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2008 Fellows
Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande
for contributions to the development of digital self-aligned gate technology and vacuum microelectronic devices
Akintunde Ibitayo (Tayo) Akinwande is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Professor Akinwande received a B.Sc. (1978) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ife, Nigeria, a MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Professor Akinwande joined Honeywell Inc. in 1986 where he initially conducted research on GaAs Complementary FET technology for very high speed and low power signal processing. He later joined the Si Microstructures group where he conducted research on pressure sensors, accelerometers, thin-film field emission and display devices.
Professor Akinwande joined MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in January 1995 where his research focuses on micro-fabrication and electronic devices with particular emphasis on smart sensors and actuators, intelligent displays, large area electronics (macro-electronics), field emission & field ionization devices, mass spectrometry and electric propulsion.
Prof. Akinwande is a recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. He has served a number of technical program committees for various conferences, including the Device Research Conference, the International Electron Devices Meeting, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the International Display Research Conference and the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference. Professor Akinwande holds numerous patents in MEMS, Electronics on Flexible Substrates, Display technologies and has authored more than 100 journal publications. He was a visiting professor at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College in 2002-2003. He is a current Electron Device Society representative on the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.
Emery Neal Brown
for contributions to state-space algorithms for point processes and applications to neuroscience data
Emery N. Brown received his PhD in statistics from Harvard University and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his residency in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is an anesthesiologist at MGH and holds the Massachusetts General Hospital endowed Professorship at Harvard Medical School. He is also Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology at MIT. In his statistical research, Professor Brown develops signal processing algorithms to study how the brain represents information. His experimental research uses combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological recordings to study how anesthetic drugs induce the state of general anesthesia in the brain. Professor Brown is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the AAAS. He is also an elected member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists and of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Brown is the recipient of a 2007 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.
Pane C. Chao
for contributions to microwave and millimeter-wave high electron mobility transistors and monolithic integrated circuits
Dr. P.C. Chao (SM ’88, F ’08) has been elevated to a Fellow Member. The IEEE grade of Fellow is awarded by the Board of Directors to a member with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. IEEE recognized Dr. Chao as a Fellow “for contributions to the development and manufacturing of microwave and millimeter-wave high electron mobility transistors and monolithic integrated circuits.”
Dr. Chao is the Technical Director of BAE Systems Microelectronics Technology & Products group at the Richard A. Reed Microwave Electronics Center in Nashua, N.H. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in the development of microwave semiconductor devices and related circuitry. Dr. Chao, widely recognized in industry, government, and academia for his engineering achievements in microwave and millimeter-wave device physics and processing, has been a BAE Systems Engineering Fellow since 1996. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1983. Dr. Chao manages the Process Engineering Group at BAE Systems and has served as a principal investigator on numerous technology development programs. He was a member of the IEEE Awards Committee and has participated in the IEEE Mentoring program – volunteering as a mentor to assist young IEEE members in professional development. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications and holds 3 patents.
“P.C.”, as he is known to his friends and coworkers, is a stereophile and a classical music lover, enjoying high-end audio sound and attending concerts regularly. He also loves electronic gadgets.
Vincent G. Harris
for contributions to the science and engineering of microwave magnetic materials
Vincent Harris has had a distinguished career as an engineer, scientist, inventor, and leader and manager of engineers and scientists for more than 20 years. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Northeastern University. He also has earned M.Sc. degrees in Engineering Management (University of Maryland) and Executive Technology Management (University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)). He is presently the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. He is the Founder and Director of the Center for Microwave Magnetic Materials and Integrated Circuits (CM3IC) that consists of more than 30 students and research staff. The mission of the CM3IC is to develop next generation microwave materials and device solutions for radar and wireless communication technologies. Prior to holding these positions, he was Head of the Materials Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory. His research interests include materials design and the study of processing, structure and magnetism in a wide range of electronic materials. He has published more than 200 technical articles in peer-reviewed science and engineering journals, including book chapters and review articles on topical areas of nanotechnology, magnetism, and microwave materials. In addition, he holds 7 patents or patent applications, and has presented more than 200 papers at national and international meetings including nearly 100 by specific invitation. He was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Magnetics Society for 2007 on the topic of Microwave Ferrite Materials and Devices. Vincent Harris is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was elevated Fellow of the IEEE in 2007 for "contributions to the science and engineering of novel microwave magnetic materials.”
