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Before joining NJIT in 1991, he was

a senior research specialist and pro-

gram manager at Kearfott Guidance

and Navigation Corp., New Jersey, in

charge of the Doppler mirror ring

laser gyroscope program. From 1992

to 1994, he served as a consultant to

Condor Pacific (New Jersey), respon-

sible for the hardware/software design

and development of the sidewinder

inertial navigation signal processing

system. From 1999 to 2001, he was a

consultant with Intelligent Health Inc.,

where he was responsible for designing

computer-controlled fitness equipment

and software animation of the human–

machine interface. From 2001 to 2008,

he served as the area coordinator of

the Intelligent Systems Focus Area. In

2008, he was the associate chair for

graduate studies, and in 2009, he was

the interim chair of the department.

Tim’s areas of interest included

ultrahigh precision systems, genetic

systems, robotics/motion control, em-

bedded real-time systems, decentral-

ized control systems, and Web-based

experiments. He was the chair of the

North Jersey IEEE Control Systems

Chapter since 1994, as well as gen-

eral chair of the 2010 IEEE Indus-

trial Electronics Annual Conference

(IECON; iecon2010.njit.edu), and reg-

istration chair of the IEEE Conference

on Automation Science and Engineer-

ing (case2010.org). In addition, Tim

was an associate editor for IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

He has published more than 70 refer-

eed journal and conference papers

and was the author of “Servo Control

Design,” in Encyclopedia of Life Sup-

port Systems, published by the United

Nations Educational, Scientific, and

Cultural Organization.

Tim was the recipient of many

teaching awards and was recently

named master teacher and distin-

guished professor. He was the holder

of many patents and received a special

award from the New Jersey Inventor’s

Hall of Fame at their annual meeting in

the fall of 2010. He was a Senior Fellow

of the Society of International Electrical

and Electronic Engineers.

Besides excelling in his professio-

nal and academic career, Tim was

also a dear and wonderful friend who

always gave his best to others, lived

life to the fullest, and loved his family

with the same focus and intensity

that he devoted to his work. Some of

the quotes from his friends and col-

leagues include “impressed with his

work, his great attitude, and work

ethic”; “a gentle, kind person, willing

to take on tasks enthusiastically”;

“a great scholar, friend, and contrib-

utor to our society”; and many

others. Tim will be sorely missed by

all of us.

—Mo-Yuen Chow

IES Awards and 2011 IES Officers

The IEEE Industrial Electronics

Society (IES) has announced

the following awards for 2010:

Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achieve-

ment Award, the Rudolph Chope R&D

Award, the Anthony J. Hornfeck Serv-

ice Award, and the Early Career Award.

2010 IES Awards

2010 Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann

Achievement Award

Recipient: Prof. Bogdan M. Wilamow-

ski, Auburn University, USA

Citation: For extraordinary lifetime

contributions to semiconductor de-

vices and compu-

tational intelligent

systems.

Bogdan M. Wila-

mowski received

his M.S. degree in

computer engi-

neering in 1966, his

Ph.D. degree in neural computing in

1970, and his Dr. habil. in integrated

circuit design in 1977. He received

the title of full professor from the

president of Poland in 1987. He was

the director of the Institute of Electron-

ics (1979–1981) and the chair of the

Solid-State Electronics Department

(1987–1989) at the Technical University

of Gdansk, Poland. He was a professor

at the University of Wyoming, Laramie,

from 1989 to 2000. From 2000 to 2003,

he served as an associate director at

the Microelectronics Research and

Telecommunication Institute, Univer-

sity of Idaho, Moscow, and as a profes-

sor in the Electrical and Computer

Engineering Department and Com-

puter Science Department at the same

university.

Currently, he is the director of the

Alabama Nano/Micro Science and

Technology Center (ANMSTC), Auburn,

and an alumna professor in the Electri-

cal and Computer Engineering Depart-

ment at Auburn University. He was

with the Communication Institute at

Tohoku University, Japan (1968–1970),Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIE.2011.940762

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and has spent a year at the Semicon-

ductor Research Institute, Sendai,

Japan, as a Japan Society for the Pro-

motion of Science fellow (1975–1976).

He was also a visiting scholar at

Auburn University (1981–1982 and

1995–1996) and a visiting professor at

the University of Arizona, Tucson

(1982–1984).

