Announcing the IEEE CASS 2025 Award Winners!
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) is pleased to congratulate the following recipients of the 2025 IEEE Circuits and Systems Awards. The Society is especially proud and happy to honor their outstanding accomplishments and we look forward to their continued involvement in the society.
The CAS Awards Ceremony will be held at at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) on Tuesday, 27 May, from 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM BST in the Peninsula Ballroom.
Society Awards
Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award
Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora
For contributions to power-supply and energy-harvesting integrated circuits
John Choma Education Award
Jan M. Rabaey
For contributions to education and leadership in integrated circuits and systems
Mac Van Valkenburg Award
Gianluca Setti
For pioneering contributions and continuing technical leadership in the field of circuits and systems for signal and data processing
Meritorious Service Award
Yen-Kuang Chen
For long-term service and dedication to CASS across multiple divisions, and for his visionary leadership in bridging the gap between CASS and industry
Vitold Belevitch Circuits and Systems Award
Josef A. Nossek
For fundamental contributions in bridging the gap between Circuit Theory and Communication Theory by physically consistent modeling
Paper Awards
Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award
“Integrated Real-Time CMOS Luminescence Sensing and Impedance Spectroscopy in Droplet Microfluidics”
Authors: Qijun Liu, Diana Arguijo Mendoza, Alperen Yasar, Dilara Caygara, Aya Kassem, Douglas Densmore
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
“A 0.05 mm², 350 mV, 14 nW Fully-Integrated Temperature Sensor in 180-nm CMOS”
Authors: Benjamin Zambrano, Esteban Garzón, Sebastiano Strangio, Felice Crupi, Marco Lanuzza
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Darlington Best Paper Award
“A Switched Capacitor Modified Fibonacci Cell Used for a DC – AC Circuit Supplied by Solar Energy”
Authors: Jia Yao, Xiaofeng Zheng, Zihao Luo, Zeyv Zhang, Adrian Ioinovici
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award
“Causal Contextual Prediction for Learned Image Compression”
Authors: Zongyu Guo, Zhizheng Zhang, Runsen Feng, Zhibo Chen
Very Large Scale Integration Systems Best Paper Award
“An Algorithm–Hardware Co-Optimized Framework for Accelerating N:M Sparse Transformers”
Authors: Chao Fang, Aojun Zhou, Zhongfeng Wang
Outstanding Young Author Award
“ALT-Lock: Logic and Timing Ambiguity-Based IP Obfuscation Against Reverse Engineering”
Authors: Jonti Talukda, Eduardo Ortega
Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award
“Auditing and Generating Synthetic Data with Controllable Trust Trade-offs”
Authors: Brian Belgodere, Pierre Dognin, Adam Ivankay, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh, Aleksandra Mojsilović, Jiri Navratil, Apoorva Nitsure, Inkit Padhi, Mattia Rigotti, Jerret Ross, Yair Schiff, Radhika Vedpathak, Richard A. Young
IEEE Circuits and Systems Industry Best Paper Award
"Exploiting Neural-Network Statistics for Low-Power DNN Inference"
Authors: Lennart Bamberg, Ardalan Najafi, Alberto Garcia-Ortiz
Chapter Awards
Global Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Malaysia Section Chapter
Region 8 Chapter-of-the-Year Award
France Section Chapter
Region 9 Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Rio Grande do Sul Chapter (South Brazil Section)
Region 10 Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Wuhan Section Joint Chapter
Global Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Student Branch Chapter
Region 8 Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award
National Engineering School of Sfax Student Branch Chapter
Region 9 Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Federal University of Pelotas (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) Student Branch Chapter
Region 10 Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award
Sri Sairam Engineering College Student Branch Chapter
Join us in congratulating our 2025 Award Recipients!