Here are the recipients of the 2012 IEEE medals, service awards, honorary membership, corporate recognitions, technical field awards, and prize papers. The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors.
IEEE Medal of Honor
Sponsor: IEEE Foundation
JOHN L. HENNESSY
Stanford University
“For pioneering the RISC processor architecture and for leadership in computer engineering and higher education.”
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
Sponsor: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
LEONARD KLEINROCK
University of California at Los Angeles
“For pioneering contributions to modeling, analysis, and design of packet-switching networks.”
IEEE Edison Medal
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
MICHAEL F. TOMPSETT
TheraManager LLC
Murray Hill, N.J.
“For pioneering contributions to imaging devices, including CCD imagers, cameras, and thermal imagers.”
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
Sponsor: MathWorks, Pearson Education, Inc., National Instruments Foundation, and IEEE Life Members Committee
FAWWAZ T. ULABY
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
“For contributions to undergraduate and graduate engineering education through innovative textbooks, dedicated mentoring of students, and inspirational teaching.”
IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies
Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp.
Corecipients:
JOHN BANNISTER GOODENOUGH
University of Texas at Austin
RACHID YAZAMI
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
AKIRA YOSHINO
Yoshino Laboratory
Asahi Kasei Corp.
Shizuoka, Japan
“For developing the lithium-ion battery, which enables significant fuel conservation and reduced emissions as power storage for electric vehicles and for smartgrids incorporating renewables.”
IEEE Founders Medal
Sponsor: IEEE Foundation
FAQIR CHAND KOHLI
Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai, India
“For early vision and pioneering contributions to the development of the IT industry in India.”
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Sponsor: QUALCOMM, Inc.
Corecipients:
MICHAEL G. LUBY
QUALCOMM, Inc.
Berkeley, Calif.
AMIN SHOKROLLAHI
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
“For the conception, development, and analysis of practical rateless codes.”
IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology
Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
SAVIO L-Y. WOO
University of Pittsburgh
“For pivotal contributions to biomechanics and its application to orthopedic surgery and sports medicine.”
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
Sponsor: Texas Instruments, Inc.
G. CLIFFORD CARTER
Retired
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, R.I.
“For contributions to the fundamentals of coherence and time-delay estimation and to underwater acoustics signal processing.”
IEEE Jun-ichiNishizawa Medal
Sponsor: TheFederation of Electric Power Companies, Japan
Corecipients:
MARK THOMAS BOHR
Intel Corp
Hillsboro, Ore.
ROBERT S. CHAU
Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, Ore.
TAHIR GHANI
Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, Ore.
“For sustained leadership in developing innovative transistor technologies for advanced logic products.”
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal
Sponsor: Intel Foundation
YOON-WOO LEE
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Seoul, Korea
“For pioneering the development of the memory chip and LCD industries in Korea.”
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications
Sponsor: Raytheon Company
KARL GERLACH
Retired
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Chesapeake Beach, Md.
“For contributions to radar signal processing, clutter modeling, and electronic protection.”
IEEE Medal in Power Engineering
Sponsor: IEEE Industry Applications, IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Power & Energy societies
EDMUND O. SCHWEITZER III
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Pullman, Wash.
"For leadership in revolutionizing the performance of electrical power systems with computer-based protection and control equipment."
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.
WILLIAM WHITTAKER
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh
“For pioneering contributions to mobile autonomous robotics, field applications of robotics, and systems engineering.”
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Sponsor: IBM Corporation
EDWARD McCLUSKEY
Stanford University
“For fundamental contributions that shaped the design and testing of digital systems.”
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award
Sponsor: IEEE Foundation
HUGH RUDNICK
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago
“For leadership in making IEEE a truly global organization.”
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award
Sponsor: IEEE Technical Activities Board
BRUCE A. EISENSTEIN
Drexel University
Philadelphia
“For leadership in effectively improving the operation, structure, and finances of the Technical Activities Board and for contributions to IEEE.”
IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition
Sponsor: IEEE
Sanyo Electric Co., a subsidiary of Panasonic
Moriguchi City
Osaka, Japan
“For developing and commercializing high-performance heterojunction solar cell technology (HIT).”
IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition
Sponsor: IEEE
TETSUYA IIZUKA
THine Electronics, Inc.
