Recipients

Kathy L. Grise, 2024 Recipient

“For leadership in advancing new and emerging technology initiatives and fostering strong collaboration across IEEE and externally.”

Malcolm C. Smith

“For contributions to robust control, network synthesis, and applications to mechanical systems.”

George V. Eleftheriades

“For contributions to engineered surfaces and metasurfaces with application to antennas, cloaking, and sub-diffraction imaging.”

Shrikanth Narayanan

“For contributions to speech communication science and technologies for inclusive human-centered engineering.”

Björn E. Ottersten

“For contributions to array processing and its applications in wireless communications.”

Sayeef Salahuddin

“For pioneering contributions to physics of ferroelectrics and integrated ferroelectric devices.”

Bruce F. Wollenberg

“For contributions to operations, computing, and control of power systems.”

Steve Mann

“For contributions to the advancement of wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging.”

Yakov Rekhter

“For contributions enabling the creation of a scalable, robust and policy-based Internet.”

Vladimir Blasko

“For contributions to the theory and applications of bidirectional power converters in high-performance motor drive systems.”

Alexander Bergmann

“For contributions to the field of pollution measurement and leadership in environmental sensing and emissions abatement.”

Giovanni de Micheli

“For fundamental contributions to the design of systems and networks-on-chip.”

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón

“For international leadership in diversifying graduate engineering education, mentorship, professional development, and impact spanning multiple disciplines.’

Steven H. Low

“For contributions to the theoretical foundation and practical implementation of Internet congestion control.”

Atsuo Kawamura

“For pioneering contributions to deadbeat control of PWM inverters and the subsequent development.”

Michiel Steyaert

“For pioneering contributions to RF CMOS circuits and integrated power converters.”

Deirdre Hanford

“For visionary leadership in electronic design automation for secure and energy-efficient microelectronics.”

David Richardson

“For contributions to fiber lasers, fiber telecommunications, and hollow-core optical fibers.”

Marc Raibert

“For pioneering and leading the field of dynamic legged locomotion.”

Charles L. Melcher

“For the discovery and development of the cerium-doped lutetium-oxy-orthosilicate scintillator and its long-standing impact on positron emission tomography.”

Wen Gao

“For contributions to and leadership in high-performance AI computing infrastructure and efficient video encoding.”

Paul Nikolich

“For leadership in the development and advancement of global IEEE 802 network standards.”

Scott D. Sudhoff

“For contributions to the analysis and design of electric machinery and power electronic systems.”

Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar

“For contributions to AI, including tensor methods and neural operators with applications to scientific domains.”

Jie Xue

“For contributions to industry-leading high-bandwidth networking systems, including advanced IC and Si-Photonic packaging.”

Fei-Yue Wang

“For contributions to intelligent control and management of complex transportation systems.”

Dimitar P. Filev

“For technical leadership and pioneering contributions to emerging automotive intelligent control and information systems.”

Carlos Calderón Córdovar

“For inspirational teaching and encouraging engineering students to apply their skills to solve high-impact real problems in local communities.”

Kam W. Leong

“For pioneering contributions to bionanotechnology that transformed therapies with drug and gene delivery, gene editing, and anti-inflammation nanomaterials.”

Yaochu Jin

“For contributions to evolutionary optimization of complex systems.”

Hello Robot

2024 IEEE IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award Sponsored by IEEE Spectrum “For Hello Robot’s Stretch robot.” The goal of an affordable, useful, and versatile home robot has remained elusive for 65 years, at least. But a seven-year-old startup company, Hello Robot, has made one of the most impressive responses ever to the […]

John A. Stankovic

“For contributions to the theory of real-time and resource-constrained, distributed systems and the practice of cyber-physical and health systems.”

Deepak Divan

“For contributions to advanced power conversion technologies for modern electric power grids.”

Fred Daum

“For research, design, development, analysis, and testing of complex phased array radar systems, making them work in the real world.”

