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Following are the names and citations for the active members of the IEEE Class of 1997 listed alphabetically by last name.
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A
Lex Alan Akers
for contributions to analog neural networks and to the modeling of microelectronic devices
C. Goran Andersson
for contributions to the analysis of the interaction between AC and DC systems and of voltage stability in power systems
Mikhail Atallah
for contributions to parallel algorithms in computational geometry and in combinatorics
Yianni Attikiouzel
for leadership in electrical and electronic engineering education and for contributions to applications of neural networks
B
Radhakisan Sohanlal Baheti
for leadership in the integration of research and education in control systems engineering
Soli S. Bamji
for contributions to the understanding of electroluminescence emission and aging processes in high-voltage polymeric insulation
Robert James Barker
for leadership in the fields of plasma science and microwave generation
Dan Avon Bathker
for contributions to and leadership in high performance microwave antenna and metrology systems
H. Clark Bell
for advancements in synthesis techniques and development of new prototype networks for microwave filters
Diana J. Bendz
for leadership and contributions to electronics manufacturing and to environmental impact and policy
Sergio Benedetto
for contributions to performance evaluation of digital transmission systems, to analysis and design of trellis coded modulation techniques
and to digital optical communication systems
James Benford
for development of high power microwave sources and for transferring this technology into custom products
Herbert S. Bennett
for contributions to modeling heavy doping and transport physics in semiconductors
Dileep P. Bhandarkar
for contributions and technical leadership in the design of complex and reduced instruction set architecture and in computer system performance analysis
Valmik Bhargava
for contributions in cardiology: ECG signal averaging-stress testing, high frequency ECG, gated blood pool scintigraphy,
angiographic regional wall motion assessment, quantitative coronary angiography
Trevor S. Bird
for contributions to the theory of mutual coupling between antennas with particular application to the design of array feeds for satellite antennas
Shahid H. Bokhari
for contributions to the mapping problem in parallel and distributed computing
David Edward Borth
for contributions to the design and development of wireless telecommunication systems
Donald W. Bouldin
for contributions to the design of special-purpose architectures using VLSI processors
Jay Payne Britton
for contributions to software architectures and to applications in electric utility energy management systems
Jens Buus
for contributions to device analysis of semiconductor lasers
C
Francis Xavier Canning
for developing efficient and stable numerical computation methods for solving electromagnetic problems
Virginio Cantoni
for contributions and leadership in the development of hierarchical architectures of computer vision systems
Larry Richard Carley
for contributions to the design o analog integrated circuits and to computer-aided analog design
Wade Thomas Cathey (Life Fellow)
for contributions to optics in computing, adaptive optics, and imaging systems
Alan Geetran Cha (Life Fellow)
for advancing shaped reflector antenna technology and for contributions to deep-space-communication ground station antennas
Guanrong Chen
for fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of chaos control and bifurcation analysis
Han-Fu Chen
for contributions to identification and stochastic adaptive control
Edward Albert Cherney
for leadership in research, development, application, and standardization of non-ceramic insulators and RTV silicone rubber insulator coatings
Alice M. Chiang
for contributions to signal processors using charge coupled devices
Hsiao-Dong Chiang
for contributions to the direct methods to power systems stability analysis and to the development of nonlinear systems
Ram Chillarege
for contributions to the theory and practice of the design of reliable software
Tung-Hai Chin (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of adjustable speed drive of induction machines and pioneering research work on power electronics
Kwo Ray Chu
for contributions to the basic understanding of relativistic electron cyclotron interaction with electromagnetic waves
and development of high power radiation sources based on such interactions
Justin C. Chuang
for contributions to radio link techniques, system architecture, and resource management of low-power wireless personal communications
Shun Lien Chuang
for his contributions to the theory of strained quantum-well semiconductor lasers and the physics of optoelectronic devices
Ioan Matei R. Ciric
for contributions to modeling and analysis of magnetic devices
Kenneth Kingsley Clarke (Life Fellow)
for leadership in the development and production of calibration-quality instrumentation for laboratory and field applications
Enrico Tommasso Comellini (Life Fellow)
