Please join us in congratulating the 24 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 deadline for Fellow nominations is March 15. For more information, and to learn how to submit a nomination, check out the Fellows page on the IEEE Web Portal at: www.ieee.org/about/awards/fellows/fellows.html

IEEE SOCIETY REPORT - IEEE FELLOWS ELEVATED AS OF JANUARY 2008
Jinyun Zhang
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge MA, USA
For contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology

Kit Lai Paul Yu
University of California, San Diego CA, USA
For contributions to semiconductor waveguide modulators and detectors

Han-Ping Shieh
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
For leadership in the display and optical data storage industries

Yong Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
For contributions to photonic devices based upon vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and photonic crystals

Fumio Koyama
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
For contributions to semiconductor optical devices for broadband optical communications

Kazuo Hagimoto
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Kanagawa, Japan
For contributions to very large capacity optical transmission systems

Akihiko Kasukawa
Furukawa Electric Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
For contributions to high power semiconductor lasers as pump sources for optical amplifiers

Hiroki Hamada
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan
For contributions to red semiconductor laser diodes and polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors

Susumu Noda
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
For contributions to photonic crystals and nanophotonics

Patrick Iannone
AT&T Laboratories, Red Bank NJ, USA
For contributions to network architectures and enabling technologies for fiber access

Ann Von Lehmen
Telcordia Technologies, Red Bank NJ, USA
For contributions to optical network architectures and technologies

Janet Jackel
Telcordia Technologies, Red Bank NJ, USA
For contributions to optical communications

Eric VanStryland
University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA
For contributions to nonlinear optics and the development of Kramers-Kronig relations to ultrafast nonlinearities

Naomi Halas
Rice University, Houston TX, USA
For contributions to metallic nanoshells and nanoparticles with tailorable optical properties and applications in biotechnology and chemical sensing

Diana Huffaker
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USA
For development of optoelectronic materials and processing

Jia-Ming Liu
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA
For contributions to the control and applications of nonlinear dynamics of lasers

David Welch
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale CA, USA
For contributions to semiconductor lasers and photonic integrated circuits

Radhakrishnan Nagarajan
Infinera, Sunnyvale CA, USA
For contributions to high-bandwidth semiconductor laser and photonic integrated circuit technologies

Milton Chang
Incubic Venture Fund, Mountain View CA, USA
For technical entrepreneurship and leadership in photonic technologies

Martin Fejer
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, USA
For contributions to nonlinear optical materials and guided wave optics

Ann Bryce
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
For contributions to compound semiconductor integrated optoelectronic devices

Peter Blood
Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
For contributions to quantum confined lasers

Jose Capmany
Universidad Politechnica De Valencia, Valencia, Spain
For contributions to photonic processing of microwave signals

Avraham Gover
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
For contributions to free electron lasers and superradiant bunched e-beam radiators