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IEEE Fellows 2019

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2019

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Sonia Aissa
for contributions to design and performance analysis of cognitive radio and cooperative communication systems

Leopoldo Angrisani
for contributions to test and measurement of communication systems

Gabriella Bosco
for contributions to modeling and design of coherent optical communication systems

Antonio Capone
for contributions to the design and resource management of wireless and Internet Protocol networks

Jiming Chen
for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless sensor networks

Romit Roy Choudhury
for contributions to wireless network protocols and indoor localization

Brian Classon
for contributions to commercial cellular system standardization

Timothy Davidson
for contributions to optimization of signal processing and communication systems

Meng Hwa Er
for contributions to electronic engineering education

Joseph Evans
for contributions to cognitive networks and deployment of defense networks

Robert Fish
for application of visual communications and networking

Ali Ghrayeb
for contributions to modulation design and implementation of multiple antenna wireless systems

Ahmed A-g Helmy
for contributions to routing protocol design and mobility modeling

Pin-han Ho
for contributions to failure restoration in optical backbone networks

Hans-arno Jacobsen
for contributions to publish/subscribe and event processing

Tao Jiang
for contributions to coding, modulation, and cognitive radio systems design

Hai Jin
for contributions to peer-to-peer and cloud computing systems

Srinivasan Keshav
for contributions to fair queueing techniques and flow-control algorithms in computer networks

Dong In Kim
for contributions to cross-layer design of wireless communications systems

Ioannis Krikidis
for contributions to full-duplex radio and wireless-powered communications

Juho Lee
for leadership in standardization of cellular communication technologies

Chih-peng Li
for contributions to digital broadcasting and wireless transmission

Hongbin Li
for contributions to adaptive radar signal processing with limited data

Yonghui Li
for contributions to cooperative communications technologies

Marco Lops
for contributions to radar target detection and estimation in clutter

Alex Liu
for contributions to firewall design and analysis

Xin Liu
for contributions to the design of cross-layer resource allocation algorithms for cellular and cognitive radio networks

Shiwen Mao
for contributions to wireless multimedia networking

Neelesh Mehta
for contributions to opportunistic selection in wireless communication systems

Daniel Pitt
for leadership in networking and of the Open Networking Foundation

Yi Qian
for contributions to wireless communication networks and smart grid communication architectures

Matthew Roughan
for contributions to Internet measurement and analysis

Dan Rubenstein
for contributions to massively distributed networked systems

Walid Saad
for contributions to distributed optimization in cooperative and heterogeneous wireless systems

Mikael Skoglund
for contributions to source-channel coding and wireless communications

Lingyang Song
for contributions to cooperative communication and networking

Bruce Suter
for contributions to data acquisition for aerospace sensory information systems

Jian Tang
for contributions to optimization in wireless networks and mobile crowdsourcing systems

Meixia Tao
for contributions to resource allocation in broadband wireless networks

Ioannis Tomkos
for contributions to dynamic optical networks

Murat Uysal
for contributions to cooperative and diversity techniques in wireless and optical communications

Moustafa Youssef
for contributions to wireless location tracking technologies

Yanchao Zhang
for contributions to wireless and mobile security

Yimin D Zhang
for contributions to high-resolution direction finding and radar signal processing

Ping Zhang
for leadership in theory, standardization, and application of wireless technologies

Lin Zhong
for contributions to the development of energy-efficient driver circuits for organic light-emitting diodes

IEEE Fellows 2018

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2018

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Erik Agrell 
for contributions to coding and modulation in optical communications

Kohtaro Asai 
for contributions to video coding development and standardization

Paul Barford 
for contributions to Internet measurement and security

Yigang Cai 
for innovations in high-speed wireless networks

Carla Chiasserini 
for contributions to energy efficiency and cooperation in wireless networks

Thomas Coughlin 
for leadership in consumer electronics digital storage technology

Massimo Franceschetti 
for contributions to random wireless networks

Pascal Frossard 
for contributions to adaptive image and video representation, coding and communication

Alexander Gelman 
for contributions to technologies for streaming and controlling digital video

Xinping Guan 
for contributions to stability analysis for time-delay fuzzy systems and intelligent control of nonlinear systems

Mounir Ghogho 
for contributions to synchronization algorithms for communication systems

Martin Haardt 
for contributions to multi-user MIMO communications and tensorbased signal processing

Harald Haas 
for leadership in the design of visible light and wireless communication systems

Haibo He 
for contributions to adaptive learning

Tian He 
for development and optimization of networked sensing systems

Pan Hui
for contributions to social-based opportunistic networks

Somesh Jha 
for contributions to the application of formal methods to security

Aleksandar Kavcic 
for contributions to signal processing and coding in data storage

Angelos Keromytis 
for contributions to network security systems

Jungwon Lee 
for contributions to signal processing for cellular modems

Riccardo Leonardi 
for contributions to image and video compression and multimedia semantic content analysis

Qun Li 
for contributions to ad-hoc network routing and sensor networks

Ben Liang 
for contributions to mobility modeling and resource management in wireless networks

