IEEE Resources
IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Visit the IEEE website to learn more about the history of the IEEE Fellow grade, the elevation process, and how the program evolved through the years to become the program it is today. Nominations are due by 7 February each year.
2024
Nathan Goodman
for contributions to cognitive and distributed radar signal processing
Neil Gordon
for contributions to sequential Monte Carlo methods and applications
Zaher Kassas
for contributions to navigation with signals of opportunity
Luke Rosenberg
for contributions to maritime radars
2023
Michael Braasch
for contributions to GPS multipath error characterization and
mitigation
Karen Haigh
for contributions to closed-loop control of embedded systems
Anthony Martone
for contributions to the development and validation of cognitive
radar systems
Khanh Pham
for leadership in military aerospace decision support systems and
strategic small business innovation
2022
Maruthi Akella
for contributions to spacecraft control systems
Chee-Yee Chong
for contributions to information fusion methods for multi-sensor tracking
Jerald Nespor
for contributions Digital AESA Radar Systems
Daniel Tazartes
for contributions to inertial sensors and navigation systems
Frank van Diggelen
for contributions to assisted global navigation satellite systems for consumer applications
2021
Stefano Coraluppi
for contributions to multi-sensor multi-target tracking
Michael D. Griffin
for leadership in space infrastructure and Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Hubble and other missions
Robert T-I. Shin
for leadership in electromagnetic modeling of radar systems and in microwave remote sensing
Birsen Yazici
for contributions to synthetic aperture radar and passive imaging
2020
Jeff Krolik
for contributions to statistical signal and sensor array processing for radar and sonar
Marco Martorella
for contributions to multi-static inverse synthetic aperture radars
Daniel Rabideau
for contributions to radar architectures and technologies
Christ Richmond
for contributions to adaptive array processing algorithms
Evaluated by other Societies
Mengdao Xing
for contributions to radar imaging and motion compensation algorithms
2019
Steven Butler
for technical leadership in aerospace systems
Hongbin Li
for contributions to adaptive radar signal processing with limited data
Teng Long
for contributions to high resolution radar systems
Marco Lops
for contributions to radar target detection and estimation in clutter
Bruce Suter
for contributions to data acquisition for aerospace sensory information systems
2018
Fauzia Ahmad
for contribution to through-the-wall radar imaging
Erik Blasch
for leadership in aerospace information fusion systems
Brian Rigling
for contributions to synthetic aperture radar imaging
Kevin Sangston
for contributions to coherent detection of radar signals in clutter
David Whelan
for leadership in space-based navigation, synchronization, and surveillance
2017
Raviraj Adve
for contributions to cognitive sensing in passive and diversity
Uwe Hanebeck
for contributions to nonlinear estimation and control
Phillip Pace
for leadership in radar signal processing, receiver design, and direction finding architectures
Michael Rice
for contributions to communication waveforms, detection algorithms, and channel models for aeronautical telemetry
Frank Robey
for leadership in development of advanced radar systems
Evaluated by other Societies
Qilian Liang (CIS)
for contributions to interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems
Robert Palmer (GRS)
for contributions to atmospheric and meteorological radar science
Lars Ulander (GRS)
for advances in VHF- and UHF-band synthetic aperture radar
2016
Christopher Baker
for contributions to cognitive sensing in passive and diversity
William Baldygo
for leadership in signal processing for radar systems
Edward Baranoski
for leadership in knowledge-aided radar systems for indoor environments
Shannon Blunt
for contributions to radar waveform diversity and design
David Doman
for contributions to flight dynamics and control
Giuseppe Fabrizio
for contributions to adaptive array signal processing in over-the-horizon radar systems
Lance Kaplan
for contributions to signal processing and information fusion for situational awareness
Ellis Meng
for contributions to biomedical microelectromechanical systems
Daniele Mortari
for contributions to navigational aspects of space systems
Evaluated by other Societies
Thor Fossen (CS)
for contributions to modelling and controlling of marine crafts
Mark Yeary (IM)
for contributions to radar systems for meteorology
Martin Vossiek (MTT)
for contributions to the design of wireless and radar positioning systems
Erik Larsson (SP)
for contributions to the technology of multi-antenna wireless communications
2015
Randy Avent
for leadership in automatic target recognition technology
Kristine Bell
for contributions to statistical signal processing with radar and sonar applications
Daniel Bliss
for contributions to adaptive sensor systems in radar and communications
Gordon Frazer
for contributions to advanced over-the-horizon radar
Gerard Lachapelle
for contributions to signal processing for global navigation satellite systems
Abhijit Mahalanobis
