Women IEEE Fellows

1962

Grace Hopper
for contributions in the field of automatic programming

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1966

Jenny E. Rosenthal
for achievement in spectroscopy, optics, and mathematical technique and their applications to electronic engineering

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1971

Elizabeth Laverick
for contributions to the field of millimetric measurements, and for leadership in microwave research and development facilities

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1974

Irene C. Peden (Life Fellow)
for contributions to radioscience in the polar regions, and for leadership of women in engineering

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1975

Betsy Ancker-Johnson
for contributions to the understanding of plasmas in solids and to the development of governmental science policy

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1977

Thelma Estrin (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the design and application of computer systems for neurophysiological and brain research

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1979

Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the understanding of electronic properties of semiconductors, semimetals, and metals, to electrical engineering education, and to the enhancement of women's opportunities in engineering education.

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1980

Esther M. Conwell (Life Fellow)
for contributions to semiconductor theory, particularly transport in both low and high electric fields

Marjorie R. Townsend (Life Fellow)
for management and technical contributions in the space exploration program

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1981

Elsa M. Garmire
for contributions in nonlinear and guided wave optics

Judith M. S. Prewitt
for contribution to applying image processing techniques to automated medical diagnostics

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1984

Harriett B. Rigas
for contributions to programming of analog/hybrid computers and to the development of computer engineering curricula

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1985

Lynn Ann Conway
for contributions to VLSI technology

Edith W. Martin
for leadership in computer science and engineering and in enhancing national security.

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1989

Prathima Agrawal
for contributions to computer-aided design and testing of integrated circuits

Odile M. Macchi
for contributions to adaptive filtering in communications and signal processing.
 

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1990

Eleanor Baum
for achievements and leadership in engineering education, and efforts to increase the number of women and minorities in the engineering profession

Jane K. Cullum
for contributions to practical numerical algorithms for large-scale systems

Sherra E. Kerns
for contributions to the reduction of CMOS and GaAs IC vulnerability to single-event and transient radiation environments

Mary M. Shaw
for contributions to computer science education.

Virginia C. Sulzberger
for development and application of reliability techniques for the analysis of power systems

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1991

Frances E. Allen
for contributions to the science of compiler optimization and leadership in its applications

Ruth F.Curtain
for contributions to the control theory of stochastic and infinate-dimensional systems.

Panayota Papantoni-Kazakos
for contributions to communication networks, and to detection and estimation theory

Alice C. Parker
for contributions to design automation in the areas of high-level synthesis, hardware descriptive languages, and design representation

Gabriele Saucier
for contributions to logic synthesis in state assignment of finite state machines to test generation for VLSI, and to the design of defect-tolerant architectures

Martha Sloan (Life Fellow)
for contributions to engineering education, leadership in the development of computer engineering education as a discipline, and leadership in extending engineering education to women

Maria A. Stuchly
for contributions to the understanding of interactions of electromagnetic fields with biological systems, and the development of effective protection standards

Carolyne M. Van Vliet (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the analysis of noise phenomena in electronic and photonic devices

Kawthar A. Zaki
for contributions to the analysis of dielectric waveguides and resonators and their applications in microwave filters and oscillators design

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1992

Ruzena K. Bajcsy
for contributions to machine perception and robotics

Delores M. Etter
for contributions to education through textbooks for engineering computing, and for technical leadership in the area of digital signal processing

Suzanne R. Nagel
for contributions to the technology of optical fibers, and leadership in the field of light wave communications

Harnatha C. Reddy
for contributions to multivariable circuit theory and its application to multidimensional stability analysis and digital filter design

Mary Ann Sweeney
for contributions to the understanding of plasma opening switches and beam interactions with matter in particle beam accelerators

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1993

Leah H. Jamieson
for contributions to the design and characterization of parallel algorithms for speech, image, and signal processing applications

Banu Onaral
for contributions to the understanding and application of bioelectrodes and for leadership in systems engineering education

Helen M. Wood
for leadership and contributions to computing and communications standardization

Celia E. Yeack-Scranton
for the development and application of transducers that characterize the head-medium interface in magnetic recording.