Chia-wen Lin 
for contributions to multimedia coding and editing

Jie Liu 
for contributions to wireless sensing

Guoqiang Mao 
for contributions to localization algorithms for wireless networks

Saverio Mascolo 
for contributions to modeling and control of congestion in packet networks

Earl Mc Cune  
for leadership in polar modulation circuits and signals

Deepankar (Deep) Medhi
for contributions to optimization and the design of computer communication networks

Tommaso Melodia 
for contributions to underwater acoustic and multimedia networks

Jelena Misic 
for contributions to modeling and performance evaluation in wireless communications

Mehul Motani 
for contributions to wireless communications and sensor networks

Chandra Nair  
for contributions to network information theory

Stefan Parkvall 
for contributions to cellular standards

George Pavlou 
for contributions to resource management and content-based networking

Konstantinos Psounis 
for contributions to multi-hop wireless networks

Tony Q. S. Quek 
for contributions to heterogeneous and wireless networks

Jennifer Rexford  
for contributions to the management of networks and associated routing systems

Jiwu Shu 
for contributions to dependable, high-performance storage systems architecture

Min Song 
for leadership in supporting wireless networking and radio spectrum access

Weifeng Su 
for contributions to multi-input multi-output wireless communications and cooperative networks

Marina Thottan 
for leadership in high-speed internet-protocol networks

Matthew Valenti 
for contributions to cooperative diversity and development of distributed turbo codes

Yu Wang
for contributions to topology design and performance optimization in wireless networks

Xudong Wang 
for contributions to wireless mesh networks

Yang Yang 
for contributions and leadership in wireless access and networking

Richard Yu 
for contributions to mobility management and radio resource allocation in mobile wireless networks

Yanyong Zhang 
for contributions to robust and efficient large-scale sensor networks

Zhensheng Zhang 
for contributions to wireless ad-hoc and optical networks

Peiying Zhu 
for leadership in wireless communications systems

IEEE Fellows 2017

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2017

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Raviraj Adve
for development of signal processing techniques for airborne radar

N. Asokan
for contributions to system security and privacy

R. Michael Buehrer
for contributions to wideband signal processing in communications and geolocation

Yan Chen
for contributions to design, measurement, and security of networking systems 

Israel Cidon
for contributions to high-speed packet networks, network-on-chip and wide area file systems

Christopher R Cole
for contributions to 10G, 40G, and 100G Optical Ethernet and OTN interfaces

Huaiyu Dai
for contributions to MIMO communications and wireless security

Jing Deng
for development and optimization of wireless security and networking protocols

Danny Dolev
for development of consistent, robust, and efficient distributed computing and storage

Falko Dressler
for contributions to adaptive and self-organizing communication protocols in sensor and vehicular networks

Eylem Ekici
for contributions to algorithms, protocols, and architectures of multi-hop wireless networks

Pablo Estevez
for contributions to feature selection and visualization of large data sets  

Michael Gastpar
for contributions to network information theory

Stephen Hanly
for contributions to capacity analysis and optimization of wireless communication networks

Hossam Hassanein
for contributions to protocols, architectures and analysis of multihop wireless networks

Michael Isnardi
for contributions to compliance testing and vision-based video compression technologies

Yucheun Jou
for leadership in digital cellular systems and smart mobile devices

Amir Khandani
for contributions to resource allocation and interference management in network information theory

Witold Krzymien
for contributions to radio resource management for cellular systems and networks

Qilian Liang
for contributions to interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems

Teng Joon Lim
for contributions to statistical signal processing in wireless communications

Phone Lin
for contributions to resource management and service development for mobile networks

Xiaodong Lin
for contributions in secure and privacy-preserving vehicular communications

Xiaojun Lin
for contributions to scheduling and control of wireless networks

Jiangchuan Liu  
for contributions to multimedia communications and content distribution over the Internet

Xiang Liu 
for contributions to broadband optical fiber communication systems and networks

Yong Liu
for contributions to multimedia networking

Joseph Bryan Lyles
for contributions in local network technology, Internet measurement, and research cyberinfrastructure

Arumugam Nallanathan
for contributions to cooperative communications and cognitive radio networks

Shu Namiki     
for contributions to optical amplification

Panos Nasiopoulos
for leadership in DVD authoring and digital multimedia technologies

Borivoje Nikolic
for contributions to energy-efficient design of digital and mixed-signal circuits

Dusit Niyato
for contributions to resource allocation in cognitive radio and cellular wireless networks

Jung-min Park
for contributions to dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio networks, and security issues

Lili Qiu
for contributions to wireless network management

Reza Rejaie
for contributions to multimedia and peer-to-peer networking, and Internet measurement

Michael Rice
for contributions to communication waveforms, detection algorithms, and channel models for aeronautical telemetry

Seb Savory 
for contributions to digital coherent transceivers for optical fiber communication

Behzad Shahraray
for leadership in content-based processing and retrieval of multimedia information

Hamid Sharif
for development of railroad wireless communication

Prasun Sinha
for contributions to scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks

