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Before joining NJIT in 1991, he was
a senior research specialist and pro-
gram manager at Kearfott Guidance
and Navigation Corp., New Jersey, in
charge of the Doppler mirror ring
laser gyroscope program. From 1992
to 1994, he served as a consultant to
Condor Pacific (New Jersey), respon-
sible for the hardware/software design
and development of the sidewinder
inertial navigation signal processing
system. From 1999 to 2001, he was a
consultant with Intelligent Health Inc.,
where he was responsible for designing
computer-controlled fitness equipment
and software animation of the human–
machine interface. From 2001 to 2008,
he served as the area coordinator of
the Intelligent Systems Focus Area. In
2008, he was the associate chair for
graduate studies, and in 2009, he was
the interim chair of the department.
Tim’s areas of interest included
ultrahigh precision systems, genetic
systems, robotics/motion control, em-
bedded real-time systems, decentral-
ized control systems, and Web-based
experiments. He was the chair of the
North Jersey IEEE Control Systems
Chapter since 1994, as well as gen-
eral chair of the 2010 IEEE Indus-
trial Electronics Annual Conference
(IECON; iecon2010.njit.edu), and reg-
istration chair of the IEEE Conference
on Automation Science and Engineer-
ing (case2010.org). In addition, Tim
was an associate editor for IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
He has published more than 70 refer-
eed journal and conference papers
and was the author of “Servo Control
Design,” in Encyclopedia of Life Sup-
port Systems, published by the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization.
Tim was the recipient of many
teaching awards and was recently
named master teacher and distin-
guished professor. He was the holder
of many patents and received a special
award from the New Jersey Inventor’s
Hall of Fame at their annual meeting in
the fall of 2010. He was a Senior Fellow
of the Society of International Electrical
and Electronic Engineers.
Besides excelling in his professio-
nal and academic career, Tim was
also a dear and wonderful friend who
always gave his best to others, lived
life to the fullest, and loved his family
with the same focus and intensity
that he devoted to his work. Some of
the quotes from his friends and col-
leagues include “impressed with his
work, his great attitude, and work
ethic”; “a gentle, kind person, willing
to take on tasks enthusiastically”;
“a great scholar, friend, and contrib-
utor to our society”; and many
others. Tim will be sorely missed by
all of us.
—Mo-Yuen Chow
IES Awards and 2011 IES Officers
The IEEE Industrial Electronics
Society (IES) has announced
the following awards for 2010:
Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achieve-
ment Award, the Rudolph Chope R&D
Award, the Anthony J. Hornfeck Serv-
ice Award, and the Early Career Award.
2010 IES Awards
2010 Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann
Achievement Award
Recipient: Prof. Bogdan M. Wilamow-
ski, Auburn University, USA
Citation: For extraordinary lifetime
contributions to semiconductor de-
vices and compu-
tational intelligent
systems.
Bogdan M. Wila-
mowski received
his M.S. degree in
computer engi-
neering in 1966, his
Ph.D. degree in neural computing in
1970, and his Dr. habil. in integrated
circuit design in 1977. He received
the title of full professor from the
president of Poland in 1987. He was
the director of the Institute of Electron-
ics (1979–1981) and the chair of the
Solid-State Electronics Department
(1987–1989) at the Technical University
of Gdansk, Poland. He was a professor
at the University of Wyoming, Laramie,
from 1989 to 2000. From 2000 to 2003,
he served as an associate director at
the Microelectronics Research and
Telecommunication Institute, Univer-
sity of Idaho, Moscow, and as a profes-
sor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department and Com-
puter Science Department at the same
university.
Currently, he is the director of the
Alabama Nano/Micro Science and
Technology Center (ANMSTC), Auburn,
and an alumna professor in the Electri-
cal and Computer Engineering Depart-
ment at Auburn University. He was
with the Communication Institute at
Tohoku University, Japan (1968–1970),Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIE.2011.940762
Date of publication: 25 March 2011
64 IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE n MARCH 2011
and has spent a year at the Semicon-
ductor Research Institute, Sendai,
Japan, as a Japan Society for the Pro-
motion of Science fellow (1975–1976).
He was also a visiting scholar at
Auburn University (1981–1982 and
1995–1996) and a visiting professor at
the University of Arizona, Tucson
(1982–1984).