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1994

Aicha Elshabini-Riad
for contributions to microelectronics education and to hybrid microelectronics for microwave applications

Evelyn Lynn Hu
for contributions to the development of high-resolution dry etching processes in compound semiconductors

Mary Jane Irwin
for contributions to computer arithmetic and digital signal processing architectures

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1995

Janice M. Jenkins
for contributions to research and development in electrocardiology, including computer techniques for automated arrhythmia analysis, and to the education of engineering students

Linda P. B. Katehi
for contributions to phased array packaging and high-frequency characterization of novel feeding networks for printed antennas and arrays

Joanne S. Lacourse
for contributions to the understanding of the dynamic characteristics of semiconductor lasers

Jane W. Liu
for contributions to real-time task scheduling methods for computing systems

Iwona Turlik
for contributions to advance packaging technology development and research

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1996

Linda G. Shapiro
for contributions in the theory of relational matching and its application to model-based computer vision

Louise H. Trevillyan
for contributions to the development of automated logics synthesis of VLSI chips

Mona E. Zaghloul
for leadership in education and research in integrated circuit design and their application to neural networks

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1997

Diana Bendz
for leadership and contributions to electronics manufacturing and to environmental impact and policy

Alice M. Chiang
for contributions to signal processors using charge coupled devices

Patricia D. Daniels
for contributions to engineering education.

Jeannine Henaff
for contributions to the analysis, design and realization of telecommunication systems

Anita Katherine Jones
for contributions to the development of computer software systems

Mania Pavella (Life Fellow)
for contributions to real-time dynamic security assessment of power systems

Arati Prabhakar
for leadership in partnering between industry and government to promote economic growth through the development of manufacturing technologies for semiconductor devices

Jane M. Shaw
for invention of the silylation process and other contributions to microlithography resist technology

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1998

Susan Kathryn Avery
for scientific and educational leadership and research in atmospheric science.

Gloria Boudreaux-Bartels
for contributions to time-frequency signal representations and their applications

April Susan Brown
for contributions to the development of lattice-matched and pseudomorphic high electron mobility field effect transistors

Doris Loveday Carver
for contributions to the field of software engineering

Constance Chang-Hasnain
for contributions to electro-optics in the area of monolithic semiconductor laser arrays

Susan Hackwood
for leadership in engineering education, for pioneering partnerships between academia, industry and government, and for seminal contributions in automation and robotics

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1999

Ingrid Daubechies
for contributions to the theory of Wavelets.

Alina Deutsch
for contributions to the design of practical lossy transmission line structures for digital and communication applications

Mitra Dutta
for contributions to heterostructure-based optoelectronic and electronic devices

Ferial M. El-Hawary
for contributions to applications of digital system concepts to underwater dynamic motion estimation and marine seismic methods

Marija Ilic
for contributions to hierarchical electric power systems control and applications.

Prof. LUQI
for contributions to software technology for computer-aided development of embedded real-time systems

Teresa Huai-Ying Meng
for contributions to the system integration of algorithms, parallel architectures and signal processing circuits

Joan Laverne Mitchell
for contributions to the development of international image compression standards

Yael Nemirovsky
for contributions to compound semiconductor devices and technology

Stella W. Pang
For identification and removal of process-induced damage in Si and compound semiconductor devices, and advancing the science of nanofabrication technology

Irith Pomeranz
for contributions to the area of test generation for digital logic circuits

Rabab Kreidieh Ward
for contributions to digital signal processing applications in television and medical imaging.

Karan L. Watson
for contributions to engineering education, including outreach to women and minorities and accreditation

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2000

Maria Teresa Correia De Barros
for contributions to modeling and analysis of power systems transients.

Joanne Bechta Dugan
for contributions to dependability analysis of fault tolerant computer systems

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2001

Bernadine Langdon Dunfee
for contributions to the design and development of highly accurate current ratio standards and voltage dividers.

Donnalee Hudson
for contributions to the development of techniques for computer-assisted medical decision making.

Kei May Lau
for contributions to III-V compound semiconductor heterostructure materials and devices.

Hagit Messer-Yaron
for contributions to statistical signal processing, time delay estimation and sensor array processing.

Bozenna J Pasik-Duncan
for contributions to identification and stochastic adaptive control.