for contributions to power distribution automation and structural design of extra-high voltage transmission lines,
and for leadership in international standard and research institutes
Wils Lahugh Cooley (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the theory and practice of designing and testing electrical distribution grounding systems for applications in the mining industry
John Hall Cooper
for contributions to test facilities, test programs, and analytical procedures necessary to provide
a basic understanding of aging characteristics for full-size transmission cable systems
Carl Ross Crawford
for singular contributions to the field of medical electronics, particularly Computed Tomographic Scanner technology
D
Anton Timothy Dahbura
for contributions to the theory and practice of multiprocessor fault diagnosis, communications protocol conformance test sequence generation,
and memory reconfiguration algorithms
Patricia D. Daniels
for contributions to engineering education
Edward John Delp, Iii
for contributions to image compression and processing
Alvin M. Despain (Life Fellow)
for contributions to computer systems implementation
Russell George Dewitt (Life Fellow)
for leadership in the planning and deployment of all-digital telecommunications networks
Dariush Divsalar
for contributions to the analysis and design of coding and modulation techniques for satellite, mobile, and deep-space communication systems
Herbert Charles Doepken, Jr. (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of compressed-gas-insulated cable
Stephen Alexander Dyer
for design and development of spectrum-recovery methods and fast algorithms in Hadamard-transform multiplex spectrometry
E
Alexander E. Emanuel (Life Fellow)
for advances in the theory of power quality, real-time measurement, and effects of power system harmonic distortion
Philip G. Emma
for innovations in high-performance computer architecture
Jose De Albuqueruque Epifanio Da Franca
for contributions to analog multirate signal processing and engineering education
F
Ronald Fagin
for contributions to finite-model theory, and to relational database theory
Leonard A. Ferrari
for contributions to signal and image processing, and engineering education
Andrzej Filipkowski (Life Fellow)
for contributions to engineering education
Martin Alvin Fischler (Life Fellow)
for contributions to model-based image understanding
Daniel Mark Fleetwood
for contributions to the field of electronic devices and materials
Michael S. Frankel
for leadership in the design of command, control and communications systems
Lynn F. Fuller
for contributions to engineering education
G
Alan Garscadden (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the field of non-equilibrium plasmas and its applications
Richard Gerber
for contributions to solid-state and applied magnetism
StanleyBruce Gershwin
for leadership in the development and implementation of systems and control approaches to manufacturing
Joseph M. Giachino (Life Fellow)
for contributions to micro mechanical and microelectro-mechanical control systems
Georgios Basilios Giannakis
for contributions to system identification and statistical signal processing
C. Lee Giles
for contributions to the theory and practice of neural networks
David George Goodenough
for contributions to remote sensing information systems
Brian E. B. Gott
for leadership in the design and development of large synchronous generators
Jessy W. Grizzle
for contributions to the theory and practice of nonlinear control systems design
Laszlo Gyorfi
for contributions to pattern recognition, estimation, and classification
H
Paul Stephen Hamer
for contributions to performance standards for motors and generators in the petro-chemical industry
Amos Andras Hardy
for contributions to the theory of guided wave optics and lasers
Edgar C. Hayden (Life Fellow)
for contributions to ionspheric propagation research and radio direction finding systems
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
for leadership in practical applications of neural network technology
Tor Helleseth
for contributions to coding theory and cryptography
Jeannine Henriette Henaff
for contributions to the analysis, design and realization of telecommunication systems
Steven J. Hillenius
for contributions to the field of solid-state technology and it?s applications to integrated circuits
Shigeichi Hirasawa
for contributions to the development of channel coding schemes and error-connecting codes
Gerd Hirzinger
for contributions in robot mechatronics, telerobotics, man-machine interface research, and pioneering space robotics
Michael Latham Honig
for contributions to adaptive interference suppression and multiuser detection of digital communications
Kazuhiko Honjo
for contributions to the development of gallium-arsenide integrated circuits
Roger Franklin Hoyt
for contributions to magnetic rigid disk storage, and interface reliability
Johan Hendrik Huijsing
for contributions to the design and analysis of analog integrated circuits
I
Hajime Imai (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of laser diodes for optical transmission systems
Rokuya Ishii
for contributions to the theory of and applications to digital signal processing
Mohamed Ismail