Judy L. Hoyt
for contributions to silicon-based heterostructure devices and technology
Judy L. Hoyt is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. She received the B.S. degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Stanford University in December, 1987. From 1988 through 1999 Dr. Hoyt was a Senior Research Scientist in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. In January 2000, she joined the faculty at MIT in EECS.
Prof. Hoyt’s primary research interests are in the areas of silicon-based heterostructure devices and technology, Si epitaxy, CMOS front-end processing, and Si-based photonics. She is most well-known for her contributions to the original work on the use of strain to enhance carrier transport in Si, and hence improve the performance of Si MOSFETs. She has authored or co-authored over 120 publications and holds 6 patents. She received the IEEE Paul Rappaport Award in 1989 (with co-authors C.A. King and J.F. Gibbons) and the IEEE George E. Smith Award in 2005 (with co-authors Z. Cheng, A.J. Pitera, M.L. Lee, J. Jung. D.A.Antonadis, and E.A.Fitzgerald).
Dr. Hoyt was the first woman to serve as the General Chair of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2001). She is a member of the Electron Devices Society, the American Physical Society, and the Materials Research Society. Prof. Hoyt is presently serving as Associate Director within the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT (www-mtl.mit.edu).
Janusz Konrad
for contributions to motion estimation and stereoscopic imaging
Janusz Konrad (IEEE Member since 1993, Senior Member since 1998) received the M.Eng. degree from the Technical University of Szczecin, Poland in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1989. From 1989 to 2000 he was with INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, a research institute of the University of Quebec. Since 2000 he has been with Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His primary research interests are in the areas of image and video compression and processing, stereoscopic and 3-D imaging, multidimensional signal processing and computer vision. He has collaborated with Imax Corporation, Mississauga, ON, Bell-Northern Research, Montreal, QC, Digital Equipment Corp. (Cambridge Research Laboratory), Cambridge, MA, and EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA. Currently, he is an Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and Associate Editor for the EURASIP International Journal on Image and Video Processing. In the past, he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Signal Processing Letters, member of the IMDSP Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, as well as the Technical Program Co-Chair of ICIP-2000 and Tutorials Co-Chair of ICASSP-2004. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 Signal Processing Magazine award for a paper co-authored with Dr. Ch. Stiller and the 2004-05 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award for paper co-authored with Dr. N. Bozinovic.
Alex P. Malozemoff
for leadership in the development of vortex dynamics of high temperature superconductors
Dr. Malozemoff’s received his Ph.D., Materials Science Engineering, from Stanford University, 1970 and his B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Chemistry and Physics, from Harvard University in1966. His background includes over 25 years in materials physics. An acknowledged world expert in the field of superconductivity, Dr. Malozemoff is a co-discoverer of “giant flux creep” in high temperature superconductors, a factor in determining the maximum amount of current the superconductor can carry. He is also well known for his work on magnetic materials and his discoveries related to magnetic bubble technologies.
Dr. Malozemoff joined American Superconductor Corporation in 1991 as Vice President, Research and Development. In 1993, he was appointed Chief Technical Officer. He has managed AMSC’s world-leading research programs in materials science, applied physics, processing and conductor development, as well as the company’s expanding patent portfolio. Dr. Malozemoff also oversees ASC’s many collaborative programs with partners, universities and the U. S. national laboratories.
From 1971 through 1990, Dr. Malozemoff served as staff scientist, manager and senior manager of various groups in magnetism, superconductivity and condensed matter physics at IBM Research in New York. From 1987 on, he acted as IBM Research Division coordinator for high temperature superconductivity. Dr. Malozemoff was the recipient of a Max Planck Fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany; and an U.S. National Science Foundation Fellowship at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, England. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the IEEE. He has been active in the technical community as chairman of the Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and through a variety of national committees and centers of HTS research and development. He has served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and has been recognized as Superconductor Week Person of the Year in 2005.
Dr. Malozemoff holds multiple patents and has more than 180 publications including a book with J. C. Slonczewski on “Magnetic Domain Walls in Bubble Materials”, a review of magnetic properties of high temperature superconductors, and publications on amorphous magnetic materials, spin glasses, giant flux creep and the irreversibility line in high temperature superconductors, and properties and applications of high temperature superconducting wires.
