IEEE Awards Booklet - 2013 - 18

2013 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award

IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation
and Measurement

Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society

Sponsored by Keithley Instruments, Inc.

Kaushik Rajashekara

Dylan Forrest Williams

For contributions to the advancement of
electrical systems in transportation for
higher efficiency and lower emissions

For the development of traceable
mismatch-corrected microwave-scattering parameters and temporal waveform
calibration and measurement

Kaushik Rajashekara is internationally known for his power conversion innovations in electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicle propulsion systems for improved fuel efficiency and reduced emissions
in automobiles, electric engine/aircraft systems, and marine systems.
Credited with many firsts in the field, he has worked extensively
on the innovative strategies, architectures, and implementation techniques for on-board electric power generation in airplanes including
solid oxide fuel cell/gas turbine hybrid systems to reduce fuel consumption and thus increase overall efficiency and lower emissions.
He developed various field orientation control methods, pulse width
modulation strategies, and implementation techniques for torque
control of ac machines for maximizing the efficiency under all operating conditions in electric and hybrid vehicle propulsion systems.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Rajashekara is a Distinguished Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Endowed Chair with the University
of Texas at Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

The insight provided by Dylan Forrest Williams into microwave measurements defined the most accurate measurement approaches for the low-cost testing of chips for portable wireless
devices. Working with the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST), Dr. Williams pioneered the development of
methods for determining the characteristic impedance of printed transmission lines and accurate on-wafer scattering-parameter calibrations. On-wafer measurements allow direct testing of
integrated circuits (ICs) in the lab before being packaged. His
work has facilitated development of the monolithic-microwave
and radio-frequency IC technology behind low-cost wireless
components. Dr. Williams' work also led to the development
of mismatch-corrected temporal waveform standards at NIST.
These calibrations have been used to establish traceability for
high-speed oscilloscopes and large-signal network analyzers.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Williams is an electrical engineer with
the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colo.

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

Sanjit K. Mitra

Hidenori Akiyama

For fundamental contributions to filter
design and signal processing

For excellence in graduate teaching,
curriculum development, inspirational
research guidance, and development of
widely used textbooks in pulsed power

Sanjit K. Mitra has provided continued improvements to stateof-the-art analog and digital filter design, with expertise that has
evolved as the field has evolved. Dr. Mitra's initial research activities were in the area of analog circuits during the 1960s, designing
filters without inductors so that they could be implemented in integrated circuit form. These "inductorless" filters allow improvement in processing audio, video, and multimedia analog signals,
and they improve digital resolution. As the field evolved toward
digital signal processing, Dr. Mitra focused his research activities
on the design of minimum multiplier digital filters. He then transitioned his expertise to digital image and video processing, to
advance several computationally efficient algorithms for enhancement, segmentation, and compression.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Mitra is the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Research Professor of
Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.

An internationally known expert in pulsed power research, Hidenori Akiyama has demonstrated excellence in teaching graduate
students by developing innovative graduate research programs,
unique curricula, and Web-based graduate courses at Kumamoto
University, Japan. Dr. Akiyama has supervised over 200 master's
and 35 doctoral students in areas focusing on pulsed power and
related fields. His dedication to his students, which continues
beyond graduation, has produced leaders who have made major
impact in the field. Dr. Akiyama's textbooks serve as important
tools in Japan's pulsed power graduate programs, and his "eBook"
on pulsed power and its applications, which has been translated
into English, brings his knowledge to students outside his research
labs. Dr. Akiyama also founded and has directed the programs on
pulsed power science and engineering for the Japanese government's 21st Century Center of Excellence education initiative.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Akiyama is a professor with Kumamoto
University, Japan.

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