2008 Technical Field Award, Prize Paper Recipients & 2007 Herz Recipient
IEEE CLEDO BRUNETTI AWARD -recognizes outstanding contributions to miniaturization in the electronic arts – sponsored by the Brunetti Bequest to
MICHEL BRUEL (Non-Member)
Deputy Director of CEA-LETI
Director of Research
CEA, Cedex, France
“For inventing Smart Cut layer transfer technology that enabled widespread adoption of SOI for CMPS circuits”
IEEE COMPONENTS, PACKAGING, MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AWARD -recognizes meritorious contributions to the advancement of components, electronic packagaing or manufacturingtechnologies – sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society to co-recipients:
KARL PUTTLITZ SR. (F’IEEE)
President, Puttlitz Engineering Consultancy
Wappingers Falls, NY USA
PAUL A. TOTTA – (Non-Member)
Retired, IBM East Fishkill Facility
East Fishkill, NY, USA
“For pioneering achievements in flip chip interconnection technology and for semiconductor devices and packages”
IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS AWARD - recognizes outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology – sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society to
MATHUKUMALLI VIDYASAGAR (F’IEEE)
Executive Vice President
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India
“For promulgation of control science and engineering and contributions to robust control, robotics and statistical learning theory”
IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to electromagnetics in theory, application or education — sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Societies to
WERNER WIESBECK (F’IEEE)
Director
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany
“For innovative electromagnetic applications in communication systems, remote sensing, and EM compatibility.”
IEEE JAMES L. FLANAGAN SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING AWARD – for outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing - sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society to
RAJ REDDY (F’IEEE)
Professor of CS and Robotics
Founding Director, Herbert A. Simon University
and Carnegie Mellon University
West Coast Campus, Pittsburgh, PA USA
“For leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence”
IEEE ANDREW S. GROVE AWARD – recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology – sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society to
STEFAN LAI (F’IEEE)
Retired Vice President
Technology & Manufacturing Group
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
“For contributions in developing Flash memory into a main stream non-volatile memory and the development of multiple generations of Flash memory technologies”
IEEE HERMAN HALPERIN ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION AWARD - recognizes outstanding contributions to electric transmission and distribution– sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory of Herman and Edna Halperin and IEEE Power Engineering Society to
ROBERT C. DEGENEFF (F’IEEE)
Professor, Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
“For innovative and pioneering contributions to the computation and understanding of transient voltages in transformers and systems”
IEEE MASURA IBUKA CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AWARD – for outstanding contributions in the field of consumer electronics technology - sponsored by Sony Corporation to
RALPH H. BAER (LM’IEEE)
Chief Engineer
RH Baer Consultants
Manchester, NH, USA
“For commercialization of interactive video games and other consumer toys”
IEEE INTERNET AWARD –for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use- applications to co-recipients
MICHAEL BRESCIA (Non-Member)
Senior Scientist
BBN Technologies
Arlington, MA, USA
VIRGINIA TRAVERS (Non-Member)
Principal Investigator
BBN Technologies
Arlington, MA, USA
ROBERT HINDEN (Non-Member)
Chief Technical Officer
Nokia Chief Internet Technologist
Palo Alto, CA, USA
“For pioneering work in the development of the first Internet routers”
IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON DATA STORAGE DEVICE TECHNOLOGY AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of information storage with emphasis on technical contributions in computer data storage device technology — sponsored by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to
STANLEY H. CHARAP (LF’IEEE)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
“For quantative prediction of the superparamagnetic limit for magnetic recording.”
IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEMS AWARD – for outstanding contributions to information storage systems, with emphasis on computer storage systems - sponsored by IBM Almaden Research Center to
ALAN J. SMITH (F’IEEE)
Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
“For contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches, prefetching and data placement”
IEEE RICHARD HAROLD KAUFMANN AWARD –recognizes outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering– sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society to
HIROFUMI AKAGI (F’IEEE)
Professor
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo, Japan
“For pioneering contributions to the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, and its applications to power conditioning”
IEEE JOSEPH F. KEITHLEY AWARD IN INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT — recognizes outstanding contributions in electrical measurement — sponsored by Keithley Instruments, Incorporated to
ROBERT G. FULKS (Non-Member)
Vice President, GenRad Inc (Retired)
North Chatham, MA USA
“For pioneering developments in automated measurements.”
IEEE GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF AWARD – recognizes outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact– sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society to
ALFRED FETTWEIS (F’IEEE)
Professor Emeritus
Lehrstuhl fuer Nachrichtentechnik
Ruhr-Universitaet
Bochum, Germany
“For sustained contributions to circuits, systems, and signal processing, especially his seminal work on wave digital filters”
IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS AWARD -recognizes outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications– sponsored by NEC Corporation to
DON COPPERSMITH (Non-Member)
Research Staff Member
CCR Princeton
Princeton, NJ, USA
“For outstanding achievement and ground breaking contributions in computational complexity and the theory and practice of cryptography”
IEEE WILLIAM E. NEWELL POWER ELECTRONICS AWARD – recognizes outstanding contribution(s) to the advancement of power electronics –
sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society to
ISTVAN NAGY (F’IEEE)
Professor
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hungary
“For leadership in the research, development, worldwide promotion, and university education in power electronics technology”
IEEE DANIEL E. NOBLE AWARD — outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years —
sponsored by Motorola Foundation to (Team of 3)
JAMES M. DAUGHTON (LF’IEEE)
Founder, President/CEO/CTO
NVE Corporation
Eden Prairie, MN
STUART PARKIN (F’IEEE)
IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center;
Director, IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center (SpinAps)
San Jose, CA
SAIED TEHRANI (SM’IEEE)
MRAM Technology Director
Freescale Semiconductor
Chandler, AZ
“For fundamental contributions to the development of magneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random access memory.”