MING-KAI, TSAI

“For vision and leadership in the global semiconductor industry, democratizing technology access for billions of people.”

John E. Bowers

“For contributions to photonic integrated circuit technologies.”

Andrea J. Goldsmith

“For educating, mentoring, and inspiring generations of students, and for authoring pioneering textbooks in advanced digital communications.”

Kam Yin Lau

“For spearheading high-speed semiconductor lasers and RF-over-Fiber Systems, enabling today’s wireline and wireless broadband access.”

Palghat P. Vaidyanathan

“For contributions to multirate digital filter banks and sparse array signal processing.”

Alexander Barg

“For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.”

Tsu-Jae King Liu

“For leadership in the advancement and commercialization of nanometer semiconductor technologies and the promotion of microelectronics workforce development.”

Hagit Messer

“For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.”

Vincent W. S. Chan

“For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.”

Claire Tomlin

“For foundational work in the design and verification of cyber-physical systems with applications to safety in autonomous systems.”

Jennifer Rexford

“For contributions to Internet wide-area routing and software-defined networking.”

2024 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient Robert E. Kahn

Robert E. Kahn

“For pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.”

Gladys B. West

“For mathematical modeling and development of satellite geodesy models that played a pivotal role in the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).”

David J. Kuck

“For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.”

AMD

“For leadership in development and deployment of chiplet architecture designs for high-performance and adaptive computing.”

Stefan G. Mozar

“For sustained contributions and leadership of multiple IEEE Societies and Technical Communities, and IEEE Conferences.”

Tariq S. Durrani

“For sustained leadership and outstanding contributions to the IEEE in education, technical activities, awards, and global connections.”

Sung Wook Park

“For contributions to expand the influence of technology and to improve the ecosystem of the global semiconductor industry.”

Simay Akar

“For leadership and inspiration of young professionals with significant contributions in the technical fields of photovoltaics and sustainable energy storage.”

Walter Willinger

“For contributions towards a foundational understanding of Internet traffic and topology.”

Jamie Moesch, 2023 Recipient

“For exceptional leadership within IEEE Educational Activities and sustained and substantial contributions to the goals and objectives of IEEE.”

R. Iris Bahar

“For innovative undergraduate teaching and transformative student mentoring that champion inclusivity in engineering and examine societal impacts of technology.”

Andras Kis

“For pioneering work and breakthroughs on 2D materials and electronic devices.”

David N. C. Tse

“For inspirational mentoring and contributions to graduate teaching in wireless communication, power systems, computational biology, and blockchains.”

V. Anand Sankaran

“For contributions to the advancement and high-volume implementation of automotive electrification technologies.”

Madhavan Swaminathan

“For contributions to semiconductor packaging and system integration technologies that improve the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of electronic systems.”

Davide Scaramuzza

“For contributions to agile visual navigation of micro drones and low-latency robust perception with event cameras.”

Aldo Boglietti

“For contributions to the magnetic and thermal modeling, design, and characterization of electrical machines.”

Gary R. Hoffman

“For leadership in and development of power systems standards to increase global adoption.”

Elena Ferrari

“For pioneering and sustained contributions to the security and privacy of online social networks.”

Richard E. Carson

“For contributions to image reconstruction and tracer kinetic analysis in positron emission tomography.”

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier

“For contributions to the foundations and applications of approximate reasoning and fuzzy systems.”

Paolo Dario

“For establishing and advancing bionics and biorobotics as key research areas worldwide, integrating robotics and medicine.”

Kim Roberts

“For leadership in the introduction and development of digital coherent signal processing for optical fiber transmission systems.”

Bich-Yen Nguyen

“For leadership in the research, development, and commercialization of innovative silicon-on-insulator substrates, process technologies, and devices.”

Deog-Kyoon Jeong

“For leadership in the technology development for Digital Video Interface (DVI) and High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).”

David J. Perreault

“For contributions to the development of very-high-frequency power converters.”