for contributions to the development of correlation filters for automatic target recognition
Teresa Pace
for contributions to image and signal processing algorithms for sensor systems
Unnikrishna Pillai
for contributions to adaptive signal processing and radar systems
Robert Qiu
for contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communiations
James Shields
for leadership in advanced guidance, navigation and information systems
William Song
for contributions in high-performance low-power embedded processors
Evaluated by other Societies
S. Gunasekaran (C)
for contributions to high-performance computer vision algorithms for airborne applications
Henry Leung (CAS)
for contributions to chaotic communications and nonlinear signal processing
David Love (COMM)
for contributions to feedback-adaptive wireless communication systems
Ji Wu (GRS)
for leadership in satellite remote sensing programs
2014
Joachim Ender
for contributions to multi-channel synthetic aperture radar and radar array signal processing
Robert Ewing
for contributions to electronic system design in avionics
Yu Morton
for contributions to the understanding of ionospherice effects on global navigation satellite signals
Marina Ruggieri
for contributions to millimeter-wave satellite communications
Paul Ryan
for contributions to aviation safety
Iram Weinstein
for leadership in signal processing and test methods for radars detecting advanced aircraft and cruise missiles in severe terrain clutter
Evaluated by other Societies
Hao Huang (IA)
for contributions to electric power generation, conversion, and control in aircraft
Hassan Kojori (IA)
for contributions to the design and application of predictive and diagnostic algorithms in power electronics converters
Kim Fowler (IM)
for contributions to mission-critical and safety-critical systems engineering
Hector Fenech (SysC)
for leadership in the definition of telecommunications satellite architectures and systems through innovation and technological exploitation
Zachary Lemnois (SysC)
for leadership in advanced technologies of defense security systems
2013
Erwin Gangl
for development of digital avionics intra-communication systems and Mil-Std-1553
Marshall Greenspan
for contributions to design and development multi-channel radars
Antonio De Maio
for contributions to radar signal processing
Evaluated by other Societies
Christian Pichot (AP)
for contributions to microwave tomography and antenna designs
Om-Prakash Calla (GRS)
for leadership in space applications of microwave technology and remote sensing
Gerhard Krieger (GRS)
for contributions to advanced synthetic aperture radar systems
Mihai Datcu (GRS)
for contributions to information mining of high resolution synthetic aperature radar and optical earth observation images
2012
Sanjai Kohli
for leadership in developing consumer global positioning
Mark Richards
for contribution in radar signal processing education
Pedro Rustan
for contributions to miniature satellite technologies
Roy Streit
for contributions to multi-target tracking, classification, and sonar signal processing
2011
Maria Greco
for contributing to non-Gaussian radar clutter modeling and signal processing algorithms
Christopher Hegarty
for contributions to satellite navigation for civil aviation
Wolfgang Koch
for contributions to radar processing and target tracking theory
Eric Mokole
for leadership and contributions to ultra-wideband radar, waveform diversity, and tranionspheric space radar
2010
Kuochu Chang
for contributions to multisensor data fusion and Bayesian inference
David Daniels
for contributions to Ground-Penetrating Radar
Daniel Fuhrmann
for contributions to adaptive radar signal processing
Pier Francesco Guarguglini
for leadership in aviation, aerospace, and defense communities
James Leonard
for contributions to the integration of military avionics
Randolph Moses
for contributions to statistical signal processing
Grant Strokes
for leadership in the development and implementation of advanced space search systems
2009
John Betz
for contributions to signal design and radio frequency compatibility of global positioning and navigation satellite systems
Frederick Daum
for the integration of modern mathematical signal processing and tracking techniques to practical radar implementation
Ralph Kohler
for contributions to aerospace electronic systems and Communications, Command, Control And Intelligence infrastructure
Konstantin Lukin
for contributions to research in noise and chaotic waveform radars
Joel Schindall
for leadership in satellite communication and surveillance systems
Felix Yanovsky
for contributions to airborne radar for flight safety
2008
John Bay
for leadership in model-based design and integration methods for large-scale embedded systems
Paul Ebert
for contributions to the standard international aircraft collision avoidance system
William Melvin
for contributions to adaptive signal processing methods in radar systems
Ramanarayanan Viswanathan
for contributions to distributed detection and decision fusion in sensor systems
Matthew Ganz
for contributions to adaptive antennas and advanced radar systems
Rajan Srinivasan
for contributions to importance sampling and distributed detection in radar and communications
Mourad Barkat
for contributions to adaptive thresholding radar signal detection