IEEE CASS Honors 2026 Award Recipients at ISCAS 2026

The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) proudly recognized the recipients of its 2026 awards during the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2026) on 26 May 2026 in Shanghai, China.

The annual CASS Awards Program celebrates outstanding achievements, leadership, innovation, education, and service across the global circuits and systems community. The Society also recognized distinguished chapter achievements and honored members elevated to IEEE Fellow.

Society & Achievement Awards

Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award

Hai “Helen” Li
For contributions to neuromorphic computing and machine learning acceleration.

John Choma Education Award

Ibrahim Elfadel
For sustained contributions to Circuits and Systems and Microelectronics Education.

Mac Van Valkenburg Award

Weisheng Zhao
For contributions and leadership in spintronics and its applications to memory and computing systems.

Meritorious Service Award

Amara Amara
For visionary leadership, pioneering research, and educational impact.

Industrial Pioneer Award

Shan Liu
For pioneering innovations, standardization, and deployment of video and multimedia coding technologies.

Student Awards

2026 Pre-Doctoral Grant Recipients

• Natalia Martinez

• Dong-Hwi Choi

• Asif Iftekhar Omi

• Fengshi Tian

• Tianyang Yao

Outstanding Paper Awards

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award

Linran Zhao, Yan Gong, Raymond G. Stephany, Wei Shi, Wen Li, and Yaoyao Jia
“An Energy-Efficient and Artifact-Resilient ASIC for Simultaneous Neural Recording and Optogenetic Stimulation”
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (Volume 19, Issue 4, August 2025)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award

Brendan Saux, Jonas Borgmans, Johan Raman, and Pieter Rombouts
“Origin of Frequency-Dependent Distortion and Calibration for Ring Oscillator VCO ADCs”
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (Volume 71, Issue 8, August 2024)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Darlington Best Paper Award

Yaohua Zhang, Dai Jiang, and Andreas Demosthenous
“A High-Voltage Differential SPDT T/R Switch for Ultrasound Systems”
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (Volume 71, Issue 11, November 2024)

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award

Zhaobin Zhang, Semih Esenlik, Yaojun Wu, Meng Wang, Kai Zhang, and Li Zhang
“End-to-End Learning-Based Image Compression with a Decoupled Framework”
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Volume 34, Issue 5, May 2024)

Outstanding Young Author Award

Runxi Wang, Ziheng Wang, Ting Lin, Jacob Michael Raby, Mircea R. Stan, and Xinfei Guo
“Cool-3D: An End-to-End Thermal-Aware Framework for Early-Phase Design Space Exploration of Microfluidic-Cooled 3DICs”
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2025)

Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award

Andrea Belano, Yvan Tortorella, Angelo Garofalo, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi, and Francesco Conti
“A Flexible Template for Edge Generative AI With High-Accuracy Accelerated Softmax and GELU”
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2025)

Industry Best Paper Award

Haopei Deng, Wentao Jiang, Yi Tan, Jiayi Ye, Fei He, Zexue Liu, Danping Li, Fei Song, Xiaoyu Fu, Yongfu Li, Jiayoon Ru, Jinghua Zhang, and Jianhong Xiao
“A Compact Cost-Effective NB-IoT System-in-Package With Integrated RF Front-End IPD and TX/RX Gain Self-Calibration”
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (Volume 72, Issue 11, November 2025)

Chapter-of-the-Year Awards

Global Chapter-of-the-Year Award

United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland Section

Region 8 Chapter-of-the-Year Award

Greece Section Joint Chapter

Region 9 Chapter-of-the-Year Award

Panama Section Chapter

Region 10 Chapter-of-the-Year Award

Shenzhen Chapter (Guangzhou Section)

Global Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award

National Engineering School of Sfax

Region 8 Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award

ENET’Com Student Branch Chapter

Region 9 Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award

University Del Norte

Region 10 Student Branch Chapter-of-the-Year Award

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

IEEE CASS Elevated Fellows

Arindam Basu

For fundamental contributions to neuromorphic edge processing and security primitives.

Sudipto Chakraborty

For contributions to ultra-low power circuits and systems.

Debendra Das Sharma

For leadership in establishing PCI-Express, CXL, and UCIe industry standards, fostering innovation in computing.

Pantelis Georgiou

For contributions to the design of CMOS electrochemical lab-on-a-chip diagnostics.

Yu-Wen Huang

For contributions to algorithms, architectures, and standardization of video coding technology.

Pedram Mohseni

For contributions to biosensors and bioelectronics for mitigating debilitating blood- and brain-related disorders.

Yuxin Peng

For contributions to cross-media analytical systems and fine-grained visual recognition.

Shahar Kvatinsky

For pioneering contributions to memristive device modeling and in-memory processing.

Please join us in congratulating these incredible 2026 award winners!