THE INSTITUTE Here are the recipients of the 2021 IEEE medals, service awards, honorary membership, corporate recognition, and technical field awards. The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors.
MEDALS AND RECOGNITIONS
IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR
Sponsor: IEEE Foundation
Israel Institute of Technology, retired
Haifa, Israel
“For fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”
IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL
Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs
Stanford
“For contributions to internet router architecture and software-defined networking.”
IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL
Sponsor: Google
The Ohio State University
Columbus
“For leadership and technical contributions spanning academia, government, and business.”
IEEE EDISON MEDAL
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co.
Tokyo Institute of Technology, retired
"For pioneering contributions to the concept, physics, and development of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.”
IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES
Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp.
University of Houston
Texas
“For contributions to the advancement of transportation electrification technologies for the reduction of emissions and for improving energy efficiency.”
IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL
Sponsor: IEEE Richard and Mary Jo Stanley Memorial Fund of the IEEE Foundation
Broadcom, retired
Irvine, Calif.
“For leadership in research, development, and commercialization of broadband communication and networking technology with global impact.”
IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL
Sponsor: Qualcomm
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong
“For fundamental contributions to information theory and pioneering network coding and its applications.”
IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY
Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
RUZENA BAJCSY
University of California, Berkeley
“For pioneering and sustained contributions to healthcare technology fundamental to computer vision, medical imaging, and computational anatomy.”
IEEE THEODORE W. HISSEY OUTSTANDING YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Young Professionals, Photonics Society, Power & Energy Society
KARTIK KULKARNI
Oracle Corp.
Redwood City, Calif.
“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 JACK S. KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Corecipients:
University of California, Los Angeles
JUSTIN ROMBERG
Georgia Institute of Technology
“For groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing.”
IEEE/RSE JAMES CLERK MAXWELL MEDAL
Funder: ARM
“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
Sponsor: MathWorks, Pearson, Lockheed Martin Corp., and the IEEE Life Members Fund
Georgia Institute of Technology
“For inspirational teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.”
IEEE JUN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL
Sponsor: The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan
University of Texas at Arlington
“For contributions to the development of strained-layer semiconductor lasers.”
IEEE ROBERT N. NOYCE MEDAL
Sponsor: Intel Corp.
Advanced Micro Devices
Austin, Texas
“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
Sponsor: Raytheon Technologies
McMaster University, retired
Hamilton, Ont., Canada
“For contributions to the development of the theory and practice of radar, especially cognitive radar and adaptive filtering.”
IEEE MEDAL IN POWER ENGINEERING
Sponsors: IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, and Power & Energy societies
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ont., Canada
“For contributions to the theory and practice of high-frequency power-conversion systems.”
IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.
“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
Sponsor: IBM Corp.
Google
Mountain View, Calif.
“For contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems and artificial intelligence systems.”
IEEE CORPORATE INNOVATION AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED
Hsinchu, Taiwan
“For leadership in 7 nanometer semiconductor foundry technology, enabling customers’ innovations in widespread applications.”
IEEE RICHARD M. EMBERSON AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Technical Activities Board
IBM, retired
South Salem, N.Y.
“For contributions to and leadership of multiple IEEE technical Societies, the Technical Activities Board, and the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Activities.”
IEEE HARADEN PRATT AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Foundation
Battelle
Richland, Wash.
“For steadfast service and leadership dedicated to the IEEE mission and members across all corporate, geographic, technical, and educational levels.”
IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
Sponsor: IEEE
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
“For decades of exceptional scientific and engineering achievements that have profoundly impacted the world’s progress in space exploration.”
TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
IEEE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD
Sponsors: IEEE Circuits and Systems and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology societies
“For the integration of ultrasound and engineered vesicles in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.”
IEEE CLEDO BRUNETTI AWARD
Sponsor: Brunetti Bequest
“For leadership in and contributions to InGaAs- and GaN-based field-effect transistor technology.”
IEEE ELECTRONIC PACKAGING AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Electronic Packaging Society
University of California, Irvine
“For contributions to new silver alloys, new bonding methods, flip-chip interconnect, and education for electronics packaging.”
IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Control Systems Society
Systems Innovation Center
Tokyo
“For contributions to synthesis theory of control systems and its applications to manufacturing devices and systems.”
IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS AWARD
Sponsors: IEEE Antennas and Propagation, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Geoscience and Remote Sensingsocieties
Arizona State University
Tempe
“For contributions to electromagnetics through excellence in book authorship, teaching, and antenna research.”
IEEE JAMES L. FLANAGAN SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Pryon Inc.
