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2006 Fellows
Dr. Steve Best
for contributions to the theory, design, and understanding of electrically small antennas
Steven R. Best received the B.Sc.Eng and the Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He is currently with the MITRE Corporation where he is involved in supporting a number of government programs. Prior to joining MITRE, he was with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB from 2002 to 2005, where his research interests included electrically small antennas, wideband radiating elements, conformal antennas, communication antennas and the application of novel materials in antenna design. Prior to joining AFRL, he was President of Cushcraft Corporation from 1997 to 2002. He was Director of Engineering at Cushcraft from 1996 to 1997. Prior to joining Cushcraft, he was co-founder and Vice President and General Manager of Parisi Antenna Systems from 1993 through 1996. He was Vice President and General Manager of D&M/Chu Technology, Inc (formerly Chu Associates) from 1990 – 1993. He joined Chu Associates as a Senior Electrical Engineer in 1987.
Dr. Best is the author or co-author of over 90 papers in various journal, conference and industry publications. He frequently presents a three-day short course on antennas and propagation for wireless communications. He was the 2004 and 2005 recipient of the AFRL Sensors Directorate Chief Scientist Award. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and a frequent reviewer for several IEEE journals. Dr. Best is also a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s AdCom and Chair of the IEEE Boston Section. Dr Best is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi and a member of ACES.
Mr. Leslie (Les) Brown
for contributions to development of medical devices.
Les Brown is a seasoned serial entrepreneur, was co-founder and CEO of three
technology-based companies, and is currently CEO of a startup medical device company. He is also CEO and President of Brown & Burstein, management advisors and mentors to senior executives of technology-based companies. As a company doctor for over 20 years, he identifies problems, implements strategic corrections, and improves company performance. His expertise and world-class clients are in diverse fields of Medical Devices, Photonics, Electronics, Software, Mechanics, Materials, Chemistry, Instrumentation, Sensors, Nanotechnology, and other domains.
Mr. Brown has more than 30 years of multidisciplinary technology and executive management experience, has commercialized $250 million of technology-based products and services, and has managed and led large teams of professionals. He has held management and technology positions at Dynamics Research Corp., Teledyne TAC, Instrumentation Laboratory, Avco Everett Research Laboratory, and Block Engineering.
Les Brown is co-founder and Chair Emeritus of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs' Network (ENET) (www.boston-enet.org), now in its sixteenth year as a professional forum for startup and emerging companies. ENET’s 15,000 participants to date include CEOs, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. ENET has been instrumental in founding dozens of companies in the Northeast, conducting substantial business, and creating many new jobs. He was also Chair of the 11,000-member IEEE Boston Section (www.ieeeBoston.org).
Mr. Brown earned an MBA, a near complete PhD in Electrical Engineering, and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, and BS in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University. He is an IEEE Fellow, and has been an invited speaker and moderator at many conferences, seminars, and universities.
Mr. Richard Davis
for contributions to antenna adaptive beamforming.
Mr. Davis was a senior principal engineer with the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA
between 1990 and 2006 when he retired. His research interests are in the areas of signal and adaptive processing. Mr. Davis contributed to the analysis and development of electronic protection suites for many large military radar systems for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Mr. Davis worked for the Syracuse Research Corporation (formerly Syracuse University Research Corporation) between 1966 and 1990, where he was the Director of the Analytical Studies Center which specialized in signal processing and electronic warfare. Mr. Davis also worked for the IBM Corporation between 1964 and 1965. Mr Davis obtained a BSEE degree from the University of Rochester in 1964, and MSEE and BA (psychology) degrees from Syracuse University in 1968 and 1975, respectively. Mr. Davis has published 11 journal papers and 19 conference and symposium papers.
Prof. Jesus del Alamo
for contributions to microelectronic devices.
Jesus A. del Alamo holds a Telecommunications Engineer degree from the
Polytechnic University of Madrid and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. From 1985 to 1988 he was with NTT LSI Laboratories in Atsugi (Japan) and since 1988 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is currently Professor and MacVicar Faculty Fellow. His current research interests are on future microelectronics technologies for communications and data processing. He has a particular interest in Si LDMOS, CMOS, and GaAs PHEMTs for RF power applications and in InGaAs HEMTs as a beyond-the-roadmap logic technology. He is also active in online laboratories for science and engineering education.
Prof. del Alamo has received numerous teaching awards at MIT: the Baker Award, the Edgerton Junior Faculty Achievement Award, the Smullin Award, and the Bose Award. He was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator. He is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the IEEE. He currently serves as Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters.
Mr. Brig ("Chip") Elliott
for contributions to the design and implementation of communication networking.
Chip Elliott is Principal Engineer at BBN Technologies, responsible for novel networking
systems. He is an IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and pending. Most recently he has led DARPA’s design and build-out of the world’s first quantum cryptography network – 10 optical nodes across metro Boston providing highly secure key distribution non-stop through both telecom fibers and the atmosphere. He has previously led the design and implementation of large-scale, mission-critical “ad hoc” radio networks for nearly a dozen nations including the United States, UK, and Canada. He received Frost & Sullivan’s Award for Excellence in Technology (2005), and is a World Technology Award Finalist (2004) for his leadership in quantum cryptography. Mr. Elliott has also served on a number of national advisory panels and held visiting faculty positions at Dartmouth College, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Dr. Eric Evans
for technical leadership in development of advanced air and missile defense systems.
