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Following are the names and citations for the active members of the IEEE Class of 1998 listed alphabetically by last name.
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Gerard Argant Alphonse
for the practical development of single-mode, high-power, superluminescent diodes,
with applications to fiber optic gyroscopes, optical amplifiers, spectroscopy, and low coherence interferometry
Daniel Lee Alspach
for leadership in the theoretical development of non-linear estimation theory and
its practical applications to multiple target data association and tracking problems in ocean surveillance
Anthony P. Ambler
for contributions to economics of testing complex digital devices and systems
Venkat Anantharam
for contributions to the analysis and control of communication networks
Dimitris Anastassiou
for contributions to video technology, developing high-performance digital image and video coding techniques
Yoshiharu Anbe
for contributions to the research and development of automatic control system for metal rolling mills
Edward E. Aslan
for pioneering work in the instrumentation and measurement of hazardous electromagnetic fields
Ender Ayanoglu
for contributions to communication theory and coding applications in communication networks
Richard James Backe
for leadership in the quality engineering and assurance of key components for pioneering scientific spacecraft
Duncan Charles Baker
for leadership in engineering education in electromagnetic compatibility, computational electromagetics,
and ionospheric propagation, and contributions to ionospheric modeling
Allen M. Barnett
for contributions and technical leadership in the development and commercialization of photovoltaic solar cells
Ib Bentzen-Bilkvist
for the implementation of advanced electrical technologies in the cement industry
Rajaram Bhat
for contributions to optoelectronic materials and devices through the advancement of
organometallic chemical vapor deposition of III-V compound semiconductors
Ashoka Krishna Sarpangal Bhat
for contributions to the analysis, design, and applications of resonant converters
Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan
for contributions to the design and analysis of interconnection networks and multiprocessor architectures
Wolfram A. Boeck
for contributions to the development of gas insulated substations. (GIS)
Gloria Faye Boudreaux-Bartels
for contributions to time-frequency signal representations and their applications
Kevin W. Bowyer
for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images
April Brown
for contributions to the development of lattice-matched and pseudomorphic high electron mobility effect transistors
Joseph Albert Bruder
for research and development in the measurement and calibration concepts and techniques in polarimetric radars
Richard Joseph Buschart
for development of an analytical electrical area classification system to provide for superior levels of safety
Arthur Robert Calderbank
for contributions to the transmission and storage of digital data
Antonio Cantoni
for contributions to the design of filter, antenna arrays and telecommunications systems using constrained optimization methods
Doris Loveday Carver
for contributions to the field of software engineering
Chung Chan
for contributions to research and development of plasma processes in electronics manufacturing
Constance J. Chang-Hasnain
for contributions to electro-optics in the area of monolithic semiconductor laser arrays
Kwong Shu Chao
for contributions in nonlinear and analog circuits
Richard Alexander Chapman
for the development of HgCdTe imaging devices and contributions to CMOS technology
Young-Kai Chen
for contributions to ultra-short pulse generation using semiconductor lasers,
integrated laser-modulators, and high frequency InPHBATs
D. Jack Christofersen
for contributions and leadership in enhancing HVDC system reliability and safety
David D. Clark
for leadership in the engineering and deployment of the protocols that embody the Internet
Leon Cohen
for contributions to Time-Varying Spectral Analysis
David Hall Colwell
for contributions to the advancement of modern protective relaying practices in power systems
Kenneth Allen Connor
for contributions to the development of particle beam probing for nuclear fusion research
Antonios Georgiou Constantinides
for contributions to the development of digital signal processing methods
Rory A. Cooper
for outstanding contributions to improving quality and increasing innovation in wheelchair design,
and for leadership in rehabilitation engineering education
Michael Jean-Georges Corinthios
for contributions to general radix matrix factorization of generalized spectral analysis transforms
Edward John Coyle
for contributions to the theory of nonlinear signal processing
Soura Dasgupta
for contributions to parameter robustness analysis and adaptive parameter estimation
Larry S. Davis
for contributions to computer vision, image processing and high performance computing
Clarence Wilfred De Silva
for leadership in industrial automation education
Srinivas Devadas
for contributions to logic design and design automation