for contributions to analog VLSI circuits and signal processing
Hiroshi Iwai
for contributions to ultra-small geometry CMOS BiCMOS devices
J
Walter A. Johnson (Life Fellow)
for leadership in advancing the applications of new technologies to power system operation
Ben Clifton Johnson
for the development of standards, and application technology for electric surface heating
Anita Katherine Jones
for contributions to the development of computer software systems
K
Howard Leo Kalter
for contributions to the development of DRAM
Michitaka Kameyama
for contributions to the development of multiple-valued intelligent integrated systems
Bryon Lynn Kasper
for contributions to research and development of semiconductor optical receivers
Klaas Berend Klaassen
for contributions to advanced measurement and analog circuit designs for magnetic recording
Misao Kobayashi
for contributions to development and production of Metal Oxide Gapless Surge Arrester
Dieter Koenig
for contributions to the optimization and reliability of insulation technology and electrical engineering education
Istvan Kollar
for contributions to the theory and practice of digital signal processing
Stephen Thomas Kowel (Life Fellow)
for contributions to optoelectronic devices and systems
Mitsumasa Koyanagi
for the invention of the stacked capacitor DRAM cell
Eric P. Kronstadt
for contributions to processor architectures, compilers, and operating systems
James F. Kurose
for contributions to the design of real-time communication protocols
Harry G. Kwatny
for contributions to control systems engineering
Kazuo Kyuma
for contributions to optical information processing including optical neuro-chip and artificial retina chips
L
Miguel Angel Lagunas
for leadership in industrial applications of signal processing
Theodore A. Laliotis
for technical leadership in hand-held computing systems
David Lamensdorf
for contributions to the development and application of ultra-wide instantaneous bandwidth antennas
Karl Joerg Langenberg
for contributions to acoustoelastic and microwave imaging
Byeong Gi. Lee
for contributions to digital transform and filtering, to broadband telecommunications, and to digital scrambling
Chin-Hui Lee
for contributions to automatic speech and speaker recognition
David Lee
for contributions to theory and industrial applications of the design and testing of communication protocols
Jong-Sen Lee
for contributions information processing applications of SAR and Polarimetric SAR Imagery
Kai-Fong Lee
for contributions to microstrip antenna development and to electrical engineering education
Tsu-Tian Lee
for contributions to the analysis and control of walking robots and leadership in robotics engineering education
Tho Le-Ngoc
for contributions to modulation and error correction coding and multiple-access schemes for digital wireless communications
Raymond J. Leopold
for leadership and contributions to world-wide satellite communications and personal wireless
Bruno Patrice Bernard Lequesne
for contributions to the development of electromechanical actuators for automotive applications
Fuyun Ling
for the development and analysis of adaptive signal processing algorithms and their application to digital communication systems
Yu-Ping Liu
for contributions to aerodynamic air vehicle performance
M
Asher Madjar
for contributions to large-signal modeling of MESFETs
Naoki Maki
for contributions to the development of superconducting generators and magnetically levitated systems
Tsugio Makimoto
for leadership in the development and production of MOS integrated circuits and memory
Henrique S. Malvar
for contributions to the theory and practice of lapped transforms, fast multirate filter banks, and signal coding
Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska
for contributions to circuit layout automation and layout-driven logic synthesis
Vasilis Zissis Marmarelis
for contributions to nonlinear physiological system modeling and leadership in biomedical engineering education
Edward J. Martin (Life Fellow)
for leadership in mobile satellite communications
Hisham Z. Massoud
for contributions the understanding of silicon oxidation kinetics, ultrathin gate dielectrics, and the Si-SiO2 interface
Ryosuke Matsuoka
for contributions to the research and development of high voltage insulators
Robert J. McAulay (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of sinusoidal speech processing and its application to speech coding
Richard Mcfarland
for development of UHF/VHF interference mitigation techniques
Yoshihiko Mikuni
for contributions to TV broadcasting and receiving antennas
Yinghua Min
for technical leadership in electronic testing and fault-tolerant computing
Hideo Miyahara
for contributions to modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication networks
Nicolas J. Moll
for contributions to the development of hetero-junction quantum electronic devices
James Edward Monson
for contributions to modeling and education in magnetic recording
Harold R. Moore
for leadership in the development, design, and application of power transformers and associated equipment
Edoardo Mosca
for contributions to adaptive and predictive control
N
Koichiro Nakanishi