Anja Feldmann

“For contributions to the field of networking and Internet technologies, specifically to traffic engineering, network measurements, and Internet protocols.”

Mary Jane Irwin

“For contributions to electronic design automation and power-aware computer architecture.”

Deepak G. Uttamchandani

“For contributions to photonics-based optical frequency and wavelength domain instrumentation and measurement.”

Giuseppe Buja

“For fundamental contributions to modulation and control of industrial drives.”

Joe Hong Chow

“For contributions to the modeling and control of large-scale power transmission systems.”

Stéphane G. Mallat

“For contributions to the theory and applications of wavelets and machine learning.”

Tsunenobu Kimoto

“For contributions to silicon carbide material and power devices.”

Keiichi Tokuda

“For pioneering contributions to statistical speech synthesis and speech signal processing.”

Kamal Sarabandi

“For contributions to electromagnetic sensing technology and metamaterials for antenna miniaturization.”

Alain Bensoussan

“For fundamental contributions to stochastic control, control-theoretic methods in management and finance, and impactful leadership of scientific and engineering organizations.”

Adrian Mihai Ionescu

“For leadership and contributions to the field of energy-efficient steep slope devices and technologies.”

John A. Rogers

“For multi-disciplinary contributions in the life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and medicine to enable the integration of biology and electronics.”

William H. Gates

“For his dramatic contributions to the growth of the personal computer industry and through those efforts to industry and society in general.”

Melba Crawford

“For contributions to remote sensing technology and leadership in its application for the benefit of humanity.”

Anna Zakrzewska

“For contributions in telecommunications research and innovation, leading to global commercialization, while inspiring tomorrow’s young technology leaders through STEM volunteering work.”

Donna Strickland

“For contributions to the demonstration of chirped pulse amplification, a method to increase output power in ultrashort pulse solid-state lasers.”

Marko Delimar

“For inspired vision and steadfast leadership in improving global IEEE influence, member engagement, and governance.”

W. Ross Stone

“For sustained contributions to and impactful leadership in the IEEE Technical Activities publication enterprise.”

Denso Corporation

“For the innovation of QR (Quick Response) code and their widespread use across the globe.”

Azad Madni

“For pioneering contributions to model-based systems engineering, education, and industrial impact using interdisciplinary approaches.”

Kamal Al-Haddad

“For contributions to power electronics converters for power quality and industrial applications.”

Alberto Moreira

“For leadership and innovative concepts in the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar systems.”

Luc Van den hove

“For leadership in creating a worldwide research ecosystem in nano-electronics
technology with applications ranging from high-performance computing to health.”

James S. Harris

“For contributions to epitaxial growth and nanofabrication of materials and heterojunction devices.”

James J. Truchard

“For the development of LabVIEW and establishing worldwide programs to enhance
hands-on learning in laboratories and classrooms.”

Mau-Chung Frank Chang

“For contributions to heterojunction device technology and CMOS System-on-Chip realizations with unprecedented reconfigurability and bandwidth.”

José M. F. Moura

“For contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.”

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

“For contributions to optical solutions for cancer detection and leadership in establishing the field of global health engineering.”

Frank Kschischang

“For contributions to the theory and practice of error correcting codes and optical communications.”

Rodney Allen Brooks

“For leadership in research and commercialization of autonomous robotics, including mobile, humanoid, service, and manufacturing robots.”

Hiroyuki Matsunami

“For pioneering contributions to the development of silicon carbide material and its applications to electronic power devices.”

Lydia E. Kavraki

“For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.”

Vinton G. Cerf

“For co-creating the Internet architecture and providing sustained leadership in its phenomenal growth in becoming society’s critical infrastructure.”

Guoqi (Kouchi) Zhang

“For scientific and technological leadership in “More than Moore” (MTM) packaging, co-designing, and reliability.”

Ion Stoica

“For contributions to the design of cloud and computer network services.”

Ewell Tan, 2022 Recipient

“For consistently high-level performance serving IEEE Region 10 through addressing a wide variety of challenges.”