Tokyo
“For pioneering de facto standard video chips for moving images and nurturing entrepreneurship in Japan.”
IEEE Honorary Membership
Sponsor: IEEE
YOSHIO UTSUMI
Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co., Ltd.
and
Japan Telecommunications Engineering and Consulting Service (JTEC)
Tokyo
“For leadership in policy and initiatives leading to the growth of information and communication technologies.”
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
Funded By: Wolfson Microelectronics plc
GERHARD M. SESSLER
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Germany
“For pioneering contributions to electroacoustic transducers, the development of silicon microphone technology, and seminal work on electroactive materials.”
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award
Sponsor: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited and the Brunetti Bequest
Corecipients:
YAN BORODOVSKY
Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, Ore.
SAM SIVAKUMAR
Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, Ore.
“For contributions to developing and implementing innovative lithographic and patterning equipment and processes to enable cost-effective scaling for logic technologies.”
IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Award
Sponsor: IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society
MAURO J WALKER
Motorola
Retired
Ocean Ridge, Fla.
“For advancing electronic manufacturing, technology, and packaging worldwide through technical innovation and cooperative leadership in industry, government, academia, and professional organizations.”
IEEE Control Systems Award
Sponsor: IEEE Control Systems Society
ALBERTO ISIDORI
Universita “Sapienza”
Rome, Italy
“For pioneering contributions to nonlinear control theory.”
IEEE Electromagnetics Award
Sponsor: IEEE Antennas and Propagation, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Geoscience and Remote Sensing societies
NADER ENGHETA
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
“For contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications of metamaterials and nanoscale optics.”
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
Sponsor: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Corecipients:
JAMES K. BAKER
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh
and
entrepreneur and consultant
Maitland, Fla.
JANET MACIVER BAKER
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Mass.
and
independent researcher and guest lecturer in entrepreneurship
Maitland, Fla.
“For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of automatic speech recognition.”
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award
Sponsor: IEEE Electron Devices Society
JEAN-PIERRE COLINGE
University College Cork
Ireland
“For contributions to silicon-on-insulator devices and technology.”
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award
Sponsor: the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation in memory of Herman and Edna Halperinand the IEEE Power & Energy Society
MICHEL DUVAL
Hydro Quebec Research Institute
Varennes, Canada
“For development and leadership in the condition monitoring of high-voltage power transformers and related equipment.”
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
Sponsor: Sony Corp.
Corecipients:
GISLE BJØNTEGAARD
Cisco Systems Norway
Oslo
GARY J. SULLIVAN
Microsoft Corp.
Redmond, Wash.
THOMAS WIEGAND
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
Heinrich Hertz Institute
Berlin Institute of Technology
Germany
“For leadership and technical contributions to the development of the globally deployed video coding standard H.264/MPEG4-AVC.”
IEEE Internet Award
Sponsor: Nokia
MARK HANDLEY
University College London
United Kingdom
“For contributions to Internet multicast, telephony, congestion control, and the shaping of open Internet standards and open-source systems in all these areas.”
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award
Sponsor: Hitachi Data Systems
NAOYA TAKAHASHI
Hitachi Systems Ltd.
Tokyo
“For leadership in the development of innovative storage systems for heterogeneous open and mainframe servers, business continuity solutions, and virtualization of heterogeneous storage systems.”
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
Sponsor: IEEE Industry Applications Society
JOHN P. NELSON
NEI Electric Power Engineering, Inc.
Arvada, Colo.
“For leadership in grounding and protection design and the advancement of the electrical safety culture.”
IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement
Sponsor: Keithley Instruments
RIK PINTELON
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
“For the development of innovative system identification methods for measurement applications.”
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award
Sponsor: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
RONALD A ROHRER
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh
“For fundamental contributions to circuit simulation, circuit design optimization, and electronic design automation.”
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Sponsor: NEC Corp.
JEAN WALRAND
University of California
Berkeley
“For contributions to the theory and algorithms for high-speed switching and network resource allocation.”
IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
Sponsor: IEEE Power Electronics Society
LEO LORENZ
Infineon Technologies
Neubiberg, Germany
“For contributions to the development of power semiconductor devices and integrated power modules.”
IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies
Sponsor: Motorola Foundation
SUBRAMANIAN S. IYER
IBM Corp.
Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
“For the development and implementation of embedded DRAM technologies.”
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
Sponsor: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
BEHZAD RAZAVI
University of California at Los Angeles
“For pioneering contributions to the design of high-speed CMOS communication circuits.”
IEEE Frederik Philips Award
Sponsor: Philips Electronics N.V.
CHIH-YUAN (C. Y.) LU
Macronix International
and
Ardentec Corp.
Hsinchu, Taiwan
“For leadership and contributions to research, development, and industrial alliances in semiconductor technology.”
IEEE Photonics Award
Sponsor: IEEE Photonics Society
ELI YABLONOVITCH
University of California
Berkeley
“For pioneering contributions to photonic crystals, the photonic bandgap, and photonic bandgap engineering.”
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
Sponsor: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Fund
FRED B. SCHNEIDER
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y.
“For contributions to trustworthy computing through novel approaches to security, fault tolerance, and formal methods for concurrent and distributed systems.”
IEEE JUDITH A. RESNIK AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Control Systems and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology societies
PRAMOD K. VARSHNEY
Syracuse University
New York
“For contributions to and leadership in the theory and practice of multisensor data fusion for aerospace and bioengineering applications.”
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award
Sponsor: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
BERNARD ROTH
Stanford University
“For fundamental contributions to robot kinematics, manipulation, and design.”
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
Sponsor: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
VLADIMIR N. VAPNIK
Columbia University
“For development of support vector machines and statistical learning theory as a foundation of biologically inspired learning.”
IEEE David Sarnoff Award
Sponsor: SRI International Sarnoff
HIDEO OHNO
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
“For seminal contributions and leadership in bridging semiconductor electronics with magnetism and spintronics.”
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
Sponsor: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
GENNADY MESYATS
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow
“For founding the field of nanosecond pulsed power and for seminal contributions to the physics of vacuum breakdown at high power levels.”
IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
Sponsor: IEEE Standards Association
DALEEP C. MOHLA
DCM Electrical Consulting Services, Inc.
Missouri City, Texas
“For contributions to the preparation, dissemination, and advocacy of consensus safety standards for operation and maintenance of industrial and commercial power systems.”
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
Sponsor: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Corecipients:
JACK H. WINTERS
Jack Winters Communications
Middletown, N.J.
ANDREAS F. MOLISCH
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
“For contributions to the theory and application of multiple-antenna systems in wireless communications.”
IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
Sponsor: The Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power & Energy Society
MANOJ R. SHAH
General Electric
Niskayuna, N.Y.
“For advancements in electromagnetic design and analysis of electrical machines.”
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
Sponsor: Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Microwave Theory and Techniques societies, and KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
MUNG CHIANG
Princeton University
“For demonstrating the practicability of a new theoretical foundation for the analysis and design of communication networks.”
TEACHING AWARDS
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
Sponsor: Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
ANTHONY GEORGE CONSTANTINIDES
Imperial College
London
“For educating, inspiring, and mentoring generations of graduate students in digital signal processing and communications throughout the world.”
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
Sponsor: IEEE Education Society
SANTOSH K. KURINEC
Rochester Institute of Technology
New York
“For distinguished contributions integrating research into undergraduate engineering education to develop microelectronic engineers well prepared for future challenges.”
PRIZE PAPERS
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Paper Award
Sponsor: IEEE Circuits and Systems, Communications, Control Systems, Information Theory, Power & Energy, Signal Processing, and Vehicular Technology societies
Corecipients:
Gerhard Krieger
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
Alberto Moreira
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
Hauke Fiedler
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
Irena Hajnsek
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
Marian Werner
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
Marwan Younis
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
Manfred Zink
German Aerospace Center
Microwaves and Radar Institute
Oberpfaffenhofen
For their paper: “TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High-Resolution SAR Interferometry,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, no. 11, part 1, November 2007, pp. 3317–3341
IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
Sponsor: IEEE Life Members Committee
KANNAN M. KRISHNAN
University of Washington
Seattle
For his paper: “Biomedical Nanomagnetics: A Spin Through Possibilities in Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapy,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 46, no. 7, July 2010, pp. 2523–2558.
For additional information on the recipients and the awards process, visit the IEEE Awards Web page.