He is the author of four textbooks,
more than 300 refereed publications,
and 27 patents. He was the principal
professor for about 130 graduate stu-
dents. His main areas of interest
include semiconductor devices and
sensors, mixed signal and analog sig-
nal processing, and computational
intelligence. He was the vice presi-
dent of the IEEE Computational Intel-
ligence Society (2000–2004) and the
president of the IES (2004–2005). He
was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transac-
tions on Industrial Electronics and an
associate editor of IEEE Transactions on
Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on
Education, IEEE Transactions on Indus-
trial Electronics, Journal of Intelligent and
Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Computing,
International Journal of Circuit Systems,
and IES Newsletter. He is currently the
editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Informatics.
He is an IEEE Fellow and an honor-
ary member of the Hungarian Acad-
emy of Science. In 2008, he was
awarded by the president of Poland
the Commander’s Cross of the Order
of Merit of the Republic of Poland for
his outstanding service in the prolif-
eration of international scientific col-
laborations and for achievements in
the areas of microelectronics and
computer science.
2010 Rudolph Chope R&D Award
Recipient: Prof.
Ron Hui, City Uni-
versity of Hong
Kong and Imperial
College London
Citation: For
contributions to
sustainable light-
ing technology and physical model-
ing of lighting devices and systems.
Ron Hui received his B.Sc. (Eng)
Hons. degree at the University of
Birmingham in 1984 and his D.I.C. and
Ph.D. degrees at Imperial College of
Science and Technology, London, in
1987. He was a lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Nottingham, United Kingdom,
in 1987–1990. In 1990, he joined the
University of Technology, Sydney, and
was appointed as a senior lecturer at
the University of Sydney in 1992, where
he became a reader in 1995. He joined
the City University of Hong Kong
(CityU) as a professor in 1996 and
was promoted as the chair professor
in 1998. In 2001–2004, he served as an
associate dean of the Faculty of Science
and Engineering at CityU. Currently, he
holds the chair professorship at both
CityU and Imperial College London.
He has published more than 200
technical papers, including more than
140 refereed journal publications and
book chapters. More than 45 of his
patents have been adopted by indus-
try. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IET.
He has been an associate editor
(power conversion) of IEEE Transac-
tions on Power Electronics since 1997
and an associate editor (lighting tech-
nology) of IEEE Transactions on Indus-
trial Electronics since 2007. He was
appointed twice as an IEEE Distin-
guished Lecturer by the IEEE Power
Electronics Society in 2004 and 2006,
respectively. He served as one of the
18 administrative committee (AdCom)
members of the IEEE Power Electron-
ics Society and was chair of its Consti-
tution and Bylaws Committee from
2002 to 2010.
He received the Teaching Excel-
lence Award at CityU in 1998 and the
Earth Champion Award in 2008. He
won the IEEE Best Paper Award from
the IEEE Industry Applications Soci-
ety Committee on Production and
Applications of Light in 2002 and two
IEEE Power Electronics Transactions
Prize Paper Awards for his publica-
tion “Wireless Battery Charging Plat-
form Technology” in 2009 and for his
article on “LED System Theory” in
2010. His inventions on wireless-
charging platform technology have
been adopted by the Wireless Power
Consortium to form the international
wireless charging standard “Qi” for
consumer electronics.
In 2010, he received the IET
Achievement Medal (the Crompton
Medal) and was elected to the Fel-
lowship of the Australian Academy
of Technological Sciences and Engi-
neering. In the last few years, he has
been advocating the new concept of
sustainable lighting, which involves
energy savings, long product life-
time, and recyclability of product
materials. He has proposed and
developed new technologies that
provide highly energy-efficient bal-
lasts with the lifetime exceeding ten
years and with more than 90% of the
product materials being recyclable.
He has also developed the general
photoelectrothermal theory for LED
systems. This theory unifies the
interactions of heat, light, and power
in a light-emitting diode (LED) sys-
tem and can be used as an optimal
design tool for LED products. In
addition, he has developed physical
models for both high-intensity dis-
charge lamps and fluorescent lamps
that do not rely on curve fitting.
These models can be implemented
in a simulation software for ballast
designs and studies.
2010 Anthony J. Hornfeck
Service Award
Recipient: Prof.