Dr. Eric D. Evans is head of the Air and Missile Defense Technology Division at
MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this position he is responsible for the Laboratory’s programs in future air and missile defense systems, including the activities with sensor technology, target identification, radar open systems architectures, and measurements at the Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands. Previously he was associate head of the Air Defense Technology Division, where he was responsible for the Laboratory’s programs in Navy theater missile defense.
Dr. Evans has also led the Air Defense Techniques Group at the Laboratory. In this group he was responsible for Navy programs related to area air defense, ship self-defense, and overland cruise missile defense. He led Laboratory efforts in E-2C radar modernization, including new antenna and digital receiver development and new adaptive signal processing techniques. He was also responsible for programs to improve the Aegis AN/SPY-1 radar and Standard Missile with new processors and advanced signal processing.
Dr. Evans has worked as a radar design engineer for Navy’s Radar Surveillance Technology Experimental Radar (RSTER) program. For this program his work included microwave component development, antenna design, adaptive signal processing, and radar measurements for a new adaptive UHF radar for fleet defense. The radar system was deployed for testing in severe clutter and jamming environments at several sites around the country.
Dr. Evans is a Fellow of the IEEE and is the author or co-author of approximately 40 publications. In 1996 he and his co-authors received the M. Barry Carlton Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society for a paper on advanced radar signal processing. Dr. Evans holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Stephen Grossberg
for contributions to neural networks and fundamental models of learning in image processing, pattern recognition and robotics.
Stephen Grossberg is one of the most important pioneers of the fields of
biological and artificial neural network research, and remains a leading researcher at the cutting edge of these disciplines today. In the 1960’s, he introduced the basic paradigm of the nonlinear systems of differential equations that form the foundation of neural network research today. Over the years, his work has introduced key equations and concepts that are used in many of the seminal models currently under investigation. This work focuses upon the design principles and mechanisms that enable the behavior of individuals, or machines, to adapt autonomously in real-time to unexpected environmental challenges. His research has stimulated research by thousands of scientists and engineers, and covers an unrivalled span of topics for a single individual, including vision and image processing; object and event recognition; audition, speech and language; cognitive information processing; reinforcement learning and cognitive-emotional interactions; autonomous navigation; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; and neural network technology. He introduced and made critical contributions to such influential models as adaptive resonance theory (ART), competitive learning and self-organizing maps, and content-addressable memories and their Liapunov functions, as well as to many other models. He was General Chairman of the first IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, and an editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and IEEE Expert. He received the 1991 IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award. Grossberg has published 15 books, over 400 research articles, and has 7 patents. He founded and remains Chairman of the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, which he built into a leading institution for advanced training in biological neural networks and neuromorphic technology. His year-long lecture series at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on neural network technology was instrumental in motivating the laboratory to initiate the national DARPA Study on Neural Networks. He is currently Director of a new NSF Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (CELEST: http://cns.bu.edu/CELEST ).
Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy
for contributions to mathematical techniques for radar space-time adaptive processing
Muralidhar Rangaswamy received
the B.E. degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1992. He is presently employed as a Senior Electronics Engineer at the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. Prior to this he has held industrial and academic appointments.
His research interests include radar signal processing, spectrum estimation, modeling non-Gaussian interference phenomena, and statistical communication theory. He has co-authored more than 70 refereed journal and conference record papers in the areas of his research interests. Additionally, he is a contributor to 3 books and is a co-inventor on 2 U.S. patents.
Dr. Rangaswamy is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and is a member of the sensor array and multichannel processing technical committee (SAM-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was a co-instructor with Dr. W. Melvin for two short courses on space-time adaptive processing for the IEEE Boston section (April 2003) and for the IEEE-AESS Atlanta section at the Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (March 2004). He has served on the organizing committee of numerous IEEE AESS and IEEE Signal Processing Society sponsored conferences. He received the Fred Nathanson memorial radar award from the IEEE AES Society in 2005 and the Charles Ryan basic research award from the Sensors Directorate of AFRL, in addition to 20 AFRL scientific achievement awards.
Dr. Carey Rappaport
for contributions to modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media.
Carey M. Rappaport (IEEE M, SM 96, F 06) received five degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: the SB in Mathematics, the SB, SM, and EE in Electrical Engineering in June 1982, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering in June 1987. He is married to Ann W. Morgenthaler, and has two children, Sarah and Brian.
Prof. Rappaport has worked as a teaching and research assistant at MIT from 1981 until 1987, and during the summers at COMSAT Labs in Clarksburg, MD, and The Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, CA. He joined the faculty at Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 1987. He has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since July 2000. During Fall 1995, he was Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Electromagnetics Institute of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, as part of the W. Fulbright International Scholar Program. During the second half of 2005, he was a visiting research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organization (CSIRO) in Epping Australia. He has consulted for Geo-Centers, Inc., PPG, Inc., and several municipalities on wave propagation and modeling, and microwave heating and safety. He was Principal Investigator of an ARO-sponsored Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative on Humanitarian Demining and Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-sponsored Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) Engineering Research Center.
Prof. Rappaport has authored over 200 technical journal and conference papers in the areas of microwave antenna design, electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering computation, and bioelectromagnetics, and has received two reflector antenna patents, two biomedical device patents and three subsurface sensing device patents. He was awarded the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society's H.A. Wheeler Award for best applications paper, as a student in 1986. He is a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu professional honorary societies.
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