Raleigh, N.C.
“For contributions to and leadership in research and deployment of spoken-language technologies.”
IEEE FOURIER AWARD FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING
Sponsors: IEEE Circuits and Systems and the IEEE Signal Processing societies
University of Maryland
College Park
“For outstanding leadership in and pioneering contributions to signal processing for wireless sensing and communications.”
IEEE ANDREW S. GROVE AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Electron Devices Society
Corecipients:
Kioxia Corp.
Kanagawa, Japan
Kioxia Corp.
Mie, Japan
Kioxia Corp.
Mie, Japan
“For pioneering and sustained contributions to high-density, three-dimensional flash memory.”
IEEE HERMAN HALPERIN ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION AWARD
Sponsor: The Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory of Herman and Edna Halperin, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society
Stott, Inc.
Scottsdale, Ariz.
“For contributions to the development and application of power flow and optimal power flow analysis.”
IEEE MASARU IBUKA CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AWARD
Sponsor: Sony Corp.
Woz Speaks
Los Gatos, Calif.
“For pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers.”
IEEE RICHARD HAROLD KAUFMANN AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Industry Applications Society
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland
“For innovative contributions to the advancement of intelligent systems for power engineering applications.”
IEEE JOSEPH F. KEITHLEY AWARD IN INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Sponsors: Keithley Instruments, a Tektronix Co., and the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
Corecipients:
Board of Directors of Power Oregon, retired
White Salmon, Wash.
Form Factor, Inc.
Livermore, Calif.
“For contributions to RF microprobing measurement techniques enabling accurate on-wafer circuit testing.”
IEEE GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
“For pioneering CMOS technology for high-performance wireless circuits and systems.”
IEEE LEON K. KIRCHMAYER GRADUATE TEACHING AWARD
Sponsor: Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
“For educating, developing, guiding, and energizing generations of highly successful students and postdoctoral fellows.”
IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS AWARD
Sponsor: NEC Corp.
“For broad contributions to computer networking and mobile and wireless systems.”
IEEE WILLIAM E. NEWELL POWER ELECTRONICS AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Power Electronics Society
University of Colorado at Boulder
“For contributions to power electronics education and analysis, modeling, and design of power converters.”
IEEE DONALD O. PEDERSON AWARD IN SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS
Sponsor: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Analog Devices, Inc., retired
Tucson, Ariz.
“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
Sponsor: IEEE Photonics Society
Consultant
Boulder, Colo.
“For seminal and sustained contributions to the development and commercialization of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL).”
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Co-recipients:
“For foundational contributions to robot motion planning and visionary leadership of the field.”
IEEE FRANK ROSENBLATT AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
University of Missouri, retired
Columbia
“For fundamental work on fuzzy pattern recognition, fuzzy clustering, and fuzzy technologies in computer vision.”
IEEE MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, retired
Belgium
“For key developments in image reconstruction for positron emission tomography and x-ray computed tomography.”
IEEE INNOVATION IN SOCIETAL INFRASTRUCTURE AWARD
Sponsors: Hitachi and the IEEE Computer Society
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Ind.
“For advancing the security and privacy of new-generation cellular networks.”
IEEE CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Standards Association
TECO Westinghouse Motor Co.
Round Rock, Texas
“For leadership in and contributions to the development of standards for electrical machines.”
IEEE ERIC E. SUMNER AWARD
Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs
University of Waterloo
Ont., Canada
“For contributions to the theory and practice of source coding.”
IEEE NIKOLA TESLA AWARD
Sponsors: Wolong Electric Group, IEEE Industry Applications and the IEEE Power & Energy societies
University of Sheffield
South Yorkshire, England
“For contributions to the design, modeling, control, and application of ac permanent magnet machines and drives.”
IEEE KIYO TOMIYASU AWARD
Sponsors: The late Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the Microwave Theory and Techniques societies
“For contributions to game theory and distributed management of autonomous communication networks.”
IEEE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES AWARD
Sponsors: IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Microwave Theory and Techniques, Power Electronics, Power & Energy, and Vehicular Technology societies
Zhejiang University
Haining, Zhejiang, China
“For contributions to electric vehicle battery management and hybrid system optimization.”
IEEE UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AWARD
Sponsor: IEEE Education Society
Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
Feira de Santana, Brazil
“For encouraging women to pursue STEM careers, and developing industry-based projects for social justice.”
For additional information on the recipients and the awards process, visit the IEEE Awards website.
Lynn Frassetti is the senior awards presentation and communications specialist for IEEE Awards Activities.