Ramu Krishnan,
Virginia Tech, USA
Citation: For out-
standing, merito-
rious services to
the IES.
Ramu Krishnan
is a professor of electrical and com-
puter engineering at Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, and directs the Center
for Rapid Transit Systems in linear
and rotating motor drives. He has
been granted nine U.S. patents and
others are pending in the United
States, Europe, and other countries.
His inventions have been prominently
featured in public media, including
radio, television, and newspapers such
as The Wall Street Journal. He has exten-
sively consulted for 18 companies in the
United States. He has developed and
delivered short courses for academia
and industry on vector-controlled
MARCH 2011 n IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE 65
induction, permanent magnet syn-
chronous and brushless dc, switched
reluctance, and linear electric motor
drive systems.
Krishnan is the recipient of best
paper prize awards from the IEEE
Industry Applications Society’s In-
dustrial Drives Committee (five awards)
and Electric Machines Committee (one
award). In addition, he received the first
prize from IEEE Transactions on Indus-
try Applications and the 2007 Best
Paper Award from IEEE Industrial Elec-
tronics Magazine. He was awarded
IES’s Dr. Eugene-Mittelmann Achieve-
ment Award for his outstanding techni-
cal contributions to the field of
industrial electronics in 2003. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished
Lecturer of the IES. He is a senior
AdCom member of the IES and served
as a vice president (publications)
from 2002 to 2005. He served as the
general chair of the 29th IECON
(2003), Roanoke, Virginia, and as one
of three general cochairs of the IEEE
International Conference on Indus-
trial Technology (ICIT 2006), Mumbai,
India. He has delivered many keynote
speeches during IEEE conferences.
Krishnan and some of his gradu-
ate scholars’ inventions constituted
the founding technologies for three
motor drives companies. He is the
author of Electric Motor Drives (Pren-
tice Hall, 2001), its Chinese translation
(Pearson Education Taiwan, 2002),
Indian edition (Prentice Hall of India,
2002), international edition (Prentice
Hall International Edition, 2001), and
Greek translation (Klidarithmos Pub-
lishers, Athens, 2009); the author of
Switched Reluctance Motor Drives
(CRC Press, first edition, 2001, sec-
ond edition, 2003); the coeditor of
Control in Power Electronics (Aca-
demic Press, 2002), which won the
best book award from the Ministry
of Education and Sport, Poland, in
2003; and the author of Permanent
Magnet Synchronous and Brushless
DC Motor Drives (CRC Press, 2009).
2010 Early Career Award
Recipient: Dr. Jin-
Shyan Lee, National
Taipei University
of Technology,
Taiwan
Citation: For out-
standing research
in Petri net appli-
cations and networked supervisory
control.
Jin-Shyan Lee received his B.S.
degree in mechanical engineering from
the National Taiwan University of Sci-
ence and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan,
in 1997, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in electrical and control engineering
from National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2004,
respectively. During 2003–2004, he was
a visiting researcher at the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineer-
ing, New Jersey Institute of Technol-
ogy, Newark. He was a researcher at
the Information and Communications
Research Laboratory, Industrial Tech-
nology Research Institute (ITRI), dur-
ing 2005–2009. Since August 2009, he
has been an assistant professor at the
Department of Electrical Engineering
at National Taipei University of Tech-
nology. His current research interests
include Petri nets, wireless sensor net-
works, remote monitoring and con-
trol, supervisory control, and hybrid
systems.
His research work has led to a
number of papers in journals and con-
ference proceedings. He was invited
to speak at the North New Jersey IEEE
Control Systems Chapter, Newark,
and the University of Rome “La Sapi-
enza,” Rome, Italy. Lee is the recipient
of the 2008 Youth Automatic Control
Engineering Award from the Chinese
Automatic Control Society (CACS),
the 2004 International Scholarship
from the Society of Instrument and
Control Engineers (SICE), and was a
finalist in both the Annual International
Award and Young Author’s Award at
the 2004 SICE Annual Conference, Sap-
poro, Japan.
He is a member of the technical
committee on discrete event systems
of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cyber-
netics (SMC) Society. He has served
as a technical program committee
member for various IEEE conferen-
ces. He is also an active reviewer for
several journals focusing on Petri nets
and sensor networks. He has organized
special sessions on wireless sensor net-
works and Petri nets and discrete event
systems at the 2007, 2009, and 2010
IECON, 2010 SICE, and the 2006 IEEE
International Conference on SMC.
