IEEE Awards Booklet - 2015 - 21

2015 ieee technical field awards

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award

IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund

Yosiro oono

daniel J. Costello, Jr.

For fundamental contributions to the
foundation of classical circuit theory

For profound and lasting contributions to
graduate education in coding, information theory, and digital communications

Solving principal circuit-theoretical problems of the 1940s and
1950s posed by Wilhelm Cauer, Yosiro Oono established the socalled "classical network theory" named by Vitold Belevitch. Prof.
Oono provided complete solutions to the problems of clarifying realizability conditions for linear passive n-ports and found
their equivalent networks by developing mathematically rigorous theory. Since Prof. Oono's groundbreaking work is a general
synthesis theory built on the principles only of linearity and passivity, it has widely influenced the development of sophisticated
circuit designs for today's digital filters, active filters, and of signal
processing. Concerning more general networks including active
elements, Prof. Oono pointed out the existence of innovative singular elements known as a nullator and a norator, which are very
useful for active network synthesis.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Oono is an Emeritus Professor of
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

A role model of what a graduate educator and advisor should
be, for over 40 years Daniel J. Costello, Jr. has prepared graduate students in the fundamentals and practice of reliable communications. His efforts helped transform the University of Notre
Dame's Electrical Engineering Department into one of the largest
doctorate-producing departments on campus. With courses that
have incorporated the latest advances in code design and digital
transmission that drive the communications field, Dr. Costello's
students also appreciate the detailed attention to their research
and the career guidance he is always willing to provide. His classic textbook on error control coding (co-authored with Shu Lin)
helped educate the designers of satellite, cellular, and WiFi systems
and is still an indispensable resource today.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Costello is an Emeritus Professor of
electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA.

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers
and Communications Award

IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society

Sponsored by NEC Corporation

albert g. greenberg

shu Yuen ron Hui

For fundamental contributions to largescale backbone networks and datacenter networks

For contributions to power electronics
applications in planar wireless charging
and sustainable lighting technology

A visionary computer-networking expert, Albert G. Greenberg
has revolutionized how industry designs and operates large-scale
backbone and data-center networks critical to today's "cloud"
services and other applications. Dr. Greenberg's "fair queuing"
scheduling algorithm helped transform AT&T from a voice- to an
Internet Protocol-services company. He was instrumental in creating tools for network tomography and Internet Protocol measurement, fault diagnosis, and network management now used in
AT&T's operational systems and networks. He then transformed
data-center network operations at Microsoft with virtual networks that operate on shared infrastructures but behave like they
are dedicated to individual customers. His VL2 architecture provides an 80-time improvement in cost, availability, and response
time over existing designs and is the architecture of choice for
Microsoft data-center networks, including Xbox, Bing, and Azure.
An IEEE Member, Dr. Greenberg is a Distinguished Engineer
and director of Microsoft Azure, Redmond, WA, USA.

The impactful power electronics innovations of Shu Yuen Ron
Hui focus on providing sustainability, saving energy, and reducing electronic waste. Prof. Hui pioneered planar wireless charging
technology, providing free-positioning and localized charging for
multiple devices through a wireless charging pad. His patented
work is featured in the first global wireless charging standard for
low-power electronics introduced in 2010.This unifying standard
will help to reduce hundreds of millions of units of electronic
waste per year considering the plethora of noncompatible charging devices produced in the past. Prof. Hui's groundbreaking work
in lighting control includes passive LED drivers for street lighting
that feature materials that are 85% recyclable, an energy efficiency
of 94%, and a designed lifetime exceeding 10 years.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Hui is the Chair Professor of Power Electronics with the University of Hong Kong and Imperial College
London, U.K.

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