IEEE Fellow

As it stands today, the IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership. Each new Fellow receives a beautifully matted and framed certificate with the name of the Fellow and a brief citation describing the accomplishment, a congratulatory letter from the incoming IEEE president and a gold sterling silver Fellow lapel pin with an antique finish.

Please note: The list below includes "IEEE Fellows" elevated by the Council on Electronic Design Automation. The Council acknowledges that there are additional members of our community that have been elevated by other organizational units of the IEEE.

Nomination Details:

Fellow nominations are due February 7 each year.

Information on the IEEE Fellows Program to help nominators prepare their submissions.

Recipients

2017

Valeria Bertacco

for contribution to computer-aided verification and reliable system design

Luca Carloni

for contributions to system-on- chip design automation and latency-insensitive design

Frank Liu

for contributions to design for manufacturability of VLSI circuits

Andrei Vladimirescu

for contributions to the development and commercial adoption of SPICE circuit simulation

2016

David Atienza

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

David Atienza Alonso received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Complutense Univ. of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and IMEC, Belgium, in 2001 and 2005. Currently, he is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research interests include system-level design methodologies for high-performance multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems, including new 2-D/3-D thermal-aware design for MPSoCs and many-core servers, ultra-low power system architectures for wireless body sensor nodes and edge computing, HW/SW reconfigurable systems, dynamic memory optimizations, and network-on-chip design. He is a co-author of more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, several book chapters, and eight U.S. patents in these fields. He has earned several best paper awards and he is (or has been) an Associate Editor of IEEE TC, IEEE D&T, IEEE T-TCAD, IEEE T-SUSC and Elsevier Integration. He was the Technical Programme Chair of IEEE/ACM DATE 2015 and General Programme Chair of IEEE/ACM DATE 2017. Dr. Atienza received the DAC Under-40 Innovators Award in 2018, the IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award in 2018, an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016, the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award in 2013, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2012, and a Faculty Award from Sun Labs at Oracle in 2011. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Member.

Affiliation(s)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Switzerland

for contributions to design methods and tools for multiprocessor systems on chip

X. Sharon Hu

for contributions to resource management for embedded systems

Jiang Hu

for contributions to gate, interconnect, and clock network optimization in VLSI circuits

Peng Li

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

I received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 2003 and the M. Eng. degree in systems engineering and B.Eng. degree in information science & engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 1997 and 1994, respectively.

I have been a Professor of ECE at UCSB since July 2019, where I'm affiliated with the Computer Engineering (CE) Program. From August 2004 to June 2019, I was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University as an assistant, associate, and then a full professor. I was was a member of Faculty of Neuroscience and the Graduate Faculty of School of Graduate Studies, Health Science Center at Texas A&M.

My research interests are in integrated circuits and systems, learning algorithms and circuits for neuromorphic (a.k.a brain-inspired) computing, VLSI computer-aided design, machine learning and its hardware realization in VLSI, and computational brain modeling. I am a co-editor of the book, entitled "Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems" (Springer, 2011), co-edited one additional book, and authored and co-authored over 200 journal and conference publications, and seven book chapters.

My work has been recognized by various distinctions including the ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award in 2019, four IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Best Paper Awards in 2003, 2008, 2011, and 2016, the ISCAS Honorary Mention Best Paper Award from the Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 2016, the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award from IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) in 2012, the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008, two Inventor Recognition Awards from Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO) in 2006 and 2007, two Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Inventor Recognition Awards in 2001 and 2004. At the 50th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference in 2013, I was honored with the Best Paper Hat Trick Award for receiving the prestigious DAC best paper award three times, the DAC Prolific Author Award, and the DAC Top 10 Author in Fifth Decade Award. I recieved several Best Paper Award nominations from ICCAD. At Texas A&M, I was recongnized with the 2018-2019 Eugene E. Webb Faculty Fellow, 2013-2014 William and Montine P. Head Fellow, 2011-2012 TEES Fellow Award from the College of Engineering, and the ECE Outstanding Professor Award in 2008.

I was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems from 2008 to 2013 and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II from 2008 to 2016. I have been on the committees of many international conferences and workshops such as DAC, ISLPED, IJCNN, ICCAD, ICCD, ISQED, ISCAS, TAU and FAC, ICCAD Best Paper Award Committee, and the selection committee for ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation. He served as the technical program committee chair for the ACM TAU Workshop in 2009 and general chair for the 2010 Workshop. I was a member of the Executive Committee and the Vice President for Technical Activities of IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) from Jan. 2016 to Dec. 2017.

I have consulted for Intel Corporation and several Silicon-Valley startup companies. I am a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Affiliation(s)

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

for contributions to the analysis and modeling of integrated circuits and systems

2015

Jason Baumgartner

for contributions to formal hardware verification and its application

Jörg Henkel

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Prof. Jörg Henkel is with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he is directing the Chair for Em-bedded Systems CES. Before, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his PhD from Braunschweig University with "Summa cum Laude". Prof. Henkel has/is organizing various embedded systems and low power ACM/IEEE conferences/symposia as General Chair and Program Chair and was a Guest Editor on these topics in various Journals like the IEEE Computer Magazine. He was Program Chair of CODES'01, RSP'02, ISLPED’06, SIPS'08, CASES'09, Estimedia'11, VLSI Design'12, ICCAD’12, PATMOS’13, NOCS’14, DAC’20, and served as General Chair for CODES'02, ISLPED’09, Estimedia’12, ICCAD’13, ESWeek'16 and DAC'23. He is/has been a steering committee member of major conferences in the embedded systems field like at DAC, ICCAD, ESWeek, ISLPED, Codes+ISSS, CASES and is/has been an editorial board member of various journals like the IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, IEEE TMSCS, ACM TCPS, JOLPE etc. In recent years, Prof. Henkel has given around ten keynotes at various international conferences primarily with focus on embedded systems dependa-bility. He has given full/half-day tutorials at leading conferences like DAC, ICCAD, DATE etc. Prof. Henkel received the 2008 DATE Best Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE/ACM William J. Mc Calla ICCAD Best Paper Award, the Codes+ISSS 2015, 2014, and 2011 Best Paper Awards, and the MaXentric Technologies AHS 2011 Best Paper Award as well as the DATE 2013 Best IP Award and the DAC 2014 Designer Track Best Poster Award. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society, Germany Section, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS) for two consecutive terms. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Design&Test Magazine from January 2016 to Dec. 2021. He was the Vice Chair and Conference Chair of ACM SIGDA and is currently the Vice President Publications of IEEE CEDA. Since 2023 he has been the Steering Committee Chair of ACM/IEEE ESWeek. He is an initiator and the coordinator of the German Research Foundation's (DFG) program on 'Dependable Embedded Systems' (SPP 1500). He was the site coordinator (Karlsruhe site) of the Three-University Collaborative Research Center on "Invasive Computing" (DFG TR89). He holds ten US patents and is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.

Affiliation(s)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

for contributions to hardware/software codesign of embedded computing systems

Recipients

2017

2016

2015

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