IEEE DONALD O. PEDERSON AWARD IN SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS – recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits -
sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society to
ASAD A. ABIDI (F’IEEE)
Professor, Electrical Engineering
University of California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
“For pioneering and sustained contributions in the development of RF-CMOS”
IEEE FREDERIK PHILIPS AWARD – recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the management of research and development resulting in effective innovation in the electrical and electronics industry – sponsored by Philips Electronics NV to
GILBERT J. DECLERCK (F’IEEE)
President and Chief Executive Officer
IMEC
Leuven, Belgium
“For leadership in the creation of international R&D alliances in semiconductor technologies”
IEEE PHOTONICS AWARD –recognizes outstanding achievements in photonics– sponsored by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society to
JOE C. CAMPBELL (F’IEEE)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
“For seminal and sustained contributions to the development of high-speed, low-noise long wavelength avalanche photodiodes”
IEEE EMANUEL PIORE AWARD –recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of information processing in relation to computer science– sponsored by the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Fund to
RICHARD F. RASHID (SM’IEEE)
Senior Vice President or Research
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA, USA
“For contributions to the design of modern operating systems, and for innovation and leadership in industrial research”
IEEE JUDITH A. RESNIK AWARD –recognizes outstanding contributions to space engineering, within the fields of interest of the IEEE– sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Control Systems, and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies to
MEYYA MEYYAPPAN (F’IEEE)
Director, Center of Nanotechnology
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA
“For the development of nanoscience and technology in aerospace applications and his leadership in nanotechnology”
IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION AWARD - recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of robotics and automation – sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation
Society to co-recipients
PAUL G. BACKES (M’IEEE)
Supervisor
Mobility and Manipulation Group
and JPL Principal Technical Staff Member
Pasadena, CA, USA
ERIC T. BAUMGARTNER (Non-Member)
Dean, College of Engineering
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH, USA
LARRY H. MATTHIES (M’IEEE)
Supervisor, Machine Vision Group
and JPL Senior Research Scientist
Pasadena, CA, USA
“For contributions to robotics enabling effective autonomous operations of science investigations under extreme conditions on the planet Mars”
IEEE FRANK ROSENBLATT AWARD - recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms, including but not limited to neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained - sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society to
TEUVO KOHONEN (F’IEEE)
Academician of the Academy of Finland and
Professor Emeritus of Helsinki University of Technology
Espoo, Finland
“For outstanding contributions to the advancement of the theory and applications of neural networks, associative memories and the self-organizing map”
IEEE DAVID SARNOFF AWARD - recognizes exceptional contributions to electronics– sponsored by Sarnoff Corporation to
JAMES COLEMAN (F’IEEE)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Urbana, IL, USA
“For leadership in the development of highly reliable strained-layer lasers”
IEEE CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ AWARD - recognizes exceptional contributions to the development and/or advancement of standards in electrical and electronics engineering– sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association to
ROY BILLINTON (LF’IEEE)
Professional Engineer (P Eng)
Emeritus Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Province of Saskatchewan, Canada
“For contributions and influence in the development of power system reliability standards”
IEEE ERIC E. SUMNER AWARD – recognizes outstanding contributions to communications technology –
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent to
THOMAS L. KOCH (F’IEEE)
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics
Center for Optical Technologies
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA, USA
“For pioneering contributions to optoelectronic technologies and their implementation in optical communications systems”
IEEE NIKOLA TESLA AWARD - recognizes outstanding contributions to the generation and utilization of electric power – sponsored by the Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power & Energy Society to
TIMOTHY J. E. MILLER (F’IEEE)
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director
SPEED Consortium
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
“For outstanding contributions to the advancement of computer-based design and analysis of electric machines and their industrial dissemination”
IEEE KIYO TOMIYASU AWARD - recognizes outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications – sponsored by the
Kiyo Tomiyasu Fund and IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society to
GEORGE V. ELEFTHERIADES (F’IEEE)
Professor and Canada Research Chair
University of Toronto, Canada
“For pioneering contributions to the science and the technological applications of negative-refraction electromagnetic materials”
TEACHING AWARDS
IEEE LEON K. KIRCHMAYER GRADUATE TEACHING AWARD - recognizes inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest– sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund to
SUPRIYO DATTA (F’IEEE)
Thomas Duncan distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
“For his unique approach to quantum transport that has inspired and educated graduate students in the field of nanoscale electronic devices”
IEEE UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AWARD - recognizes inspirational teaching of undergraduate students in the fields of interest of the IEEE– sponsored by the
IEEE Education Society to
MUHAMMAD H. RASHID (F’IEEE)
Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL, USA
“For his distinguished leadership and dedication to undergraduate electrical engineering education, motivating students and publication of outstanding textbooks”
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IEEE DONALD G. FINK PRIZE PAPER AWARD - sponsored by IEEE Life Members Committee
Co-recipients:
YANN FRAUEL, THOMAS J. NAUGHTON, OSAMU MATOBA, ENRIQUE TAJAHUERCE, and BAHRAM JAVIDI for their paper entitled:
“Three-Dimensional Imaging and Processing Using Computational Holographic Imaging” Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 94, No.3, March 2006
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2007 IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award
sponsored by IEEE
presented to
Mr. William F. Van Der Vort
Executive Officer
Electron Devices Society
“For leadership, management and strategic planning that have contributed to the
IEEE and the Electron Devices Society”
