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Following are the names and citations for the active members of the IEEE Class of 2001 listed alphabetically by last name.
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A
Alfred Rodney Adams
for contributions to the advancement of semiconductor quantum-well lasers by the incorporation of strain
M. Omair Ahmad
for contributions to the design and implementation of digital signal processing algorithms
Richard Keith Ahrenkiel (Life Fellow)
for contributions to measurement of minority carrier lifetimes in semiconductor materials
Yoshihiko Akaiwa
for contributions to digital modulation techniques and distributed dynamic channel assignment for mobile radio communications
Robert R. Alfano
for development of tunable solid state lasers and ultrafast spectroscopic techniques
Moeness Gamal Amin
for contributions to time-frequency signal representations and their application
Andre Anders
for contributions to the physics and technology of cathodic arc plasmas
Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul
for contributions to the theory and practical implementations of anti-multipath and interference suppression techniques in wireless communications
Abdul-Rahman Ahmad Arkadan
for contributions to computer aided characterization and design optimization of electric machines and drive systems
B
Jing Bai
for leadership in biomedical engineering research and education
Alan Edward Bell
for developments in optical data storage applications and technology
Hal L. Berghel
for contributions to experimental computer science and engineering in the area of electronic information management
Dennis S. Bernstein
for contributions to robust control theory and control engineering education
Bharat Bhushan
for pioneering contributions to, and dissemination of knowledge of, the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices
Sergio Bittanti
for contributions to identification and control theory for time varying systems
Karl W. Boer
for contributions to research, development, and commercialization of thin film solar cells
David B. Bogy
for leadership and contributions to the mechanics of magnetic recording disc drives
Daniel Brand
for contributions to the development of automated logic synthesis of VLSI chips
Jehoshua Bruck
for contributions to the theory and practice of parallel, distributed and fault-tolerant computing
Barry E. Burke
for contributions to the technology development of charge-coupled devices for imaging and signal processing
John Allen Burns
for contributions to the identification, control and optimization of distributed parameter systems
C
Stephen Lavern Campbell
for contributions to the theory, numerical solution, and application of nonlinear descriptor systems
Lawrence Carin
for the development of short pulse scattering techniques to detect objects in clutter that have lead to practical methods for detection of buried land mines
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar
for contributions to the design and development of 1.55 um opto-electronic integrated circuits for wide-spectrum application in optical communications
Carl Kochao Chang
for seamless integration of Petri-net oriented techniques to support project management
Li Fung Chang
for contributions to the design and analysis of radio links and networks for wireless voice/data services
H. Jonathan Chao
for contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high speed packet networks
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
for contributions to pattern recognition, especially Indian language script OCR, document processing and natural language processing
Ih-Chin Chen
for leadership in the development of advanced CMOS technologies
Liang-Gee Chen
for contributions to algorithm and architecture design for video coding systems
Shane Robert Cloude
for contributions to the development of polarimetry and its applications in wide-band radar and optical remote sensing
Jingsheng Cong
for contributions to the computer-aided design of integrated circuits, especially in physical design automation, interconnect optimization, and synthesis of field-programmable gate-arrays
John J. Corcoran
for contributions to high-performance analog-to-digital converters
Charles Howard Cox, Iii
for contributions to the analysis, design and implementation of analog optical links
John D. Cressler
for contributions to the understanding and optimization of silicon and silicon-germanium bipolar transistors
Michael William Cresswell (Life Fellow)
for the development of advanced lithography metrology instruments
Sorin Cristoloveanu
for contributions to Silicon-on-Insulator device physics, technology, and characterization
Joao R. Cruz
for contributions to communications signal processing research and education
D
Munther A. Dahleh
for contributions to robust control and identification
Chita R. Das
for contributions to the dependability and performance evaluation of Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks
Belur V. Dasarathy
for contributions to pattern recognition, sensor fusion, automated intelligent decision system design and image processing
Evan Ezra Davidson
