CAS Society Awards 2016
IEEE CAS is pleased to congratulate the following recipients of the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Awards. The Society is especially proud and happy to honor their outstanding accomplishments and we look forward their continuous involvement and close contact with CAS.
Mac Van Valkenburg Award
Luca Benini
For sustained contributions to energy-efficient design methods for integrated circuits, networks and systems.
Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award
Joos Vandewalle
For seminal research leadership in the mathematics for circuits and systems with major results in cryptography, multilinear signal processing and signal processing; and for transformative educational initiatives.
John Choma Education Award
C.-C. Jay Kuo
For excellence in inspirational guidance of graduate students and curriculum development in the field of multimedia technologies and systems.
Industrial Pioneer Award
Robert Whitlock Adams
For pioneering contributions to digital signal-processing, analog signal-processing and data conversion.
Meritorious Service Award
Wouter Serdijn
For extraordinary leadership in improving technical quality and organization of IEEE CASS’ Flagship Conferences and Transactions.
Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
F. Dorfler, F. Bullo
“Kron Reduction of Graphs with Applications to Electrical Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 150 – 163, January 2013
Darlington Best Paper Award
Dong Yang; Andrews, C.; Molnar, A
“Optimized Design of N-Phase Passive Mixer-First Receivers in Wideband Operation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 2759 – 2770, November 2015
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award
Rajiv Soundararajan and Alan C. Bovik
“Video Quality Assessment by Reduced Reference Spatio-Temporal Entropic Differencing,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 684 – 694, April 2013
Very Large Scale Integration Systems Best Paper Award
Bayasi, N.; Tekeste, T.; Saleh, H.; Mohammad, B.; Khandoker, A.; Ismail, M.
“Low-Power ECG-Based Processor for Predicting Ventricular Arrhthmia,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1962 – 1974, May 2016
Outstanding Young Author Award
Ding Nie
“Broadband Matching Bounds for Coupled Loads,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 995-1004, April 2015
Pre-Doctoral Scholarships
Kai Ho Mak
Woorham Bae
Chapter of the Year Award
Malaysia
Chapter Chair, Nurul Amziah Md Yunus
Region 8 Chapter of the Year
Portugal
Chapter Chair, Jorge Fernandes
Region 9 Chapter of the Year
Rio Grande do Sul
Chapter Chair, Ricardo Reis
Region 10 Chapter of the Year
Shikoku
Chapter Chair, Tetsushi Ueta
The following awards were not given in 2016:
Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award
Vitold Belevitch Circuits and Systems Award
Region 1-7 Chapter of the Year