An IEEE Fellow is a member of unusual distinction in the profession. It is a recognition conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE designated fields, who has made important individual contributions to one or more of these fields. A nominee must be a Senior Member of the Institute and must have been a member in any grade for at least five years prior to the year of election.

A nomination for Fellow must be accompanied by references from at least five current IEEE Fellows. No more than one-tenth of one percent of the total Institute membership may be advanced to Fellow grade in any given year. Each nomination is evaluated by the relevant technical society or council and is ranked by the 26-member Fellows Committee. Multiple reviewers produce a composite viewpoint that is used in recommending to the Board of Directors suitable candidates for election to Fellow grade.

The IEEE conferred the distinction of Fellow on 259 of its members of the class of 2002. Here are six of sixteen new Fellows who are members of the Solid-State Circuits Society. These new Fellows were evaluated by the SSCS and recognized at the ISSCC 4 February. The remaining ten members will be introduced in our July issue.

Dr. James W. Haslett

University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

For contributions to high-temperature instrumentation and noise in solid-state electronics

James W. Haslett received his BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in 1966, and his MSc and PhD from the University of Calgary in 1968 and 1970, respectively.

He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary, where he is currently a professor. He was head of the department from 1986 to 1997, and has been president of his own consulting firm since 1981, consulting to oil-field instrumentation firms primarily on high-temperature downhole instrumentation with Dr. Fred Trofimenkoff, also in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Calgary. He was also a member of several national and international science teams designing satellite instrumentation in the late 1970s and 1980s. Dr. Haslett joined the TRLabs Industrial Research Consortium in 1997, first as an adjunct professor and more recently as an affiliate professor.

His current research interests include analog and digital VLSI design, noise in semiconductor devices, high-temperature electronics for instrumentation applications, solid-state imagers for scientific applications, biomedical microsystems and nanosystms, and RF microelectronics for telecommunications. Dr. Haslett has won twelve teaching awards in the past nine years, including the University of Calgary President's Circle Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001.

Dr. Haslett is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, the Canadian Astronomical Society, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of IEEE.

Dr. Qiuting Huang

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

For contributions to integrated circuits for wireless communications

Qiuting Huang's primary and secondary education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution, a period of social and political instability in China between the mid-sixties and the mid-seventies. He spent four years after high school working at various odd jobs, from a shop assistant to a high school physics teacher to a factory mechanic, before winning an opportunity in 1978 to receive the university education that had become available again. He graduated four years later from the Harbin Institute of Technology. Subsequently he won a government scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies in analog integrated-circuit design under Professor W. Sansen at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, where he received his PhD in 1987. Between 1987 and 1992 he worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, UK. He joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1993 and was later elected Professor of Electronics.

Dr. Huang's current research focuses on integrated circuit design for communications. He and his graduate students have developed complete RF receivers and transceivers for applications such as paging, GPS, GSM, and UMTS, with particular emphasis on low-power design. He has collaborated extensively with many leading IC companies on projects ranging from data converters, sensor interface, and medical electronics to high-speed digital and smart-power circuits. He currently serves on the technical program committees of both ISSCC and ESSCIRC. He is the Chair of the Zurich Chapter of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and was a guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Dr. Akira Matsuzawa

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

For contributions to high-speed A/D converters and mixed-signal integrated circuits

Akira Matsuzawa received his BS and MS in electronics engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1976 and 1978. He received his PhD in 1997 from the same university in high-precision and ultra-high-speed A/D converters. In 1978, he joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Since then, he has been working on research and development of analog and mixed signal LSI technology, ultra-high speed ADCs, intelligent CMOS sensors, RF CMOS circuits, digital read-channel technology for DVD systems, ultra-high-speed interface technologies for metal and optical fibers, testing, boundary scan technology, and CAD technology. He also is responsible for the development of low-power LSI technology, ASIC libraries, analog CMOS devices, SOI devices and circuits, and the specification of advanced CMOS devices.