Fredrik Tufvesson
for contributions to measurement and modeling of wireless propagation channels

Jaap Vandebeek
for contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

Cheng-xiang Wang
for contributions to wireless channel modeling for vehicular networks

Chonggang Wang 
for contributions to Internet of Things enabling technologies

Jiangzhou Wang
for contributions to multiple access and resource allocation in wireless mobile communications

Wenye Wang
for contributions to modeling and performance evaluation of wireless networks

Xianbin Wang
for contributions to OFDM systems and distributed transmission technologies

Halim Yanikomeroglu
for contributions to wireless access architectures in cellular networks

Rui Zhang
for contributions to cognitive radio and energy harvesting communications

Ce Zhu
for contributions to video coding and communications

IEEE Fellows 2016

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2016

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Ozgur Akan
for contributions to wireless sensor networks

Huseyin Arslan
for contributions to spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks

Fan Bai
for contributions to vehicular networking and mobility modeling

Shigang Chen
for contributions to quality of service provisioning and policy-based security management in computer networks

Luiz Da Silva
for contributions to cognitive networks and resource management for wireless networks

Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto
for contributions to impulse-radio ultra wideband and cognitive networks for wireless communications

Yixin Diao
for contributions to modeling, optimization, and control of computing systems

Faramarz Fekri
for contributions to coding theory and its applications

Alan Gatherer
for contributions to systems-on-chip for 3G and 4G cellular systems

Gerhard Hancke
for contributions to wireless sensor networks

Dimitrios Hatzinakos
for contributions to signal processing techniques for communications, multimedia and biometrics

Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman
for contributions to algorithms, protocols, and architectures for wireless sensor and mobile networks

Xian-Sheng Hua
for contributions to multimedia content analysis and image search

Jianwei Huang
for contributions to resource allocation in wireless systems

Hitoshi Kiya
for contributions to filter structure, data hiding, and multimedia security

Erik G. Larsson
for contributions to the technology of multi-antenna wireless communications

Mark Laubach
for leadership in design and standardization of cable modems

Inkyu Lee
for contributions to multiple antenna systems for wireless communications

Ta Sung Lee
for leadership and contributions in communication systems and signal processing

Shaoqian Li
for leadership in development of broadband wireless networks

Chenyang Lu
for contributions to adaptive real-time computing systems

Songwu Lu
for contributions to wireless and mobile networking and network security

Xiaoli Ma
for contributions to block transmissions over wireless fading channels

Shinji Matsuo
for contributions to heterogeneous integration of semiconductor lasers

Sudip Mazumder
for contributions to analysis and control of power electronics systems

Hlaing Minn
for contributions to synchronization and channel estimation in communication systems

Vishal Misra
for contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control and Internet economics

Thyagarajan Nandagopal
for contributions to wireless network optimization, RFID systems, and network architectures

Claude Oestges
for contributions to channel characterization and modeling for multiple-input multiple-output wireless communications

Zhouyue Pi
for leadership in millimeter wave communication technology

Petar Popovski
for contributions to network coding and multiple access methods in wireless communications

Sundeep Rangan
for contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiple access cellular communication systems

Kui Ren
for contributions to security and privacy in cloud computing and wireless networks

Pablo Rodriguez
for contributions to the design and development of content distribution architectures in the Internet

Subhabrata Sen
for contributions to analysis of cro+ss-layer interactions in cellular networks

Sudipta Sengupta
for contributions to network design, routing and applications to Internet backbone, data centers, and peer-to-peer systems

Osvaldo Simeone
for contributions to cooperative cellular systems and cognitive radio networks

Theodore Sizer
for leadership in wireless communications technology

Jian Song                
for contributions to digital television broadcasting

Mehmet Soyuer
for contributions to the design of high-frequency integrated circuits for clocking and communications

Sun Sumei
for leadership in design and standardization of wireless communication systems

John Thompson
for contributions to multiple antenna and multi-hop wireless communications

Sennur Ulukus
for contributions to characterizing performance limits of wireless networks

Bernhard Walke
for contributions to packet switching and relaying in cellular mobile system

Pengjun Wan
for contributions to scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks

Jia Wang
for contributions to measurement and management of large operational networks

Zhengdao Wang
for contributions to multicarrier communications and performance analysis of wireless systems

Kaikit Wong
for contributions to multiuser communication systems

Vincent Wong
for contributions to mobility management in wireless networks and demand side management in smart grid

Shugong Xu
for contributions to the improvement of wireless networks efficiency

Lie Liang Yang
for contributions to multicarrier communications and wireless communications

Jinhong Yuan
for contributions to multi-antenna wireless communication technologies

Bing Zeng
for contributions to image and video coding

Jianzhong (Charlie) Zhang
for leadership in standardization of cellular systems

Xi Zhang
for contributions to quality of service in mobile wireless networks

IEEE Fellows 2015

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2015

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Matthew Andrews 
for contributions to network design and wireless resource allocation

Jean Armstrong
for contributions to the theory and application of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in wireless and optical communications

