Thursday, November 21, 2024

IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance – IEEE Spectrum

Meet the 2024 IEEE Medal and Recognition recipients. The awards are offered on behalf of the IEEE Board of Administrators.

IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR

Sponsor:IEEE Basis

ROBERT E. KAHN

Company for Nationwide Analysis Initiatives

Reston, Va.

“For pioneering technical and management contributions in packet communication applied sciences and foundations of the Web.”

IEEE FRANCES E. ALLEN MEDAL

Sponsor:IBM

DAVID KUCK

College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“For pioneering work in vector and parallel pc structure, software program, and compilers that allows many performance-sensitive purposes.”

IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL

Sponsor:Nokia Bell Labs

JENNIFER REXFORD

Princeton

“For contributions to Web wide-area routing and software-defined networking.”

IEEE EDISON MEDAL

Sponsor:Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

VINCENT W.S. CHAN

MIT

“For pioneering technical contributions and management within the fields of house and terrestrial optical communications and networks.”

IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES

Sponsor:Toyota Motor Corp.

HAGIT MESSER-YARON

Tel Aviv College

“For contributions to sensing of the atmosphere utilizing wi-fi communication networks.”

IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL

Sponsor:Lockheed Martin Corp.

TSU-JAE KING LIU

College of California, Berkeley

“For management within the development and commercialization of nanometer semiconductor applied sciences and the promotion of microelectronics workforce improvement.”

IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL

Sponsor:Qualcomm, Inc.

ALEXANDER BARG

College of Maryland

Faculty Park

“For contributions to the idea of error-correcting codes and their purposes in distributed storage, non-volatile reminiscence, and digital fingerprinting.”

IEEE NICK HOLONYAK, JR. MEDAL FOR SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES

Sponsor: Mates of Nick Holonyak, Jr.

Co-Recipients:

CONNIE JUI-HUA CHANG-HASNAIN

College of California, Berkeley

FUMIO KOYAMA

Tokyo Institute of Expertise

“For pioneering contributions to vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and VCSEL-based photonics for optical communications and sensing.”

IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY

Sponsor:IEEE Engineering in Drugs and Biology Society

Co-Recipients:

GRAEME CLARK

College of Melbourne

Australia

BLAKE WILSON

Duke College

Durham, N.C.

“For contributions to the event of the trendy cochlear implant.”

IEEE JACK S. KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL

Sponsor:Apple

PALGHAT P. VAIDYANATHAN

Caltech

“For contributions to principle and follow of statistical, graph, and distributed sign processing.”

IEEE/RSE JAMES CLERK MAXWELL MEDAL

Sponsor:ARM, Ltd.

KAM Y. LAU

College of California, Berkeley

“For spearheading high-speed semiconductor lasers and RF-over-Fiber Techniques, enabling at present’s wireline and wi-fi broadband entry.”

IEEE JAMES H. MULLIGAN, JR. EDUCATION MEDAL

Sponsor:IEEE Life Members Fund andMathWorks

ANDREA J. GOLDSMITH

Princeton

“For educating, mentoring, and provoking generations of scholars, and for authoring pioneering textbooks in superior digital communications.”

IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL
Sponsor:Google

CLAIRE J. TOMLIN

College of California, Berkeley

“For foundational work within the design and verification of cyber-physical programs with purposes to security in autonomous programs.”

IEEE JUN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL

Sponsor: The Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Fund

JOHN E. BOWERS

College of California, Santa Barbara

“For contributions to photonic built-in circuit applied sciences.”

IEEE ROBERT N. NOYCE MEDAL

Sponsor:Intel Corp.

MING-KAI TSAI

MediaTek

Hsinchu, Taiwan

“For imaginative and prescient and management within the international semiconductor business, democratizing know-how entry for billions of individuals.”

IEEE DENNIS J. PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Sponsor:Raytheon Applied sciences

FRED DAUM

Raytheon Applied sciences

Arlington, Va.

“For management and progressive ideas within the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar programs.”

IEEE MEDAL IN POWER ENGINEERING

Sponsors: The IEEETrade Functions,Industrial Electronics,Energy Electronics, andEnergy & Powersocieties

DEEPAK DIVAN

Georgia Tech

“For contributions to superior energy conversion applied sciences for contemporary electrical energy grids.”

IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL

Sponsor:Northrop Grumman Corp.

JOHN A. STANKOVIC

College of Virginia

Charlottesville

“For contributions to the idea of real-time and resource-constrained, distributed programs and the follow of cyber-physical and well being programs.”

IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL

Sponsor:IBM

CHRISTOPHER MANNING

Stanford

“For advances in computational illustration and evaluation of pure language.”

IEEE CORPORATE INNOVATION AWARD

Sponsor:IEEE

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES

Austin, Texas

“For management in improvement and deployment of chiplet structure designs for high-performance and adaptive computing.”

IEEE RICHARD M. EMBERSON AWARD

Sponsor:IEEE Technical Actions Board

STEFAN MOZAR

Self-employed

Glenwood, New South Wales, Australia

“For sustained contributions and management of a number of IEEE Societies and Technical Communities, and IEEE Conferences.”

IEEE HARADEN PRATT AWARD

Sponsor:IEEE Basis

TARIQ S. DURRANI

College of Strathclyde

Glasgow

“For sustained management and excellent contributions to the IEEE in training, technical actions, awards, and international connections.”

IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP

Sponsor:IEEE

SUNG WOOK PARK

SK Hynix, retired

Seoul

“For contributions to broaden the affect of know-how and to enhance the ecosystem of the worldwide semiconductor business.”

IEEE THEODORE W. HISSEY OUTSTANDING YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD

Sponsor: TheIEEE Photonics andIEEE Energy & Power societies, andIEEE Younger Professionals

SIMAY AKAR

Innoses

Istanbul

“For management and inspiration of younger professionals with important contributions within the technical fields of photovoltaics and sustainable power storage.”

For added info on the recipients and the awards course of, please go to the IEEE Awards web site.

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