for contributions and leadership in the fields of signal integrity and noise control in digital systems
Rik W. A. A. De Doncker
for contributions to the development of high-power resonant soft-switching converters and high-performance digital control of induction machines
Geeert Adolf De Veirman
for contributions to the design of continuous-time filters and hard-disk drive read channel ICs
Daniel De Zutter
for the application of Maxwell's equations and for the development of numerical solution methods in electromagnetic scattering, antennas, and microwave circuits
Sang H. Dhong
for contribution to high speed processor and memory chip design
David Dill
for contributions to verification of circuits and systems
Francios Bernard Dolivo
for the application of signal-processing techniques to magnetic recording
Pradeep K. Dubey
for contributions to computer architecture supporting multimedia processing
Steven Dubowsky
for contributions to the dynamics and control of flexible and rigid manipulators and robotic vehicles
James S. Duncan
for contributions to medical image analysis and computer vision
E
Russell Carley Eberhart
for contributions to the computational intelligence field, including particle swarm optimization and diagnostic systems
Samir M. El-Ghazaly
for contributions to the analysis and simulations of microwave devices and circuits
Franklin Timothy Emery
for contributions to the improvement of insulation systems for high voltage electrical generators
Robert Warren Erickson
for contributions to switching converter modeling, control, and topologies
Ronald Dale Esman
for contributions to the development of fiber optic systems for microwave applications and optical fiber research
Leon Esterowitz
for pioneering contributions to solid-state laser technology and its applications, especially in the field of medicine
F
Gene A. Frantz
for contributions to the development and appliction of digital signal processing devices
Walter Jackson Freeman (Life Fellow)
for the development of biologically realistic neuroengineering models based on nonconvergent dynamics
G
Mohammed Ghanbari
for the pioneering work on layered video coding and continuous contributions to packet video
Ernst Gockenbach
for contributions to the development of digital measuring and monitoring technique
J. Scott Goldstein
for contributions to adaptive Wiener filter theory and its application to radar and communications
Cesar A. Gonzales
for contributions to MPEG encoding algorithms and leadership in their use
Marco Gori
for contributions to the theory of recurrent neural networks, and applications of neural network-based technologies
Arthur Charles Gossard
for contributions to semiconductor microstructure fabrication
George D. Gregory (Life Fellow)
for leadership in the development of electrical power circuit protection products, circuit protection information and standards
Roch A. Guerin
for contributions to the theory and practice of quality-of-service guarantees in packet networks, and the development and application of the equivalent bandwidth concept
Aditya Kumar Gupta
for contributions to the advancement of microwave monolithic integrated circuit technology and leadership in the development of manufacturable processes
Wojciech Kazimierz Gwarek
for contributions to the theory and applications of electromagnetic modeling
H
Yoshiaki Daimon Hagiwara
for pioneering work on, and development of, solid-state imagers
Peter S. Hall
for contributions to the development and application of microstrip antennas and active integrated antenna arrays
Takeo Hattori
for his contributions to the studies on the formation and the characterization of ultrathin gate oxides for ULSI devices
Hynek Hermansky
for invention and development of perceptually based speech processing methods
Ehud Heyman
for contributions to theory of time domain electromagnetics and of pulsed beam radiation, propagation, and scattering
Takao Hinamoto
for contributions to the design, synthesis, realization and sensitivity minimization of two-dimensional digital filters
Satoshi Hiyamizu
for contrubtions to the realization of the first high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)
James F. Hoburg
for contributions to the understanding of the interactions between electromagnetic fields and liquids, gas/particle flow, and magnetic shielding
Gunter A. Hofmann
for research on the effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on biological systems and to the development of innovative medical treatments based on electroporation
James N. Hollenhorst
for contributions to ultra-high performance avalanche photodiodes
Robert W. Horst
for contributions to the architecture and design of fault tolerant systems and networks
Masao Hotta
for contributions to the development of low-power video-frequency Analog to Digital converters for mixed-signal system Large Scale Integrated circuits
William Edward Howden
for contributions to functional testing for software
Donna Lee Hudson
for contributions to the development of techniques for computer-assisted medical decision making
Gordon Frierson Hughes (Life Fellow)
for contributions to magnetic recording physics and for pioneering work in thin film disc media
Paul James Hurst