for contributions to the study of dc gas insulation and its application to high voltage switchgears
John Paul Nelson
for contributions to the protection of electrical equipment and to personnel safety in the petroleum and chemical industry
Toshio Nishikawa
for contributions to the development of microwave devices for mobile communication systems based on low-loss dielectric ceramics
Dennis Paul Nyquist
for contributions to the theory of open-boundary waveguides and wide band radar
O
LawrenceO'gorman
for developments in the arears of pattern recognition and document analysis for technology transfer of these into industrial and commercial systems
Maciej J. Ogorzalek
for contributions to the theory, analysis, and control of nonlinear dynamic systems and chaotic phenomena
Tsutomu Ohmae
for contributions to microprocessor controlled motor drives and their industrial applications
Akira Ohte
for contributions to and leadership in the development of a fully automatic nuclear quadrupole resonance thermometer
and its application to precise temperature measurement
Marius K. Orlowski
for contributions to the modeling of MOSFET devices and technology
P
Joseph C. Palais
for leadership and sustained contributions to university and continuing education, primarily in the area of fiber optic communications
David William Palmer
for development of test technology and industry-standard packaging test chips, and support of CPMT Society activities
Behrooz Parhami
for contributions to the design of high-performance digital systems through arithmetic algorithms and highly parallel architectures
Mania M. Pavella
for contributions to real-time dynamic security assessment of power systems
Anthony Michael Pavio
for developments in broadband active and passive GaAs monolithic mixers, and for contributions to microwave circuit technology
Thomas P. Pearsall
for the synthesis and development of InGaAsP materials and photodetectors for optical communications
Frederick E. Petry
for contributions to database and data modeling theory
Peter Pirsch
for contributions to the architectural conception and VLSI implementation of digital video coding schemes
Clifford Raymond Pollock
for development and application of tunable solid-state infrared lasers to spectroscopy, optical communication, and metrology
Arati Prabhakar
for leadership in partnering between industry and government to promote economic growth
through the development of manufacturing technologies for semiconductor devices
Robert Piloty
for contributions to and leadership in the development of hardware design languages, of microelectronic CAD systems, and of early computers
R
Cauligi S. Raghavendra
for contributions to design and analysis of interconnection networks and fault tolerant computing
Gottumukkala V. S. Raju
for contributions to the applications of system theory and for leadership in the development of programs for engineering education
Donald Earl Rathbone
for contributions to and leadership in engineering education
Gabriel Rebeiz
for the development of novel microwave and millimeter-wave antennas, receivers and circuits using micromachining techniques
G. Robert Redinbo
for contributions to fault-tolerant design methods applicable to computer and communication systems
Bruce A. Renz
for leadership in management of engineering projects associated with large power projects and extra-high voltage transmission systems
Lubomyr T. Romankiw (Life Fellow)
1997
for invention of the magnetic thin film inductive head, the magnetoresistive inducted merged head
and for major contributions to the science and technology of electrochemistry
Arnold Leonard Rosenberg
for fundamental contributions to theoretical aspects of computer science and engineering
Philip William Rosenkranz
for contributions to the spectroscopy of oxygen and water vapor and to microwave radiometric remote sensing
Philip A. Rubin
for contributions leading to the widespread application of satellite and other communications technologies
Wilson J. Rugh
for contributions to the theory of nonlinear systems and control
S
Saad Michael Saad
for contributions to the analysis, design and development of waveguide components
Edward Sacher
for contributions to the relationship between molecular structure and dielectric properties
Masao Saito
for contributions to the application of bioelectromagnetics and signal theory in medicine
Johan Schoukens
for contributions to frequency domain system identification and the integrated of measurement, signal processing and estimation theory
Alwyn John Seeds
for contributions to the development of microwave photonic devices and systems
Zary Segall
for contributions in the fields of performance visualization and dependability evaluation of parallel and distributed systems
John M. Segelken
for leadership and innovation resulting in interconnection technology advances
Sharad C. Seth
for contributions to testing of digital electronics circuits
Zong Sha
for technical leadership in radiowave-propagation research, practice, and education
Kenneth Roger Siarkiewicz (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development and promotion of general electromagnetic analysis models for military and civilian systems
Paul H. Siegel
for contributions to signal processing and coding for storage systems
