IEEE Awards Booklet - 2013 - 15

2013 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award

IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society

Sponsored by The Brunetti Bequest

Robert Plonsey

Giorgio Baccarani

For developing quantitative methods to
characterize the electromagnetic fields
in excitable tissue, leading to a better
understanding of the electrophysiology
of nerve, muscle, and brain

For contributions to scaling theory and
modeling of metal oxide semiconductor
(MOS) devices

Robert Plonsey is considered the father of bioelectricity principles for his foundational work on methods to understanding the
electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. Dr. Plonsey's
contributions have provided a sound scientific basis for clinically
interpreting bioelectric signals from electrophysiology tools such
as electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, and electromyograms. His mathematical basis for explaining bioelectric phenomena set the foundation for what would become known as
bioelectric biomedical engineering. Some of Dr. Plonsey's most
influential work has focused on electrical properties of the heart,
with important discoveries for understanding defibrillation. He
helped develop the bidomain model during the 1970s, which is
widely used to model heart defibrillation.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Plonsey is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering,
Durham, N.C.

A world-renowned expert on semiconductor device physics and
modeling, Giorgio Baccarani's contributions to scaling theory
have been pivotal to the continued miniaturization of electronic
devices from micrometer to nanometer scales. Baccarani's generalized scaling theory published in 1984 has provided the theoretical foundations to help engineers understand earlier scaling rules
for electronic components. He has provided the tools needed to
predict, interpret, and understand the characteristics of miniaturized MOS transistors. Baccarani provided one of the first transistor
models where surface potential is accurately calculated using an
iterative procedure. He also developed physical models for numerical device simulation that have been incorporated into commercial
technology computer-aided design (TCAD) tools for modeling
semiconductor fabrication. Baccarani also created numerical modeling techniques of electron devices in two and three dimensions.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Baccarani is a professor with the University of Bologna, Italy.

IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology Award

IEEE Control Systems Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology Society

John H. Lau

Stephen P. Boyd

For contributions to the literature in advanced solder materials, manufacturing
for highly reliable electronic products,
and education in advanced packaging

For contributions to systems design and
analysis via convex optimization

One of the most well-known authors in electronics packaging, John H. Lau's leading-edge research has driven reliability
improvements and advancements with his extensive research on
solder-joint reliability, environmentally friendly solder alternatives, and advanced interconnect techniques. Dr. Lau led an international team to study solder-joint reliability issues and published
the first book on the subject in 1991. He published additional influential research addressing reliability in lead-free solder processes
and advanced interconnect methods such as flip-chip technology.
Dr. Lau has influenced the adoption of lead-free solder processes as
the industry shifts to more environmentally friendly interconnect
methods, publishing a book providing manufacturing guidelines and
parameters in 2003. Dr. Lau's recent work has provided extensive publications on advanced interconnect methods that have helped shape
the landscape of 3D integrated-circuit integration technologies.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Lau is an ITRI Fellow with the Industrial
Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Stephen Boyd's vision that convex optimization methods can transform the theory and practice of control system analysis and design
led to one of the most important developments in the field over
the last 25 years. Working with other researchers, Dr. Boyd developed a new style of research in control that combines advanced
mathematical concepts with effective numerical computation, using a formal reduction process of a control problem to a convex
optimization problem. Convex optimization problems are readily
and reliably solved numerically, so the reduction gives a theoretical
and practical solution of the original problem. No one is considered to have done more to articulate, develop, systematize, advance,
and popularize the role of convex optimization than Dr. Boyd. He
helped to develop many of the basic computational techniques,
showed how to apply them to problems in systems and control, and
illuminated the powerful connections to essential concepts in other
disciplines. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Boyd is the Samsung Professor of
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

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