Geza Dienes
for contributions to the design and development of broadcast antenna systems
Tharam Singh Dillon
for leadership in the development of optimizations for power systems
Deepakraj Malhar Divan
for contributions to power electronics technology
Michael C. Driver
for contributions to broadband gallium aresenide power circuits
David Hung-Chang Du
for contributions to database structures and retrieval algorithms
Pierre Duhamel
for contributions to the optimization of the Fast Fourier Transform
Charles Robert Dyer
for contributions to shape and image representations for computer vision
Tadayoshi Enomoto
for contributions to the development of integrated circuits multimedia
Thomas Ericson
for contributions to communications and coding theory and practice
Nariman Farvardin
for contributions to source coding and quantization
Harold Lee Flescher
for leadership in the development of radiation hardening technology
LawrenceJerome Fogel
for the invention of evolutionary computation
Eric R. Fossum
for contributions to image sensors and on-chip image processing
Douglas L. Franzen
for contributions to optical fiber characterization procedures
Luigi Fratta
for contributions to packet switching technology
Victor Samuel Frost
for contributions to the simulations, monitoring and control of communication networks
Yoji Furuhama
for contributions to and leadership in optical and millimeter-wave propagation research,
especially for its application to satellite communications
Costas N. Georghiades
for contributions to the theory of optimum receiver design
Ira Alan Gerson
for contributions to the development of speech coding and recognition technologies
Janos John Gertler
for contributions to process monitoring and diagnosis, and to its application in automobile engine diagnosis
Nirmal K. Ghai (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the design and application of rotating electric machinery
and for leadership in standards development and standards harmonization
Barry K. Gilbert
for development of improved electronic packaging for high performance gallium arsenide integrated circuits
Bernd Girod
for contributions to the theory and practice of video communication
Valery Anton Godyak
for contributions to RF discharge physics and its application to development of new RF light sources
Roberto Domenico Graglia
for contributions in the application of numerical techniques in the studies of electromagnetic structures
Susan Hackwood
for leadership in engineering education, for pioneering partnerships between academia, industry and government,
and for seminal contributions in automation and robotics
Chang Chieh Hang
for contributions to the research and development of advanced control design techniques and to education in control engineering
Masahiro Hashimoto
for contributions to electromagnetic theory, especially for guided-wave optics
Hooshang Hemami (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the dynamics, control, and computer modeling of robotic and human bipedal locomotion systems
John G. N. Henderson
for contributions to the design and development of high definition television systems
Alfred Oliver Hero, Iii
for contributions to the theory and practice of statistical signal processing, particularly in estimation, detection, and imaging
Taketoshi Hibiya
for contributions to liquid-phase epitaxial growth of magnetic garnet films for telecommunication applications
Harvard Scott Hinton
for leadership and contributions in the fields of smart pixel technology and free-space optical interconnects
Kotaro Hirano
for contributions to analog and digital signal processing, and to engineering education
Yasuo Hirata
for contributions to and leadership in the development of digital mobile satellite communication systems
and research of their key technologies
Robert Lee Horst (Life Fellow)
for contributions to computer-controlled manufacturing processes for consumer and defense products
James Richard Huddle (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the science of navigation, geodesy and surveying
Thomas William Hussey
for advances in the understanding and application of fast, hollow-core, plasma z pinches
Wen-Mei Hwu
for contributions to high performance compiler and microarchitecture technologies
Hisakazu Iizuka
for contributions to the development of the stacked-gate structure for an electrically alterable PROM
Katsushi Ikeuchi
for contributions to the advancement of robot vision technology
Osamu Ishihara
for contributions to the discovery of the quasilinear mechanism of turbulent heating
and the understanding of collective effects of wave-particle interaction in plasma turbulence
Bahram Javidi
for contributions to the application of optical techniques for encryption and security applications
Frederick John Jeffers
for contributions to magnetic recording physics and the invention and development of novel magnetic inductive and magnetrosistive
Niraj K. Jha
for contributions to high-level design and synthesis of testable VLSI circuits
Rolf A. Johannesson
for contributions to the understanding and application of convolutional codes
William Henry Joyner, Jr.
