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Following are the names and citations for the active members of the IEEE Class of 1996 listed alphabetically by last name.
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A
Asad A. Abidi
for contributions to the design of high-frequency MOS analog integrated circuits
Maurice F. Aburdene
for significant and sustained contributions to the development of undergraduate electrical engineering laboratories and undergraduate education
Govind P. Agrawal
for contributions to the development and understanding of semiconductor lasers and fiber-optic communications systems
Hamid Ahmadi
for contributions to high speed ATM networking technology and to wireless networking
Hirofumi Akagi
for contributions to the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, and to the development of active power filters for harmonic compensation in power systems
Ian F. Akyildiz
for contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks
Derek P. Atherton
for pioneering contributions to the describing function techniques for nonlinear control systems design
James Hiram Aylor
for developments in the use of computer technology for persons with disabilities
B
Lalit Rai Bahl
for contributions to automatic speech recognition
Sanjay Kumar Banerjee
for contributions to physics of semiconductor devices used in three-dimensional integrated circuits, and low temperature silicon-germanium epitaxy using non-thermally-assisted chemical vapor deposition
Roger C. Barr
for contributions to the theory of the electrocardiogram and its origin from currents and voltages within the heart
Carl E. Becker (Life Fellow)
for leadership in the development of standards, energy conservation practice and technology for utility electric service to industrial and commercial customers
Adalbert Beyer
for the development of numerical field analysis techniques and their application to the design of new reciprocal and nonreciprocal millimeter wave thin line components
Bir Bhanu
for contributions to sensor-based navigation, automatic object recognition and closed-loop adaptive techniques for developing robust algorithms
Radoslaw M. Biernacki
for contributions to the theory and implementation of microwave and analog CAD technology
Williamm Z. Black
for developing thermal management technology for optimum use of transmission and distribution components in electric energy systems
Ion Gheorghe Boldea
for contributions to the theory, design and application of linear motion electric machines, drives and magnetic levitation, and for leadership in engineering education
Rudolf M. Bolle
for contribution to the development of versatile computer vision systems for deriving symbolic descriptions about object class from raw data
Wayne J. Book
for seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis and control of robotic arms and other flexible multibody systems and for leadership in the development of multidisciplinary curriculum in manufacturing systems
Pierre E Borne
for contributions to qualitative analysis and control of large scale and complex systems
Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
for contributions to digital image scanning algorithms
Alan C. Bovik
for contributions to nonlinear image processing
Sidney Robert Bowes
for contributions to the development of novel pulse width modulated techniques for variable speed induction motor drives
Hans H. Brand
for contributions to microwave networks, for their applications to real-time imaging systems and for the extension of microwave technology into the Terahertz region
Arthur M. Breipohl
for contributions to the applications of stochastic models to electrical utility planning and operations and to power engineering education
Ivor Brodie
for pioneering research in the field of physical electronics, including thermionic emission, field emission, electrographics, electron beam lithography and displays
Ian G. Brown
for developing the state-of-the-art MEVVA intense metal (and carbon) vacuum arc ion source for accelerators and for industry
Gershon Buchsbaum
for contributions to analysis of information processing and signal coding in human visual perception
Aleksander T. Bulinski
for contributions to the understanding of aging and breakdown processes in high voltage polymeric cable insulation
Aubrey M. Bush
for contributions in communications theory and engineering education, and for the promotion of fundamental and applied research in communications
C
Luis Felipe Cabrera
for contributions to the use of atomic operations in storage reveres
Xi-Ren Cao
for contributions to perturbation analysis and to performance evaluation of discrete event systems
Vito Cappellini (Life Fellow)
for leadership in digital filtering and image processing
William Michael Carey
for international leadership in the modeling and analysis of acoustic signal fields and noise in the ocean
David Emil Carlson
for contributions to the discovery of methods of preparing hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films
Christos G. Cassandras
for contributions to discrete event systems and perturbation analysis and their applications
Mau-Chung Frank Chang
for pioneering work in processing technology for manufacturing heterojunction bipolar integrated circuits
Harry Krewson Charles, Jr.