Gerhard Bauch
for contributions to iterative processing in multiple-input multiple-output systems

Daniel Bliss 
for contributions to adaptive sensor systems in radar and communications

Azzedine Boukerche 
for contributions to communication protocols for distributed mobile computing and wireless sensor networks

Rajkumar Buyya 
for contributions to cloud computing

Jiannong Cao 
for contributions to distributed computing in mobile wireless networks

Joseph Cavallaro 
for contributions to VLSI architectures and algorithms for signal processing and wireless communications

Biao Chen 
for contributions to decentralized signal processing in sensor networks and interference management of wireless networks

Xiuzhen Cheng
for contributions to localization and detection in sensor networks

Mooi Choo Chuah 
for contributions to wireless network system and protocol design

Chen-Nee Chuah 
for contributions to MIMO communications and network management

Iain Collings 
for contributions to multiple user and multiple antenna wireless communication systems

John Dallesasse 
for contributions to oxidation of III-V semiconductors for photonic device manufacturing

Sajal Das 
for contributions to parallel and distributed computing

Nuno Borges De Carvalho 
for contributions on characterization and design of nonlinear RF circuits

Mrouane Debbah 
for contributions to the theory and application of signal processing in wireless networks

Joseph Decuir 
for contributions to computer graphics and video games

Frank Effenberger
for contributions to passive optical networking standards and technology

Pingzhi Fan 
for contributions to signal design for wireless communications

Michael Fitz 
for contributions to the theory and practice of multiple antenna radio

Xiqi Gao 
for contributions to broadband wireless communications and multirate signal processing

Monisha Ghosh 
for contributions to cognitive radio and signal processing for communication systems

Amitabha Ghosh 
for leadership in cellular communication system standardization

Manimaran Govindarasu 
for contributions to security of power grids

Josep Guerrero 
for contributions to distributed power systems and microgrids

K.V.S. Hari 
for contributions to high-resolution signal parameter estimation

Zhihai He 
for contributions to video communication and visual sensing technologies

Ekram Hossain 
for contributions to spectrum management and resource allocation in cognitive and cellular radio networks

Howard Huang 
for contributions to multiple antenna techniques in wireless cellular networks

Nihar Jindal 
for contributions to multiuser multi-antenna communications

Mohan Kalkunte 
for contributions to ethernet switching architectures and merchant-switching silicon

Youngky Kim 
for leadership in mobile communication systems

Deepa Kundur 
for contributions to signal processing techniques for multimedia and cyber security

Thomas Lee 
for contributions to the design of CMOS radio-frequency integrated circuits

XiangYang Li 
for contributions to performance analysis and resource allocation in wireless networks

Baochun Li 
for contributions to application-layer network protocols and network coding

Yunhao Liu 
for contributions to wireless sensor networks and systems

Zicheng Liu 
for contributions to visual processing for multimedia interaction

Wenjing Lou 
for contributions to information and network security

David Love 
for contributions to feedback-adaptive wireless communication systems

Jianhua Lu 
for contributions to the theory and engineering applications of wireless transmission technologies

Detlev Marpe 
for contributions to video coding research and standardization

Gianluca Mazzini 
for contributions to chaos-based electronic and telecommunication systems design

Stefan Mozar 
for development of safety solutions for electronic equipment

Krishna Narayanan 
for contributions to coding for wireless communications and data storage

Radha Poovendran 
for contributions to security in cyber-physical systems

Robert Qiu 
for contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communications

Bhaskar Ramamurthi 
for development of wireless technology in India

David Richardson
for contributions to optical fiber technology

Markus Rupp 
for contributions to adaptive filters and communication technologies

Michael Shebanow 
for contributions to superscalar out-of-order processors

Peter Smith 
for contributions to statistical modeling and analysis of wireless communication systems

Suresh Subramaniam 
for contributions to optical network architectures, algorithms, and performance modeling

Dan Keun Sung
for contributions to network resource management

Wonyong Sung 
for contributions to real-time signal processing systems

Hsiao-Chun Wu 
for contributions to digital video broadcasting and wireless systems

Liuqing Yang 
for contributions to theory and practice of ultra-wideband communications

Aylin Yener 
for contributions to wireless communication theory and wireless information security

Bulent Yener 
for contributions to network design optimization and security

Wei Zhang 
for contributions to cognitive radio communications

Yin Zhang 
for contributions to computer network measurement and management

Haitao Zheng 
for contributions to dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks

IEEE Fellows 2014

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2014

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Brice Achkir 
for contributions to diagnostics of physical layer design in gigabit digital transmission systems

Mohammad Alam 
for contributions to pattern recognition and high resolution image reconstruction

Kevin Almeroth 
for contributions to multicast communication, wireless networks, and educational technology

Chandrajit Bajaj 
for contributions to image processing, scientific visualization, and computational biology

E. Bert Basch
for advancing the deployment of fiber-optic communication systems in carrier networks

Elizabeth Belding 
for contributions to mobile and wireless networking and communication protocols

Randall Berry 
for contributions to resource allocation and interference management in wireless networks