for contributions to the development of practical automated logic synthesis
and its application to high-performance VLSI designs
Paul Garrett Kaminski
for pioneering contributions to Stealth/Counter-stealth technology and its application
which fundamentally changed the nature of warfare
and revolutionized design priorities of both offensive and defensive weapons systems and sensors
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
for contributions to the theory and application of iterative image restoration methods
Joseph Katz
for contributions to the development of optoelectronic devices and systems
for optical communications, remote sensing, and bar-code reading
Arie E. Kaufman
for contributions to and leadership in visualization and computer graphics
Marian Piotr Kazmierkowski
for contributions to research, education and industrial developments in power electronics and induction motor control
Michael Peter Kennedy
for contributions to the theory of neural networks and nonlinear dynamics
and for leadership in nonlinear circuits research and education
Russel John Kerkman
for contributions to the development of pulse-width-modulated voltage source inverter drives
and field oriented control of induction motors
Ali Keyhani
for development of the system identification method of synchronous machine modeling and parameter estimation
Iam-Choon Khoo
for contributions to optical, electro-optical and nonlinear optical phenomena in liquid crystals, and their application in optical devices
Richard Arthur Kiehl
for contributions to heterostructure field-effect transistors and circuits
Conilee G. Kirkpatrick
for leadership in development and manufacturing of III-V electronic materials
and devices and their application to military and commercial systems
Ahmed Abdelwahed Kishk
for contributions to the modeling of symmetrical antennas and scatters
Dennis L. Knepp
for contributions to understanding the effects of random ionized media on signal propagation,
leading to the development of mitigation techniques for satellite communications and radar systems
Steven Kenneth Korotky
for contributions to integrated-optics and optical communication, including the development of
high-speed external modulators and their communication applications
Masamitsu Kosaki
for contributions to the understanding of electrical insulation characteristics of polymers in the cryogenic temperature region
and the development of extruded polymer insulated superconducting cable
HobartW. Kraner
for contributions to the development of nuclear particle detectors
and the understanding of radiation effects in germanium and silicon detectors
Bruce H. Krogh
for contributions to supervisory control and its industrial applications
Edward Francis Kuester
for contributions to electromagnetic wave theory and applied mathematics
especially to microstrip structure, propagation along open waveguide structures and electromagnetic compatibility
Anthony Kuh
for contributions to the analysis of neural network models and their application to signal processing
Stefan K. Lai
for distinguished research on the properties of silicon MOS interfaces and development of Flash EPROM Memory
Jeffrey H. Lang
for contributions to the design, analysis, estimation, and control of electromechanical energy conversion
and motion control systems, including novel micro-electromechanical systems
Louis J. Lanzerotti
for outstanding contributions to geophysics, space plasma physics, planetary magnetospheres, and energetic solar particles
Mark E. Law
for contributions to integrated circuits process modeling and simulation
Fred N. Lee
for contributions to scheduling resources for electrical power systems and in power engineering education
Sukhan Lee
for contributions to human-machine systems and intelligent robots
through development of teleoperator control systems and neural networks
Wu-Hon Francis Leung
for contributions to operating systems, protocols and programming methods
supporting the development of distributed systems and multimedia communication applications
Nadav Levanon
for contributions to radar signal analysis and detection
Yehuda Leviatan
for contributions to the developments of new computational techniques for electromagnetic scattering analysis
Michael Roy Lightner
for contributions to the Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits
Loren Wendell Linholm
for initiating and guiding the development of innovative microelectronic test-structure
based measurement techniques, and associated parametric test-instrumentation procedures,
for monitoring advanced semiconductor wafer-fabrication processes and tools
Simpson Linke
for a lifetime of dedication to power system education and leadership in the development of electric-power and electric-energy systems
John Litva
for contributions to electromagnetic modeling microstrip antennas, beam forming, and propagation,
as well as for technical leadership in the areas of low-angle radar tracking, microwaves, and signal processing
Robert Donald Lorenz
for development sin the application of modern control design theory to ac machine drives
Yong-Zai Lu
Contributions to modeling and intelligent control of industrial systems
Mohamed Madihian
for contributions to the design and development of microwave as well as millimeter-wave solid state monolithic integrated circuits
for personal computing and wireless networking systems
Asad M. Madni
for contributions to the design and development of instrumentation for electronic warfare systems
Herman Emile Maes
for contributions in the field on non-volatile silicon memory devices and MOS reliability physics
Nelson Martins
for fundamental developments in eigensolution algorithms and small signal stability analysis for the control of large scale power systems
Yasuo Matsuyama
for contributions to learning algorithms with competition
Peter Grant Mclaren (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of digital relays and real time simulators for testing relays
Jean Menez
for the development of noise masking techniques in low-bit rate speech coding
Jaishankar M. Menon
for contributions to the architecture, algorithms, and implementation of disk array storage systems
Curtis Robert Menyuk
for contributions to mathematics and computation of light propagation in nonlinear and disperse optical fibers
Alan Miller
for contributions to the understanding of ultrafast phenomena in semiconductor materials and nonlinear optoelectronic devices
James G. Miller
for contributions to the understanding of properties of normal and diseased hearts
using ultrasonics, echocardiography and myocardial tissue characterization
Howard Moraff
for technical leadership in fostering basic research in robotics and computer vision
William James Moylan
for leadership in the development of standards for electric power distribution for industrial plants
James Paul Muccioli
for contributions to integrated circuit design practices to minimize electromagnetic interference
Hans-Hellmut Nagel
for research into the analysis and interpretation of digitized real-world image sequence
and for theoretical and experimental contributions to motion analysis from image sequences
Yoshihisa Nakamura
for contributions and leadership in the field of high-density magnetic recording
and the basic development of perpendicular magnetic recording
Michel Sobhy Nakhla
Of contributions to the development of advanced CAD techniques for microwave circuits and high-speed interconnects
Hugh Owen Nash, Jr.