for leadership in electronics packaging technology for space, marine and biomedical electronic systems
Chun Hsiung Chen
for contributions to the development of variational and other numerical methods applied to coplanar waveguides and various other structures
Francis Chin
for contributions to developments in parallel and distributed computing and to computer science education
John Matthew Cioffi
for contributions to the theory, practice, and promotion of advanced communication methods in data transmission and storage
Jean-Pierre Colinge
for contributions to silicon-on-insulator devices and technology
Robert B. Cooper
for fundamental contributions to queuing theory and its applications in teletraffic and computer engineering
Alan Leroy Courts
for the development of metal oxide varsity protection for series capacitors, and the contribution to the advancement of high voltage field testing techniques
Emil James Crescenzi, Jr. (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of microwave amplifiers, integrated circuit technology, and miniature receivers for defense applications
Peter Evans Crouch
for contributions in nonlinear realization theory and leadership in engineering education
Joseph Michael Crowley
for contributions to education and practice in electrostatic processes, and for fundamental contributions to electrohydrodynamics
Slobodan Cuk
for the invention and development of new switching converter circuits and contributions to the design and analysis of power electronic circuits
Nicholas Charles Currie
for contributions to millimeter wave phenomenology measurements in radar
Leszek Stanislaw Czarnecki
for development of the power theory of three-phase asymmetrical systems with nonsinusoidal waveforms, and for contributions to methods of measurements, power factor and power quality improvement in such systems
D
Supriyo Datta
for contributions to the understanding of electronic transport in ultra small devices
James Michael Daughton (Life Fellow)
for pioneering work on commercial magnetic field sensors and memories using giant magnetoresistance materials
Ed F. Deprettere
for contributions in algorithm and architecture design for adaptive signal processing
Dale Alan Douglass (Life Fellow)
for contributions to understanding the characteristics and applications of overhead power transmission conductors
Eric Dubois
for contributions to the multidimensional signal processing and coding of video signals
E
Mehrdad Ehsani
for contributions to theory and application of switching power converters and their control
Thomas Chambers Ely
for innovation in architecting and implementing service creation capabilities for the advanced intelligent network
Nader Engheta
for contributions to the electromagnetic theory of complex media
F
Changxin Fan
for contributions to and leadership in the area of communication engineering education and research
Thomas Robert Fischer
for contributions to the theory and practice of data compression, including trellis coded quantization and pyramid vector quantization
Robert Edward Fontana, Jr.
for development of novel processes for magnetic devices, most notably magnetoresistive thin films heads
Victor Fouad-Hanna
for contributions to the development of advanced numerical techniques for analysis and modeling of passive microwave and millimeter wave circuits
Joseph R. Fragola
for contributions to the theory and practice of reliability and risk analysis
Peter Anthony Freeman (Life Fellow)
for leadership in the definition of software engineering as a scientific and academic discipline
James G. Fujimoto
for pioneering contributions to ultrafast optics and optical coherence tomography
Satoru Fujishima
for the development of piezoelectric ceramic filters, SAW filters for TV and SAW filters for mobile communication
Katsuhisa Furuta
for contributions to digital control theory and its applications to robotics and industrial processes
G
Richard Joseph Gambino
for discovery of perpendicular anisotropy in amorphous magnetic materials and for development of these materials for the erasable, magneto-optical disk industry
Steven Harvey Gold
for research in high power, coherent radiation sources including millimeter-wave free-electron lasers, gyrotrons, cyclotron autoresonance masers, and the magnicon
Andrew Avi Goldenberg
for contributions to theory of robot control and development of advanced flexible automation systems for industrial applications
John Michael Golio
for contributions to the characterization, parameter extraction, and modeling of microwave transistors
Ambuj Goyal
for contributions to the theory and practice of system dependability
Hans Peter Graf
for development of integrated massively parallel processors and their applications to industrial pattern recognition's
Peter Mitchell Grant
for contributions to surface acoustic wave processing and leadership in signal processing research
William A. Gruver (Life Fellow)
for leadership of major systems engineering programs in robotics and manufacturing automation
Fred G. Gustavson
for contributions to the efficient numerical simulation and design of electrical circuits using innovation sparse matrix algorithms
H
Thomas James Hammons (Life Fellow)
for analysis of performance of turbine-generators and their electromechanical interaction with power networks
Robert Joseph Harrington
for contributions to transient power system analysis and for leadership in power engineering education
Tatsuro Hasegawa (Life Fellow)
for contributions to industrial electronics and control systems
Keith W. Hipel
for contributions to the development of systems design engineering as an educational discipline
Botaro Hirosaki
for contributions to the development of high-speed digital communications technologies and systems
John M. Hollerbach
for contributions to autonomous robot calibration, novel robot systems, and human motor control
Malcolm D. Horton (Life Fellow)
for contributions and leadership in the conception and implementation of high-power adjustable-speed electric motor drive systems and high-energy pulsed power systems