He is the author of four textbooks,

more than 300 refereed publications,

and 27 patents. He was the principal

professor for about 130 graduate stu-

dents. His main areas of interest

include semiconductor devices and

sensors, mixed signal and analog sig-

nal processing, and computational

intelligence. He was the vice presi-

dent of the IEEE Computational Intel-

ligence Society (2000–2004) and the

president of the IES (2004–2005). He

was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transac-

tions on Industrial Electronics and an

associate editor of IEEE Transactions on

Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on

Education, IEEE Transactions on Indus-

trial Electronics, Journal of Intelligent and

Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Computing,

International Journal of Circuit Systems,

and IES Newsletter. He is currently the

editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions

on Industrial Informatics.

He is an IEEE Fellow and an honor-

ary member of the Hungarian Acad-

emy of Science. In 2008, he was

awarded by the president of Poland

the Commander’s Cross of the Order

of Merit of the Republic of Poland for

his outstanding service in the prolif-

eration of international scientific col-

laborations and for achievements in

the areas of microelectronics and

computer science.

2010 Rudolph Chope R&D Award

Recipient: Prof.

Ron Hui, City Uni-

versity of Hong

Kong and Imperial

College London

Citation: For

contributions to

sustainable light-

ing technology and physical model-

ing of lighting devices and systems.

Ron Hui received his B.Sc. (Eng)

Hons. degree at the University of

Birmingham in 1984 and his D.I.C. and

Ph.D. degrees at Imperial College of

Science and Technology, London, in

1987. He was a lecturer at the Univer-

sity of Nottingham, United Kingdom,

in 1987–1990. In 1990, he joined the

University of Technology, Sydney, and

was appointed as a senior lecturer at

the University of Sydney in 1992, where

he became a reader in 1995. He joined

the City University of Hong Kong

(CityU) as a professor in 1996 and

was promoted as the chair professor

in 1998. In 2001–2004, he served as an

associate dean of the Faculty of Science

and Engineering at CityU. Currently, he

holds the chair professorship at both

CityU and Imperial College London.

He has published more than 200

technical papers, including more than

140 refereed journal publications and

book chapters. More than 45 of his

patents have been adopted by indus-

try. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IET.

He has been an associate editor

(power conversion) of IEEE Transac-

tions on Power Electronics since 1997

and an associate editor (lighting tech-

nology) of IEEE Transactions on Indus-

trial Electronics since 2007. He was

appointed twice as an IEEE Distin-

guished Lecturer by the IEEE Power

Electronics Society in 2004 and 2006,

respectively. He served as one of the

18 administrative committee (AdCom)

members of the IEEE Power Electron-

ics Society and was chair of its Consti-

tution and Bylaws Committee from

2002 to 2010.

He received the Teaching Excel-

lence Award at CityU in 1998 and the

Earth Champion Award in 2008. He

won the IEEE Best Paper Award from

the IEEE Industry Applications Soci-

ety Committee on Production and

Applications of Light in 2002 and two

IEEE Power Electronics Transactions

Prize Paper Awards for his publica-

tion “Wireless Battery Charging Plat-

form Technology” in 2009 and for his

article on “LED System Theory” in

2010. His inventions on wireless-

charging platform technology have

been adopted by the Wireless Power

Consortium to form the international

wireless charging standard “Qi” for

consumer electronics.

In 2010, he received the IET

Achievement Medal (the Crompton

Medal) and was elected to the Fel-

lowship of the Australian Academy

of Technological Sciences and Engi-

neering. In the last few years, he has

been advocating the new concept of

sustainable lighting, which involves

energy savings, long product life-

time, and recyclability of product

materials. He has proposed and

developed new technologies that

provide highly energy-efficient bal-

lasts with the lifetime exceeding ten

years and with more than 90% of the

product materials being recyclable.

He has also developed the general

photoelectrothermal theory for LED

systems. This theory unifies the

interactions of heat, light, and power

in a light-emitting diode (LED) sys-

tem and can be used as an optimal

design tool for LED products. In

addition, he has developed physical

models for both high-intensity dis-

charge lamps and fluorescent lamps

that do not rely on curve fitting.

These models can be implemented

in a simulation software for ballast

designs and studies.

2010 Anthony J. Hornfeck

Service Award

Recipient: Prof.

Ramu Krishnan,

Virginia Tech, USA

Citation: For out-

standing, merito-

rious services to

the IES.

Ramu Krishnan

is a professor of electrical and com-

puter engineering at Virginia Tech,

Blacksburg, and directs the Center

for Rapid Transit Systems in linear

and rotating motor drives. He has

been granted nine U.S. patents and

others are pending in the United

States, Europe, and other countries.

