgat G. Sammakia
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY, USA
for contributions to thermal management
applications in electronic systems
Peter Sandborn
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
for contributions to the analysis of cost and lifecycle of electronic systems
Mark B. Sandler
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
for contributions to digital signal processing
techniques in audio and music applications
Guillermo Sapiro
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
for contributions to computational mathematics
for computer vision
Thilo Sauter
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
for contributions to synchronization and security
in automation networks
Stefan Schaal
for contributions to robot learning and modular
motion planning
John K. Schneider
Ultra-Scan Corporation
Amherst, NY, USA
for leadership in advancing the eld of
ultrasonic imaging and ngerprint identication
Philip Schniter
Ohio State University
Columbus,OH, USA
for contributions to signal processing in
communications
Cheryl B. Schrader
Missouri University of Science and
Technology, Rolla, MI, USA
for leadership and contributions in engineering
education
Alexander G. Schuchinsky
Queens University Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
for contributions to the electromagnetic theory of
complex and articial media and their applications
to passive intermodulation and novel devices
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Google Madison
Madison, WI, USA
for contributions to the architectures of highperformance interconnection networks and
supercomputers
Emina Soljanin
Bell Labs Alacatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
for contributions to coding theory and coding
schemes for transmission and storage systems
Jiming Song
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
for contributions to algorithms in computational
electromagnetics
Jong-Soo Seo
Yonsei University
Seoul, South Korea
for contributions to digital multimedia and
mobile broadcasting technologies
Anthony C.K. Soong

Huawei Technologies, Plano, TX, USA
for contributions to the standardization of
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Ashok N. Srivastava
NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA, USA
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Austin, TX, USA
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Puneet Sharma
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Palo Alto, CA, USA
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John T. Stasko
Atlanta, GA, USA
for contributions to information visualization,
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Richard M. Stern
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Jiancheng Shi
Institute for Remote Sensing Applications
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
for contributions to active and passive
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Charles R. Sullivan
Dartmouth Hanover, NH, USA
for contributions to the design of power
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Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh

National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
for advances in pattern-oriented intrusion
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Senichi Suzuki
NTT Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan
for contributions to high-density integrated
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Toru Shimizu
Renesas Electronics Corp.
Tokyo, Japan
for development of integrated multi-core
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State University of Campinas UNICAMP
Campinas, Brazil
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Andrei M. Shkel
Irvine, CA, USA
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Srinivas Tadigadapa
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
for contributions to microeletromechanical
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Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Arlington, VA, USA
for contributions to applied probablistic model
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Takunori Taira
National Institutes of Natural Science
Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
for contributions to micro solid-state photonics
Metin Sitti
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Raghupathy Sivakumar
Alpharetta, GA, USA
for contributions to the design of algorithms and
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computing
Kiruba H. Sivasubramaniam
Electric Machines Laboratory
Niskayuna, NY, USA
for contributions to high power density electric
machines for renewable energy and aerospace
applications
Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras Chennai, India
for contributions to medium access control
and energy-efcient protocol design in
communication networks
Dejan J. Sobajic
Grid Consulting, LLC, San Jose, CA, USA
for contributions to applications of neural
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Hiroshi Takahashi
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Kanagawa, Japan
for contributions to arrayed-waveguide gratings
Migaku Takahashi
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
for contributions to thin lm technology for highdensity recording media and heads
Kay Chen Tan
National University of Singapore
for contributions to evolutionary multiobjective
optimization
Kazuo Tanaka
University of Electro-Communications
Tokyo, Japan
for contributions to fuzzy control system design
and analysis
Hisao Taoka
University of Fukui
Fukui, Japan
for contributions to computing technology for
power system analysis and control
Anthony Tether
Sequoia Group, Inc.
Falls Church, VA, USA
for leadership in the advancement of
commercial and defense technologies
Patrick Thiran
Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
for contributions to network performance analysis
Keiichi Tokuda
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Nagoya, Japan
for contributions to hidden Markov model-based
speech synthesis
Wen Tong
Huawei Technologies
Ottawa, ON, Canada
for leadership in the development of 3G and
4G wireless communication systems
Elie K. Track
Hypres, Inc.
Stamford, CT, USA
for leadership in superconducting electronics
and its applications
Trac Duy Tran
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
for contributions to multirate and sparse signal
processing
Wade Trappe
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
for contributions to information and
communication security
A. Galip Ulsoy
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
for contributions to the control of
automotiveand manufacturing systems and
time-delay systems
Kerry J. Vahala
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
for contributions to the physics, technology, and
applications of quantum-conned semiconductor
lasers and optical microresonators
Jan F. Van Houdt
imec, Leuven, Belgium
for contributions to ash memory devices
Marc M. Van Hulle
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
for contributions to biomedical signal
processing and biological modeling
Andr van Schaik
University of Western Sydney
Penrith, NSW, Australia
for contributions to neuromorphic circuits and
systems
Ren Vidal
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
for contributions to subspace clustering and
motion segmentation in computer vision
Martin Vlach
Mentor Graphics, Portland, OR, USA
for leadership in analog and mixed signal
hardware description languages and their
simulation tools
Yi Wang
Cornell University
New York, NY, USA
for contributions to cardiovascular MRI
development and quantitative susceptibility
mapping
Zhou Wang
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
for contributions to perceptual image processing
and quality assessment
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Brunel University, Middlesex, UK
for contributions to networked control and
complex networks
Changsheng Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
for contributions to multimedia content analysis
Solveig Ward
Quanta Technology, LLC Raleigh, NC, USA
for contributions to power system protective relaying,
communications systems, and tele- protection
Jamal S. Yagoobi
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA, USA
for contributions to electrohydrodynamics
Iram J. Weinstein
Science Applications International Corp.
McLean, VA, USA
for leadership in signal processing and test
methods for radars detecting advanced aircraft
and cruise missiles in severe terrain clutter
Sudhakar Yalamanchili
Atlanta, GA, USA
for contributions to high-performance
multiprocessor architecture and communication
Ross Tyler Whitaker