Sarah Ann Rajala
for contributions to engineering education

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2002

Maria Domenica Adele Di Bendetto
for contributions to the theory of nonlinear and hybrid control system design

Cristina H Amon
for contributions to thermal management techniques for wearable computers and portable electronics

Anuradha Mandayam Annaswami
for contributions to adaptive control theory, neural networks, and active-adaptive control of combustion systems

Serpil Ayasli
for contributions to the development of military radars

Elisa Bertino
for contributions to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security

Janie Mclawhorn Fouke
for contributions to the theories of and instrumentation for obstructive pulmonary disorders

Nahid Khazenie
for leadership in the advancement of remote sensing science, and the advancement of women and minorities in engineering, science and technology

Jelena Kovacevic
for contributions to the theory of signal representation

Leda M. Lunardi
for contributions to the development of high-performance 1.55 um monolithically integrated photoreceiver for optical communication

Zoya Popovic
for contributions to the development of active antenna arrays and quasi-optical power combining techniques

Ellen June Yoffa
for technical, professional, and business leadership in electronic design automation

Bin Yu
for contributions to statistical methods in information theory

Avideh Zakhor
for contributions to image and video compression

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2003

Ruby Bei-Loh Lee
for contributions to general-purpose processor architectures

Susan Manning Blanchard

for contributions in the field of cardiac electrophysiology and for innovations in biomedical engineering education

Gracie E Davis
for contributions to the development of radiation-hard electronic components for military and space applications

Susan J Eggers
for contributions to the design of multithreaded and shared memory multiprocessors and compiler technology

Kristina M Johnson
for contributions to optoelectronic processing systems and liquid crystal devices

Nan Marie Jokerst
for contributions to the integration and packaging of optoelectronic devices for the realization of optical interconnections and interfaces

Cherrie M Pancake
for technical leadership in improving the usability of computing technology

Laura M Roa
for contributions to new resuscitation therapies for burn patients that are based on mathematical modeling, simulation, and control techniques

Bhavani M Thuraisingham
for contributions to secure systems involving database systems, distributed systems, and the web

Branka Vucetic
for contributions to the theory and applications of channel coding

Elaine J Weyuker
for contributions to the formal foundations of software testing

Jeannette M Wing
for contributions to methods for software systems

Fu Qing Yang
for leadership in software research and practice

Josiane Bernadette Zerubia
for contributions to Markovian models in image processing and remote sensing

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2004

Frederica Darema
for contributions to the programming of parallel and distributed computers

Denice Denton
for leadership in engineering education and faculty mentoring.

Deborah Estrin
for innovations in scalable network protocols and sensor network research

Julie Elizabeth Fouquet
for contributions to optical switch and light-emitting device technologies

Yilu Liu
for contributions to modeling and diagnostic techniques for power equipment

Yao Wang
for contributions to video processing and communication

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2005

Jeanne Ferrante
for contributions to optimizing and parallelizing compilers.

Terri Fiez
for contributions to analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

Andrea Goldsmith
for contributions to the development of adaptive techniques and the analysis of fundamental capacity limits for wireless communication systems

Irena Lasiecka
for contributions to boundary control systems

Jian Li
for contributions to adaptive beam forming, radar imaging, and target detection.

Elham Makram
for contributions to power engineering education and career development

Janina Mazierska
for contributions to measurements of high temperature superconducting and dielectric materials

Deirdre Meldrum
for contributions to genome automation

Hisayo Momose
for contributions to ultra-thin gate oxide metal oxide semiconductor fields effect transistors

Dorothee Normand-Cyrot
for contributions to discrete-time and digital nonlinear control systems

Femke Olyslager
for contributions to theoretical and computational electromagnetics

Mari Ostendorf
for contributions to statistical modeling of speech signals

Rosalind Picard
for contributions to image and video analysis and affective computing

Manijeh Razeghi
for contributions to the development of compound semiconductor growth technology

Amy Reibman
for contributions to the transport of video over networks

Ljiljana Trajkovic
for contributions to computer aided design tools for circuit analysis

Sophie Verdonckt-Vandebroek
for leadership in developing document systems

Lois Walsh
for leadership in electronic device reliability 

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2006

Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer
for contributions to the prevention and treatment of electric shock and arc blast injury

Susan Conry
for contributions to engineering education

Sandra Johnson
for contributions to the design and performance evaluation of computer systems

Nancy Mead
for leadership in software engineering education

Usha Varshney
for technical leadership in sensor technologies and systems

Sally Wood
for contributions to engineering education at university and pre-college levels

Lixia Zhang
for contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols in packet switched networks

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2007

Jean Margaret Bacon
for leadership in design of secure, large scale, distributed systems

Julia J. Brown
for leadership in developing and commercializing very high performance semiconductor and organic light emitting devices

Grace Audrey Clark
for contributions in block adaptive filtering

Melba M. Crawford
for applications of satellite data and airborne LIDAR imagery

Naomi Erich Leonard
for contributions to control of underwater vehicle

Shangkai Gao
ffor contributions to the study of brain-computer interface

Wanda Gass
for contributions to digital signal processors and circuits

Maya B. Gokhale
for contributions to reconfigurable computing technology

Tsu-Jae King Liu
for applications of silicon-germanium thin films to metal oxide semiconductor transistors and microelectro mechanical systems