Webster E. Howard
for pioneering contributions in two-dimension electron gas in silicon inversion layers, and contributions to flat panel displays
Roger T. Howe
for seminal contributions to microfabrication technologies
Louis Roberts Hunt
for contributions to nonlinear control systems and mathematics/engineering education
I
Michel V. Ianoz
for contributions to research and education in the area of transient electromagnetics with applications to lighting and EMP effects on lines and networks
Kiyoo Itoh
For seminal and sustained contributions to high-density DRAMs
Yoshihiro Iwadare (Life Fellow)
for contributions to information coding theory, especially for the construction of a class of burst-error correcting convolutional codes
Takehiro Izumi (Life Fellow)
for leadership in the planning and institution of direct broadcasting by satellite and the development of channeling plan for such broadcasting
J
Joseph Farid Ja Ja
for contributions to parallel computing, combinatorial algorithms, algebraic complexity, and digital signal processing architectures
Dazong Jiang (Life Fellow)
for contributions to establishing the profession of biomedical engineering in China
Barry Wayne Johnson
for contributions to fault-tolerant computing
K
Akinobu Kasami
for contributions to, and technical leadership of, the development of red and green LED's and red visible laser diodes
Rangachar Kasturi
for contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition; in particular, to document image analysis for graphics recognition and interpretation
Thomas Christos Katsouleas
for pioneering contributions to the fields of ultra-high gradient particle accelerators and novel light sources using plasmas
Randy Howard Katz
for contributions to computer system design, engineering education, and government service
William Morris Kaufman
for leadership in the development of instrumentation systems for the testing, evaluating and inspecting of transportation system components and for contributions to the theory of distributed resistance-capacitance circuits
Mark B. Ketchen
for the development of superconducting devices and technology for scientific and practical applications
Yongmin Kim
for the development of new techniques in medical imaging, computer modeling of the human body, picture archiving and communication systems, and the transfer of novel technology to industry
Scott Kirkpatrick
for contributions to discrete optimization, for developing design tools based on the theory of simulated annealing
Richard David Klafter
for contributions to robotics education and graduate training in electrical and computer engineering
Kohroh Kobayashi
for contributions to the development of high performance long wavelength semiconductor lasers and other optoelectronics devices for optical fiber communications
Hiroyoshi Komiya
for contributions to the development and operation of a fully automated semiconductor manufacturing line
Peter Kroon
for contributions to low bit rate speech coding
Vladimir Kucera
for significant contributions to the theory and design of control systems
L
Paolo Lampariello
for pioneering investigations of leakage effects on open waveguides with application to new class of millimeter wave antenna
William J. Lannes, III
for contributions to the design of uprated electric substations
Harold W. Lawson, Jr.
for outstanding contributions to programming languages, to microprogramming, and to various other fields in computer science and education
Edward Delano Lazowska
for advanced the state of the art in computer systems and computer system performance analysis, and for significant technical, educational, and disciplinary leadership
Franz W. Leberl
for contributions to the development of radargrammetry and the demonstration of the usefulness of aircraft and satellite radar imagery in mapping tropical; land, sea-ice, and planetary surfaces
Gerald Lebizay
for the advancement of the state of the art in data and voice communication systems and entrepreneurship that contributed to the adoption of asynchronous transfer mode switching by the computer network industry
Jean-Pierre Leburton
for contributions to nonlinear electronic transport and size quantization in semiconductor quantum wells, quantum wires, and quantum dots, and the theory of the index of refraction in superlattices
Hae-Seung Lee
for contributions to CMOS high accuracy data converters
Allen Henry Levesque
for contributions to the development of strategic defense communications network and for a applications error-control coding to radio communications
Curt A. Levis
for technical leadership and research in electromagnetics, antennas, radiowave propagation, and distinguished teaching
Alan Gerald Lewis
for contributions to advanced complimentary metal oxide semiconductor devices physics and circuit design for large area microelectronics and very large scale integrated
Fuk K. Li
for contributions to spaceborne radar system development for earth and planetary remote sensing, especially in synthetic aperture radars and scatterometers
Charles Shih-Tung Liang
for contributions to the development of low observable technology through use of rigorous electromagnetics principles in conjunction with basic concepts of radar/electronic warfare systems and other aerospace disciplines
Wayne Carl Luplow
for leadership in establishing then terrestrial broadcast system of digital high definition for North America
M
Richard Lloyd Magin
for developments in target drug delivery systems for the diagnosis an treatment of cancer and for contributions to the understanding of the biological effects and safety aspects of electromagnetic radiation
Sioe Tho Mak
for contributions to the development of a viable two-way communication system for demand side management and distribution automation
Franco Maloberti
for contributions to design methodologies for analog integrated circuits and outstanding leadership in microelectronics education and research
Petros Maragos
for contributions to the theory and application of nonlinear signal processing systems
Walter John Martiny, Jr.
