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Sanjit K. Mitra Received the 2013 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award
Prof. Mitra was at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering from June 1962 to June 1965. He was with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, from June 1965 to January 1967. He has been on the faculty at the University of California since then, first at the Davis campus and since 1977 at the Santa Barbara campus as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he served as Chairman of the Department from July 1979 to June 1982. He has published over 640 papers in analog and digital signal processing, and image processing, twelve books, and holds five patents. He served as the President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986. Dr. Mitra is the recipient of the 1973 F.E. Terman Award and the 1985 AT&T Foundation Award of the American Society of Engineering Education, the 1989 Education Award, and the 2000 Mac Van Valkenburg Society Award of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society, the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1989, the 1996 Technical Achievement Award, the 2001 Society Award and the 2006 Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award of the IEEE Education Society in 2001, the 2002 Technical Achievement Award of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), the 2005 SPIE Technical Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering, and the 2005 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal. He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and the 2001 IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award. He is an Honorary Professor of the Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He has been appointed an Honorary Citizen of Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2005. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an Academician of the Academy of Finland, a member of the Norwegian Academy for Technical Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico, and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, India. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
About the Award (extracted from the CAS hompage)
The IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award was established in 2003.
This award is named for Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, a physicist who made important contributions to the theory of circuits using topology and to elasticity. Kirchhoff’s laws allow calculation of currents, voltages and resistances of electrical circuits extending the work of Ohm. His work on black body radiation was fundamental in the development of quantum theory.
This award is given for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact.
It may be awarded to an individual or multiple recipients where all members of the group could be judged to have made a crucial contribution(s) to the overall outcome.
In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: impact, perceived long term and fundamental nature of the contribution, originality, publication of significant and profound new and non-obvious result, an approach in a subject area which relates to the circuits and systems, but which has broader impact across other aspects of Electrical or Electronics Engineering, patents, starting a company based on a fundamental contribution, and the quality of the nomination.
Recipient selection is administered by the IEEE Technical Field Awards Council through the IEEE Awards Board.