New IEEE Fellows

Each year the Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the full membership to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made by Senior Members and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society, the nominations are forwarded to the Fellows Committee of the Board who then recommend a list of candidates for the Board’s consideration. The NPSS is pleased that the following members were elected by the Board this year, and extends its congratulations to all of them.

Robert Christopher Baumann

Robert Baumann received the B.A. (1984) with honors in physics from Bowdoin College and the Ph.D. (1990) in electrical engineering from Rice University, researching ferroelectric process development and integration for opto-electronic applications. He joined Texas Instruments in 1989 where he made significant contributions to the understanding of alpha and neutron effects including the discovery that activation of 10B in BPSG by low energy neutrons is a significant source of soft errors in advanced technologies. Most of the semiconductor industry has since followed suit, eliminating BPSG from advanced technologies. He is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, focused on radiation effects in advanced SRAM and logic devices. Robert was one of the primary authors of the International JEDEC JESD-89 specification that has become the defacto industry standard for radiation effects testing of commercial electronics. Robert is co-chairing an SIA experts panel on radiation effects regarding the International Traffic in Arms Regulations(ITAR) and its potential for inadvertently capturing commercial technologies. Robert was recently elected to Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to the understanding of the reliability impact of terrestrial radiation mechanisms in commercial electronics.”

Shu T. Lai

Shu T. Lai, a senior physicist in the Space Weather Center of Excellence, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is a recognized leader in spacecraft interactions with space plasmas. This area is important to space science and engineering, systems, and missions. He was previously with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory.
With his theoretical formulations and data analysis of spacecraft environmental interactions, Dr. Lai has contributed significantly to the maturation of spacecraft charging from its infancy in the late 1970s into its current state as a well-developed aerospace subject that impacts spacecraft design, space experiments, space electronics and spacecraft survivability. Dr. Lai’s more than eighty publications, including three patents, communicate important advances in understanding the process of spacecraft surface charging, deep dielectric charging, mitigation techniques, critical velocity ionization in the vicinity of spacecraft, and hypervelocity impacts on spacecraft.
Dr. Lai received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1971 and the Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1986. He was the leading guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Special Issue on Space Plasmas, Dec 2000. He was the Chair of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Chapter, IEEE New England Section, 1993-1996. He has chaired numerous sessions in conferences of IEEE, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Physical Society (APS), and in Spacecraft Charging Technology Conferences. He also served as the Chair of the AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Standards Committee, 1996-2002, and the Chair of the AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Technical Committee, Jan 2003-Jan 2005. In addition to his election to IEEE Fellow, Dr. Lai is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.
Citation: for contributions to spacecraft interactions with space plasmas.
Dr.Lai can be reached at: Air Force Research Laboratory, Mail stop: VSBXT, 29 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB MA 01731-3030; Phone: +1 781 377-2932; Fax: +1 781 377-3010; E-mail: shu.lai@hanscom.af.mil.