Martin Buss 
for contributions to haptic telepresence systems and autonomous robots

Sunghyun Choi 
for contributions to development of wireless LAN protocols

Shuguang Cui 
for contributions to cognitive communications and energy efficient system design

Anand Dabak
for contributions to wireless and power-line communications

Sujit Dey 
for contributions to the design and testing of low-power systems and system-on-chips

Mischa Dohler 
for contributions to wireless machine-to-machine communication systems

Hector Fenech
for leadership in the definition of telecommunications satellite architectures and systems through innovation and technological exploitation

Robert Gilmore
for contributions to high-performance and low-power wireless portable communications devices

Vivek Goyal 
for contributions to information representations and their applications in acquisition, communication, and estimation

Yingjie Guo 
for contributions to smart, reconfigurable and high gain antennas for broadband wireless communications systems

Martin Haenggi 
for contributions to the spatial modeling and analysis of wireless networks

Zhu Han 
for contributions to resource allocation and security in wireless communications

Fred Heismann 
for contributions to understanding, control and mitigation of polarization effects in fiberoptic communication systems

Peter Hoeher 
for contributions to decoding and detection that include reliability information

Y. Thomas Hou
for contributions to modeling and optimization of wireless networks

Syed Jafar 
for contributions to analyzing the capacity of wireless communication networks

Krishna Kant 
for contributions to enterprise server performance , power management technologies and domain name system robustness

George Karagiannidis 
for contributions to the performance analysis of wireless communication systems

Ursula Keller
for contributions to ultrashort pulse modelocked laser physics and technology

Yu-Kwong Kwok
for contributions to resource scheduling algorithms in parallel and distributed systems

J. Nicholas Laneman
for contributions to multihop relaying and cooperative communication for wireless networks

Mingyan Liu
for contributions to modeling of wireless ad-hoc and sensor network

Angel Lozano 
for contributions to multiple-input, multiple-output antenna systems

William McFarland
for leadership in single-chip wifi radio systems-on-a-chip development

Paul Mockapetris 
for contributions to the design and implementation of the Internet Domain Name Systems

Katia Obraczka
for contributions to energy-efficient protocols and routing in wireless networks

Ioannis Paschalidis
for contributions to the control and optimization of communication and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and biological systems

Balaji Sundar Rajan
for contributions to high performance and low complexity space-time code designs for wireless communication systems

Martin Reisslein
for contributions to the design and performance evaluation of metropolitan networks and multimedia networking mechanisms

Magdalena Salazar-Palma 
for contributions to the application of numerical techniques to electromagnetic modeling

Jong-Soo Seo
for contributions to digital multimedia and mobile broadcasting technologies

Sanjay Shakkottai 
for contributions to the modeling, design, and analysis of wireless networks

Puneet Sharma 
for contributions to the design of scalable networking, software defined networks and energy efficiency in data centers

Raghupathy Sivakumar 
for contributions to the design of algorithms and protocols for wireless networking and mobile computing

Krishna Sivalingam 
for contributions to medium access control and energy-efficient protocol design in communication networks

Sandeep Shukla 
for contributions to applied probablistic model checking for system design

Emina Soljanin
for contributions to coding theory and coding schemes for transmission and storage systems

Anthony Soong 
for contributions to the standardization of cellular communication systems

Senichi Suzuki 
for contributions to high-density integrated silica-based planar lightwave circuits for optical Communications

Patrick Thiran 
for contributions to network performance analysis

Wen Tong
for leadership in the development of 3G and 4G wireless communication systems

Elie Track 
for leadership in superconducting electronics and its applications

Wade Trappe 
for contributions to information and communication security

Sarah Kate Wilson
for contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

Wei Yu
for contributions to optimization techniques for multiple-input-multiple-output communications

Shengli Zhou
for contributions to wireless and underwater acoustic communications

Yongguang Zhang
for contributions to software radio technology

Wei-Xing Zheng 
for contributions to signal processing and system identification

IEEE Fellows 2013

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2013

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Stephen Alexander
for contributions to optical communication technologies, systems, and architectures

Jeffrey Andrews
for contributions to cellular and ad-hoc wireless communications

Peter Chow
for contributions to digital subscriber line technology

Tzi-Dar Chiueh
for contributions to baseband processing integrated circuits for communications systems

Marco Corsi
for development of high-speed amplifiers and analog to-digital convertors

Suhas Diggavi
for contributions to wireless networks and systems

Rene-Jean Essiambre
for contributions to fiber nonlinearities in optical telecommunication systems

Jeffrey Foerster
for leadership in wireless personal area networking

Paolo Gamba
for contributions to very high resolution remote sending image processing of urban areas

Saeed Ghassemzadeh
for contributions to measurement and modeling of broadband wireless channels and their applications to system design

Georgios Ginis
for contributions to transmission optimization in digital subscriber loops

Anders Host-Madsen
for contributions to communication theory for wireless networks

Xiaohua Jia
for contributions to distributed computing systems and multicast communications

Karl Johansson
for contributions to the applications of hybrid and networked systems