Distinguished Lectureby Prof. Kaynak in SingaporeThe Industrial Electronics Chapter
of the IEEE Singapore Section invited
Prof. Okyay Kaynak, IEEE Fellow,
and UNESCO chair of mechatronics
at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Tur-
key, to give a distinguished lecture
CALL FOR IES AWARDS NOMINATIONSThe IES is soliciting nominations for the following Society awards. The deadline
for nominations is 1 May 2011. For more details including eligibility, prize, and
nomination procedures, please refer to the award specifications at http://ieee-
ies.org/index.php/about/awards/. Please submit the nomination and refer-
ence forms to the IES Awards and Honor Committee Chair, Prof. Hiromasa
Haneda, at [email protected].
Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award
The award is offered to a member with outstanding contributions in the field of
industrial electronics.
Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award
The award is offered to a member with outstanding, meritorious services to the IES.
J. David Irwin Early Career Award
The award is offered to an early career member with significant contributions
to the advancement of the field of industrial electronics.
66 IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE n MARCH 2011
“Intelligent Systems: An Assessment
of the Past and the Prospects for the
Future.” Organized by Prof. Changyun
Wen, the lecture was held at the School
of Electrical and Electronic Engineer-
ing, Nanyang Technological University
in Singapore, on 15 September 2010.
Prof. Kaynak started his lecture by
giving some background of intelligent
systems, including robust control and
application examples. Then he pre-
sented the recent advances in intelli-
gent control theory. He continued
showing how the theory could provide
intelligent control to robotics with ran-
dom interferences. Finally, he illus-
trated ASIMO and Big Dog in a video.
About 40 people from universities, pol-
ytechnics, research institutes, and
industry attended the lecture. They
were very interested in his vivid lec-
ture and had lively discussions with
Prof. Kaynak.
Prof. Kaynak also delivered a semi-
nar, “Intelligent Systems,” at the
National University of Singapore on
21 September 2010. In his talk, he
reviewed the current status of intelli-
gent systems with examples. He also
presented future perspectives in the
area and discussed the reasons behind
the slow pace of development. He con-
cluded his talk with a consideration of
the possible research directions in
mechatronics and robotics as driving
forces behind the development of intel-
ligent systems.
During his visit, Prof. Kaynak had
frequent discussions with some IES
members and researchers in Singapore
on the state of the art and future chal-
lenges in various areas of industrial
electronics, especially in control sys-
tem technologies. They felt that his
visit and lectures were stimulating,
rewarding, enjoyable, and memorable.
Recognition ofIES Member Prof. Peracaula
The Catalonian In-
stitution of Engi-
neering (CEIC) in
Barcelona, Spain,
recognized IES
member Prof. Joan
Peracaula with the
Academic Merit
Award for pioneering and long-term
work for knowledge transmission in
the field of electronic technology and
power electronics. He received his
Ph.D. degree from the Technical Uni-
versity of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona,
Spain, in 1961. He was a professor at
the Department of Control Engineer-
ing, Technical University of Madrid,
Spain (1966–1971) and at the Depart-
ment of Electronic Engineering, UPC
(1971–2001), where he has been an
active professor emeritus since 2002.
He was the first director (1985–1988)
of the Spanish National Microelec-
tronic Center, as well as the dean
of the Faculty of Engineering at the
UPC (1987–1991). He has been the
principal investigator for more than
30 large research and R&D projects
and has published and reviewed ex-
tensively in his areas of expertise,
which include variable-speed electric
drives, renewable energies, and con-
trol systems.
Prof. John Y. Hung New SeniorMember of the IES AdComThe members of the IES who have
devoted ten or more years of service
to the Society as an officer, AdCom
member, transaction editor, major
conference chair, newsletter editor,
and the like shall be eligible for elec-
tion as a senior member of the AdCom.
The election is conducted at the
annual meeting of the Society by
the AdCom.
Prof. John Y. Hung, from Auburn
University, was elected as a senior
member of the AdCom during the
meeting held in Glendale, Arizona, on
11 November 2010.
IES Members Elevatedto IEEE Fellows
John Y. Hung
For contributions to control technology
for industrial electronics.