Sorin Marcovici
for contributions to amorphous selenium flat panel detectors and x-ray detectors and to electronics for multi-slice CT scanners
Sorin Marcovici is the Corporate Senior Technical Vice President of Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA. He holds a Physicist-Engineer Degree from the Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, Romania and a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering, with Major in Computers, from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. During his thirty two years with Analogic, Sorin held various engineering positions of continuously increased responsibility and was the General Manager of several operating Divisions. Most recently he was the President of Anrad Corporation, the Canadian wholly owned subsidiary of Analogic in St-Laurent, Quebec.
Beside his extensive experience as a high-tech executive, Sorin has deep knowledge in multiple technical and scientific fields: electronics, mathematics, material science, and physics. His contributions encompass a continuous series of innovative products for medical electronics and precision instrumentation ranging from flat panel detectors, based on amorphous Selenium technology, to multi-channel, detection and acquisition, front-end electronics for CT-scanners. He holds six patents, has presented twelve papers at technical conferences, and has lectured world-wide on precision instrumentation.
Sorin’s effectiveness and interest in technical leadership translated also in mentoring young engineers and in his active support to Gordon Institute, now at Tufts University, to Bernard M. Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at Northeastern University, and to Gordon Program at MIT.
In 1990 he helped to establish the Romanian section of IEEE. Sorin is a Member of IEEE since 1967 and a Member of SPIE.
He and his wife, Cecilia, live in Lexington, MA and have two children: Karen and Bryan.
Roger G. Mark
for development of physiologic signal databases and automated arrhythmia analysis
Roger Mark was born in Boston, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. He received the SB degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, the PhD degree in EE from MIT in 1966, and the MD degree from Harvard Medical School in 1965. He trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital from 1965 – 1967. He spent the next two years in the Medical Corps of the United States Air Force studying the biological effects of laser radiation. He joined the faculty of the EE Department at MIT in 1969, and also the faculty of Harvard Medical School based at Boston City Hospital. His early research interests were in the areas of medical instrumentation, ECG arrhythmia analysis, and geographically distributed health care systems (telemedicine).
Dr. Mark was heavily involved in the early planning and implementation of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) – an inter-university collaboration to foster innovative educational and research programs at the interface of engineering and technology with clinical medicine. He has been active in teaching cardiovascular pathophysiology to HST students, and quantitative physiology to undergraduate biomedical engineering students at MIT.
At the present time Dr. Mark is Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He remains active in the part-time practice of internal medicine with a focus on geriatrics, and is Senior Physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His current research interests include physiological signal processing, cardiovascular modeling, and intelligent patient monitoring. He is the author of over 150 publications.
He and his wife, Dorothy, have four children, nine grandchildren, and assist in the care of 700 graduate students as Housemasters of Sidney-Pacific Graduate Residence.
Muriel Medard
for contributions to wideband wireless fading channels and network coding
Muriel Medard is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was previously an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a member of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1995 to 1998, she was a Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Optical Communications and the Advanced Networking Groups. Professor Medard received B.S. degrees in EECS and in Mathematics in 1989, a B.S. degree in Humanities in 1990, a M.S. degree in EE 1991, and a Sc D. degree in EE in 1995, all from MIT. She serves and has served as an Associate Editor and Guest Editor for several IEEE publications.
Professor Medard's research interests are in the areas of network coding and reliable communications, particularly for optical and wireless networks. She was awarded the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award 2002 for her paper, The Effect Upon Channel Capacity in Wireless Communications of Perfect and Imperfect Knowledge of the Channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 46 Issue 3, May 2000, Pages: 935-946. She was co- awarded the Best Paper Award for G. Weichenberg, V. Chan, M. Medard, "Reliable Architectures for Networks Under Stress", Fourth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003), October 2003, Banff, Alberta, Canada. She received a NSF Career Award in 2001 and was co-winner 2004 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, established in 1982 to honor junior faculty members "for distinction in research, teaching and service to the MIT community." She was named a 2007 Gilbreth Lecturer by the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Medard is a House Master at Next House and a Fellow of IEEE.
Karen Ann Panetta
for leadership in engineering education and curriculum development to attract, retain, and advance women in engineering
Karen Panetta is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University and Director of the Simulation Research Laboratory at Tufts University. She is also the co-founder of BA Logix Inc. and serves as the companies Chief Research Scientist. Dr. Panetta received the B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.
