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2013 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

IEEE Electromagnetics Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio
Processing Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Leung Tsang

Victor Zue

For contributions to statistical electromagnetic theory and applications in
remote sensing of complex geophysical
environments

For pioneering contributions to acoustic
phonetics and conversational spokenlanguage systems

Leung Tsang's pioneering statistical electromagnetic and microwave remote sensing theories have profoundly impacted the
fundamental understanding of how microwaves interact with
complex geophysical environments. Airborne and satellite remote
sensing technologies are central to research in environmental issues such as global climate change and monitoring of Earth's water
and carbon cycles. Dr.Tsang's models provide pivotal understanding for wave propagation in dense media, random media, rough
surfaces, backscattering enhancement, clustered particles, multiple
scattering, and four Stokes parameters in thermal emission. His
theories have set the standards for active and passive microwave
remote sensing of terrestrial and polar snow, soil moisture, vegetation, forest, ice, and ocean wind and foam.
An IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Optical Society of America,
Dr. Tsang is an electrical engineering professor at the University
of Washington, Seattle.

Considered a world expert on acoustic phonetics,Victor Zue's pioneering work on developing spoken-language interfaces that make
human-computer interactions easier and more natural has helped
people to communicate with electronic devices much the same
way we converse with each other.The speech systems developed by
Dr. Zue while head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Spoken Language Systems Group from 1989 to 2001 became the
forerunners of today's speech applications. He and his team created
multilanguage conversation systems integrating speech processing
with dialog-based problem solving.These interfaces provided information such as driving directions, weather information, and flight
schedules through Web-browser-based systems and as speech-only
systems over publicly available telephone lines.
An IEEE Member and member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, Dr. Zue is the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award

IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission
and Distribution Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society

Sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory of
Herman and Edna Halperin, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society

Shinichi Takagi

Vijay Vittal

For contributions to the understanding of
transport properties in inversion layers
of high-performance MOSFETs

For development of power system
stability assessment methods leading to
the maximum utilization and increased
reliability of transmission facilities

Shinichi Takagi has driven performance improvements in metal
oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) technology with his insight on behavior of carriers in semiconductor
devices. Dr. Takagi's "universal mobility model" has been a key
enabler of the continued scaling of electronic components. First
presented in 1988, his model has provided a common framework
for understating the transport mobility of carriers in the MOSFET inversion layer. It has become a world standard and an important component of device simulators. His work on subband
engineering of inversion layers focusing on strained silicon MOSFETs has important implications for sub-100-nm technology
nodes. Dr. Takagi is also investigating higher-mobility materials
such as germanium that will help the continued scaling of MOSFET devices when silicon technologies reach their scaling limits.
An IEEE Member, Dr. Takagi is a professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems at the
University of Tokyo, Japan.

One of the world's leading authorities on power system stability analysis, the innovations of Vijay Vittal have helped protect
the power grid from cascading power outages and large-scale
blackouts. Dr. Vittal's contribution to the transient energy function method has provided a real-time process for quickly calculating conditions of electric power systems. His stability analysis
methods have improved reliability and security to allow increased
transmission capacity. The first real-time dynamic security analysis method was successfully implemented at the grid control
center of the Northern States Power Company in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1993. Dr.Vittal's methods have since been adopted
by control centers around the world. He has also proposed the
concept of rapid islanding of the power grid to prevent power
outages from spreading.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, Dr. Vittal is the Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor at
Arizona State University, Tempe.

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