for advances in induction machine size, efficiency, and performance, and for advancement of induction motor standards
Kouki Matsuse
for contributions to sensorless control of induction motors and adjustable speed ac drives
Terence Raymond Mccomb
for contributions and leadership in the development of direct calibrations at high voltage using digital techniques to provide direct traceability of high-voltage impulse measuring systems
Robert Newton Mcdonough
for contributions to radar and sonar signal processing and for leadership in engineering education
Marlin Homer Mickle
for the application of mathematical analysis and digital computers to the solution of large scale societal and physical problems
Timothy John Eastham Miller
for development of switched reluctance and permanent magnet motors and their controls, and for services to industry in support of research and development of products based on these technologies
Hisayasu Mitsui
for contributions to the research and development of insulating materials and insulating systems for high voltage rotating machines and advanced research devices
Osama Abdel-Wahab Mohammed
for contributions to three-dimensional electromagnetic field computation and for the development of intelligent systems techniques for the optimal design of electromagnetic devices and systems
Ned Mohan
for contributions to power electronics education and applications in power systems
Linn F. Mollenauer
for seminal and sustained contributions to the science, technology, and ultra-high-capacity communication applications of optical solutions
N
Nils Eric Nilsson
for contributions to improved reliability and operation of utility power plants
Tetsuo Nishi
for contributions to linear and nonlinear circuit theory
O
Vojin G. Oklobdzija
for contributions to computer architecture
P
Kaveh Pahlavan
for contributions to data communication with particular emphasis on wireless office information networks
Keshab K. Parhi
for contributions to the fields of VLSI digital signal processing architectures, design methodologies and tools
Kurt Edward Petersen
for pioneering contributions and successful commercialization of micromechanical systems
R. J. Piwko
for leadership and contributions to advancing the application of high-voltage DC and electronic equipment of electric power transmission systems
Robin Podmore
for the development of analytical techniques for power system dynamic equivalents and the application of computer technology to power system control centers
Viktor K. Prasanna
for contributions to parallel architectures and algorithms
Q
Jeffrey Paul Quintenz
for technical contributions to the focusing of intense light ion beams and particle-in-cell computer codes to model pulsed power devices
R
Peter J. Ramadge
for contributions to the theory of adaptive control and the control of discrete event systems
Daniel William Repperger (Life Fellow)
for applying control systems technology to assist humans in stressful environments
John Alan Richards
for scientific contributions in the fields of earth observational remote sensing
Angel B. Rodriguez-Vazquez
for contributions to the design and applications of analog/digital nonlinear ICs
Antoine Georges Roederer
for contributions in the field of arrays and multibeam reflector antennas
Yoram Rudy
for contributions to mathematical descriptions and solution applicable to cardiac electrophysiology
Enrique Hector Ruspini
for contributions to the understanding of fuzzy logic concepts and their application to pattern recognition and numerical classification
S
Martin W. Sachs
for contributions to the architecture of computer I/O interconnects based on fiber optics
Fathi M.A. Salam
for contributions to the development of tools for the analysis and design of nonlinear and chaotic circuits and systems
Luigi Salvaderi
for contributions to the application of Monte Carlo techniques in power system reliability evaluation
Hajime Sasaki
for contributions to the development of advanced VLSI systems
Peter M. Schultesiss
for the design, analysis, and implementation of space-time signal processing systems
Chalmers F. Sechrist, Jr.