His inventions have been prominently

featured in public media, including

radio, television, and newspapers such

as The Wall Street Journal. He has exten-

sively consulted for 18 companies in the

United States. He has developed and

delivered short courses for academia

and industry on vector-controlled

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induction, permanent magnet syn-

chronous and brushless dc, switched

reluctance, and linear electric motor

drive systems.

Krishnan is the recipient of best

paper prize awards from the IEEE

Industry Applications Society’s In-

dustrial Drives Committee (five awards)

and Electric Machines Committee (one

award). In addition, he received the first

prize from IEEE Transactions on Indus-

try Applications and the 2007 Best

Paper Award from IEEE Industrial Elec-

tronics Magazine. He was awarded

IES’s Dr. Eugene-Mittelmann Achieve-

ment Award for his outstanding techni-

cal contributions to the field of

industrial electronics in 2003. He is a

Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished

Lecturer of the IES. He is a senior

AdCom member of the IES and served

as a vice president (publications)

from 2002 to 2005. He served as the

general chair of the 29th IECON

(2003), Roanoke, Virginia, and as one

of three general cochairs of the IEEE

International Conference on Indus-

trial Technology (ICIT 2006), Mumbai,

India. He has delivered many keynote

speeches during IEEE conferences.

Krishnan and some of his gradu-

ate scholars’ inventions constituted

the founding technologies for three

motor drives companies. He is the

author of Electric Motor Drives (Pren-

tice Hall, 2001), its Chinese translation

(Pearson Education Taiwan, 2002),

Indian edition (Prentice Hall of India,

2002), international edition (Prentice

Hall International Edition, 2001), and

Greek translation (Klidarithmos Pub-

lishers, Athens, 2009); the author of

Switched Reluctance Motor Drives

(CRC Press, first edition, 2001, sec-

ond edition, 2003); the coeditor of

Control in Power Electronics (Aca-

demic Press, 2002), which won the

best book award from the Ministry

of Education and Sport, Poland, in

2003; and the author of Permanent

Magnet Synchronous and Brushless

DC Motor Drives (CRC Press, 2009).

2010 Early Career Award

Recipient: Dr. Jin-

Shyan Lee, National

Taipei University

of Technology,

Taiwan

Citation: For out-

standing research

in Petri net appli-

cations and networked supervisory

control.

Jin-Shyan Lee received his B.S.

degree in mechanical engineering from

the National Taiwan University of Sci-

ence and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan,

in 1997, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees

in electrical and control engineering

from National Chiao Tung University,

Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2004,

respectively. During 2003–2004, he was

a visiting researcher at the Department

of Electrical and Computer Engineer-

ing, New Jersey Institute of Technol-

ogy, Newark. He was a researcher at

the Information and Communications

Research Laboratory, Industrial Tech-

nology Research Institute (ITRI), dur-

ing 2005–2009. Since August 2009, he

has been an assistant professor at the

Department of Electrical Engineering

at National Taipei University of Tech-

nology. His current research interests

include Petri nets, wireless sensor net-

works, remote monitoring and con-

trol, supervisory control, and hybrid

systems.

His research work has led to a

number of papers in journals and con-

ference proceedings. He was invited

to speak at the North New Jersey IEEE

Control Systems Chapter, Newark,

and the University of Rome “La Sapi-

enza,” Rome, Italy. Lee is the recipient

of the 2008 Youth Automatic Control

Engineering Award from the Chinese

Automatic Control Society (CACS),

the 2004 International Scholarship

from the Society of Instrument and

Control Engineers (SICE), and was a

finalist in both the Annual International

Award and Young Author’s Award at

the 2004 SICE Annual Conference, Sap-

poro, Japan.

He is a member of the technical

committee on discrete event systems

of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cyber-

netics (SMC) Society. He has served

as a technical program committee

member for various IEEE conferen-

ces. He is also an active reviewer for

several journals focusing on Petri nets

and sensor networks. He has organized

special sessions on wireless sensor net-

works and Petri nets and discrete event

systems at the 2007, 2009, and 2010

IECON, 2010 SICE, and the 2006 IEEE

International Conference on SMC.

Distinguished Lectureby Prof. Kaynak in SingaporeThe Industrial Electronics Chapter

of the IEEE Singapore Section invited

Prof. Okyay Kaynak, IEEE Fellow,

and UNESCO chair of mechatronics

at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Tur-

key, to give a distinguished lecture

CALL FOR IES AWARDS NOMINATIONSThe IES is soliciting nominations for the following Society awards. The deadline

for nominations is 1 May 2011. For more details including eligibility, prize, and

nomination procedures, please refer to the award specifications at http://ieee-

ies.org/index.php/about/awards/. Please submit the nomination and refer-

ence forms to the IES Awards and Honor Committee Chair, Prof. Hiromasa

Haneda, at [email protected].

Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award

The award is offered to a member with outstanding contributions in the field of

industrial electronics.

Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award

The award is offered to a member with outstanding, meritorious services to the IES.

J. David Irwin Early Career Award

The award is offered to an early career member with significant contributions

to the advancement of the field of industrial electronics.


“Intelligent Systems: An Assessment

of the Past and the Prospects for the

Future.” Organized by Prof. Changyun

Wen, the lecture was held at the School

of Electrical and Electronic Engineer-

ing, Nanyang Technological University

in Singapore, on 15 September 2010.

Prof. Kaynak started his lecture by

giving some background of intelligent

systems, including robust control and

application examples. Then he pre-

sented the recent advances in intelli-

gent control theory. He continued

showing how the theory could provide

intelligent control to robotics with ran-

dom interferences. Finally, he illus-

trated ASIMO and Big Dog in a video.

About 40 people from universities, pol-

ytechnics, research institutes, and

industry attended the lecture. They

were very interested in his vivid lec-

ture and had lively discussions with

Prof. Kaynak.

Prof. Kaynak also delivered a semi-

nar, “Intelligent Systems,” at the

National University of Singapore on

21 September 2010. In his talk, he

reviewed the current status of intelli-

gent systems with examples. He also

presented future perspectives in the

area and discussed the reasons behind

the slow pace of development. He con-

cluded his talk with a consideration of

the possible research directions in

mechatronics and robotics as driving

forces behind the development of intel-

ligent systems.

During his visit, Prof. Kaynak had

frequent discussions with some IES

members and researchers in Singapore

on the state of the art and future chal-

lenges in various areas of industrial

electronics, especially in control sys-

tem technologies. They felt that his

visit and lectures were stimulating,

rewarding, enjoyable, and memorable.

Recognition ofIES Member Prof. Peracaula

The Catalonian In-

stitution of Engi-

neering (CEIC) in

Barcelona, Spain,

recognized IES

member Prof. Joan

Peracaula with the

Academic Merit

Award for pioneering and long-term

work for knowledge transmission in

the field of electronic technology and

power electronics. He received his

Ph.D. degree from the Technical Uni-

versity of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona,

Spain, in 1961. He was a professor at

the Department of Control Engineer-

ing, Technical University of Madrid,

Spain (1966–1971) and at the Depart-

ment of Electronic Engineering, UPC

(1971–2001), where he has been an

active professor emeritus since 2002.

He was the first director (1985–1988)

of the Spanish National Microelec-

tronic Center, as well as the dean

of the Faculty of Engineering at the

UPC (1987–1991). He has been the

principal investigator for more than

30 large research and R&D projects

and has published and reviewed ex-

tensively in his areas of expertise,

which include variable-speed electric

drives, renewable energies, and con-

trol systems.

Prof. John Y. Hung New SeniorMember of the IES AdComThe members of the IES who have

devoted ten or more years of service

to the Society as an officer, AdCom

member, transaction editor, major

conference chair, newsletter editor,

and the like shall be eligible for elec-

tion as a senior member of the AdCom.

The election is conducted at the

annual meeting of the Society by

the AdCom.

Prof. John Y. Hung, from Auburn

University, was elected as a senior

member of the AdCom during the

meeting held in Glendale, Arizona, on

11 November 2010.

IES Members Elevatedto IEEE Fellows

John Y. Hung

For contributions to control technology

for industrial electronics.

John Y. Hung re-

ceived his B.S.

degree from the

University of Ten-

nessee, Knoxville,

in 1979, his M.S.E.

degree fromPrince-

ton University,

Princeton, New Jersey, in 1981, and

his Ph.D. degree from the University

of Illinois, at Urbana–Champaign, in

1989, all in electrical engineering. From

1981 to 1985, he was with Johnson

Controls, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From

1985 to 1989, he was with Poly-Analytics,

Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1989, he

joined Auburn University in Alabama,

where he is currently a professor at the

Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering. His teaching and research

Prof. Kaynak during his distinguished lecture at Nanyang Technological University.


interests include nonlinear control

systems and signal processing, with

applications in process control, ro-

botics, vehicle control, electric machin-

ery, and power electronics.

Prof. Hung was associate editor

of IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics (1996–2005) and IEEE Tran-

sactions on Control System Technology

(1997–1998). He was the general chair

of the 34th Annual Conference of

IECON 2008, Orlando, Florida, and he

also served as the vice president for

conference activities of the IES. He

has received several awards for his

teaching and research, including the

Best Paper Award from IEEE Transac-

tions on Industrial Electronics and two

U.S. patents in the area of control

systems.