Lina Karam
for contributions to perception-based visual processing, image and video communications, and digital filtering

Nei Kato
for contributions to satellite systems and network intrusion detection

Peter Key
for contributions to optimal control of trunk reservations and distributed admission control in communication systems

Sung-Ju Lee
for contributions to algorithms for routing, multicasting, and interference mitigation in wireless local area networks

Li Li
for contributions to the design of algorithms and protocols for wireless networks

Ying-Dar Lin
for contributions to multi-hop cellular communications and deep packet inspection

Tamas Linder
for contributions to source coding and quantization

Danilo Mandic
for contributions to multivariate and nonlinear learning systems

Arthur Morris
for development and commercialization of CMOS radio frequency micro electro-mechanical systems

Eiji Oki
for contributions to high-performance packet switching and path computation technologies

Constantinos Papadias
for contributions to signal processing and coding for multi-antenna wireless systems

Daniel Palomar
for contributions to convex optimization-based signal processing for communications

Takuro Sato
for contributions to W-CDMA cellular standardization

Erchin Serpedin
for contributions to synchronization of communication systems

L. Dennis Shapiro
for leadership in development and commercialization of personal emergency response systems

Gaurav Sharma
for contributions to electronic imaging and media security

Prashant Shenoy
for contributions to the design and analysis of distributed systems and computer networking

John Spargo
for leadership in superconducting electronics and related technologies

Masayuki Tanimoto
for contributions to the development of free-viewpoint television and its MPEG standard

Zhi (Gerry) Tian
for contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communications and localization

Michail Tsatsanis
for contributions to wireless and digital subscriber line communications

Gene Tsudik
for contributions to distributed systems security and privacy

Harish Viswanathan
for contributions to wireless communication systems

David Wetherall
for contributions to the design of flexible, robust, and secure networks

Dapeng Wu
for contributions to video communication and processing and wireless networking

Feng Wu
for contributions to visual data compression and communication

Tak-Shing Yum
for contributions to the architecture and resource management of communication networks

Ephraim Zehavi
for contributions to pragmatic coding and bit interleaving

Qing Zhao
for contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems with applications to cognitive networking

IEEE Fellows 2012

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2012

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Dakshi Agrawal
For contributions to theory, analysis, and design of efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving communication systems

Yucel Altunbasak 
For contributions to super-resolution imaging, color filter array interpolation, and error-resilient video communications

George Arnold
for leadership in architecture and protocols for the electric grid and telecommunication networks

Ahmad Bahai
For contributions to multi-carrier wireless and wire-line communication systems

Mauro Barni
For contributions to signal and image processing for multimedia security

Raouf Boutaba
For contributions to automated network and service management methodologies and applications

Kenneth Calvert
For contributions to internet topology and active networks

Jyh-Cheng Chen
For contributions to energy efficient protocols in wireless networks

Roger Cheng
For contributions to multiuser communications in wireless systems

Mung Chiang 
For contributions to optimization of communication networks and applications to wireless networks, broadband access, and the internet

Mark Crovella 
For contributions to the measurement and analysis of networks and distributed systems

Michael Devetsikiotis
For contributions to rare-event modeling of communication networks

Alexandra Duel-Hallen 
For contributions to equalization and wireless communications

Anbal Figueiras-Vidal
for leadership in digital signal processing

Stefano Galli 
For contributions to theory, practice, and standardization of power line communication networks

Rafik Goubran 
For contributions to voice quality measurement and its applications to audio improvement

Erich Gunther
For contributions to the development and standardization of techinques for electric power quality

Franz Hlawatsch
For contributions to time-frequency signal processing

Charles Kalmanek
for leadership in advancing architecture, design and management of communications networks and services

Ahmed Kamal 
For contributions  to optical networks provisioning for multipoint traffic

Ryuji Kohno 
For contributions to spread spectrum and ultra wideband technologies and applications

Srikanth Krishnamurthy
For contributions to cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks

Vincent Lau
For contributions to wireless communication systems with channel feedback

Jin Li
For contributions to multimedia delivery, compression and storage for real-time communication

Junyi Li
For contributions to modulation techinques for mobile broadband communications systems

Mike Peng Li
For contributions to the design of jitter test technologies

Soung Chang Liew
For contributions to wireless communications and networking

Marco Luise
For contributions to synchronization and signal processing in communications

Ranjan Mallik
For contributions to channel characterization in wireless communication systems

Eytan Modiano
For contributions to cross-layer resource allocation algorithms for wireless, satellite, and optical networks

Bernard Mulgrew
For contributions to linear and nonlinear equalizers for adaptive systems

C. Siva Ram Murthy
For contributions to resource management in high performance real-time computing and communication systems

Zhisheng Niu
For contributions to collaborative radio resource management in wireless networks

Jong-Seon No 
For contributions to sequences and cyclic difference setsfor communications algorithms

Ian Oppermann
For contributions to mobile communication systems

Venkata Padmanabhan
For contributions to networked and mobile computing systems

Marimuthu Palaniswami

For contributions to computational intelligence, learning systems, and nonlinear modelling

