IEEE Gustav R. Kirchhoff Award Recipients

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Awards

2009 - ERNEST S. KUH
William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus in Engineering
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA

“For outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation.”

2008 - ALFRED FETTWEIS
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”

2007 - YANNIS P. TSIVIDIS
Charles Batchelor Memorial Professor of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, NY

"For contributions to circuits and MOS device modeling"

2006 - GABOR TEMES
School of EECS
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

"For fundamental contributions to analog signal processing techniques."

2005 - LEON CHUA
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA

"For seminal contributions to the foundation of nonlinear circuit theory, and for inventing Chua's Circuit and Cellular Networks, each spawning a new research area."