Jos�e Rodrıguez

For the development of new topologies

and control methods for power elec-

tronics converters and drives.

Jos�e Rodrıguez re-

ceived his degree

in electrical engi-

neering from the

Universidad T�ec-

nica Federico Santa

Marıa, Valparaıso,

Chile, in 1977 and

the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engi-

neering from the University of Erlan-

gen, Germany, in 1985. Since 1997, he

has been with the Universidad T�ecnica

Federico Santa Marıa, where he is

now a full professor and rector. His

research interest include high-power

drives, multilevel inverters, new power-

converter topologies, control of power

converters, and modern adjustable

speed drives. His research group was

recognized as one of the centers of

excellence in engineering in Chile from

2005 to 2008.

He is the author of more than 300

journals and conference papers. He

has been an associate editor for IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics

and IEEE Transactions on Power Elec-

tronics. In addition, he has been the

guest editor for a number of special

sections of IEEE Transactions on Indus-

trial Electronics. He received the Best

Paper Award from IEEE Transac-

tions or Industrial Electronics in 2007

and from IEEE Industrial Electronics

Magazine in 2008. Dr. Rodrıguez is a

member of the Chilean Academy of

Engineering.

Quan Xue

For contributions to microwave trans-

mission line structures and integrated

circuits.

Quan Xue received

his B.S., M.S., and

Ph.D. degrees in

electronic engi-

neering from the

University of Elec-

tronic Science and

Technology of

China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in

1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In

1993, he joined the UESTC as a lecturer.

He became an associate professor in

1995 and a professor in 1997.

From October 1997 to October 1998,

he was a research associate and

then a research fellow at the Chinese

University of Hong Kong. In 1999, he

joined the City University of Hong

Kong, where he is currently a profes-

sor and serves as deputy director of

the State Key Laboratory (Hong Kong)

of Millimeter-Waves of China and an

assistant head, Department of Elec-

tronic Engineering. Since May 2004, he

has been the principal technological

specialist of the State Integrated Cir-

cuit (IC) Design Base, Chengdu, China.

He has authored and coauthored more

than 180 internationally refereed jour-

nal papers and more than 60 interna-

tional conference papers. His current

research interests include microwave

passive components, active compo-

nents, antennas, microwave monolithic

ICs (MMICs), and radio frequency iden-

tification (RFID) and radio frequency

ICs (RFIC).

Dr. Xue is an associate editor of

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Elec-

tronics and IEEE Transactions on Micro-

wave Theory and Techniques, as well

as an editor of the International Jour-

nal of Antennas and Propagation. He is

an elected member of the IEEE Micro-

wave Theory and Techniques Society

(MTT-S) AdCom and the chair of the

Hong Kong Section of the IEEE Anten-

nas and Propagation Society (AP)/

MTT Chapter.

Han-Xiong Li

For contributions to applications of fuzzy

logic control.

Han-Xiong Li re-

ceived his B.E.

degree in aero-

space engineering

from the National

University of De-

fense Technology,

China, his M.E.

degree in electrical engineering from

Delft University of Technology, The

Netherlands, and his Ph.D. degree in

electrical engineering from the Uni-

versity of Auckland, New Zealand.

Currently, he is a full professor at the

Department of Manufacturing Engi-

neering and Engineering Manage-

ment, the City University of Hong

NEW ELECTED MEMBERS-AT-LARGE OF THE IES ADCOMTharam Dillon (term expires 2011)

Eric Monmasson (term expires 2011)

Roberto Oboe (term expires 2011)

Ali Emadi (term expires 2013)

Richard Grisel (term expires 2013)

Yoichi Hori (term expires 2013)

Shin-Yen Lai (term expires 2013)

Ju-Jang Lee (term expires 2013)

Milos Manic (term expires 2013)

Thilo Sauter (term expires 2013)


Kong. For the last 20 years, he has had

opportunities to work in different

fields, including military service, in-

dustry, and academia. His research

experience and accomplishments in-

clude fuzzy-PID for process control;

spatial-temporal fuzzy system for con-

trol; and probabilistic fuzzy system

for modeling, intelligent modeling, and

control of spatial–temporal dynamic

systems, with application to thermal

cure process and fluid dispensing for

IC packaging.