Jusheng Ma
for contributions to electronic materials and packaging technology

Urbashi Mitra
for contributions to multiuser wideband digital communication systems

Mitiko Miura-Mattausch
for contributions to nanoscale metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor compact modeling

Dalma Novak
for contributions to enabling technologies for the implementation of fiber radio systems

Betty Joan Salzberg
for contributions to access methods, online re-organization methods, and robust application techniques in computing

Pasqualina M. Sarro
for contributions to micro-machined sensors, actuators, and micro-systems

Nava Setter
for contributions to field of ferroelectric materials, micro-systems and microelectronics applications

Annamaria Varkonyi-Koczy
for contributions to digital signal processing in measurement and control

Orly Yadid-Pecht
for contributions to design and modeling of common metal oxide semiconductors image sensors

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2008

Abeer Alwan
for contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their applications

Ann Catrina Bryce
for contributions to compound semiconductor integrated optoelectronic devices

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung
for contributions to neural network models for biomedical image analyses

Diane J. Cook
for contributions to machine learning algorithm design and application

Pamela C. Cosman
for contributions to image and video compression and wireless communications

Ruth Annette Dyer
for contributions to diversity in science and engineering education, and Hadamard-transform spectrometers

Cynthia Mahoney Furse
for leadership in electromagnetics education

Aura Ganz
for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for high speed communications networks

Naomi J. Halas
for contributions to metallic nanoshells and nanoparticles with tailorable optical properties and applications in biotechnology and chemical sensing

Jennifer C. Hou
for contributions to protocol design and analysis of wireless communications networks

Judy L. Hoyt
for contributions to silicon-based heterostructure devices and technology

Diana L. Huffaker
for development of optoelectronic materials and processing

Janet Lehr Jackel
for contributions to optical communications

Shesha H. Jayaram
for contributions to the use of high voltage in process technology

Jane Messerschmitt Lehr
for contributions to high power switches for generating electromagnetic radiation

Muriel Medard
for contributions to wideband wireless fading channels and network coding

Samiha Mourad
for contributions to fault modeling in digital circuits and systems

Klara Nahrstedt
for contributions to end-to-end quality of service management of multimedia systems

Karen Ann Panetta
for leadership in engineering education and curriculum development to attract, retain, and advance women in engineering

Radia Joy Perlman
for contributions to network routing and security protocols

Athina P. Petropulu
or contributions to signal processing for communications, networking and ultrasound imaging

Jennie Si
for contributions to approximate dynamic programming, and to the analysis and synthesis of neural networks

Keyue Ma Smedley
for contributions to high-performance switching power converters

Lalita Udpa
for contributions to development of forward and inverse electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation methodologies

Ann C. Von Lehmen
for contributions to optical network architectures and technologies

Jinyun Zhang
for contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology

Weihua Zhuang
for contributions to mobile communications and networks

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2009

Tulay Adali
for contributions to nonlinear and complex-valued statistical signal processing

Keren Bergman
for contributions to development of optical interconnection and transport networks

Michelle Effros
for contributions to source and network coding

Orla Feely
for contributions to nonlinear discrete-time circuits and systems

Yuqing Gao
for contributions to speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation

Susan Hagness
for contributions to time-domain computational electromagnetics and microwave
medical imaging

Sheila Hemami
for contributions to robust and perceptual image and video communications

Lizy Kurian John
for contributions to power modeling and performance evaluation of microprocessors

Mahta Moghaddam
for contributions to forward and inverse scattering techniques for radar remote sensing

Eve Riskin
for contributions to variable-rate image and video compression and to engineering education

Anna Stefanopoulou
for contributions to control of energy conversion systems

Lisa Su
for leadership in semiconductor technology development

Dawn Tilbury
for leadership in networked and logic control systems

Susan Trolier-McKinstry
for contributions to dielectric and piezoelectric thin films and device applications

Sabine Van Huffel
for contributions to total least squares fitting and computational biosignal processing

Annette von Jouanne
for contributions to ocean wave energy systems

Susie Wee
for contributions in multimedia technology

Jean-Lien Wu
for leadership in information and communication education

Yuanyuan Yang
for contributions to parallel and distributed computing systems

Aidong Zhang
for contributions to multimedia data indexing

 

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