John Y. Hung re-
ceived his B.S.
degree from the
University of Ten-
nessee, Knoxville,
in 1979, his M.S.E.
degree fromPrince-
ton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, in 1981, and
his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Illinois, at Urbana–Champaign, in
1989, all in electrical engineering. From
1981 to 1985, he was with Johnson
Controls, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From
1985 to 1989, he was with Poly-Analytics,
Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1989, he
joined Auburn University in Alabama,
where he is currently a professor at the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. His teaching and research
Prof. Kaynak during his distinguished lecture at Nanyang Technological University.
MARCH 2011 n IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE 67
interests include nonlinear control
systems and signal processing, with
applications in process control, ro-
botics, vehicle control, electric machin-
ery, and power electronics.
Prof. Hung was associate editor
of IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics (1996–2005) and IEEE Tran-
sactions on Control System Technology
(1997–1998). He was the general chair
of the 34th Annual Conference of
IECON 2008, Orlando, Florida, and he
also served as the vice president for
conference activities of the IES. He
has received several awards for his
teaching and research, including the
Best Paper Award from IEEE Transac-
tions on Industrial Electronics and two
U.S. patents in the area of control
systems.
Jos�e Rodrıguez
For the development of new topologies
and control methods for power elec-
tronics converters and drives.
Jos�e Rodrıguez re-
ceived his degree
in electrical engi-
neering from the
Universidad T�ec-
nica Federico Santa
Marıa, Valparaıso,
Chile, in 1977 and
the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engi-
neering from the University of Erlan-
gen, Germany, in 1985. Since 1997, he
has been with the Universidad T�ecnica
Federico Santa Marıa, where he is
now a full professor and rector. His
research interest include high-power
drives, multilevel inverters, new power-
converter topologies, control of power
converters, and modern adjustable
speed drives. His research group was
recognized as one of the centers of
excellence in engineering in Chile from
2005 to 2008.
He is the author of more than 300
journals and conference papers. He
has been an associate editor for IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics
and IEEE Transactions on Power Elec-
tronics. In addition, he has been the
guest editor for a number of special
sections of IEEE Transactions on Indus-
trial Electronics. He received the Best
Paper Award from IEEE Transac-
tions or Industrial Electronics in 2007
and from IEEE Industrial Electronics
Magazine in 2008. Dr. Rodrıguez is a
member of the Chilean Academy of
Engineering.
Quan Xue
For contributions to microwave trans-
mission line structures and integrated
circuits.
Quan Xue received
his B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees in
electronic engi-
neering from the
University of Elec-
tronic Science and
Technology of
China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in
1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In
1993, he joined the UESTC as a lecturer.
He became an associate professor in
1995 and a professor in 1997.
From October 1997 to October 1998,
he was a research associate and
then a research fellow at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. In 1999, he
joined the City University of Hong
Kong, where he is currently a profes-
sor and serves as deputy director of
the State Key Laboratory (Hong Kong)
of Millimeter-Waves of China and an
assistant head, Department of Elec-
tronic Engineering. Since May 2004, he
has been the principal technological
specialist of the State Integrated Cir-
cuit (IC) Design Base, Chengdu, China.
He has authored and coauthored more
than 180 internationally refereed jour-
nal papers and more than 60 interna-
tional conference papers. His current
research interests include microwave
passive components, active compo-
nents, antennas, microwave monolithic
ICs (MMICs), and radio frequency iden-
tification (RFID) and radio frequency
ICs (RFIC).
Dr. Xue is an associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Elec-
tronics and IEEE Transactions on Micro-
wave Theory and Techniques, as well
as an editor of the International Jour-
nal of Antennas and Propagation. He is
an elected member of the IEEE Micro-
wave Theory and Techniques Society
(MTT-S) AdCom and the chair of the
Hong Kong Section of the IEEE Anten-
nas and Propagation Society (AP)/
MTT Chapter.
Han-Xiong Li
For contributions to applications of fuzzy
logic control.
Han-Xiong Li re-
ceived his B.E.
degree in aero-
space engineering
from the National
University of De-
fense Technology,
China, his M.E.
degree in electrical engineering from
Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands, and his Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering from the Uni-
versity of Auckland, New Zealand.