Currently Dr. Matsuzawa is a general manager in the advanced LSI technology development center and is a part-time teacher at Osaka University and Tohoku University. He served as guest editor-in-chief twice for special issues on analog LSI technology of the IEICE Transactions on Electronics in 1992 and 1997, vice-program Chair for the International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM) in 1999 and 2000, and was co-Chair of the Low-Power Electronics Workshop in 1995. Dr. Matsuzawa serves on the program committee for analog technology at ISSCC and as guest editor for special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He has published 17 technical journal papers and 35 international conference papers, and is co-author of eight books. He holds 34 registered Japan patents and 65 U.S. and EPC patents. He has received the R&D100 award.

Dr. Krishnaswamy Nagaraj

Texas Instruments, Warren, NJ

For contributions to the design of CMOS data converters

Krishnaswamy Nagaraj obtained his BE in electronics from Bangalore University in 1972 and his ME and PhD, both in electrical communication engineering, from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1974 and 1983, respectively. From 1974 to 1984 he was with the R&D laboratories of the Indian Telephone Industries, Bangalore, where he was engaged in the design of telecommunication systems and integrated circuits. During 1985 and 1986 he was with the VLSI group at the University of Waterloo, Canada, engaged in research and teaching in analog and digital circuits. His research at Waterloo focused on techniques for overcoming non-ideal effects in switched-capacitor circuits. From 1986 to 1996 he was with Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, and Allentown, PA, where he worked in the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits for telecommunications, mass storage, and digital signal processing. He received the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award from Bell Laboratories in 1991. Since 1996 he has been with Texas Instruments in Warren, NJ, where he is presently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. From 1996 to 2000 he led the development of high-speed CMOS data converters for mass storage, video, and broadband communications. He presently is leading the design of mixed-signal circuits for the wireless infrastructure.

Dr. Nagaraj was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, from 1993 to 1995. He is presently an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and a member of the ISSCC technical program committee. He is also an adjunct associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Dr. Carl Matthew Sechen

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

For contributions to automated placement and routing in integrated circuits

Carl Sechen received his BSEE from the University of Minnesota, an MS from M.I.T., and a PhD from UC Berkeley. Starting in 1986, he was an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. In 1992 he moved to the University of Washington, where he is now a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is a co-director of the National Science Foundation's Center for the Design of Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC).

Dr. Sechen received the Semiconductor Research Corporation's "1994 SRC Technical Excellence Award" and the "1988 SRC Inventor's Award." He received the "SRC Inventor's Recognition Award" in 2001 for his development of output prediction logic. He was a member of the technical program committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) from 1989 to 1993. From 1998 to 2001 he was Chair of the placement and floorplanning technical program subcommittee for ICCAD.

Dr. Sechen developed the first version of the TimberWolf placement and routing package in 1983. Versions of TimberWolf that Dr. Sechen developed at UC Berkeley, Yale University, and the University of Washington were used in production at Intel, Digital Equipment, National Semiconductor, Crystal Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, and Motorola from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties. TimberWolf was used at more than 20 companies and more than 25 universities.

In his 15 years as a professor, Dr. Sechen has graduated 16 PhD students. He has authored one book, and authored or co-authored over 120 research papers. He is a co-founder of InternetCAD.com, Inc., a placement and routing tool vendor. His current research interests are primarily in ultra-high-speed and low-power digital integrated-circuit design.

Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

For contributions in biologically motivated sensors and information processing systems

Jan Van der Spiegel is a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Center for Sensor Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1998. Dr. Van der Spiegel received his MS in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, in 1974 and 1979, respectively. His primary research interests are in high-speed, low-power analog and mixed-mode VLSI design, biologically based sensors and sensory information processing systems, micro-sensor technology, and analog-to-digital converters. He has authored over 160 journal and conference papers and is the holds four patents.

Dr. Van der Spiegel is the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and has served on several IEEE program committees. He is currently a member of the executive and program committees of the ISSCC. He has been the Chapter Chairs coordinator of the Solid-State Circuits Society since its formation. He is also editor of Sensors and Actuators A for North and South America and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society.
Dr. Van der Spiegel is the recipient of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Education Chair and has also received the Bicentennial Class of 1940 Term Chair, the Christian and Mary Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, the S. Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Presidential Young Investigator Award.