for leadership in the development of codes and standards for electric systems in healthcare facilities
and for contributions to the application of electrical technology to those facilities
Stuart Owen Nelson
for contributions to the measurement of radio frequency and microwave dielectric properties of agricultural materials
Shogo Nishida
for contributions to emergency control schemes for stabilization of power systems and to power engineering education
Takao Nishitani
for contributions to the development of LSI chip architectures on digital signal processors
Istvan Novak
for contributions to the theory and practice of radio-frequency monitoring techniques
and to the measurement and simulation of high-speed digital systems
Burks Oakley, Ii
for work in the development, implementation, and advocacy of asynchronous learning networks
in electrical and computer engineering education
CarltonM. Osburn
for contributions to silicon technology including self-aligned silicides, dielectric breakdown, and hot electron phenomena
Kanji Otsuka
for contributions to Ceramic Multilayer Substrate, IC and LSI Packaging Technology and Multichip Module Technology
Ramon Pallas-Areny
for contributions to medical and electronic instrumentation and biomedical sensors
Andrzej Marian Pawlak
for the development of novel yet cost-effective and highly manufacturable electromechanical devices
that have provided or enabled new features to be added to automotive products
William Abraham Pearlman
for contributions to the theory and practice of source coding and image compression
John Burling Peatman
for contributions as a educator in the design of digital systems
Roger L. Peterson
for contributions to spread spectrum communication system design and personal communication systems
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
for achievements in the field of Ultra High Speed Diagnostics Electrical Insulation
Rik M. Pintelon
for fundamental research in frequency domain system identification
and its application in instrumentation, control, and signal processing
Mark Richard Pinto
for contributions to computer-aided design of electronic devices
Majid Rabbani
for the development of image compression technology and products
Saifur Rahman
for contributions to electric power engineering education
Krithi Ramamritham
for contributions to the theory and design of real-time systems
Ganti Prasada Rao
for development of continuous time identification techniques
Theodore Scott Rappaport
for research contributions and educational leadership in the field of wireless communications
Mohamed Mamdouh Rashwan
for technical leadership and contributions to the design, commissioning and operation of HVDC transmission systems
Narayan S. Rau
for contributions to the techniques of reliability and production cost computations in electric power systems
Steven Keith Rogers
for design, implementation and fielding of neural solutions to automatic target recognition
Rob Arthur Rutenbar
for contributions to computer aided design tools for automatic synthesis and layout of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits
Ali Saberi
for contributions to singular perturbation theory and nonlinear control
Takao Sakai
for the analysis of deterioration of insulating materials caused by partial discharge and corona discharge in gases
Hiroyuki Sakaki
for seminal contributions to quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructure and devices
Karem A. Sakallah
for contributions to the modeling, analysis, and optimization of digital system timing
Vincent Victor Salomonson
for leadership and research in spaceborne technology and remote sensing
Maurice Irving Sancer
for contributions to electromagnetic scattering analysis and experiment
Asle Schei
for development and design of overvoltage protection systems and contributions to international standardization
Robert Anthony Schlueter
for contributions to the theoretical and practical understanding of power system voltage instability
Robert A. Scranton
for leadership in the development and manufacturing of magnetoresistive heads for disk drives
Homayoun Seraji
for contributions to the control of robotic systems for space applications
Gadiel Seroussi
for contributions to the theory and practice of error correction and data compression algorithms and architectures
Rudolph Severns
for contributions to the understanding and development of high frequency power converters
Lui Sha
for technical leadership and research contributions which enabled the transformation of real time computing practice
from ad hoc process to an engineering process based on analytical methods
Joseph Shamir
for major contributions to the theory, analysis, and design of electro-optical signal processing systems