for contributions to the design of CMOS integrated circuits for telecommunications and magnetic recording
Jenq-Neng Hwang
for contributions to adaptive learning systems
Wei Hwang
for contributions to high density cell technology and high speed Dynamic Random Access Memory design
I
Raymond Edwin Ideker
for engineering contributions to the development of devices, electrodes, and stimulus waveforms for preventing and treating cardiac arrhythmias
Satoru Ihara
for contributions to the basic understanding of power system bus load behavior
Takashi Iida
for contributions and leadership in satellite communications systems
Hiroshi Ishiwara
for contributions to Si-based heterostructure devices and ferroelectric memories
J
Dieter Stefan Jager
for contributions to the development of device concepts in microwaves and photonics
Jian Ming Jin
for contributions to computational electromagnetics and its applications to antennas, radar scattering, microwave circuits, and biomedical technology
Gunnar Johannsen (Life Fellow)
for contributions to human-machine systems engineering, cognitive ergonomics, human-computer interface desgin, and human-centered automation
Carl T. A. Johnk (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the teaching of electromagnetic fields and waves
David Andrew Johns
for contributions to the theory and design of analog adaptive integrated circuits used in digital communications
Milan Miodrag Jovanovic
for contributions to high-frequency power conversion techniques
K
Ton A. Kalker
for contributions to watermarking technology and its practical applications
Moshe M. Kam
for contributions to the theory of decision fusion and distributed detection
Kenzo Kamiyama
for contributions to the development of digital motor drives and their applications
Shigeru Katagiri
for contributions to discriminative learning theory and its applications to speech recognition
Robert Edward Kearney
for contributions in understanding peripheral neuromuscular system dynamics and development of methods for the identification of biomedical systems
Yaakov Kogan
for contributions to the theory and practice of performance evaluation and optimization of computer and communication systems
George Vincent Kondraske
for contributions to the quantitative understanding of human performance through modeling and the development of instrumentation
Ramu Krishnan
for contributions to the development of AC and switched reluctance motor drives
Venceslav Frantisek Kroupa (Life Fellow)
for a numerical theory of frequency synthesis, and for contributions to time and frequency measurements, frequency stability, and phase-locked loops
John Kuffel
for contributions to the introduction of digital recording and signal processing techniques in high voltage measurements and advancements in transmission and distribution systems
Sy-Yen Kuo
for contributions to dependable computing and software reliability engineering
Robert Forrest Kwasnick
for contributions to the development of amorphous silicon flat panel x-ray imager technology
L
Parag Kumar Lala
for contributions to the development of self-checking logic and associated checker design
Kei May Lau
for contributions to III-V compound semiconductor heterostructure materials and devices
Chin Chung Lee
for pioneering research in fluxless bonding technology and contributions to thermal design tools for electronic devices and packages
Insup Lee
for contributions to the specification languages and verification tools for real-time systems
Kwang Yun Lee (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development and implementation of intelligent system techniques for power plants and power systems control
Kin K. Leung
for contributions to performance analysis, protocol design, and control algorithms for communications networks
Baruch Levush
for leadership in the development of theoretical and computational models of free electron radiation sources
Stephen H. Lewis
for contributions to the development of pipelined analog-to-digital converters
Thomas John Lewis
for contributions to the understanding of electrical conduction and breakdown of dielectric gases, liquids and solids
Richard Webster Linderman
for contributions to the design of embedded high performance computing technology and its use in aerospace signal and image processing systems
Teck-Seng Low
for leadership in the development of technology for magnetic data storage
M
Raafat R. Mansour
for contributions to the development of high temperature superconductive filters and multiplexers
Patrick Edward Mantey
for leadership in engineering education, in research and in academic-industrial-government projects
Paolo Marannino
for contributions to power system scheduling and dispatch
Iven Michiel Yvonne Mareels
for contributions to the analysis, design and implementation of adaptive systems
Wolfgang S. Menzel
for contributions to the development of microwave fin-line circuits
Hagit Messer-Yaron
for contributions to statistical signal processing, time delay estimation and sensor array processing
Bernard S. Meyerson
for contributions to ultra high vacuum chemical vapor deposition and its application to low temperature epitaxy of SiGe
Krysztof A. Michalski
