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 computercommunication 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