for contributions to engineering education
Sachio Semmoto
for technical and entrepreneurial contributions to telecommunications industry in Japan
Ashwin H. Shah
for significant contributions to memory designs, architecture, and technology
Linda G. S. Shapiro
for contributions in the theory of relational matching and its application to model-based computer vision
Bing J. Sheu
for contributions to signal processing and neural network systems using VLSI processors
Paul C. Shields
for fundamental contributions to information theory
Naohisa Shimomura
for contributions and leadership in the development of Japanese language information processing technologies
Bernard S. Siegal
for leadership in furthering thermal measurements analysis of electronic components
Robert L. Simpson
for contributions to the advancement of the practice of electrical engineering and the development of electrical standards for industrial plant power systems
James A. Smith
for development of optical and thermal canopy signature models, basic terrain feature measurements, and application to remote sensing
Marc Snir
for technical leadership in the development of parallel computation and scalable parallel systems architectures
Christopher Maxwell Snowden
for pioneering work on the development and application of physical models to the design of microwave and millimeter-wave semiconductor devices and circuits
Nelson R. Sollenberger
for pioneering contributions to TDMA-based personal communication system technology and standardization enabling a new generation of wireless telecommunications services
Mark W. Spong
for contributions to the control of robot systems using nonlinear control techniques
Eldon K. Stanek
for contributions to electrical safety in mining operations and to engineering education
Dan C. Stanzione
for leadership in applying advanced software technology in systems that have enhanced the performance and reliability of public telecommunications networks
Raymond Steele
for fundamental contributions to digital wireless communications, including principles of microcell operation and multilevel modulation
Charles T. Stelzried
for pioneering development of low noise ground antenna systems used for deep space tracking
Laverne E. Stetson
for contributions to electrical safety and irrigation load control and development of electrical codes and standards
Hans Steyskal
for contributions to array antenna technology
Ernest M. Stokely
for contributions to medical imaging, especially in the design of systems and software for measuring human brain blood perfusion in cross-section
Renjeng Su
for contributions to the development of the concepts and methods for feedback linearization on nonlinear control systems
Ming-Ting Sun
for contributions and leadership to the technology of video signal processing and transmission
Narasimhan Sundararajan
for technical leadership in the indigenous design and development of India's satellite launch vehicles and for contributions to the development of aerospace systems
Marcio Szechtman
for contributions and leadership to the development and progress of high voltage direct current transmission technology in Brazil
T
Hideaki Takagi
for contributions to the performance analysis of communication networks and queueing systems
Steven L. Tanimoto
for contributions to data structures and architectures for image processing
Ahmed Hossam Tewfik
for contributions wavelet theory and fractal signal processing and their applications
Toru Toyabe
for contributions to numerical device modeling and physics of metal-oxide-semiconductor devices
Harry L. Tredennick, Iii
for the design and implementation of the execution unit and controller of the MC68000 workstation microprocessor
Louise H. Trevillyan
for contributions to the development of automated logics synthesis of VLSI chips
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
for contributions to knowledge-based software engineering for time-critical systems
Ching Hwa Tsang
for contributions to the design of advanced magnetoresistive heads for rigid disk recording
V
Vincent C. Vannicola
for technical contributions to radar signal processing theory and practice
Murali R Varanasi
for contributions to coding for computer fault tolerance and leadership in computer science and engineering education
John L. Volakis
for contributions to computational electromagnetic, including hybrid finite element and high frequency methods
W
Loren B. Wagenaar
for contributions to transformer and bushing test standards and specifications
Cedric F. Walker
for leadership in computerized instruction in biomedical engineering
James N. Walpole
for contributions to semiconductor lasers
Stephen M. Walters
for leadership in the commercialization of asynchronous transfer mode networking technology, including ATM standards, specifications, and services
Anthony I. Wasserman
for contributions to software engineering, including the development of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools
Alfred C. Weaver
for contributions to the design of computer communications protocols
Che-Ho Wei
for contributions to circuits and systems for communication and signal processing
Neil H. Weste
for contributions to the methods of design of full custom integrated circuits
Robin Williams
for leadership in computer video, image and graphics systems
Myron Wilson (Life Fellow)
for leadership in total quality management techniques
Jack Harriman Winters
for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive signal processing for digital communication systems
Y
David Owen Yevick
for contributions to the numerical simulation of guided-wave components and devices and to the theory of optical processes in semiconductors
Shigeru Yokoyama
for contributions to lighting protection of power distribution lines and to the measurement of lighting phenomena
James Forest Young
for engineering contributions to the development of ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet coherent sources of radiation
Z
Mona Elwakkad Zaghloul
for leadership in education and research in integrated circuit design and their application to neural networks
Xiaoxin Zhou
for leadership and innovation contributions to power technology
James F. Ziegler
for contributions to ion implantation technology and to understanding the effects of radiation on terrestrial electronic systems
Douglas Norman Zuckerman
for leadership in the development of network operations and management in industry
Jacek M. Zurada
for contributions to engineering education in the area of neural networks
for contributions to the analysis of lightning-caused transients in power systems, and to the understanding of transient-voltage withstand capability of power semiconductor devices