for the development of numerical solution methods in electromagnetic scattering, antennas, and microwave circuits
Josef Wieslaw Modelski
for contributions to microwave semiconductor phase modulators and phase shifters
Norihiko Morinaga
for contributions to and leadership in the development of intelligent radio communication systems and broadband radio on fiber systems
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Ryohei Nakatsu
for leadership in the development of speech recognition and multimedia systems
Prakash Narayan
for contributions to Shannon Theory and its application to the evaluation of the reliability of communication channels
Ram Mohan Narayanan
for contributions to the development of coherent ultra-wideband random noise radar systems for high-resolution imaging applications
Nasser M. Nasrabadi
for contributions to Vector Quantization and its applications to image compression and processing
Luu T. Nguyen
for development of wafer scale packaging, and plastic packaging
Tamotsu Ninomiya
for contributions to the development of high-frequency switching power converters
Martin Nmi Nisenoff
for leadership in the application of high temperature superconductivity and cryogenics to microwave components and systems
Kenji Nishi
for contributions to semiconductor process and device modeling and the development of software for their simulation
Leslie M. Novak
for contributions to optimal processing of polarimetric radar data
O
Kouhei Ohnishi
for contributions to the development of disturbance observer and its applications to motion control
Timothy R. Oldham
for contributions to the understanding of complex time-dependent radiation response of MOS electronic devices
Jon Harris Orloff
for contributions to Focussed Ion Beam Technology
P
Sethuraman Panchanathan
for contributions to compressed domain processing and indexing in visual computing and communications
Alex D. Papalexopoulos
for contributions to optimal power flow and related technologies in electric power systems
Bozenna J. Pasik-Duncan
for contributions to identification and stochastic adaptive control
Stephen John Pearton
for development of advanced semiconductor processing techniques and their application to compound semiconductor devices
Massoud Pedram
for contributions to the theory and practice of low-power design and CAD
Emil M. Petriu
for contributions to the development of pseudorandom encoding techniques for absolute position measurement
Donald Ralph Pflug
for contributions to the development and promotion of electromagnetic analysis code validation
Michael Alan Picheny
for contributions to speech recognition systems and products
Vincenzo Piuri
for contributions to neural network techniques and embedded digital architectures for industrial applications
Simon B. Poole
for research leading to the Erbium-doped fiber amplifier and the optical fiber laser
Ian Postlethwaite
for contributions to multivariable control design and to control engineering education
John Xavier Przybysz
for contributions in the development and application of Josephson digital circuits to electronic systems, especially radars, communication satellites and data switching networks
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Sarah Ann Rajala
for contributions to engineering education
Teofilo Jaime Ramos
for contributions to international engineering education and for development of the Mexican Engineering Accreditation System
Rangaraj Mandayam Rangayyan
for contributions to biomedical signal and image analysis
Anders B. Rantzer
for contributions to the theory and computational analysis of uncertain and nonlinear systems
Jaganmohan B. L. Rao
for contributions to array antennas and wide-angle scanning antennas
Muhammad H. Rashid
for leadership in power electronics education and contributions to the analysis and design methodologies of solid-state power converters
Herbert Georg Reichl
for contributions to microelectronic packaging
Hans-Martin Rein
for contributions to the design of high-speed silicon and silicon/germanium bipolar circuits, especially as applied to fiber-optic systems
Edward Anthony Rezek
for contributions to GaAs and InP monolithic microwave integrated circuits and optoelectronic devices
Roberto G. Rojas
for contributions to the understanding of high frequency electromagnetic radiation and scattering
Christopher S. Ruf
for contributions in the development, calibration, and remote sensing applications of microwave radiometers
S
Ali H. Sayed
for contributions to adaptive filtering and estimation algorithms
Thomas J. Schmugge
for contributions to the development and application of passive microwave remote sensing to the study of soil moisture and texture
Masakazu Sengoku
for contributions to graph theoretic research on circuits and communication network systems
Iswar K. Sethi
for contributions in statistical pattern recognition and neural networks
Mohammad Shahidehpour
for contributions to security constrained unit commitment algorithms for power system operation
Arvind Kumar Sharma
for contributions to active device and passive component modeling, and design of high power monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits
Wade Harrison Shaw, Jr.