Currently, he is a full professor at the
Department of Manufacturing Engi-
neering and Engineering Manage-
ment, the City University of Hong
NEW ELECTED MEMBERS-AT-LARGE OF THE IES ADCOMTharam Dillon (term expires 2011)
Eric Monmasson (term expires 2011)
Roberto Oboe (term expires 2011)
Ali Emadi (term expires 2013)
Richard Grisel (term expires 2013)
Yoichi Hori (term expires 2013)
Shin-Yen Lai (term expires 2013)
Ju-Jang Lee (term expires 2013)
Milos Manic (term expires 2013)
Thilo Sauter (term expires 2013)
68 IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE n MARCH 2011
Kong. For the last 20 years, he has had
opportunities to work in different
fields, including military service, in-
dustry, and academia. His research
experience and accomplishments in-
clude fuzzy-PID for process control;
spatial-temporal fuzzy system for con-
trol; and probabilistic fuzzy system
for modeling, intelligent modeling, and
control of spatial–temporal dynamic
systems, with application to thermal
cure process and fluid dispensing for
IC packaging.
He has published more than 100
Science Citation Index (SCI) journal
papers (nearly half of them in IEEE
and ASME transactions) with h-index
21. His current research interests are
in intelligent modeling and control,
process design and control, and dis-
tributed parameter systems. Dr. Li is
an associate editor of IEEE Transac-
tions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Part B. He was named
the Distinguished Young Scholar (over-
seas) by the China National Science
Foundation in 2004 and the Chang Jiang
chair professor by the Ministry of Edu-
cation, China, in 2006.
Chin-Long Wey
For leadership in education and services
in integrated circuits.
Chin-Long Wey re-
ceived his Ph.D.
degree in electri-
cal engineering
from Texas Tech
University, Lub-
bock, in 1983.
He was a tenured
full professor of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Michigan State University from
1983 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006, he
served as the dean of the College of
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at the National Central Univer-
sity (NCU), Jhongli, Taiwan. From 2007
to 2010, he was appointed as the vice
president at National Applied Research
Laboratories (NARL) and the director
general of the Chip Implementation
Center (CIC), Hsinchu, Taiwan.
He received the honors of the
distinguished research fellow of NARL
in 2007–2010 and the Taiwan Semi-
conductor Manufacturing Company
distinguished chair professor at NCU
in 2004 and 2007. He was the recipient
of outstanding paper awards from
the 2007 IEEE EIT conferences and
the 2009 and 2010 Outstanding Contri-
butions in Science and Technology
Award, NARL. He is currently at the
Department of Electrical Engineering
of NCU as a full professor.
His research interests include
design, testing, and fault diagnosis of
analog/mixed-signal very large scale
integration (VLSI) circuits and sys-
tems; digital circuit design automa-
tion; defect/fault-tolerant and reliable
embedded computing systems, and
reliable real-time embedded comput-
ing systems. He has published more
than 200 technical journal and confer-
ence papers in these areas. He serves
as a member of the Electronic Sys-
tems on Chip technical committee of
the IES.
Robert Puers
For contributions to implantable
microelectromechanical systems.
Robert Puers re-
ceived his B.S.
degree in electri-
cal engineering in
Ghent in 1974
and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from
Katholieke Univer-
siteit Leuven in 1977 and 1986, respec-
tively. In 1980, he joined the Laboratory
ESAT at the same university as a re-
search assistant. He pioneered and
stimulated research in microelectrome-
chanical systems (MEMSs) in Belgium,
resulting in Leuven’s international
recognition as a leading-edge research
center in MEMS. To this purpose, he
assembled the requested infrastruc-
ture and installed the entire process-
ing line in a clean room, which now
runs for more than 25 years under his
guidance. MEMS development and re-
search often serves another application
in his research, namely, implantable
sensing systems for wireless bio-
monitoring. Extensive research has
been conducted to improve the effi-
ciency of power induction (with coil
systems), which has led to design rules
and guidelines requested by many peer
researchers that have been bundled in
two books.
