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2012 IEEE
Donald O. Pederson Award in
Solid-State Circuits

F I E L D

AWA R D S

2012 IEEE
Frederik Philips Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society

Sponsored by Philips Electronics NV

Behzad Razavi

Chih-Yuan (C. Y.) Lu

For pioneering contributions to the design of highspeed CMOS communication circuits

For leadership and contributions to research,
development, and industrial alliances in semiconductor
technology

Behzad Rezavi's pioneering work on high-speed complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits for
communications technologies has helped change the field of
circuit design and continues to push the envelope of high-performance analog integrated circuits. Dr. Rezavi pioneered the
concept that innovations at the architecture level can greatly
relax the design at the circuit level for wireless transceivers. He
was an early proponent of direct conversion for wireless transceivers, which has become widely used in many wireless
systems including cellular phone handsets. With his students at
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he has
explored new architectures for radio-frequency (RF) applications from 900 MHz to 60 GHz, introducing "synthesizer-friendly"
transceivers. He and his students were the first to demonstrate
10-Gb/s and 40-Gb/s CDR circuits in CMOS technology. An
IEEE Fellow, Dr. Razavi is a professor with the Electrical
Engineering Department at UCLA.

Chih-Yuan Lu's strong leadership in developing semiconductor
technology has established Taiwan as a major contributor to the
industry. An expert in electron devices and integrated circuits,
Dr. Lu spearheaded Taiwan's ambitious R&D project, the National
Submicron Project, which transformed the country in less than
five years into a leading contributor in the world semiconductor
industry. Dr. Lu co-founded Vanguard International Semiconductor
in 1994 and founded Ardentec in 1999. He joined Macronix
International in 1999 and led that company to become one of
the most profitable memory companies in the world and also a
major contributor of innovative nonvolatile memory technology.
Overall, Dr. Lu has demonstrated the impact high-technology
development can have on the economic development of a
country such as Taiwan. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Lu is currently
president of Macronix International Corporation, Ltd. and
chairman of Ardentec Corporation, both in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2012 IEEE
Emanuel R. Piore Award

2012 IEEE
Photonics Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Emanuel
R. Piore Fund

Eli Yablonovitch

Fred B. Schneider

For pioneering contributions to photonic crystals, the
photonic bandgap, and photonic bandgap engineering

For contributions to trustworthy computing through
novel approaches to security, fault tolerance, and
formal methods for concurrent and distributed systems

Considered a "father of photonic bandgaps," Eli Yablonovitch's
pioneering contributions effectively created the new field of
photonic band engineering for a variety of advanced technologies. Dr. Yablonovitch originally proposed the idea of photonic
bandgaps in 1987 and was the first to successfully demonstrate
a photonic crystal in 1991. He extended the well-known wave
function theory of electronic bandgaps in solid-state physics to
electromagnetic waves to create the photonic bandgap
concept. He then employed an Edisonian approach to discover
the first photonic bandgap, demonstrating the electromagnetic
equivalent of a semiconductor. That material structure came to
be known as "Yablonovite." An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Yablonovitch is
a professor with the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley
and director of the National Science Foundation's Center for
Energy Efficient Electronics Science, based at Berkeley.

Fred B. Schneider's expertise in cybersecurity places him among
a handful of academics to whom the U.S. government turns for
advice on cybersecurity issues. His research on fault tolerance,
security, formal methods, and public policy has significantly contributed to the development of trustworthy computer systems.
He made important contributions to fault-tolerant distributed
systems starting in the 1980s, helping both to develop the statemachine approach for building a reliable distributed system and
to define the fail-stop processor abstraction. He was the editor
of Trust in Cyberspace (National Academy Press, 1998), a
landmark treatise on cybersecurity. He has served on the U.S.
Defense Science Board and U.S. Department of Commerce's
Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. He has been
the co-chair of the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic
Advisory Board since 2003. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Schneider is
currently the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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