IEEE Technical Field Awards Recipients List

2022 - JOOS VANDEWALLE

“For fundamental contributions to mathematical foundations of circuits and systems.”

2021 - THOMAS LEE
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
“For pioneering CMOS technology for highperformance wireless circuits and systems.”

2020 - MARTIN HASLER
Honorary Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
“For fundamental contributions to nonlinear circuit theory and nonlinear dynamics”

2019 - KENNETH MARTIN
President, Granite SemiCom Inc., Toronto, Canada
“For contributions to analog, mixed-signal, and digital integrated circuits, and outstanding leadership in microelectronics education and research and development.”

2018 - ALAN N. WILLSON, JR.
Charles P. Reames Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
“For fundamental contributions to the theory and design of nonlinear circuits and signal processing systems."

2017 - MARCEL PELGROM
Consultant, Pelgrom Consult, Helmond, The Netherlands
“For seminal contributions to systematic analysis of random offsets in semiconductor devices and their impact on circuits”

2016 - P.P. VAIDYANATHAN
Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
"For fundamental contributions to digital signal processing.”

2015 – YOSIRO OONO (LFIEEE)
Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
“For fundamental contributions to the foundation of classical circuit theory.”

2014 - CHUNG LAUNG LIU (FIEEE)
Professor, Computer Science Department, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
“For seminal, long-lasting contributions to design automation for circuits and systems.”

2013 - SANJIT KUMAR MITRA
University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Southern California
"For fundamental contributions to filter design and signal processing."

2012 - 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."

2011 - CHARLES A. DESOER (LFIEEE)
Professor Emeritus (Deceased)
University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, USA

“For crucial conceptual research contributions to the behavior and the use of electrical circuits and systems.”

2010 - HITOSHI WATANABE (LF'IEEE)
Professor Emeritus, Dept of Information Systems Science
Soka University
Tokyo, Japan

"For pioneering contributions to filter design theory and computer-aided circuit design."

2009 - ERNEST S. KUH
William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus in Engineering
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA

“For outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation.”

2008 - ALFRED FETTWEIS
Professor Emeritus
Lehrstuhl fuer Nachrichtentechnik
Ruhr-Universitaet
Bochum, Germany

“For sustained contributions to circuits, systems, and signal processing, especially his seminal work on wave digital filters”

2007 - YANNIS P. TSIVIDIS
Charles Batchelor Memorial Professor of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, NY

"For contributions to circuits and MOS device modeling"

2006 - GABOR TEMES
School of EECS
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

"For fundamental contributions to analog signal processing techniques."

2005 - LEON CHUA
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA

"For seminal contributions to the foundation of nonlinear circuit theory, and for inventing Chua's Circuit and Cellular Networks, each spawning a new research area."

2022 - RORY A. COOPER

“For extensive contributions to wheelchair technology that have expanded mobility and reduced secondary injuries for millions of people with disabilities.”

2021 - KATHERINE WHITTAKER FERRARA
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA
“For the integration of ultrasound and engineered vesicles in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.”

2020 - F. STUART FOSTER
Senior Scientist and Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“For contributions to the field of high-resolution imaging.”

2019 - MATTHEW O’DONNELL
Professor and Dean Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
“For leadership in biomedical ultrasonics and medical imaging technologies.”

2018 - MARK S. HUMAYUN
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
“For contributions to the bioelectronic retinal implant.”

2017 - BIN HE
Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
“For contributions to neuroengineering and neuroimaging.”

2016 – KOPING KIRK SHUNG (LFIEEE) 
Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
“For contributions to ultrasound imaging and transducer technology.”

2015 – CHRISTOFER TOUMAZOU (FIEEE)
Professor, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
“For outstanding contributions to biomedical circuit technology.”

2014 – LIHONG WANG (FIEEE)
Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
“For pioneering photoacoustic tomography.”

2022 - ALI SAYED

“For contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive signal processing.”

2021 - K. J. RAY LIU
Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
“For outstanding leadership in and pioneering contributions to signal processing for wireless sensing and communications.”

2020 - ALFRED O. HERO, III
John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
“For contributions to the foundations of statistical signal processing with applications to distributed sensing and performance benchmarking."

2019 - ALAN C. BOVIK
ALAN C. BOVIK Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
“For seminal contributions and high-impact innovations to the theory and application of perception-based image and video processing.”

2018 - PETER STOICA
Professor of System Modeling, Division of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
“For broad contributions to research and education in statistical signal processing and its applications.”

2017 - RUSS MERSEREAU
Professor Emeritus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
"For sustained technical contributions to multidimensional digital signal processing.”

2016 – BEDE LIU (LFIEEE)
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
“For foundational contributions to the analysis, design, and implementation of digital signal processing systems.”

2015 – 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.”