Winners of IEEE CAS Awards Presented in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recipients of the 2009 IEEE Technical Field Awards in Circuits and Systems were honored in the Award Ceremony at the annual 2009 International Symposium for Circuits and Systems 2009 (ISCAS 2009) at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan on May 26. Six outstanding researchers of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) newly elected to the IEEE – Fellow Class of 2009 were introduced in the Award Ceremony as well.

The 2009 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, was honored to Dr. Ernest S. Kuh, the Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and an member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA as well as the William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus in Engineering of University of California at Berkeley, to recognize his outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation. This prestigious award is given for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact.

Apart from Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, the annual IEEE ISCAS 2009 also presented other Technical Field Awards to 20 outstanding researchers. The Mac Van Valkenburg Award went to Dr. Gabor C. Temes from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Oregon State University to recognize his pioneering research on the theory and design of analog filters, switched-capacitor circuits and delta-sigma data converters, and for his contributions to engineering education through his textbooks widely adopted by professionals in this field, as well as his excellent mentorship over hundreds of successful electronic engineers.

The Technical Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Yoji Kajitani from Department of Information and Media Science at University of Kitakyushu for his sustained and outstanding technical contributions for nearly four decades to the foundation of electrical circuit theory, VLSI, CAD and graph theory.

The Education Award was conferred to Dr. Andreas Antoniou from Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Victoria for his demonstrating leadership in the establishment of new innovative undergraduate and graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering, textbooks on digital filters, digital signal processing, and optimization, presentation of numerous lectures, plenary talks, and tutorials worldwide, supervision of many graduate students, and extensive publication in prestigious journals.

Dr. Ellen J. Yoffa, the Director of Next Generation Web at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, was honored with the Meritorious Service Award for her dedicated service to the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and its membership, and for her leadership and technical contributions in the field of electronic design automation.

In addition, Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi, the Director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) and the Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, was also conferred with the Meritorious Service Award for his outstanding long-term service and dedication to the CAS Society, and for taking initiations that have long lasting impact and meaningful value to the CAS members in several areas including conferences, technical activities, publications, reaching out, and CAS visibility.

The Industrial Pioneer Award was presented to Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, the Chief Executive Officer and Director at Qualcomm. Dr. Jacobs’ vision of wireless data services has been pioneering and transformational in the worldwide cellular industry. At Qualcomm, starting from the development of the first Palm OS® based Smartphone, and now in his capacity as CEO, he has made company revenues grow to over $10 billion annually through this vision.

Dr. Ronald A. Rohrer was honored with the Vitold Belevitch Award for his advancing circuit theory to solve practical circuit design problems with everlasting impact on the global electronic industry.

Dr. Stefan Tertinek was named as a recipient of the Outstanding Young Author Award for his paper, entitled “Reconstruction of Nonuniformly Sampled Bandlimited Signals Using a Differentiator - Multiplier Cascade”, which was published at the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.

Dr. Young-Gyu Yoon, Dr. Jaewook Kim and Dr. Tae-Kwang Jang and Seong Hwan Cho were co-recipients for the Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award for their paper, entitled “A Time-Based Bandpass ADC Using Time-Interleaved Voltage-Controlled Oscillators”, published at the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.

The Darlington Best Paper Award was presented to Dr. Shanthi Pavan for his paper, entitled “Power and Area-Efficient Adaptive Equalization at Microwave Frequencies”, recently published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.

The CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award went to two groups: (1) Dr. Dong Liu, Dr. Xiaoyan Sun, Dr. Feng Wu, Dr. Shipeng Li and Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang, with their paper, entitled “Image Compression with Edge-Based Inpainting”, and (2) Dr. Heiko Schwarz, Dr. Detlev Marpe and Dr. Thomas Wiegand, with their paper entitled “Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard”.

The winners of the VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award were Dr. Mahalingam Venkataraman, Dr. Justin E. Harlow III and Dr. Nagarajan Ranganathan, who authored the paper, entitled “A Fuzzy Optimization Approach for Variation Aware Power Minimization During Gate Sizing”.

In addition, the Chapter of the Year Award of CAS was presented to Dr. Rui Paulo da Silva Martins, the Chapter Chair of IEEE Macau Joint-Chapter on CAS/COM. The Regions 1-7 Chapter of the Year Award went to Dr. Ram Achar, the Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Ottawa Chapter. The Region 8 Chapter of the Year Award went to Branimir Reljin, the Chair of IEEE Serbia & Montenegro Joint Chapter. The Region 9 Chapter of the Year Award was presented to Dr. Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Carneiro Gomes, the Chair of IEEE CAS Rio de Janeiro Chapter. Dr. Lap-Pui Chau as the Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Singapore Chapter was the winner of the Region 10 Chapter of the Year Award.

Six outstanding researchers from the IEEE CAS Society were newly introduced to the IEEE – Fellow Class of 2009. They are Dr. Orla Feely from Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College Dublin for her contributions to nonlinear discrete-time circuits and systems, Dr. Wen Gao from Peking University for his contributions to object-based video representation and scalable video coding technologies and standards, Dr. Yong Lian from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore for his contributions to the design of low-power high-performance digital filters, Dr. Steven Nowick from Department of Computer Science at Columbia University for his contributions to asynchronous and mixed-timing integrated circuits and systems, Dr. Xiaoou Tang as a professor and the Director of Multimedia Lab in the Department of Information Engineering in the Chinese University of Hong Kong for his contributions to pattern recognition and video processing, and Dr. Albert Z. H. Wang for his contributions to design-for-reliability and system-on-chip.

Apart from the CAS awards, the ISCAS 2009 Best Student Papers were given to Mr. Min Park from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alireza Nilchi from University Toronto, by along with a grant of $400 US dollars, for their outstanding papers, entitled “A Single-Slope 80MS/s ADC Using Two-Step Time-to-Digital Conversion” and “CMOS Image Compression Sensor with Algorithmically-Multiplying ADCs”, respectively.