Before joining the faculty at Tufts, Dr. Panetta was employed as a computer engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. Her current research in Simulation and Modeling has won her research team five awards from NASA for “Outstanding Contributions to NASA Research” and “Excellence in Research”. She is a NASA Langley Research Scientist “JOVE” Fellow, is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and won the 2003 Madeline and Henry Fischer Best Engineering Teacher Award. Dr. Panetta was also awarded a Mass High Tech All-Star by Mass High Tech Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2006 Boston University Outstanding Alumni Award and was a recipient of the “Be The Change” award from the Massachusetts Conference for Women.
Karen is the Chair for the IEEE Educational Society, Central New England Section. She has been the advisor for the Tufts IEEE Student Chapter for 14 years. As the IEEE advisor, Karen has helped her students organize IEEE SPAC (Student Professional Awareness Conferences), participate in; interdisciplinary engineering competitions, IEEE student paper and design competitions and the IEEE Micromouse robotics competition. Her students have won awards in all categories, including a silver medal for their IEEE student chapter website. She is the IEEE Boston Section Student Activities director and is on the IEEE Boston Section Treasurer.
Dr. Panetta serves on the Boston University Engineering Alumni Board and is a board member for the Center for Balance by Design. She is also a member of the ACM, SWE, SPHE and ASEE and the Society for Computer Simulation.
Dr. Panetta is dedicated to promoting women in engineering and has created the nationally acclaimed “Nerd Girls” program, where undergraduate engineers research renewable energy topics and serve as role models for younger students.
David C. Shaver
for leadership in semiconductor microlithography and microfabrication technology
Dr. Shaver is Head of the Solid State Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he oversees research in such varied areas as high performance imaging sensors, deeply scaled silicon microelectronics, solid state lasers, optoelectronics, photonics, superconductive devices, quantum computing, and biological agent sensors. His current personal technical interests have included development of photon-counting sensors and 3-D-integrated imagers, and technology related to trusted electronics. Before his present position, Dr. Shaver led the Submicrometer Technology Group, which pioneered the development of 193-nm-wavelength optical lithography. He also served as Chief Scientist and Director of Research for Micrion Corporation (now part of FEI) where he was involved in the development of focused ion-beam and laser-beam microchemistry systems for photomask, microcircuit, and flat-panel display repair and modification. He received his S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jacob K. White
for contributions to simulation tools for RF circuits, electrical interconnects, and micro machined devices
Jacob White is currently the C. H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his S.M. and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at the IBM T. J. Watson research center from 1985 to 1987, was the Analog Devices Career Development Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1989, was a 1988 Presidential Young Investigator, was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design from 1992 until 1996, the chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 1999 and is a fellow of the IEEE. Professor White is best known for supervising the development of the interconnect analysis programs Fastcap and Fasthenry, and for his collaboration on the development of the algorithms in Spectre and SpectreRF. His current research interests are in numerical algorithms for problems in simulation and optimization of circuits, interconnect, nanophotonics, bioMEMS and NEMS, biomolecules, and network models of biological systems.
Jinyun Zhang
for contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology
Jinyun Zhang received her B.Sc. degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1970. Following her graduation, she was with Tsinghua University until 1984. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada in 1991. Dr. Zhang then joined Nortel Networks, where she held various management positions and engineering positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of digital signal processing, wireless communication and optical networks. She was a key contributor for the development of Nortel’s mobile base stations as well as ultra high speed optical DWDM networks. Since 2001, Dr. Zhang has been the Manager of the Digital Communications & Networking Group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA.
Currently, she is leading many new broadband wireless communications and networking research projects that include UWB, ZigBee ad hoc networking, MIMO, broadband multimedia home networking, wireless sensor networks, high speed WLAN, cooperative communications, WiMAX and next generation mobile communications systems.
Dr. Zhang has authored and co-authored more than 110 publications, invented and co-invented more than 80 patents and patent applications, and made numerous contributions to international wireless communications standards. Dr. Zhang is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and has served as a Technical Program Committee member for various IEEE conferences. Dr. Zhang has been a member of the IEEE since 1991. She is a member of the IT, LEO, AP, BT, COMM, SP, VT, and ITS IEEE Societies and serves as a technical reviewer for many IEEE publications.
AWARD WINNER:
SIR TIMOTHY BERNERS-LEE
IEEE/RSE WOLFSON JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AWARD -
funded by Wolfson Microelectronics plcfor conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web
A graduate of Oxford University, England, and the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee holds the 3Com Founders chair and is a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also has a chair in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, founded in 1994. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 received the Order of Merit. He is the author of "Weaving the Web".
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