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IEEE Technical Field Awards 2015

The 2015 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchoff Award is awarded to YOSIRO OONO (LFIEEE), Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan: “For fundamental contributions to the foundation of classical circuit theory.”

The 2015 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award is awarded to CHRISTOFER TOUMAZOU (FIEEE), Professor, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom: “For outstanding contributions to biomedical circuit technology.”

The (inaugural) 2015 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing is awarded to GEORGIOS B. GIANNAKIS (FIEEE), Endowed Chair Professor and Director of Research Center, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA: “For contributions to the theory and practice of statistical signal processing and its applications to wireless communications.”




IEEE CASS Awards Nominations 2015

This message is to notify you that nominations for the annual awards of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society are now being accepted. Nominations should now be submitted online by 15 February 2015.

Please go to http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards where you will find descriptions of the awards being given in 2015.

On-line submissions:

Society Awards

http://ieee-cas.org/2015-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-society-achievement-awards-nominations-form

Pre-Doctoral Scholarship

http://ieee-cas.org/2015-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-pre-doctoral-scholarship-nominations-form

Paper Awards

http://ieee-cas.org/2015-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-best-paper-award-nominations-form

Chapter of the Year Awards

http://ieee-cas.org/2015-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-chapter-award-nominations-form

Student Travel Awards

http://ieee-cas.org/2015-student-travel-award-nominations


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 the CASS Administrator at manager@ieee-cas.org.

Thank you for your cooperation and effort.


Thanos Stouraitis

Chair, CASS 2015 Awards Committee

 
New CASS Fellows The following CAS Society members have been elected to the Fellowship of the IEEE, effective January 1, 2015 (names with asterisk (*) are elevated by the CAS Society): *Joseph Cavallaro, Rice University, USA, contributions to VLSI architectures and algorithms for signal processing and wireless communications *Jordi Cortadella, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, for contributions to the design of asynchronous and elastic circuits Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen, Germany, for contributions to test and verification of electronic circuits and systems Michael Flynn, University of Michigan, USA, for contributions to integrated analog-digital interfaces Deepnarayan Gupta, HYPRES Inc, USA, for contributions to superconductor digital radio-frequency receivers *Zhihai He, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, for contributions to video communication and visual sensing technologies *Hong Jiang, Intel Corporation, USA, for leadership in parallel multimedia computing architectures and systems Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, for contributions to intelligent systems for multimedia content analysis and human-machine interaction *Edmund Lam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, for contributions to modeling and computational algorithms in imaging applications Thomas Lee, Stanford University, USA, for contributions to the design of CMOS radio-frequency integrated circuits *Paul Lee, Exelis Geospatial Systems, USA, for contributions to the development of CMOS image sensor technology and the pinned photo-diode active pixel sensor *Henry Leung, University of Calgary, Canada, for contributions to chaotic communications and nonlinear signal processing Steven Levitan, University of Pittsburgh, USA, for contributions to mixed-technology micro-systems education *Zicheng Liu, Microsoft Research, USA, for contributions to visual processing for multimedia interaction Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China, for contributions to the theory and engineering applications of wireless transmission technologies Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, for contributions to design and optimization of energy-aware computing systems *Yehia Massoud, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, for contributions to the modeling and design of nanoscale interconnects Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy, for contributions to chaos-based electronic and telecommunication systems design Stefan Mozar, Dynexsys Pty Ltd., Australia, for development of safety solutions for electronic equipment *Eckehard Steinbach, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, for contributions to visual and haptic communications Wonyong Sung, Seoul National University, South Korea, for contributions to real-time signal processing systems Johan Suykens, KU Leuven, Belgium, for developing the least squares support vector machines Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University, USA, for contributions to on-line detection of oscillatory behavior of electric power systems *An-Yeu (Andy) Wu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, for contributions to DSP algorithms and VLSI designs for communication IC/SoC Huaguang Zhang, Northeastern University, China, for contributions to stability analysis of recurrent neural networks and intelligent control of nonlinear systems
VOLUME 8, ISSUE 6, DECEMBER 2014