IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting for 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.
The following list of Fellows are those that were elevated by AESS. A full list of IEEE Fellows can be found in the IEEE Directory.
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2026
for the development of automotive radar technology
for contributions to space engineering research and management
for contributions to satellite navigation integrity
for leadership in digital avionics for sustainability and trusted autonomy
2025
for contributions to advancements in networked surveillance systems
for contributions to passive radar
2024
for contributions to cognitive and distributed radar signal processing
for contributions to sequential Monte Carlo methods and applications
for contributions to navigation with signals of opportunity
for contributions to maritime radars
2023
for contributions to GPS multipath error characterization and mitigation
for contributions to closed-loop control of embedded systems
for contributions to the development and validation of cognitive radar systems
for leadership in military aerospace decision support systems and strategic small business innovation
2022
for contributions to spacecraft control systems
for contributions to information fusion methods for multi-sensor tracking
for contributions Digital AESA Radar Systems
for contributions to inertial sensors and navigation systems
for contributions to assisted global navigation satellite systems for consumer applications
2021
for contributions to multi-sensor multi-target tracking
for leadership in space infrastructure and Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Hubble and other missions
for leadership in electromagnetic modeling of radar systems and in microwave remote sensing
for contributions to synthetic aperture radar and passive imaging
2020
for contributions to statistical signal and sensor array processing for radar and sonar
for contributions to multi-static inverse synthetic aperture radars
for contributions to radar architectures and technologies
for contributions to adaptive array processing algorithms
Evaluated by other Societies
for contributions to radar imaging and motion compensation algorithms
2019
for technical leadership in aerospace systems
for contributions to adaptive radar signal processing with limited data
for contributions to high resolution radar systems
for contributions to radar target detection and estimation in clutter
for contributions to data acquisition for aerospace sensory information systems
2018
for contribution to through-the-wall radar imaging
for leadership in aerospace information fusion systems
for contributions to synthetic aperture radar imaging
for contributions to coherent detection of radar signals in clutter
for leadership in space-based navigation, synchronization, and surveillance
2017
for contributions to cognitive sensing in passive and diversity
for contributions to nonlinear estimation and control
Evaluated by other Societies (CIS)
for contributions to interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems
for leadership in radar signal processing, receiver design, and direction finding architectures
Evaluated by other Societies (GRS)
for contributions to atmospheric and meteorological radar science
for contributions to communication waveforms, detection algorithms, and channel models for aeronautical telemetry
for leadership in development of advanced radar systems
Evaluated by other Societies (GRS)
for advances in VHF- and UHF-band synthetic aperture radar
2016
for contributions to cognitive sensing in passive and diversity
for leadership in signal processing for radar systems
for leadership in knowledge-aided radar systems for indoor environments
for contributions to radar waveform diversity and design
for contributions to flight dynamics and control
for contributions to adaptive array signal processing in over-the-horizon radar systems
Evaluated by other Societies (CS)
for contributions to modelling and controlling of marine crafts
for contributions to signal processing and information fusion for situational awareness
Evaluated by other Societies (SP)
for contributions to the technology of multi-antenna wireless communications
for contributions to biomedical microelectromechanical systems
for contributions to navigational aspects of space systems
Evaluated by other Societies (MTT)
for contributions to the design of wireless and radar positioning systems
Evaluated by other Societies (IM)
for contributions to radar systems for meteorology
2015
for leadership in automatic target recognition technology
for contributions to statistical signal processing with radar and sonar applications
for contributions to adaptive sensor systems in radar and communications
for contributions to advanced over-the-horizon radar
Evaluated by other Societies (C)
for contributions to high-performance computer vision algorithms for airborne applications
for contributions to signal processing for global navigation satellite systems
Evaluated by other Societies (CAS)
for contributions to chaotic communications and nonlinear signal processing
Evaluated by other Societies (COMM)
for contributions to feedback-adaptive wireless communication systems
for contributions to the development of correlation filters for automatic target recognition
for contributions to image and signal processing algorithms for sensor systems
for contributions to adaptive signal processing and radar systems
for contributions to ultra-wideband wireless communications
for leadership in advanced guidance, navigation and information systems
for contributions in high-performance low-power embedded processors
Evaluated by other Societies (GRS)
for leadership in satellite remote sensing programs
2014
for contributions to multi-channel synthetic aperture radar and radar array signal processing
for contributions to electronic system design in avionics
Evaluated by other Societies (SysC)
for leadership in the definition of telecommunications satellite architectures and systems through innovation and technological exploitation
Evaluated by other Societies (IM)
for contributions to mission-critical and safety-critical systems engineering
Evaluated by other Societies (IA)
for contributions to electric power generation, conversion, and control in aircraft
Evaluated by other Societies (IA)
for contributions to the design and application of predictive and diagnostic algorithms in power electronics converters
Evaluated by other Societies (SysC)
for leadership in advanced technologies of defense security systems
for contributions to the understanding of ionospherice effects on global navigation satellite signals
for contributions to millimeter-wave satellite communications
for contributions to aviation safety
for leadership in signal processing and test methods for radars detecting advanced aircraft and cruise missiles in severe terrain clutter
2013
Evaluated by other Societies (GRS)
for leadership in space applications of microwave technology and remote sensing
Evaluated by other Societies (GRS)
for contributions to information mining of high resolution synthetic aperature radar and optical earth observation images
for contributions to radar signal processing
for development of digital avionics intra-communication systems and Mil-Std-1553
for contributions to design and development multi-channel radars
Evaluated by other Societies (GRS)
for contributions to advanced synthetic aperture radar systems
Evaluated by other Societies (AP)
for contributions to microwave tomography and antenna designs
2012
for leadership in developing consumer global positioning
for contribution in radar signal processing education
for contributions to miniature satellite technologies
for contributions to multi-target tracking, classification, and sonar signal processing
2011
for contributing to non-Gaussian radar clutter modeling and signal processing algorithms
for contributions to satellite navigation for civil aviation
for contributions to radar processing and target tracking theory
for leadership and contributions to ultra-wideband radar, waveform diversity, and tranionspheric space radar
2010
for contributions to multisensor data fusion and Bayesian inference
for contributions to Ground-Penetrating Radar
for contributions to adaptive radar signal processing
for leadership in aviation, aerospace, and defense communities
for contributions to the integration of military avionics
for contributions to statistical signal processing
for contributions to importance sampling and distributed detection in radar and communications
for leadership in the development and implementation of advanced space search systems
2009
for contributions to signal design and radio frequency compatibility of global positioning and navigation satellite systems
for the integration of modern mathematical signal processing and tracking techniques to practical radar implementation
for contributions to aerospace electronic systems and Communications, Command, Control And Intelligence infrastructure
for contributions to research in noise and chaotic waveform radars
for leadership in satellite communication and surveillance systems
for contributions to airborne radar for flight safety
2008
for contributions to adaptive thresholding radar signal detection
for leadership in model-based design and integration methods for large-scale embedded systems
for contributions to the standard international aircraft collision avoidance system
for contributions to adaptive antennas and advanced radar systems
for contributions to adaptive signal processing methods in radar systems
for contributions to distributed detection and decision fusion in sensor systems