NEW CAS FELLOWS 2021
The CAS Society is delighted to learn of the election of the following 14 CAS members to the Fellow grade of IEEE, effective January 1, 2021. The Fellow grade is the highest membership grade that an IEEE member can attain by nomination. CONGRATULATIONS to all new CAS Fellows!
New CAS Fellows Elevated by CAS Society:
- Jianfei Cai, Melbourne, Australia
for contributions to spatio-temporal data mining and urban computing - Francis C M Lau, Hong Kong
for contributions to analysis of chaotic communications systems and low-density parity-check code design - Houqiang Li, Hefei, China
for contributions to video coding and multimedia content analysis - Jun Ohta, Ikomo, Japan
for contributions to CMOS image sensors and devices for biomedical applications - Guangming Shi, Xi’an, China
for contributions to image representation and image reconstruction - Meng Wang, Hefei, China
for contributions to multimedia content analysis and retrieval - Junsong Yuan, Buffalo, NY, USA
for contributions to human behavior understanding and video analytics
New CAS Fellows Elevated by Other Societies:
- Danijela Cabric, Los Angeles, CA, USAfor contributions to theory and practice of spectrum sensing and cognitive radio systems
- Huadong Ma, Beijing, China
for contributions to multimedia sensor networks - Saurabh Sinha, South Africa
for leading micro/nanoelectronics research and education in Africa - Xiaoping Zhang, Toronto, Canada
for contributions to signal processing in finance - Ahmed Ali, Greensboro, NC, USA
for leadership in high-speed analog-to-digital converter design and calibration - Benton Calhoun, Charlottesville, VA, USA
for contributions to sub-threshold integrated circuits and selfpowered systems - Yung-Hsiang Lu, West Lafayette, IN, USA
for contributions to energy efficiency of computer systems
CAS Society Awards 2020
IEEE CAS is pleased to congratulate the following recipients of the 2020 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
Joos Vandewalle
Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award
Georges Gielen
Industrial Pioneer Award
Shaojun Wei
Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
Yanling Wei, Jianbin Qiu, and Hamid Reza Karimi
"Reliable Output Feedback Control of Discrete-Time Fuzzy Affine Systems With Actuator Faults,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 170-181, Jan. 2017.
Darlington Best Paper Award
Francesco Conti, Robert Schilling, Pasquale Davide Schiavone, Antoni Pullini, Davide Rossi, Frank Kağan Gürkaynak, Michael Muehlberghuber, Michael Gautschi, Igor Loi, Germain Haugou, Stefan Mangard, and Luca Benini
“An IoT Endpoint System-on-Chip for Secure and Energy-Efficient Near-Sensor Analytics,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 248-2494, Sept. 2017.
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award
Rufael Mekuria, Kees Blom, and Pablo Cesar
“Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Point Cloud Codec for Tele-Immersive Video,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 828-842, Apr. 2017.
Very Large Scale Integration Systems Best Paper Award
Michael Gautschi, Pasquale Davide Schiavone, Andreas Traber, Igor Loi, Antonio Pullini, Davide Rossi, Eric Flammand, Frank K. Gürkaynak, and Luca Benini
“Near-Threshold RISC-V Core With DSP Extensions for Scalable IoT Endpoint Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 2700-2713, Oct. 2017.
Outstanding Young Author Award
Kai Kang, et. al.
“T-CNN: Tubelets With Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection From Videos,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 2896-2907, Oct. 2018.
Pre-Doctoral Scholarships
Corey Lammie
Yifei Shen
Chapter of the Year Award
Japan Joint Chapter
Region 1-7 Chapter of the Year
North Jersey Chapter
The following awards were not given in 2020:
John Choma Education Award
Vitold Belevitch Award
Meritorious Service Award
Region 8 Chapter of the Year
Region 9 Chapter of the Year
Region 10 Chapter of the Year