Current IEEE Corporate Award Recipients

Each year the IEEE Awards Board recommends a select group of recipients to receive IEEE’s most prestigious honors. These are the men and women whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession.

IEEE recognizes their commitment to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

2021 IEEE Medal Recipients

IEEE Medal of Honor

Jacob Ziv

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

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

Nicholas M. McKeown

“For contributions to internet router architecture and software-defined networking.”

IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal

Kristina M. Johnson

“For leadership and technical contributions spanning academia, government, and business.”

IEEE Edison Medal

Kenichi Iga

"For pioneering contributions to the concept, physics, and development of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.”

IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies

Kaushik Rajashekara

"For contributions to the advancement of transportation electrification technologies for the reduction of emissions and for improving energy efficiency."

IEEE Founders Medal

Henry Samueli

“For leadership in research, development, and commercialization of broadband communication and networking technology with global impact.”

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

Raymond W. Yeung

“For fundamental contributions to information theory and pioneering network coding and its applications.”

IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology

Ruzena Bajcsy

“For pioneering and sustained contributions to healthcare technology fundamental to computer vision, medical imaging, and computational anatomy.”

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal

Emmanuel Candès, Terence Tao, and Justin Romberg

“For groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing.”

IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

Evelyn Lynn Hu

“For leadership in nanoscale science and engineering, and for seminal contributions at the intersection of semiconductor electronics and photonics.”

IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

John D. Cressler

“For inspirational teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.”

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

James J. Coleman

“For contributions to the development of strained-layer semiconductor lasers.”

IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal

Lisa Su

“For leadership in ground-breaking semiconductor products and successful business strategies that contributed to the strength of the microelectronics industry.”

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications

Simon Haykin

“For contributions to the development of the theory and practice of radar, especially cognitive radar and adaptive filtering.”

IEEE Medal in Power Engineering

Praveen K. Jain

“For contributions to the theory and practice of high-frequency power-conversion systems.”

IEEE Simon Ramo Medal

Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

“For sustained leadership in developing theory and applications of probability risk analysis for the design and evaluation of complex engineering systems.”

IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Jeffrey Adgate Dean

“For contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems and artificial intelligence systems.”

2021 IEEE Recognition Recipients

IEEE Honorary Membership

Edward C. Stone

“For decades of exceptional scientific and engineering achievements that have profoundly impacted the world’s progress in space exploration.”

IEEE Corporate Innovation Award

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited

“For leadership in 7 nanometer semiconductor foundry technology, enabling customers’ innovations in widespread applications.”

IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award

Lewis Terman

“For contributions to and leadership of multiple IEEE technical Societies, the Technical Activities Board, and the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Activities.”

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award

Evelyn H. Hirt

“For steadfast service and leadership dedicated to the IEEE mission and members across all corporate, geographic, technical, and educational levels.”

IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award

Kartik Kulkarni

“For contributions to the technical fields of transactions and in-memory databases, as well as for enabling young professionals working on technologies for sustainable development.”

IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member

2020 Recipient: Patrick R. Ryan

“For leadership in creating a successful model for IEEE and Society memberships by fostering member value and partnerships with volunteers.”

2021 IEEE Technical Field Awards Recipients

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award

Katherine Whittaker Ferrara

“For the integration of ultrasound and engineered vesicles in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.”

Cledo Brunetti Award

Jesus A. del Alamo

“For leadership in and contributions to InGaAs- and GaN-based field-effect transistor technology.”

IEEE Control Systems Award

Hidenori Kimura

“For contributions to synthesis theory of control systems and its applications to manufacturing devices and systems.”

IEEE Electromagnetics Award

Constantine A. Balanis

“For contributions to electromagnetics through excellence in book authorship, teaching, and antenna research.”

IEEE Electronics Packaging Award

Chin C. Lee

“For contributions to new silver alloys, new bonding methods, flip-chip interconnect, and education for electronics packaging.”

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award

David Nahamoo

“For contributions and leadership in research and deployment of spoken language technologies.”

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

K. J. Ray Liu

“For outstanding leadership in and pioneering contributions to signal processing for wireless sensing and communications.”

IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award

Hideaki Aochi, Ryota Katsumata, and Masaru Kito

“For pioneering and sustained contributions to high-density, three-dimensional flash memory.”

IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award

Ryota Katsumata, Masaru Kito, and Hideaki Aochi

“For pioneering and sustained contributions to high-density, three-dimensional flash memory.”

IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award

Masaru Kito, Hideaki Aochi, and Ryota Katsumata

"For pioneering and sustained contributions to high-density, three-dimensional flash memory."

IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award

Brian Stott

“For contributions to the development and application of power flow and optimal power flow analysis.”

IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

Steve Wozniak

“For pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers.”

IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award

Stephen McArthur

“For innovative contributions to the advancement of intelligent systems for power engineering applications.”

IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement

Eric W. Strid & K. Reed Gleason

“For contributions to RF microprobing measurement techniques enabling accurate on-wafer circuit testing.”

IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement

K. Reed Gleason & Eric W. Strid

“For contributions to RF microprobing measurement techniques enabling accurate on-wafer circuit testing.”

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award

Thomas H. Lee

“For pioneering CMOS technology for high performance wireless circuits and systems.”

IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award

Andrea Goldsmith

“For educating, developing, guiding, and energizing generations of highly successful students and postdoctoral fellows.”

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award

Hari Balakrishnan

“For broad contributions to computer networking and mobile and wireless systems.”

IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award

Robert W. Erickson

“For contributions to power electronics education and analysis, modeling, and design of power converters.”

IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits

A. Paul Brokaw

“For leadership in the design of voltage references, amplifiers, and power management, and for contributions to the principles of analog circuit design.”

IEEE Photonics Award

Jack Jewell

“For seminal and sustained contributions to the development and commercialization of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL).”

IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

Jean-Claude Latombe & Tomás Lozano Pérez

“For foundational contributions to robot motion planning and visionary leadership of the field.”

IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

Tomás Lozano-Pérez & Jean-Claude Latombe

“For foundational contributions to robot motion planning and visionary leadership of the field.”

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award

Jim Keller

“For fundamental work on fuzzy pattern recognition, fuzzy clustering, and fuzzy technologies in computer vision.”

IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award

Michel Defrise

“For key developments in image reconstruction for positron emission tomography and x-ray computer tomography.”

IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award

Elisa Bertino

“For advancing the security and privacy of new-generation cellular networks.”

IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award

Haran Karmaker

“For leadership in and contributions to the development of standards for electrical machines.”

IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award

En-hui Yang

“For contributions to the theory and practice of source coding.”

IEEE Nikola Tesla Award

Zi-Qiang Zhu

“For contributions to the design, modeling, control, and application of ac permanent magnet machines and drives.”

IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award

Zhu Han

“For contributions to game theory and distributed management of autonomous communication networks.”

IEEE Transportation Technologies Award

Philip T. Krein

“For contributions to electric vehicle battery management and hybrid system optimization.”

IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

Cristiane A. Pimentel

“For encouraging women to pursue STEM careers, and developing industry-based projects for social justice.”