Irvin Raymond Lindemuth

Irvin Lindemuth retired from full-time employment in November 2003 after more than 32 years with the University of California, first at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Los Alamos at the time of his retirement, Dr. Lindemuth was a Special Assistant for Russian Collaboration in the Office of the Associate Director for Weapons Physics, the Team Leader for Magnetohydrodynamics and Pulsed Power in the Plasma Physics Group, and a Project Leader for Pulsed Power Science, Technology, and International Collaboration in the High Energy Density Hydrodynamics Program. His primary responsibility was to provide technical leadership for a scientific collaboration between Los Alamos and Los Alamos’ Russian counterpart, the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) at Sarov (Arzamas-16). Prior to joining Los Alamos in 1978, he was a technical staff member in A-Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he was involved in fusion research. Dr. Lindemuth received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1965 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering--Applied Science from the University of California, Davis/Livermore in 1967 and 1971, respectively. His thesis research was conducted under the direction of Dr. John Killeen, founder of the National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico Los Alamos branch, where he has taught engineering and mathematics courses. He spent the 1991-92 academic year as a Visiting Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department of Texas A&M University, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses, helped lay the groundwork for the Department’s expansion into the controlled fusion area, and assisted the Department in forming collaborations with Russian laboratories and educational institutions. His areas of expertise include thermonuclear fusion and advanced numerical methods for the computer simulation of fusion plasmas and related pulsed power technology. He has published numerous papers in refereed journals and proceedings of major international conferences. He has been involved in a wide range of fusion and high energy density physics programs spanning essentially all of the ten orders of magnitude in density and time space from magnetic fusion energy plasmas to inertial confinement fusion plasmas. An internationally recognized pioneer in the application of implicit, non-split computational methods to magnetohydrodynamics, he has achieved widespread recognition for his large-scale numerical simulations of a variety of fusion and other high-density plasma systems. In addition to his accomplishments in modeling high temperature plasmas, he has formulated a variety of novel pulsed power computer codes that have led to important advances in laboratory programs. His codes have stimulated the development of several types of fast opening switches. He is a US pioneer in Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) and performed the first comprehensive survey of the parameter space in which MTF was likely to work. Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he recognized that the Soviets had developed advanced technology in the areas of ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy electrical pulse generation that significantly exceeded US capabilities and that were motivated by the Soviet MTF program known as MAGO. Dr. Lindemuth played an essential role in establishing the collaboration with VNIIEF, a collaboration that has helped integrate Russian weapons scientists into the global scientific community and has resulted in more than 250 conference papers and archival publications. The LANL/VNIIEF collaboration, and Dr. Lindemuth’s role in it, were featured in the Discovery Channel documentary, “Stockpile,” first aired in 2001. In 1992, Dr. Lindemuth was the recipient of a Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award for his work in the formative stages of the LANL/VNIIEF collaboration. Dr. Lindemuth is currently associated with the faculty of the Physics Department of the University of Nevada at Reno.
Citation: For contributions to magnetized plasma and related pulse power technology.
Dr. Lindemuth can be reached at 2490 N. Grannen Road, Tucson, AZ 85745 USA; E-mail: irvl@att.net

Yitzhak Maron

Yitzhak Maron received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1977.
From 1980 to 1984, he worked at the Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Since 1988, he has been a Professor of Physics and the Head of the Plasma Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science. His Laboratory specializes in the development of spectroscopic diagnostic methods for investigation of the properties of plasmas and of the electric-magnetic fields in pulsed-power systems, as well as in developing atomic physics models required for the interpretation of data from hot and dense plasmas. His research encompasses electron and ion diodes, plasma switches, and Z-pinches, including collaborations with various Universities and Institutions in the USA and Europe.
Prof. Maron is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Citation: For contributions to spectroscopic techniques for diagnosing high-current, high-voltage electric and magnetic properties.
Dr. Maron can be reached at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 ISRAEL; E-mail: Yitzhak.Maron@weizmann.ac.il

Lloyd Wilson Massengill

Lloyd W. Massengill is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN where his primary teaching responsibilities include microelectronic circuit analysis and design. His research focuses on radiation-effects modeling and integrated-circuit functional analysis for mission-critical space and strategic systems.
During his career, he has pursued research efforts in the study of integrated circuit faults arising from single-event and dose-rate radiation, the development of specialized circuit analysis techniques, and the development of radiation hardened circuitry. In particular, recent studies include single event (soft error) charge collection processes in submicron CMOS devices, terrestrial radiation effects in emerging low power technologies, single-ion-induced failures in very thin (<5 nm) gate oxide stacks, and soft error effects in combinational logic. He presently has programs in the analysis of analog and digital single-event transient effects, the assessment of radiation hardened-by-design techniques, and EDA tool development for space/strategic circuit design.
Prof. Massengill has served as the Associate Chair of the Vanderbilt Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and now serves as the Engineering Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, a professional center providing engineering support for mission-critical and fault-tolerant microelectronic circuit design.
Education: PhD EE 1987, MSEE 1984, BSEE 1982, North Carolina State University.
Citation: For contributions to radiation effects in microelectronics.
Prof. Massengill can be reached at Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 350069, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nashville, TN 27235-0069; Phone: +1 615 343 6677; Fax: +1 615 343-6614; E-mail: lloyd.massengill@vanderbilt.edu.