University of Utah
for contributions to image and geometry processing,
visualization, and medical image analysis
Rui Qing Yang

University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK, USA
for contributions to the mid-infrared interband
cascade laser and related optoelectronic devices
Sarah Kate Wilson

Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA, USA
for contributions to orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing
Boon-Lock Yeo
Google
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
for contributions to and leadership in image and
video processing
Ed X. Wu
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
for contributions to in vivo magnetic resonance
imaging methods
Wei Yu
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
for contributions to optimization techniques for
multiple-input-multiple-output communications
Ya-Hong Xie
University of California
for contributions to strained-silicon materials and
devices
Franco Zambonelli
Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia, Italy
for contributions to software engineering for selfadaptive and self-organizing systems
Guoqi Zhang
Philips Research/Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands
for contributions to heterogeneous micro/nano
electronics packaging, system integration and
reliability
Hong Zhang
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada
for contributions to collective robotics and
intelligent sensing in oil sand mining
Ji-Feng Zhang
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
Beijing, China
for contributions to parameter identication and
adaptive control of stochastic systems
Yongguang Zhang
Microsoft Research Beijing
Beijing, China
for contributions to software radio technology
Wei-Xing Zheng
University of Western Sydney
Penrith, NSW, Australia
for contributions to signal processing and system
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Shengli Zhou
University of Connecticut Storrs
CT, USA
for contributions to wireless and underwater
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IEEE Presidents Change the World

IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare

IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS & PRIZE PAPERS

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award .............................15

IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award ...........19

IEEE Fellows Class of 2014.............................................................................................................................. 2430

3 | 2014 IEEE AWARDS BOOKLET

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THE WORLDS NEWSSTAND

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THE WORLDS NEWSSTAND

2014 IEEE PRESIDENTS CHANGE THE WORLD COMPETITION

IEEE Presidents Change the World Competition

2014 IEEE CORPORATE RECOGNITIONS

IEEE Corporate Innovation Award

Defense Advanced Research

The IEEE Presidents Change the World Competition recognizes

First-Place winners of the Competition include:

The visionary innovations conceived or funded by the Defense

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