Science Citation Index (SCI) journal

papers (nearly half of them in IEEE

and ASME transactions) with h-index

21. His current research interests are

in intelligent modeling and control,

process design and control, and dis-

tributed parameter systems. Dr. Li is

an associate editor of IEEE Transac-

tions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE

Transactions on Systems, Man and

Cybernetics, Part B. He was named

the Distinguished Young Scholar (over-

seas) by the China National Science

Foundation in 2004 and the Chang Jiang

chair professor by the Ministry of Edu-

cation, China, in 2006.

Chin-Long Wey

For leadership in education and services

in integrated circuits.

Chin-Long Wey re-

ceived his Ph.D.

degree in electri-

cal engineering

from Texas Tech

University, Lub-

bock, in 1983.

He was a tenured

full professor of the Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering

at Michigan State University from

1983 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006, he

served as the dean of the College of

Electrical Engineering and Computer

Science at the National Central Univer-

sity (NCU), Jhongli, Taiwan. From 2007

to 2010, he was appointed as the vice

president at National Applied Research

Laboratories (NARL) and the director

general of the Chip Implementation

Center (CIC), Hsinchu, Taiwan.

He received the honors of the

distinguished research fellow of NARL

in 2007–2010 and the Taiwan Semi-

conductor Manufacturing Company

distinguished chair professor at NCU

in 2004 and 2007. He was the recipient

of outstanding paper awards from

the 2007 IEEE EIT conferences and

the 2009 and 2010 Outstanding Contri-

butions in Science and Technology

Award, NARL. He is currently at the

Department of Electrical Engineering

of NCU as a full professor.

His research interests include

design, testing, and fault diagnosis of

analog/mixed-signal very large scale

integration (VLSI) circuits and sys-

tems; digital circuit design automa-

tion; defect/fault-tolerant and reliable

embedded computing systems, and

reliable real-time embedded comput-

ing systems. He has published more

than 200 technical journal and confer-

ence papers in these areas. He serves

as a member of the Electronic Sys-

tems on Chip technical committee of

the IES.

Robert Puers

For contributions to implantable

microelectromechanical systems.

Robert Puers re-

ceived his B.S.

degree in electri-

cal engineering in

Ghent in 1974

and his M.S. and

Ph.D. degrees from

Katholieke Univer-

siteit Leuven in 1977 and 1986, respec-

tively. In 1980, he joined the Laboratory

ESAT at the same university as a re-

search assistant. He pioneered and

stimulated research in microelectrome-

chanical systems (MEMSs) in Belgium,

resulting in Leuven’s international

recognition as a leading-edge research

center in MEMS. To this purpose, he

assembled the requested infrastruc-

ture and installed the entire process-

ing line in a clean room, which now

runs for more than 25 years under his

guidance. MEMS development and re-

search often serves another application

in his research, namely, implantable

sensing systems for wireless bio-

monitoring. Extensive research has

been conducted to improve the effi-

ciency of power induction (with coil

systems), which has led to design rules

and guidelines requested by many peer

researchers that have been bundled in

two books.

Currently, he is a full professor at

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is

the author and coauthor of 550 journal

and conferences papers on bioteleme-

try, sensors, MEMS, and packaging. He

is the regional editor of the IOP Journal

of Micromechanics and Microengineer-

ing, was the general chair of the Euro-

sensors conference series between

2004 and 2010, and acted as the gen-

eral program chair for IEEE-EDS

Transducers’07.

Yu-Dong Yao

For contributions to wireless communi-

cations systems.

Yu-Dong Yao has

been with Stevens

Institute of Tech-

nology, Hoboken,

New Jersey, since

2000 and is cur-

rently a professor

and department di-

rector of electrical and computer engi-

neering. He is also the director of

Stevens’ Wireless Information Systems

Engineering Laboratory (WISELAB).

Previously, from 1989 to 1990, he

was at Carleton University, Ottawa,

Canada, as a research associate work-

ing on mobile radio communications.

From 1990 to 1994, he was with Spar

Aerospace Ltd., Montr�eal, Canada,

where he was involved in research on

satellite communications. From 1994

to 2000, he was with Qualcomm Inc.,

San Diego, California, where he par-

ticipated in the research and devel-

opment in wireless code-division

multiple-access (CDMA) systems. He

holds a Chinese patent and 13 U.S.

patents. His research interests include

wireless communications and net-

works, spread spectrum and CDMA,

antenna arrays and beamforming,

cognitive and software-defined radio

(CSDR), and digital signal processing

for wireless systems.

Dr. Yao was an associate editor of

IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE

Transactions on Vehicular Technology

and an editor of IEEE Transactions on


Wireless Communications. He received

his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from

Nanjing University of Posts and Tele-

communications, Nanjing, China, in

1982 and 1985, respectively, and his

Ph.D. degree from Southeast Univer-

sity, Nanjing, China, in 1988, all in elec-

trical engineering.