Akira Mizuno

Akira Mizuno (M’84-SM’97) was born in Aichi, Japan, in 1951. He received the B.S. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 1973, 1975, and 1978, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
He was with Ishikawajima-harima Heavy Industries Company, Ltd., between 1978-1981. Since April 1981, he has been with Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan, where he is currently a Professor of Ecological Engineering. From December 1982-April 1984, he was a visiting research fellow in the Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, where he was engaged in a project involving electron beam charging and precipitation of aerosol and industrial dusts. From May – August 1999, he was a visiting professor at the University of Poitiers, France. Between April 2001 and March 2004, he was concurrently a professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo. Between April 2003 and March 2004, he was a professor at the Institute of Molecular Sciences, Okazaki National Institutes, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.
He has contributed significantly to the application of nonthermal plasmas in environmental protection, especially in decomposition of gaseous pollutants. Prof. Mizuno and his research group have developed an original and energy-efficient gas cleaning process by combining a catalyst with a nonthermal plasma produced by pulsed discharge or packed bed discharge. Recently, these nonthermal plasma processes have been widely used in air conditioner and air cleaning equipment. One of his inventions is the combination of pulsed discharge plasma with a TiO2 catalyst. Initially, a Korean company jointly developed this system for air conditioners. Since its introduction to the market, this company has produced over 1 million units per year. Prof. Mizuno also contributed to the development of an indoor air cleaner, together with a Japanese company. After commercialization, the nonthermal plasma process has been widely accepted as an important method for improving the quality of air. Prof. Mizuno has been actively involved in various applications using nonthermal plasma processes: (1) development of an efficient diesel exhaust gas cleaning device using the plasma-catalyst combination, (2) sterilization using oxygen radicals produced by nonthermal plasma, (3) conversion of oil and hydrocarbons into methanol or hydrogen.
He has published over 100 reviewed papers in archival journals, and about 150 papers in international conference proceedings.
He supervised 10 PhD and 60 MSc dissertations, and currently is supervising 6 PhD students. He has acted as an external examiner for over 10 PhD theses.
Prof. Mizuno has not only made contributions in nonthermal plasma processes, but also contributed to development of the field of application of electrostatics such as particle charging by electron beam, electrostatic precipitation, electrical sterilization, weed control by electrical discharge, and manipulation of fine particles including individual cells and DNA molecules using electrostatic force and laser optical force. His method of using laser manipulation with bead-clustering has provided a simple and reliable way to handle single molecules.
He actively participates in IEEE, Institute of Electrostatics Japan, and is a member of the American Chemical Society, Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan, Japanese Applied Physics Society, and other professional societies.
Citation: For the reduction of gaseous pollutants.
Akira Mizuno can be reached at: Department of Ecological Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, 1-1Hibariga-Oka, Tempaku-Cho, TOYOHASHI-AICHI 441-8580 JAPAN; Phone: +532 44 6904; Fax: +532 44 6929; E-mail:mizuno@eco.tut.ac.jp.

Stanley O. Schriber

Stan Schriber is an elder statesman of the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Community within the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the IEEE. His contributions span engineering/scientific achievements, technical leadership and now education with his recent return to academia at Michigan State University (MSU).
More than 30 years of designing and developing linear accelerators has made physicist Schriber more than qualified to be selected an IEEE fellow. The MSU professor of physics and astronomy, who has an appointment in MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), becomes one of a handful of researchers to earn this honor.
“This recognition not only honors me, but the entire team at the NSCL,” Schriber said. “This is a team that truly understands linear accelerators. And we have one of the best teams in the world doing experimental work using the coupled cyclotron.”
Schriber and his colleagues hope to apply their state-of-the-art work on linear accelerators to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) project, for which MSU is competing. RIA is a soon-to-be-built $1 billion nuclear science research facility. The DOE, funding agency for the project, has yet to decide where the facility will be located. MSU and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois are the main competitors.
Schriber received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from McMaster University in 1967. He has been at MSU since April 2003. Prior to that he spent nineteen years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in senior management where, for most of that time, he led the Accelerator Technology division.
Prior to that he was at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories where he served in a number of capacities. While there, he was internationally recognized for his expertise in the development of rf (radio frequency) coupled-cavity linear structures and continuous-wave accelerators. He invented improved versions of such linear accelerator structures, investigated their properties analytically, supervised their construction and used them in a number of system applications.
He has been actively involved in IEEE and American Physical Society (APS) affairs, helping on committees and councils. He served on organizing committees for EPAC, PAC, and LAC, was the 1995 PAC conference chair in Dallas, and will chair the 2007 PAC conference in Albuquerque. Stan is chair of the US Particle Accelerator School program committee that determines possible courses and instructors for future schools.
In addition to this IEEE honor, Schriber is a fellow of the APS, has published more than 130 scholarly papers, and is the holder of eight patents.
Citation: For contributions to linear accelerator technology.
Stan Schriber can be reached at Michigan State University, Cyclotron Bldg NSCL, Room 100B, East Lansing, MI 48824-1020 USA; Phone: +1 517 333-6352; Fax: +1 517 353-5967 E-mail: schriber@nscl.msu.edu.

