VOLUME 5, ISSUE 6, DECEMBER 2011
SOCIETY NEWS

Call for Awards Nominations
This message is to notify you that nominations for the annual awards of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society are now being accepted. Nominations must be submitted electronically to cass-awards@ieee.org by 15 February 2012.
Descriptions of the awards given as well as the nominations forms can be found at http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards.
Please limit nominations to four (4) pages in electronic format, excluding reference letters. Any additional pages will be deleted.
It is very desirable that members who have contributed significantly to the various CAS Society activities highlighted by our awards be recognized. This is our way of showing our appreciation for their accomplishments.
Questions regarding awards and nominations should be sent to cass-awards@ieee.org
Thank you for your cooperation and effort.

Mani Soma
2011 President and 2012 Awards Committee Chair



IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award 2012
The 2012 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchoff Award was awarded to Ronald A. Rohrer, Vice President, Advanced R&D (Retired), Cadence Design Systems, Bend, OR, USA: “For fundamental contributions to circuit simulation, circuit design optimization and electronic design automation.” Information on the award and a list of previous winners can be found in http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/ieee-gustav-robert-kirchoff-award-recipients.mailto:%20cass-awards@ieee.orghttp://ieee-cas.org/about/awardshttp://ieee-cas.org/about/awardsmailto:%20cass-awards@ieee.orghttp://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/ieee-gustav-robert-kirchoff-award-recipientshttp://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/ieee-gustav-robert-kirchoff-award-recipientshttp://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/ieee-gustav-robert-kirchoff-award-recipientshttp://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/ieee-gustav-robert-kirchoff-award-recipientsshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7

New CAS Society Fellows 2012

The following CAS Society members have been elected to the Fellowship of the IEEE, effective January 1, 2012 (names with asterisk (*) are elevated by the CAS Society):

Robert Adams*, Analog Devices, Inc., USA, for contributions to analog and digital signal processing

Oscar Au*, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, for contributions to multimedia coding and security

Kaustav Banerjee, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, for contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects

David Blaauw*, University of Michigan, USA, for contributions to adaptive and low power circuit design

Naehyuck Chang, Seoul National University, Korea, for contributions to system-level power characterization, including thermal management

Yen-Kuang Chen*, Intel Corporation, USA, for contributions to algorithm-architecture co-design for multimedia signal processing

Mario di Bernardo*, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, for contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks

Gerard Dreyfus, ESPCI-PARISTECH, France, for contributions to machine learning and its applications

Ralph Etienne-Cummings*, The Johns Hopkins University, USA, for contributions to neuromorphic sensory-motor circuits and systems

Douglas Garrity, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., USA, for contributions to analog-to-digital converters for embedded applications

Rafik Goubran, Carleton University, Canada, for contributions to voice quality measurement and its applications to audio improvement

Rudy Lauwereins, IMEC, Belgium, for contributions to data flow models in real-time prototyping

Jin Li, Microsoft Research Corporation, USA, for contributions to multimedia delivery, compression and storage for real-time communication

Mike Li, Altera Corporation, USA, for contributions to the design of jitter test technologies

Ching-Yung Lin*, IBM Thomas  J. Watson Laboratory, USA, for contributions to network science and multimedia security and retrieval

Thomas Linnenbrink, Hittite Microwave Corp., USA, for leadership in standards for instrumentation and measurement systems

Wolfgang Nebel*, Carl von Ossietzki University Oldenburg, Germany, for contributions to the design of low-power circuits and systems

Konstantinos Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Canada, for contributions to the theory and application of statistical adaptive learning

John Poulton, NVIDIA Corp., USA, for contributions to high-speed low-power signaling and to graphics architecture

Janusz Rajski, Mentor Graphics Corporation, USA, for contributions to digital VLSI circuit testing and test compression

Riccardo Rovatti*, Univeristy of Bologna, USA, for contributions to nonlinear and statistical signal processing applied to electronic systems

Manoj Sachdev, University of Waterloo, Canada, for contributions to test methodology for very large scale integrated circuits

Wan-Chi Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, for leadership in signal processing and contributions to video technologies

Stephen Trimberger, Xilinx, Inc., USA, for contributions to circuits, architectures and software technology for fleld-programmable gate arrays

Chin-Liang Wang*, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, for contributions to signal processing algorithms and architectures for digital communications

Jiangtao Wen, Tsinghua University, China, for contributions to multimedia communication technology and standards

Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri, USA, for contributions to multimedia communication and security

Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, for contributions to the mobility and spectrum management of wireless networks and mobile communications