for leadership and innovation in engineering and technology management education
Krishna Shenai
for contributions to the understanding, development, and application of power semiconductor devices and circuits
Bertram Emil Shi
for contributions to the analysis, implementation and application of cellular neural networks
Takatoshi Shindo
for contributions to lightning protection design of power transmission systems and understanding of the physics of laser-guided discharges
Shoji Shinoda
for contributions to graph-theoretic researches on flow and tension networks, electrical circuits, and cellular mobile communication systems
Toshiyuki Shiozawa
for contributions to engineering-oriented relativistic electromagnetic theory and theoretical study of free-electron lasers
Robert Avery Shore
for contribution to high-frequency scattering theory
Ritu Shrivastava
for contributions to high performance CMOS memory technology and product development
Peter H. Siegel
for contributions to the field of millimeter and submillimeter-wave radiometry, technology and spaceborne instruments
Mukesh Singhal
for contributions to algorithms for distributed systems
Jonathan Michael Smith
for contributions to the technology of high-speed networking
David Lynn Soldan
for contributions to and leadership in engineering education
Wayne Victor Sorin
for contributions to optical low-coherence reflectometry and its applications
Eugene Howard Spafford
for leadership and contributions in the field of information security
Banavar Sridhar
for advances in computer vision-based obstacle detection and developments in low-altitude helicopter flight
Duncan G. Steel
for contributions to optical phase conjugation and the nonlinear laser spectroscopy of semiconductors
James C. Sturm
for contributions to novel silicon-based semiconductor devices and large-area electronics
Tatsuya Suda
for contributions to the advancement of high speed networks
Edmund Joseph Sullivan
for developments in model-based acoustic array signal processing
Huifang Sun
for contributions to digital video technologies including coding optimization, down-conversion, and error resilience
Shigehiko Suzuki
for leadership in the development and standardization of technologies for intelligence in telecommunications networks
Arne Svensson
for contributions to detection of digital modulation methods
Jacques Szczupak
for contributions to engineering education and to analog and digital signal processing
Janos Karoly Sztipanovits
for contributions to the design of reconfigurable and adaptive embedded information systems
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Ali Tabatabai
for contributions to sub-band coding and to international standard activities in visual coding
Tadashi Takano
for development of antennas for radio communications and space activities
Hatsukazu Tanaka
for contributions to the theory of source and channel coding and its applications, as well as for contributions to education in engineering
Toshikatsu Tanaka
for contributions to the understanding of high field and aging phenomena in polymeric insulation
Wai-Cheung Tang
for contributions to the miniaturization of microwave filters and multiplexers for satellite applications
Gabriel Taubin
for contributions to the development of three-dimensional geometry compression technology and multimedia standards
Demetri Terzopoulos
for contributions to the theory of deformable models and leadership in their application to computer graphics, computer vision, medical imaging and computer-aided design
Richard Hall Thayer
for development of software engineering standards and for contributions to the IEEE "Doing Software Right" initiative
Junichiro Toriwaki
for contributions to digital image processing, pattern recognition and medical image analysis
Charles William Trowbridge
for contributions to computational electromagnetics
David B. Tuckerman
for contributions to high-performance electronic packaging and interconnection technologies, including the development of the microchannel heat sink
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Shoogo Ueno
for contributions to biomagnetic research in localized magnetic stimulation of the brain, impedance MRI, and imaging of brain function
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Joseph R. Vadus
for contributions to ocean technology, engineering, and research
Mateo Valero
for contributions to the design of vector architectures and superscalar processors
Baba C. Vemuri
for contributions to shape estimation algorithms in computer vision and the technical leadership that led to their widespread adoption in biomedical image analysis
Peter Vettiger
for contributions to the development of microfabrication processes
Mladen Alan Vouk
for contributions to engineering of reliable software-based systems
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Fred L. Walls
for contributions in the development of stable frequency sources and low noise signal processing equipment
Yang Yuan Wang
for leadership in China's semiconductor research and education
Winston I. Way
for contributions in applying subcarrier multiplexing techniques to lightwave technologies for hybrid fiber-coax access systems
John Ting-Yung Wen
for contributions to the control of nonlinear electro-mechanical systems and robotic manipulation
Edgeworth Rupert Westwater
for theoretical and experimental contributions to the development of radiometers for atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiling
William James Williams
for contributions to time-varying spectral analysis
James Raymond Winkelman
for contributions to automotive control systems
Andrew B. Wittkower
for contributions and leadership in the development and advancement of ion implantation techniques, equipment and companies
Hon-Sum Philip Wong
for contributions to solid-state image sensors and nanoscale CMOS devices
Chai Wah Wu
for contributions to synchronization of chaotic systems and its applications
Ke Wu
for contributions to hybrid integration of planar and non-planar microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and guided-wave structures
Yiyan Wu
for contributions to digital television research and standards development
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Lei Xu
for contributions to learning in neural networks
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Shuzo Yajima
for contributions to the development of computers and the theory of logic circuits
Masatsune Yamaguchi
for contributions to highly piezoelectric leaky surface acoustic waves
Max Neil Yoder
for leadership of government sponsored development of microwave integrated circuits
Takehiko Yoshino
for contributions to the development of transmission systems via satellite
Stephen Yurkovich
for contributions in the application of control systems technology and leadership in engineering education
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Xi-Cheng Zhang
for contributions to free-space terahertz optoelectronics
Wei Zhao
for contributions in real-time computing systems and networks
Kamil Shamilevich Zigangirov
for contributions to the theory, analysis, and decoding algorithms of convolutional codes
George W. Zobrist
for contributions to computer aided design and leadership in electrical engineering and computer science education
George I. Zysman
for leadership in the development of mobile communications technology, systems and standards