Harvey Fox Silverman
for contributions to digital signal processing and its application to speech recognition and microphone arrays
Donald H. Sinnott
for contributions to the development of computational electromagnetics and technological leadership of defense research and development in Australia
Milton G. Slade
for contributions to and leadership in the technology base of automatic test equipment and software
Johannes G. Smits
for research and development of piezoelectric materials and integrated piezoelectric microelectromechanical sensors and actuators
Richard V. Snyder
for contributions to the development of high power miniature stopband filters and extremely wideband bandpass filters for microwave applications
Gerhard Sollner
for pioneering the development of resonant-tunneling structures and contributions to the understanding of high-speed semiconductor devices
Phillip Sprangle
for pioneering research in advanced accelerators and advanced radiation sources
Pasupathi Ananta Subrahmanyam
for contributions to the use of formal techniques for specification, design and verification of hardware and embedded software systems
Takao Suzuki
for contributions to the understanding of micromagnetic and to the development of magneto-optical recording technology
T
Seiichi Takeuchi
for pioneering work in fiber optic network systems
Geoffrey W. Taylor
for the invention and development of III-V inversion channel technology
Saburo Tazaki
for contributions to the development of digital storage systems for signal processing, coding and video compression using vector quantization
Nitish V. Thakor
for contributions to the field of biomedical signal processing and instrumentation
Masayoshi Tomizuka
for contributions to the analysis and design of mechanical control systems and for the leadership in control education
PoTong
for contributions to VLSI development of channel coding devices and their commercial applications
Robert N. Trebits
for contributions and leadership in measuring and characterizing millimeter radar reflectivity and propagation effects
Giao N. Trinh
for contributions to the understanding of dielectric and arc phenomena in gas-insulated cables
Satish K. Tripathi
for advancing the state of the art in computer and network systems analysis and for excellence in technical and educational leadership
Walter Joseph Trybula
for contributions in developing and advancing electronics manufacturing technology
Michael T. Tuley
for contributions to radar cross section reduction technology and education
Kou-Hu Tzou
for contributions and leadership to the technology of progressive image transmission and video compression technology
V
Pramod K. Varshney
for contributions to the theory and applications of distributed detection and data fusion
Stamatis Vassiliadis
for contributions to the engineering of computer architecture
Thayamkulangara R. Viswanathan
for contributions to the design and implementation of mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems
Vijay Vittal
for contributions to the development of the transient energy function method and its application to power system dynamic security assessment,
and for leadership in power engineering education and research
Richard Auther Volz
for contributions in robot and manufacturing software, model driven manufacturing systems and tele-autonomous systems
W
Osamu Wada
for his contributions to III-V semiconductor Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit (OEIC)
Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj
for original contributions to electromagnetics, propagation and scattering, and to fundamental understanding of phased-array antennas
Yasuo Watanabe
for contributions to the development of insulation of UHV ac and dc transmission lines
Anthony J. Weiss
for development of lower bounds on the accuracy of parameter estimators and contributions to the delay estimation and array processing
Cheng P. Wen
for contributions to the invention and the development of copolar waveguide based microwave integrated circuit techniques
C. Dan Wilkinson
for leadership in developing and applying modern digital instrumentation, control and computer system technology
that improved economics, operations and safety of commercial nuclear power plants
Tsong-Ho Wu
for contributions to the architecture and design of self-healing SONET and ATM networks
Y
Ronald Robert Yager
for contributions to the development of the theory of fuzzy logic
Masamichi Yamanishi
for his contributions to the theory of electro-optic properties in semiconductor quantum well structures
Shoji Yoshida
for leadership in digital and analog communication network system development
Chong L. Yu
for leadership and contributions to computer simulation of radar imaging, scattering and electromagnetic radiation
Z
Chung-En Zah
for his contributions to the development of monolithic integration of electro-optics devices including multiwavelength laser arrays
Marvin V. Zelkowitz
for contributions towards the development of practical programming environment for effective software development
Yuan-Fang Zheng
for contributions to the development of mechanisms for coordination of multiple robots and manipulators