Currently, he is a full professor at
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is
the author and coauthor of 550 journal
and conferences papers on bioteleme-
try, sensors, MEMS, and packaging. He
is the regional editor of the IOP Journal
of Micromechanics and Microengineer-
ing, was the general chair of the Euro-
sensors conference series between
2004 and 2010, and acted as the gen-
eral program chair for IEEE-EDS
Transducers’07.
Yu-Dong Yao
For contributions to wireless communi-
cations systems.
Yu-Dong Yao has
been with Stevens
Institute of Tech-
nology, Hoboken,
New Jersey, since
2000 and is cur-
rently a professor
and department di-
rector of electrical and computer engi-
neering. He is also the director of
Stevens’ Wireless Information Systems
Engineering Laboratory (WISELAB).
Previously, from 1989 to 1990, he
was at Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada, as a research associate work-
ing on mobile radio communications.
From 1990 to 1994, he was with Spar
Aerospace Ltd., Montr�eal, Canada,
where he was involved in research on
satellite communications. From 1994
to 2000, he was with Qualcomm Inc.,
San Diego, California, where he par-
ticipated in the research and devel-
opment in wireless code-division
multiple-access (CDMA) systems. He
holds a Chinese patent and 13 U.S.
patents. His research interests include
wireless communications and net-
works, spread spectrum and CDMA,
antenna arrays and beamforming,
cognitive and software-defined radio
(CSDR), and digital signal processing
for wireless systems.
Dr. Yao was an associate editor of
IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology
and an editor of IEEE Transactions on
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Wireless Communications. He received
his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from
Nanjing University of Posts and Tele-
communications, Nanjing, China, in
1982 and 1985, respectively, and his
Ph.D. degree from Southeast Univer-
sity, Nanjing, China, in 1988, all in elec-
trical engineering.
Guo-Ping Liu
For contributions to networked control
systems.
Guo-Ping Liu is
chair of control
engineering at the
University of Gla-
morgan, United
Kingdom. He re-
ceived his B.Eng.
and M.Eng. degrees
in automation from the Central South
University of Technology (now the
Central South University) in China in
1982 and 1985, respectively, and his
Ph.D. degree in control engineering
from the University of Manchester
Institute of Science and Technology
(now the University of Manchester),
United Kingdom, in 1992. Prof. Liu
conducted his postdoctoral research
in the University of York in 1992–
1993. He worked as a research fellow
at the University of Sheffield in 1994.
During 1996–2000, he was a senior
engineer at GEC-Alsthom and ALS-
TOM and then a principal engineer
and a project leader at ABB ALSTOM
Power. He was a senior lecturer at
the University of Nottingham in 2000–
2003, a Hundred-Talent Program vis-
iting professor at the Chinese Acad-
emy of Sciences in 2001–2005, and a
Changjiang scholar visiting professor
at Harbin Institute of Technology in
2008–2010.
He has been a professor at the
University of Glamorgan since 2004.
He has more than 400 papers (includ-
ing more than 140 SCI journal papers),
seven books, five patents, and 23
registered software copyrights on
control systems. He was awarded the
Alexander von Humboldt Research
Fellowship in 1992. He received the
Best Paper Prize for applications at
the United Kingdom Automatic Con-
trol Council (UKACC) International
Conference on Control in 1998, the out-
standing overseas scholarship award
from the National Natural Science
Foundation of China in 2005, the
GuanZhaoZhi Best Paper Prize at the
26th Chinese Control Conference in
2007, the Best Paper Prize at the 13th
International Conference on Automa-
tion and Computing in 2007, and the
second prize of Chinese National Sci-
ence and Technology Awards in 2008.
He was the general chair of the 2007
IEEE International Conference on Net-
working, Sensing, and Control and the
program cochair of the 2008 UKACC
International Conference on Control.
He is the editor-in-chief of the
International Journal of Automation
and Computing, an associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,
a member of the IFAC technical com-
mittee on networked systems, a mem-
ber of the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council Peer Review
College, and a fellow of the IET. His main
research areas include networked con-
trol systems, nonlinear system iden-
tification and control, multiobjective
optimization and control, and advanced
control of industrial systems.
Bo H. Cho
For contributions to large-scale distrib-
uted power electronics systems.