Gerald Sheble
for contributions to the development of Auction Methods as an alternative to power system optimization methods
addressing the de-regulation of the electric utility business
M. Ayman Shibib
for contributions to the devices physics of heavy doping effects and the development of high voltage integrated circuits
for telecommunications switching systems
Norio Shiratori
for contributions to the theory and practice of advanced computer networks
Thomas W. Sigmon
for the development and application of ion implantation technology and for contributions to semiconductor for damage annealing
Dick Bedford Simmons
for the development of software models, metrics and agent-based tools for software projects management
Naresh Kumar Sinha
for contributions to education and research in industrial electronics and control instrumentation
Marion J. Soileau
for leadership in developing CREOL as a leading research and educational institute on lasers and optics
Wayne Eric Stark
for contributions to the theory and practice of coding and modulation in spread-spectrum communication systems
Hideo Sunami
for contributions to the development of trench-capacitor DRAM cells and ultra-high density DRAMs
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
for outstanding contributions to research and education in computer networks and operating systems
Kenji Taniguchi
for contributions to the development of MOS device fabrication processes
particularly dielectric breakdown and oxygen-enhanced diffusion
Yuan Taur
for outstanding contributions to advanced CMOS technology
Hemant K. Thapar
for contributions to the theory, development, and commercial methods in data
Andre L. Tits
for contributions to optimization-based design and robust control
Yoh Ichi Tohkura
for leadership in collaborative research on human-machine processing
Duane R. Torgerson
for leadership in the application and development of power electronics to a power transmission network
and to its international understanding
Patrick R. Trischitta
for contributions to the development and worldwide deployment of undersea fiber optic communications systems
Moshe Tur
for contributions to the theory and practice of laser phase noise management in fiber optic lightwave systems
for sensing, signal processing and communication
Alfredo Vagati
for contributions to research, design and application of high performance synchronous reluctance drives
Robert A. Veitch
for leadership in the development and design of very large and extra high voltage transformers,
shunt reactors and associated equipment
George C. Verghese
for contributions to frequency-selective dynamic modeling, stability analysis and control in power electronics and power systems
Robert M. Walp
for leadership in the development of small earth station satellite systems for telecommunications
Shih-Yuan Wang
for research in and development of photonic high speed detectors and surface emitting lasers
Pramod Warty
for contributions to software systems in telecommunication switching and network management
Denis Webb
for leadership in the development and application of microwave ferrite devices
Michael C. Wicks
for contributions to adaptive airborne signal processing
Jay G. Wilpon
for leadership in the development of automatic speech recognition algorithms
William J. Wilson
for contributions to microwave radiometry for radio astronomy and remote sensing applications
Joel L. Wolf
for contributions to the optimization of scheduling and resource allocation in computers
Wayne Hendrix Wolf
for contributions to Hardware/Software Co-Design
Chung-Yu Wu
for contributions to implementation of analog neural network integrated circuits
Yutaka Yamamoto
for contributions to the theory of sampled-data systems, digital control, and infinite-dimensional systems
David D. Yao
for contributions to the studies of the mathematical structures and control of
discrete-event systems and related manufacturing applications
Hiroshi Yasuda
for contributions to the international standardization activities on video coding technologies
and the research and development of visual communications and multimedia communications systems
Pen-Chung Yew
for contributions to the design of high-performance shared-memory multiprocessors and their parallelizing compilers
Karl Sigfrid Yngvesson
for contributions to the development of millimeter wave devices and systems
Katsuichi Yotsumoto
for contributions to highly efficient and reliable telecommunications energy systems
Ya-Qin Zhang
for contributions to and leadership in the development of digital video compression a
nd communications technology, standards, and products
Willy Zwaenepoel
for contributions to the design and implementation of distributed shared memory systems