Konstantinos Plataniotis
For contributions to the theory and application of statistical adaptive learning

Subramanian Ramanathan
For contributions to mobile adhoc networks using topology control and directional antennas

Wonjong Rhee 
for leadership in dynamic spectrum management systems

George Rouskas
For contributions in algorithms, protocols, and architectures of optical networks

Akbar Sayeed
For contributions to statistical signal modeling for wireless communication and sensor networks

Raghunath Shevgaonkar
for leadership in electrical engineering education in India

Elvino Sousa
For contributions to wireless systems, including modulation techniques and transmitter diversity

Danny Tsang
For contributions to the optimization of communications networks

Yu-Chee Tseng
For contributions to wireless and mobile networks

M. Umit Uyar
For contributions to conformance testing theory and practice

Ping-Kong Wai
For contributions to optical networks and optical fiber communication systems

Chin-Liang Wang
For contributions to signal processing algorithms and architectures for digital communications

Keh-Chung Wang
For contributions to GaAs HBT integrated circuits for high speed data conversion and optical fiber communication systems

Thomas Weiland
for development of the finite integration technique and impact of the associated software on electromagnetic engineering

Jiangtao Wen
For contributions to multimedia communication technology and standards

Guu-Chang Yang
For contributions to optical code division multiple access

Xiaohu Yu
for leadership in the development of mobile communications in China

Junshan Zhang
For contributions to cross-layer optimization of wireless networks

Qian Zhang 
For contributions to the mobility and spectrum management of wireless networks and mobile communications

Zhi-Li Zhang
For contributions to internet quality-of-service theory and applications

Wenjun Zeng
For contributions to multimedia communication and security

IEEE Fellows 2011

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2011

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Mark Bell
For contributions to signal design and processing in radar and communication systems.

Qi Bi
For contributions to code division multiple access.

Holger Boche
For contributions to signal processing and multi-user wireless communications.

Klaus Brand
For contributions to substation automation and power system protection, control and operation.

Guohong Cao 
For contributions to algorithm and protocol design for mobile ad hoc and sensor networks.

Jonathon Chambers 
For contributions to adaptive signal processing and its applications.

Marco Chiani 
For contributions to wireless communication systems.

Horia Chiriac 
For contributions to technology of amorphous glass-coated magnetic microwires and nanowires.

Debabani Choudhury
For contributions to millimeter wave enabling technologies.

Keith Chugg 
For contributions to adaptive and iterative data detection and decoding.

Tolga Duman
For contributions to coding and modulation for wireless, recording and underwater acoustic channels.

Elza Erkip 
For contributions to multi-user and cooperative communications.

Dennis Goeckel
For contributions to wireless communication systems and networks.

Piyush Gupta 
For contributions to wireless networks.

Mounir Hamdi 
For contributions to design and analysis of high-speed packet switching.

Yunghsiang S. Han 
For contributions to decoding techniques.

Robert Heath
For contributions to multiple antenna wireless communications.

Douglas Jacobson
For contributions to information assurance education and practice.

Kiho Kim
For contributions to high-speed next-generation orthogonal frequency division multiplexed multiple-antenna wireless networks.

Visa Koivunen 
For contributions to statistical signal processing for multichannel signals and sensor arrays.

Thomas Kolze
For contributions to physical layer architecture in communication systems.

Kwang Bok Lee 
For contributions to high-speed wireless communication systems.

Jae Lee
For contributions to wireless communication systems.

Bo Li 
For contributions to content distribution via the Internet.

Shipeng Li 
For contributions to the advancement of image and video coding.

Ying-Chang Liang 
For contributions to cognitive radio communications.

Jean-Paul Linnartz 
For leadership in security with noisy data.

Rainer Martin
For contributions to speech enhancement for mobile communications and hearing aids.

Paul Morton
For contributions to optical transmitters.

Sanjiv Nanda 
For contributions to algorithm design for wireless in wide area and local area network systems.

Yasutaka Ogawa 
For contributions to estimation techniques and antenna signal processing.

Sakae Okubo
For contributions to video coding and multimedia communication systems.

Shivendra Panwar
For contributions to design and analysis of communication networks.

Catherine Rosenberg 
For contributions to resource management in wireless and satellite networks.

Bill Ryan 
For contributions to channel coding for reliable data transmission and storage.

James Ritcey
For contributions to bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding.

John Sadowsky
For contributions to commercial and military wireless communications.

Jawad Salehi 
For contributions to fundamental principles of optical code division multiple access.

Anna Scaglione
For contributions to filterbank precoding for wireless transmission and signal processing for cooperative sensor networks.

Ray Simar, Jr. 
For leadership in digital signal processor architecture development.

Jane Simmons
For contributions to optical network architecture and algorithms.

Morris Sloman 
For contributions to adaptive policy based management of distributed and pervasive systems.

Qibin Sun 
For contributions to multimedia security.

Chinthananda Tellambura 
For contributions to physical layer wireless communication theory.

Vinay Vaishampayan
For contributions to error-resilient compression systems.

