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

Kiyoung Choi

for contribution to low-power, real-time, and reconfigurable systems

Walden C. Rhines

for leadership and technology innovation in integrated circuit design and automation

Weiping Shi

for contributions to modeling and design of VLSI interconnects

Youngsoo Shin

for contributions to design tools for low power, high-speed VLSI circuits and systems

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

Steven P. Levitan

for contributions to mixed-technology micro-systems education

Diana Marculescu

for contributions to design and optimization of energy-aware computing systems