Announcing the 2006 IEEE/LEOS Fellows

Congratulations!
Please join me in congratulating the 14 LEOS members who became IEEE Fellows this year. It’s a significant honor that is based on major technical contributions, leadership, and service to the Institute and the profession. The number of Fellows who can be elected in a given year is limited to one-per-thousand IEEE members in the so-called “higher grades,” which includes Member, Senior Member, and Fellow Grades.
I’d also like to thank the nominators, reviewers, and committee members who put a lot of time and effort into the selection process. It’s a roughly nine-month-long process that starts with the submission of four-page nomination forms, reference forms from between five and eight current Fellows, and other supporting materials. Candidates must already be Senior Members. Each nomination is reviewed, rated, and ranked by the Fellows Committee of an IEEE Society or Council chosen by the nominator. Then, the IEEE Fellows Committee reviews all of the materials and chooses which nominations to recommend to the Board of Directors. Generally, fewer than half of the nominations are successful.
The deadline for Fellow nominations is March 1. For more information , and to learn how to submit a nomination, I encourage you to check out the Fellows page on the IEEE Web Portal at: www.ieee.org/about/awards/fellows/
fellows.htm
As a step toward a Fellow nomination later, you may wish to consider nominating someone for Senior Membership, or since Members can apply for Senior Membership, encourage them to do so. Either way, this process is fairly easy and can be done online at: www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smprogram.html

Peter Andrekson
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
For contributions to ultra-high-speed fiber-optic communication systems.

Yasuhiko Arakawa
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
For contributions to the understanding of quantum confinement effects in semiconductor lasers and the development of quantum dot lasers.

Yun Chung
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea
For contributions to optical network performance monitoring and passive optical network architectures.

Nadir Dagli
University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
For contributions to high speed electro-optic modulators and the modeling of photonic integrated circuits.

Nicholas Frigo
AT&T Labs – Research, Middletown, NJ, USA
For contributions to optical communications technology and access network architectures.

Hideki Hayashi
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Tokyo, Japan
For contributions to and leadership in compound semiconductor device technologies.

Waguih Ishak
Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA, USA
For contributions to photonics, optoelectronics and fiber optics.

Muhammad Khan
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
For contributions to the development of III-nitride electronic sensor systems.

Tetsuro Kobayashi
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
For contributions to ultrafast optoelectronics and electro-optic devices.

Hideo Kuwahara
Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Kanagawa, Japan
For contributions to high capacity optical fiber communication technologies.

Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom
Mahanakorn University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
For contributions to circuits and systems and engineering education.

Emmanuel Rosencher
ONERA – Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales, Palaiseau, France
For contributions to nonlinear optics and optoelectronic devices.

Masatoshi Suzuki
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Saitama, Japan
For contributions to high-speed optical communication systems.

Andreas Weisshaar
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
For contributions to modeling of on-chip interconnects and integrated passive microwave components.

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