Guo-Ping Liu

For contributions to networked control

systems.

Guo-Ping Liu is

chair of control

engineering at the

University of Gla-

morgan, United

Kingdom. He re-

ceived his B.Eng.

and M.Eng. degrees

in automation from the Central South

University of Technology (now the

Central South University) in China in

1982 and 1985, respectively, and his

Ph.D. degree in control engineering

from the University of Manchester

Institute of Science and Technology

(now the University of Manchester),

United Kingdom, in 1992. Prof. Liu

conducted his postdoctoral research

in the University of York in 1992–

1993. He worked as a research fellow

at the University of Sheffield in 1994.

During 1996–2000, he was a senior

engineer at GEC-Alsthom and ALS-

TOM and then a principal engineer

and a project leader at ABB ALSTOM

Power. He was a senior lecturer at

the University of Nottingham in 2000–

2003, a Hundred-Talent Program vis-

iting professor at the Chinese Acad-

emy of Sciences in 2001–2005, and a

Changjiang scholar visiting professor

at Harbin Institute of Technology in

2008–2010.

He has been a professor at the

University of Glamorgan since 2004.

He has more than 400 papers (includ-

ing more than 140 SCI journal papers),

seven books, five patents, and 23

registered software copyrights on

control systems. He was awarded the

Alexander von Humboldt Research

Fellowship in 1992. He received the

Best Paper Prize for applications at

the United Kingdom Automatic Con-

trol Council (UKACC) International

Conference on Control in 1998, the out-

standing overseas scholarship award

from the National Natural Science

Foundation of China in 2005, the

GuanZhaoZhi Best Paper Prize at the

26th Chinese Control Conference in

2007, the Best Paper Prize at the 13th

International Conference on Automa-

tion and Computing in 2007, and the

second prize of Chinese National Sci-

ence and Technology Awards in 2008.

He was the general chair of the 2007

IEEE International Conference on Net-

working, Sensing, and Control and the

program cochair of the 2008 UKACC

International Conference on Control.

He is the editor-in-chief of the

International Journal of Automation

and Computing, an associate editor of

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,

a member of the IFAC technical com-

mittee on networked systems, a mem-

ber of the Engineering and Physical

Sciences Research Council Peer Review

College, and a fellow of the IET. His main

research areas include networked con-

trol systems, nonlinear system iden-

tification and control, multiobjective

optimization and control, and advanced

control of industrial systems.

Bo H. Cho

For contributions to large-scale distrib-

uted power electronics systems.

Bo H. Cho re-

ceived his B.S.

and M.S. degrees

in electrical engi-

neering from the

California Institute

of Technology in

Pasadena, and his

Ph.D. degree, also in electrical engi-

neering, from Virginia Polytechnic

Institute and State University in Blacks-

burg. From 1980 to 1982, he was a

member of the technical staff of the

Power Conversion Electronics Depart-

ment, TRW Defense and Space System

Group, Redondo Beach, California. From

1985 to 1995, he was an assistant associ-

ate professor at the Department of

Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech.

He joined the School of Electrical

Engineering, Seoul National Univer-

sity, Korea, in 1995, where he is pres-

ently a professor.


papers in power electronics journals

and conference proceedings and nu-

merous technical reports for the U.S.

government and industries. He has

served the IEEE Power Electronics

Society as a chair for the Membership

and Publicity Committee. He was the

general chair for the 2006 Power

Electronics Specialist Conference and

the president of the Korean Institute

of Power Electronics (KIPE, 2006–2007).

He is a full member of the National

Academy of Engineering, Korea. Dr. Cho

was a recipient of the 1989 Presidential

Young Investigator Award from the

National Science Foundation. He is a

member of Tau Beta Pi.

Fujio Kurokawa

For contributions to switching power

converter control.

Fujio Kurokawa

received his B.S.

degree from the

Department of

Electronics Engi-

neering of Fukuoka

Institute of Tech-

nology, Japan, in

1976 and the doctor in engineering

degree from Osaka Prefecture Univer-

sity, Japan, in 1988. Currently, he is a

professor at the Department of Elec-

trical and Electronic Engineering of

Nagasaki University, Japan. His re-

search areas are analog and digital

control for dc–dc converters, ac–dc

converters, and dc–ac inverters. His

application fields are in solar cell sys-

tems, engine control of space satel-

lites and ships, lighting technologies,

green IT and microgrid technologies,

and machine-learning technologies.