Emanuele Viterbo
For contributions to coding and decoding for wireless digital communications.

Li-Chun Wang 
For contributions to cellular architectures and radio resource management in wireless networks.

Stephen Wicker 
For contributions to wireless information systems.

Indra Widjaja 
For contributions to switching and traffic engineering in communication networks.

Thomas Wiegand
For contributions to video coding and its standardization.

Guoliang Xue 
For contributions to survivability and quality of service in computer networks.

Hirosuke Yamamato
For contributions to source coding and information-theoretic secure coding.

Yu-Dong Yao 
For contributions to wireless communications systems.

Roy Yates 
For contributions to wireless network resource allocation.

Ellen Zegura
For contributions to disruption tolerant networking.

Liang-Jie Zhang
For contributions to service-oriented technologies and applications.

Tao Zhang 
For contributions to wireless and infrastructure networking protocols for applications.

Herbert Zirath
For contributions to microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits and device technology.

IEEE Fellows 2010

IEEE Fellows Elevated as of 1 January 2010

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Congratulations to the following Communications Society members for their election to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE. They now join company with a truly distinguished roster of colleagues.

Raj Acharya
for contributions to biomedical imaging and bioinformatics

Eitan Altman
for contributions to analysis, optimization, and control of telecommunication networks

Joseph Berthold
for leadership in optical internetworking

Edgar Callaway
for contributions to wireless sensor networks and low power design techniques for communications devices and systems

Hsiao-Hwa Chen
for contributions to radio resource allocation in code division multiple wireless systems

Zhizhang (David) Chen
for contributions to time-domain electromagnetic modeling and simulation

Roy Cideciyan
for contributions to signal processing and constrained coding for magnetic recording

Thomas Cloonan
for leadership in development of cable modem termination systems

Robert Doverspike
for contributions to architectures, modeling, and optimization of telecommunication networks

Hesham El-Gamal
for contributions to multiple-input multiple-output and cooperative communications

Marc Goldburg
for leadership in the development and commercialization of spectrally efficient wireless communications systems

Joseph Hellerstein
for contributions to control engineering for performance management of computing systems

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
for contributions to traffic management in computer communication networks

Yoshio Karasawa
for contributions to the measurement and modeling of propagation effects in radio communication systems

Pooi-Yuen Kam
for contributions to receiver design and performance analysis for wireless communications

Gerhard Kramer
for contributions to coded modulation, iterative decoding, and cooperative communications

Uwe Kraus
for contributions to digital television signal compression and transmission

Marwan Krunz
for contributions to resource management policies in wireless networks

Chang-Hee Lee
for contributions to wavelength division multiplexed-passive optical network

Ping Li
for contributions to iterative signal processing, multi-user detection and concatenated error control codes

Wanjiun Liao
for contributions to communication protocols in multimedia networking

John C.S. Lui
for contributions to performance modeling and analysis of storage communication systems and peer-to-peer networks

Stan Lumish
for leadership in the development and implementation of commercial terrestrial lightwave systems

Tadashi Matsumoto
for contributions to signal processing for wireless communications

Victor Miller
for contributions to elliptic curve cryptography

Joseph Mitola
for contribution to software-defined and cognitive radio technologies

Prasant Mohapatra
for contributions to the quality of service provisioning in computer networks

Aria Nosratinia
for contributions to multimedia and wireless communications

Harry Perros
for contributions to performance evaluation modeling of computer networks

Chunming Qiao
for contributions to optical and wireless network architectures and protocols

Ramesh Rao
for leadership in wireless communications

A. L. Narasimha Reddy
for contributions to multimedia storage and network support

Leslie Rusch
for contributions in optical and wireless communications systems

Christian Schlegel
for contributions to iterative demodulation and decoding in wireless communication

Robert Schober
for contributions to wireless communications

Dan Schonfeld
for contributions to image and video analysis

Mark Shayman
for contributions to the theory of Riccati equations and discrete-event dynamic systems

Andrew Singer
for contributions to signal processing techniques for digital communication

Vishwanath Sinha
for contributions to electrical engineering education

Peter Steenkiste
for contributions to optimization and monitoring techniques for distributed communication systems

Milica Stojanovic
for contributions to underwater acoustic communications

Heinrich Stuttgen
for leadership in industrial research

Wei Su
for leadership in military communications and electronic warfare technology

Emmanouil M. Tentzeris
for contributions to three dimensional conformal integrated devices for wireless communications and sensing

Nian-Feng Tzeng
for contributions to parallel computer systems and scalable routers

Nitin Vaidya
for contributions to wireless networking protocols and mobile communications

Mahesh Varanasi
for contributions to multi-user and wireless communication theory

Chengshan Xiao
for contributions to channel modeling and signal processing for wireless communications

Howard Yang
for leadersip in mixed-signal integrated circuit design and manufacturing

Feng Zhao
for contributions to networked embedded computing and sensor networks

Wenwu Zhu
for contributions to video communications over the internet and wireless

Zoran Zvonar
for leadership in the development of digital signal processing software and hardware for wireless cellular communication