IEEE Circuits and System Society 2012 Awards

The 2012 CAS Award Winners were announced during the awards ceremony at ISCAS in Seoul, Korea.

See award winners and fellows from previous years.

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award Ronald A. Rohrer for fundamental contributions to circuit simulation, circuit design optimization and electronic design automation

IEEE Fellow Robert Adams for contributions to analog and digital signal processing

IEEE Fellow Oscar Chi-Lim Au for contributions to multimedia coding and security

IEEE Fellow Kaustav Banerjee for contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects

IEEE Fellow Chaitali Chakrabarti for contributions to low power embedded system design and to very large scale integration architectures for signal processing

IEEE Fellow Prof. Naehyuck Chang for contributions to system-level power characterization, including thermal management

IEEE Fellow Yen-Kuang Chen for contributions to algorithm-architecture co-design for multimedia signal processing

IEEE Fellow Mario di Bernardo for contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks

IEEE Fellow Gerard Dreyfus for contributions to machine learning and its applications

IEEE Fellow Ralph Etienne-Cummings for contributions to neuromorphic sensory-motor circuits and systems

IEEE Fellow Dr. Doug Garrity for contributions to analog-to-digital converters for embedded applications

IEEE Fellow Rafik Goubran for contributions to voice quality measurement and its applications to audio improvement

IEEE Fellow Rudy M. Lauwereins for contributions to data flow models in real-time prototyping

IEEE Fellow Jin Li for contributions to multimedia delivery, compression and storage for real-time communication

IEEE Fellow Mike Peng Li for contributions to the design of jitter test technologies

IEEE Fellow Ching-Yung Lin for contributions to network science and multimedia security and retrieval

IEEE Fellow Thomas Linnenbrink for leadership in standards for instrumentation and measurement systems

IEEE Fellow Wolfgang Nebel for contributions to the design of low-power circuits and systems

IEEE Fellow Konstantinos Plataniotis for contributions to the theory and application of statistical adaptive learning

IEEE Fellow John W. Poulton for contributions to high-speed low-power signaling and to graphics architecture

IEEE Fellow Janusz Rajski for contributions to digital VLSI circuit testing and test compression

IEEE Fellow Riccardo Rovatti for contributions to nonlinear and statistical signal processing applied to electronic systems

IEEE Fellow Manoj Sachdev for contributions to test methodology for very large scale integrated circuits

IEEE Fellow Wan-Chi Siu for leadership in signal processing and contributions to video technologies

IEEE Fellow Almudena Suárez for applications of stability concepts to the computer-aided design of nonlinear microwave circuits

IEEE Fellow Stephen Trimberger for contributions to circuits, architectures and software technology for field-programmable gate arrays

IEEE Fellow Chin-Liang Wang for contributions to signal processing algorithms and architectures for digital communications

IEEE Fellow Jiangtao Wen for contributions to multimedia communication technology and standards

IEEE Fellow Wenjun Zeng for contributions to multimedia communication and security

IEEE Fellow Qian Zhang for contributions to the mobility and spectrum management of wireless networks and mobile communications

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Mac Van Valkenburg Award Giovanni de Micheli For sustained contributions to theory, practice and experimentation on design methods and tools for integrated circuits, systems and networks

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Industrial Pioneer Award Robert Bogdan Staszewski For inventing the ‚”Digital RF‚” technology that transforms analog-intensive wireless systems into digitally-intensive time-domain architectures and for leadership in commercializing Digital RF in the wireless cellular industry.

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award Keshab K. Parhi For contributions to VLSI architectures and design methodologies for digital signal processing and communications circuits and systems

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Education Award Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom In recognition of the singular impact of initiatives in electronic engineering education through key text books and publications in Circuits and Systems and the conception, creation and development of Mahanakorn University of Technology as a prestigious engineering university in Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Meritorious Service Award Ljiljana Trajkovic For sustained dedication and service to the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Meritorious Service Award Maciej J. Ogorzalek For sustained services and outstanding contributions to the organization, visibility and internationalization of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 2012 Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award Paul P. Sotiriadis “Theory of flying-adder frequency synthesizers: Part I and Part II,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1935 – 1963, August 2010

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 2012 Darlington Best Paper Award Alan N. Willson, Jr. “Desensitized Half-Band Filters,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 152-165, January 2010

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 VLSI Best Paper Award Arkadiy Morgenshtein, Ran Ginosar, Eby G. Friedman, Avinoam Kolodny “Unified Logical Effort—A Method for Delay Evaluation and Minimization in Logic Paths with RC Interconnect,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 689-696, May 2010

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Outstanding Young Author Award “Two-Stage Fully Differential Inverter-Based Self-Biased CMOS Amplifier With High Efficiency,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 1591-1603, July 2011 (with R. Santos-Tavares, E. Santin, J. Ferreira, G. Evans, J. Goes)

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Chapter of the Year Award Chapter Rio Grande do Sul Ricardo Reis, Chapter Chair

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Region 9 Chapter of the Year Award IEEE CAS Peru Chapter Carlos Silva Cardenas, Chapter Chair

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2012 Region 10 Chapter of the Year Award IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter Maryam Mohd Isa, Chapter Chair

ISCAS 2012 Student Best Paper Award Przemyslaw Mroszczyk, Piotr Dudek “Trigger-Wave Collision Detecting Asynchronous Cellular Logic Array for Fast Image Skeletonization”

ISCAS 2012 Student Best Paper Award Jun Jia, Xin Yi, Mengde Wang, Guoxing Wang, Simin Deng, Guofang Shen “A Blink Restoration System with Contralateral EMG Triggered Stimulation and Real-Time Software Based Artifact Blanking”

ISCAS 2012 Best Demo Award Junhaeng Lee, Tobi Delbruck, Paul K.J. Park, Michael Pfeiffer, Chang-Woo Shin, Hyunsurk Ryu, Byung Chang Kang “Gesture-Based Remote Control Using Stereo Pair of Dynamic Vision Sensors”

ISCAS 2012 Best Demo Award Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Manfred Mayerhofer, Daniel Matolin, Joseph Colineau “Real-Time 360°Panoramic Views Using BiCa360, the Fast Rotating Dynamic Vision Sensor to up to 10 Rotations per Sec”