LEOS Awards and Recognitions

During the Plenary Session at the LEOS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Hans Melchior, LEOS President, recognized the winners of the 1999 LEOS awards and several of our volunteers for their service to the society.

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Jonathan Heritage and Andrew Weiner received the IEEE/LEOS William Scientific Achievement Award, “for pioneering contributions to femtosecond optical pulse shaping technology and its applications.”
Frederick Kish, Jr. was the recipient of this year’s Engineering Achievement Award, presented to him, “for seminal contributions to high performance light-emitting diode technology and production.” The LEOS Distinguished Service Award was presented to Edward Labuda “for his years of dedicated service as LEOS Executive Director and his work in establishing and fostering improved management practice in the Society’s affairs.”

Chapter Awards

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This year the Chapter-of-the-Year Award was presented to two of our outstanding chapters. Christopher Bohler accepted the award for the Dallas Chapter and Nabeel Riza for the Orlando Chapter.
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The Scottish Chapter received the award for Most Innovative Chapter. Martin Dawson accepted the award on behalf of the chapter.

Silvano Donati accepted the award for the Italy Chapter, this year’s recipient of the “Most Improved Chapter” award.

The Benelux Chapter received the award for Largest Membership Increase with an 83% increase in membership. Roel Baets, Benelux Chapter Chair, accepted the award.

Distinguished Lecturers

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Our 1998-99 Distinguished Lecturers gave a total of 51 talks at LEOS chapters. Hans Melchior thanked Pallab Bhattacharya, James Coleman, Osamu Wada, and Xi-Cheng Zhang (Masahiko Tani received the award on behalf of Dr. Zhang).

Board of Governors

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Keren Bergman, Tatsuo Izawa, Paul Lagasse, and Andrew Weiner were recognized for their service on the LEOS Board of Governors.

Vice Presidents

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Dr. Melchior recognized the retiring Vice Presidents, Nan Marie Jokerst (Conferences), Gordon Day (Finance & Administration), M.G. Moharam, (Membership & Regional Activities – Americas), Tatsuo Izawa (Membership & Regional Activities – Asia & Pacific), and Philip Anthony (Publications). Pictured are Drs. Izawa, Day, and Anthony.

Graduate Student Fellowships

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The first LEOS Graduate Student Fellowhips were presented by Dr. Melchior. Receiving their $5000 Fellowships were (front row) S. David Roh, Hans J. Thiele, Atsushi Uchida. (second row), Eva Peral, Yu Liu, Hans Melchior, and Christina Lim.

Best Student Paper Award

The LEOS’99 Best Student Paper Awards was presented to Iannois Tomkos, University of Athens for this paper on “Highly Performing Wavelength Converter Based on Dual Pump Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifier.” Recipients receive a $500 honorarium and certificate.

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