Carlotta Berry

“For contributions to multidisciplinary robotics education and leadership in creating a national platform to diversify STEM.”

Rudiger Urbanke

“For contributions to graduate education, empowering students and mentorship that advanced the world of wireless and engineering communication.”

Kiruba S. Haran

“For contributions to advanced high-power density electrical machinery and high-temperature, super-conducting technology applications.

Holger Meinel

“For contributions to the development and promoting the application of millimeter-wave technology in transportation systems.”

Tim Böscke

“For contributions to the discovery of ferroelectricity in hafnium-based oxides.”

Radia Perlman

“For contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols.”

Philip Wennblom

“For championing global development of market-led voluntary technology standards through decades of contributions to governance and strategy of international organizations.

Kathleen McKeown

“For pushing the boundaries of natural language processing for social media analysis, news summarization, crisis informatics, and creating a digital library for patient care.

Janet L. Barth

“For leadership of and contributions to the advancement of the design, building, deployment, and operation of capable, robust space systems.

Marios Polycarpou

“For contributions to the theory and application of neural networks and learning systems in monitoring and control.”

Daniela Rus

“For pioneering contributions to the design, realization, and theoretical foundations of innovative distributed, networked autonomous systems.”

Roel Baets

“For more globally accessible technology for women’s health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.”

Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu

“For leadership in research and development of semiconductor materials, processes, and equipment.”

Ingrid Verbauwhede

“For pioneering contributions to energy-efficient and high-performance secure integrated circuits and systems.”

Dragan Maksimovic

“For contributions to digital control, modeling, and topologies of switched-mode power supplies.”

Yoshisuke Ueda

“For the discovery of chaotic phenomena in electronic circuits and for contributions to the development of nonlinear dynamics.”

Rabab Kreidieh Ward

“For outstanding contributions to advancing signal processing techniques and their practical applications, and for technical leadership.”

Ewald. F. Fuchs

“For contributions to power quality in power system operation, electric machines, renewable energy, and drives.”

Carl Kesselman and Ian Foster

“For contributions to the design, deployment, and application of practical Internet-scale global computing platforms.”

Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman

“For contributions to the design, deployment, and application of practical Internet-scale global computing platforms.”

Ken Sakamura

“For leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers used in consumer electronics.”

Nikolaos D. Hatziargyriou

“For contributions to the development of microgrids and leadership in distributed and decentralized smart distribution networks.”

H.-S. Philip Wong

“For contributions to novel and advanced semiconductor device concepts and their implementation.”

Alexander Waibel

“For pioneering contributions to spoken language translation and supporting technologies.”

John William Bandler

“For contributions to electromagnetic optimization and the modeling of high-frequency structures, circuits, and devices.”

Naomi Ehrich Leonard

“For contributions to applications and theory for control of nonlinear and multiagent systems.”

John Robertson

“For theoretical contributions to the integration of high-k oxides on semiconductors.”

Nirmala (Nimmi) Ramanujam

“For more globally accessible technology for women’s health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.”

James G. Fujimoto

James G. Fujimoto

“For groundbreaking contributions to sparse signal recovery and compressed sensing.”

Masato Sagawa

Masato Sagawa & John J. Croat

“For contributions to the development of rare earth-iron-boron permanent magnets for use in high-efficiency motors, generators, and other devices.”

John J. Croat

John J. Croat & Masato Sagawa

“For contributions to the development of rare earth-iron-boron permanent magnets for use in high-efficiency motors, generators, and other devices.”

Asad M. Madni

Asad M. Madni

“For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.”

Eugene Wimberly Myers Jr.

Eugene W. Myers & Webb Miller

For pioneering contributions to sequence analysis algorithms and their applications to biosequence search, genome sequencing, and comparative genome analyses.”

Webb Miller

Webb Miller & Eugene W. Myers

For pioneering contributions to sequence analysis algorithms and their applications to biosequence search, genome sequencing, and comparative genome analyses.”