Bruce Paul Strauss

Bruce Strauss is presently the Program Manager for the United States Department of Energy's $210 million contribution to the LHC Accelerator Project. He serves on the DOE/NSF Joint Oversight Group (JOG) for U.S. LHC activities. He chairs the CERN review committee regarding procurement of superconductor and superconducting magnets for the LHC. As a member of the Advanced Technology R&D branch of the Office of High Energy Physics at DOE, he is responsible for all of their superconductivity development university grants and laboratory activities. He serves as Executive Secretary to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) of the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
He received his undergraduate and doctoral education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Chicago.
Following early experience at the AVCO Everett Research Laboratory and at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. At Fermilab, he rose to the rank of Assistant Director of the Tevatron Project. He was responsible for the procurement scheme for the entire superconductor inventory for that project.
He left Fermilab to join the Magnetic Corporation of America where he served as production manager for superconducting wire and magnet fabrication. Subsequently he was the principal of two management-consulting organizations. Clients included government agencies, national laboratories and industrial concerns. A significant consulting contribution was to the Management and Administration Branch of the DOE for the Independent Cost Estimation (ICE) process for all of the technical components, installation and commissioning for the Superconducting Super Collider.
Dr. Strauss is an incorporator of the Applied Superconductivity Conference, Inc. where he presently serves as the corporate treasurer as well as a member of several technical committees. He is also treasurer of the IEEE Technical Council on Superconductivity.
Citation: For leadership in low temperature superconducting materials and magnet systems.
Bruce Strauss can be reached at the United States Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave SW, SC-224/Germantown, Washington, DC 20585-1290 USA; Phone: +1 301 903-3705; Fax: +1 301 903-2597; E-mail: bruce.strauss@science.doe.gov.

Benjamin M. W. Tsui

Benjamin M. W. Tsui received his B.S. and A.M. degrees in Physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1970 and Dartmouth College in 1972, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Medical Physics from the University of Chicago in 1977. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow (1977-1979) and an Assistant Professor (1979-1982) of Radiology at the University of Chicago. He then worked as a Research Associate Professor (1982-1987), an Associate Professor (1987-1992) and a Professor (1992-2002) of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a Professor of Radiology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Environment Health Sciences (2002-present) at the Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Tsui is cited for his contributions to nuclear medicine imaging, especially in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). He is noted for the development of SPECT instrumentation, image reconstruction techniques, quantitative SPECT methods, and image quality assessment, and for the education of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. His research interests include imaging physics, instrumentation, computer phantoms, Monte Carlo simulations, image reconstruction methods, and image evaluation using mathematical and human observers. He is the author and co-author of over 200 publications and the principal investigator of 5 NIH and DOD research grants and several industrial research contracts. He is the principal advisor of over 30 M.S. and Ph.D. past and current students and 10 postdoctoral research fellows.
Prior to becoming a Fellow of the IEEE, Professor Tsui was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics (IOP), and a member of several other professional organizations and societies. He has served as a member of many scientific review committees for various federal agencies, including the NIH, NSF, DOE and DOD, state agencies and private foundations. Also, he has been a regular reviewer and a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals. In addition, Professor Tsui has been an active member of the Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences Technical Committee (NMIST) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) for many years and was the program chair of the Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) for the 2001 Nuclear Science Symposium (NPS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC). He now represents NPSS in a liaison capacity to a committee of IEEE-USA.
Citation: For contributions to nuclear medical imaging, especially in single photon emission computed tomography.
Ben Tsui can be reached at Johns Hopkins University, JOHC4263, 601 North Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-0859 USA; Phone: +1 443 287-4025; Fax: +1 410 614-1977; E-mail: btsui1@jhmi.edu.