Olorunfemi Ojo

For contributions to dual stator winding

electric machines.

Olorunfemi Ojo re-

ceived his bache-

lor’s and master’s

degrees in electri-

cal engineering

from Ahmadu Bello

University, Zaria,

Nigeria, and his

Ph.D. degree from the University of


Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently a

TVA chair professor of electrical and

computer engineering at the Tennessee

Technological University, Cookeville.

His current research interests lie

in the areas of electric machine analy-

sis and drive control, switching-

converter technology, and modern

control applications in converter-

enhanced power and distributed energy

generation systems. Presently, Dr. Ojo

is the vice chair of the Industrial

Power Conversion Systems Depart-

ment of the IEEE Industry Applica-

tions Society. He is also an associate

editor of IEEE Transactions on Power

Electronics and an editorial board

member of IET Proceedings on Power

Electronics.

Susanto Rahardja

For leadership in digital audio and

signal processing.

Susanto Rahardja is an electrical

engineer who does research in

the area of signal processing and

interactive digital media, in which

he has published

more than 250

international ly

refereed journal

and conference

papers. At present,

he is the director

of research at the

Institute for Infocomm Research and

head of the Signal Processing Depart-

ment as well as a principal scientist in

the institute.

He was the recipient, among other

awards, of the IEE Hartree Premium

Award in 2002, the Tan Kah Kee

Young Inventor’s Award (GOLD) in

2003, the Spring Standards Council

Award in 2006, the National Technol-

ogy Award in 2007, the A*STAR Most

Inspiring Mentor Award in 2008, and

the I2R Achiever of the Year Award

(Research) in 2010. He contributed a

series of technologies for scalable to

lossless audio compression and loss-

less coding, which are patented,

adopted, and published as normative

international standards in ISO/IEC

14496-3:2005/Amd.3:2006 and ISO/IEC

14496-3:2005/Amd.2:2006, respectively.

Dr. Rahardja has served on several

boards and advisory and technical

committees for ACM, Asia Pacific Signal

and Information Processing Associa-

tion (APSIPA), IEEE, and SPIE professio-

nal activities in the area of multimedia,

which includes chairing of at least

one international conference in each

of the abovementioned professional

associations. He is a council member

of the National IT Standards Commit-

tee in Singapore, the president of

ACM Special Interest Group on

Computer Graphics and Interactive

Techniques Singapore Chapter (SSC)

and the Southeast Asia Graphics

(SEAGRAPH) society as well as the

board of governor for the APSIPA

association. He is currently serving

as an associate editor for IEEE Trans-

actions on Audio, Speech and Language

Processing, Elsevier Journal of Visual

Communication and Image Repre-

sentation, and IEEE Transactions on

Multimedia.

Complete List of IEEE Medals and Recognitions

The IEEE Awards Board adminis-

ters the awards and recognition

program of the IEEE. Through its

awards program, the IEEE advances

the interests of its members by recog-

nizing their contributions in advancing

the fields of interest to IEEE to the bene-

fit of society. The list of IEEE Medals

and Recognitions includes:

IEEE Medal of Honor—for an ex-

ceptional contribution or an extraordi-

nary career in the IEEE fields of interest.

IEEE Edison Medal—for a career

of meritorious achievement in electri-

cal science, electrical engineering, or

electrical arts.

IEEE Founders Medal—for out-

standing contributions in the leader-

ship, planning, and administration of

affairs of great value to the electrical

and electronics engineering profession.

IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Edu-

cation Medal—for a career of out-

standing contributions to education

in the fields of interest of IEEE.

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell

Medal—for exceptional contributions

to the advancement of communica-

tions sciences and engineering.

IEEE Simon Ramo Medal—for

exceptional achievement in systems

engineering and systems science.

IEEE Medal for Environmental

and Safety Technologies—for out-

standing accomplishments in the

application of technology in the fields

of interest of the IEEE that improve the

environment and/or public safety.

IEEE Medal for Innovations in

Health-CareTechnology—foroutstanding

contributions and/or innovations in engi-

neering within the fields of medicine,

biology, and health-care technology.

IEEE Medal in Power Engineer-

ing—for outstanding contributions to

the technology associated with the

generation, transmission, distribution,

application, and utilization of electric

power for the betterment of the society.

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal—

for exceptional contributions to informa-

tion sciences, systems, and technology.

IEEE John von Neumann Medal—

for outstanding achievements in

computer-related science and

technology.

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Process-

ing Medal—for outstanding achieve-

ments in signal processing.

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal—

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