Cliff Hou

Cliff Hou & Yuh-Jier (Y.J.) Mii

“For leadership in developing industry-leading foundry logic process technologies and open innovation design platforms.”

Yuh-Jier (Y.J.) Mii

Yuh-Jier (Y.J.) Mii & Cliff Hou

“For leadership in developing industry-leading foundry logic process technologies and open innovation design platforms.”

Albert Brault

Albert Brault & Peter Dillon

“For contributions to the development of image sensors with integrated color filter arrays for digital video and still cameras.”

Relativity

“For  its Stargate Process for 3-D printing the Terran 1 rocket.”

Ellume

“For It’s COVID Home Test Kit”

David Donoho

David L. Donoho

“For groundbreaking contributions to sparse signal recovery and compressed sensing.”

Heike Riel

Heike Riel

“For contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.”

Wolfram Burgard

Wolfram Burgard

“For contributions to the fundamentals and applications of robot navigation and perception.”

David Bankowski

David Bankowski

“For leading the restructuring of the IEEE Data Center and ensuring its resilience and continuity of services for more than two decades.”

Ian Warwick Hunter

“For the development and commercialization of nonlinear system identification techniques in instrumentation and measurement applications.”

[photo] Chenming Hu

Chenming Hu

“For a distinguished career of developing and putting into practice semiconductor models, particularly 3-D device structures, that have helped keep Moore’s Law going over many decades.”

[photo] Kurt E. Petersen

Kurt E. Petersen

“For contributions to and leadership in the development and commercialization of innovative technologies in the field of MEMS.”

[photo] Bradford W. Parkinson

Bradford W. Parkinson

“For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System.”

[photo] Kees Schouhamer Immink

Kees Schouhamer Immink

“For pioneering contributions to video, audio, and data recording technology, including compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray.”

[photo] G. David Forney, Jr.

G. David Forney, Jr.

“For pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications.”

B. Jayant Baliga

“For the invention, implementation, and commercialization of power semiconductor devices with widespread benefits to society.”

[photo] Irwin Mark Jacobs

Irwin Mark Jacobs

“For leadership and fundamental contributions to digital communications and wireless technology.”

[photo] John L. Hennessy

John L. Hennessy

“For pioneering the RISC processor architecture and for leadership in computer engineering and higher education.”

Morris Chang

“For outstanding leadership in the semiconductor industry.”

Viterbi

Andrew J. Viterbi

“For seminal contributions to communications technology and theory.”

[photo] Robert H. Dennard

Robert H. Dennard

“For invention of the single transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory and for developing scaling principles for integrated circuits.”

[photo] Gordon E. Moore

Gordon E. Moore

“For pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer and the semiconductor industry.”

Thomas Kailath

“For exceptional development of powerful algorithms in the fields of communications, computing, control and signal processing.”

[photo] James D. Meindl

James D. Meindl

“For pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks.”

Jacob Ziv

Jacob Ziv

“For fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”

[photo] James L. Flanagan

James L. Flanagan

“For sustained leadership and outstanding contributions in speech technology.”

[photo] Tadahiro Sekimoto

Tadahiro Sekimoto

“For contributions to digital satellite communications, promotion of information technology R&D, and technical and corporate leadership in computers and communications.”

[photo] Nick Holonyak, Jr.

Nick Holonyak, Jr.

“For a career of pioneering contributions to semiconductors, including the growth of semiconductor alloys and heterojunctions, and to visible light-emitting diodes and injection lasers.”

[photo] Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer

“For contributions to high-frequency transistors and hot-electron devices, especially heterostructure devices from heterostructure bipolar transistors to lasers, and their molecular beam epitaxy technology.”

[photo] Herwig Kogelnik

Herwig Kogelnik

“For fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems.”

[photo] Andrew S. Grove

Andrew S. Grove

“For pioneering research in characterizing and modeling metal oxide semiconductor devices and technology, and leadership in the development of the modern semiconductor industry.”