Bo H. Cho re-
ceived his B.S.
and M.S. degrees
in electrical engi-
neering from the
California Institute
of Technology in
Pasadena, and his
Ph.D. degree, also in electrical engi-
neering, from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University in Blacks-
burg. From 1980 to 1982, he was a
member of the technical staff of the
Power Conversion Electronics Depart-
ment, TRW Defense and Space System
Group, Redondo Beach, California. From
1985 to 1995, he was an assistant associ-
ate professor at the Department of
Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech.
He joined the School of Electrical
Engineering, Seoul National Univer-
sity, Korea, in 1995, where he is pres-
ently a professor.
He has published more than 300
papers in power electronics journals
and conference proceedings and nu-
merous technical reports for the U.S.
government and industries. He has
served the IEEE Power Electronics
Society as a chair for the Membership
and Publicity Committee. He was the
general chair for the 2006 Power
Electronics Specialist Conference and
the president of the Korean Institute
of Power Electronics (KIPE, 2006–2007).
He is a full member of the National
Academy of Engineering, Korea. Dr. Cho
was a recipient of the 1989 Presidential
Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation. He is a
member of Tau Beta Pi.
Fujio Kurokawa
For contributions to switching power
converter control.
Fujio Kurokawa
received his B.S.
degree from the
Department of
Electronics Engi-
neering of Fukuoka
Institute of Tech-
nology, Japan, in
1976 and the doctor in engineering
degree from Osaka Prefecture Univer-
sity, Japan, in 1988. Currently, he is a
professor at the Department of Elec-
trical and Electronic Engineering of
Nagasaki University, Japan. His re-
search areas are analog and digital
control for dc–dc converters, ac–dc
converters, and dc–ac inverters. His
application fields are in solar cell sys-
tems, engine control of space satel-
lites and ships, lighting technologies,
green IT and microgrid technologies,
and machine-learning technologies.
Olorunfemi Ojo
For contributions to dual stator winding
electric machines.
Olorunfemi Ojo re-
ceived his bache-
lor’s and master’s
degrees in electri-
cal engineering
from Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria,
Nigeria, and his
Ph.D. degree from the University of
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Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently a
TVA chair professor of electrical and
computer engineering at the Tennessee
Technological University, Cookeville.
His current research interests lie
in the areas of electric machine analy-
sis and drive control, switching-
converter technology, and modern
control applications in converter-
enhanced power and distributed energy
generation systems. Presently, Dr. Ojo
is the vice chair of the Industrial
Power Conversion Systems Depart-
ment of the IEEE Industry Applica-
tions Society. He is also an associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics and an editorial board
member of IET Proceedings on Power
Electronics.
Susanto Rahardja
For leadership in digital audio and
signal processing.
Susanto Rahardja is an electrical
engineer who does research in
the area of signal processing and
interactive digital media, in which
he has published
more than 250
international ly
refereed journal
and conference
papers. At present,
he is the director
of research at the
Institute for Infocomm Research and
head of the Signal Processing Depart-
ment as well as a principal scientist in
the institute.
He was the recipient, among other
awards, of the IEE Hartree Premium
Award in 2002, the Tan Kah Kee
Young Inventor’s Award (GOLD) in
2003, the Spring Standards Council
Award in 2006, the National Technol-
ogy Award in 2007, the A*STAR Most
Inspiring Mentor Award in 2008, and
the I2R Achiever of the Year Award
(Research) in 2010. He contributed a
series of technologies for scalable to
lossless audio compression and loss-
less coding, which are patented,
adopted, and published as normative
international standards in ISO/IEC
14496-3:2005/Amd.3:2006 and ISO/IEC
14496-3:2005/Amd.2:2006, respectively.
Dr. Rahardja has served on several
boards and advisory and technical
committees for ACM, Asia Pacific Signal
and Information Processing Associa-
tion (APSIPA), IEEE, and SPIE professio-
nal activities in the area of multimedia,
which includes chairing of at least
one international conference in each
of the abovementioned professional
associations. He is a council member
of the National IT Standards Commit-
tee in Singapore, the president of
ACM Special Interest Group on
Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques Singapore Chapter (SSC)
and the Southeast Asia Graphics
(SEAGRAPH) society as well as the
board of governor for the APSIPA
association. He is currently serving
as an associate editor for IEEE Trans-
actions on Audio, Speech and Language
Processing, Elsevier Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Repre-
sentation, and IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia.
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