Fellows/Programs
34 SPS Members Elevated to Fellow
Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in IEEE’s designated fields.
The Signal Processing Society congratulates the following 34 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2009:
Yuri Abramovich, Edinburgh, Australia: For contributions to adaptive signal processing for detection and estimation in radar arrays.
Tulay Adali, Baltimore, MD: For contributions to nonlinear and complex-valued statistical signal processing.
Helmut Boelcskei, Zurich, Switzerland: For contributions to multiple input/multiple output wireless communication and filter bank theory.
Michael Brandstein, Lexington, MA: For contributions to microphone array signal processing for speech and multimedia applications.
Sheng Chen, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom: For contributions to intelligent learning systems and adaptive signal processing for communications.
Michelle Effros, Pasadena, CA: For contributions to source and network coding.
Brian Evans, Austin, TX: For contributions to multicarrier communications and image display.
Gerhard Fettweis, Dresden, Saxony, Germany: For contributions to signal processing algorithms and chip implementation architectures for communications.
William Freeman, Cambridge, MA: For contributions to computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning.
Yuqing Gao, Yorktown Heights, NY: For contributions to speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation.
Sheila Hemami, Ithaca, NY: For contributions to robust and perceptual image and video communications.
King Choi (Dominic) Ho, Columbia, MO: For contributions to active and passive signal source location technologies.
Xiaoping Hu, Atlanta, GA: For development of spectroscopic and functional magnetic resonance imaging methodologies.
Ron Kimmel, Haifa, Israel: For contributions to image processing and non-rigid shape analysis.
Ralph Kohler, Rome, NY: For contributions to aerospace electronic systems and communications, command, control and intelligence infrastructure.
Hui Liu, Seattle, WA: For contributions to global standards for broadband cellular and mobile broadcasting.
Konstantin Lukin, Kharkov, Ukraine: For contributions to research in noise and chaotic waveform radars.
Jiebo Luo, Pittsford, NY: For contributions to semantic image understanding and intelligent image processing.
Shrikanth Narayanan, Los Angeles, CA: For contributions to human-centric multimodal signal processing and applications.
Hayder Radha, East Lansing, MI: For contributions to visual coding, communications and networking.
Raghuveer Rao, Rochester, NY: For contributions to higher-order statistics-based signal processing.
Eve Riskin, Seattle, WA: For contributions to variable-rate image and video compression and to engineering education.
Kensuke Sekihara, Tokyo, Japan: For contributions to electromagnetic brain imaging.
Nicholas Sidiropoulos, Chania, Crete, Greece: For contributions to signal processing for communications.
Eero Simoncelli, New York, NY: For contributions to statistical models of visual images.
Iickho Song, Daejeon, Korea: For applications of signal detection theory to vehicular communications systems.
Allen Tannenbaum, Atlanta, GA: For contributions to robust control and computer vision.
Jayaram Udupa, Philadelphia, PA: For contributions to medical image processing.
Sabine Van Huffel, Leuven, Belgium: For contributions to total least squares fitting and computational biosignal processing.
Peter Vary, Aachen, Germany: For contributions to digital speech processing and coding.
Susie Wee, Cupertino, CA: For contributions in multimedia technology.
Xiang-Gen Xia, Newark, DE: For contributions to signal processing for digital communications.
Felix Yanovsky, Kiev, Ukraine: For contributions to airborne radar for flight safety.
Steve Young, Cambridge, United Kingdom: For contributions to speech processing, speech recognition and spoken dialogue systems.