IEEE Awards Booklet - 2021 - 25

2021 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

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

Hari Balakrishnan

Robert W. Erickson

For broad contributions to computer networking and mobile and wireless systems

For contributions to power electronics
education and analysis, modeling, and
design of power converters

Hari Balakrishnan's pioneering computing contributions have
been instrumental in developing innovative systems for our mobile world and protocols for efficient and reliable network communications. He introduced the concept of mobile sensing with
the CarTel system, acquiring and drawing accurate inferences
from noisy sensors on mobile devices for transportation applications including traffic measurement, road hazards, and driver
safety. His work on the Cricket system showed how to combine
radio and ultrasound for precise (3-5 cm) indoor location.To improve network resilience, he codeveloped distributed hash tables
(Chord), resilient overlay networks, and a framework for verifiable
border gateway protocol routing.
An IEEE Fellow, Balakrishnan is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Robert W. Erickson's innovations in modeling, architectures, and
control for power electronics have enabled higher efficiency and
performance for applications in industries including aerospace,
computer, and renewable energy. His pioneering contributions
in converter topologies have led to new approaches to power
conversion architectures that enable higher performance and
lower cost. Recent fundamental research has led to the composite
converter architecture, demonstrating a 4x reduction in converter
loss. His early research on resonant and soft-switching converters
provided new understanding of the series, parallel, and LCC resonant converters for aerospace and high-voltage applications. His
textbook Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Springer, 1997) is an
industry standard for the switched-mode power conversion field.
An IEEE Fellow, Erickson is a professor with the Department
of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits

IEEE Photonics Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society

A. Paul Brokaw

Jack Jewell

For leadership in the design of voltage
references, amplifiers, and power management, and for contributions to the
principles of analog circuit design

For seminal and sustained contributions
to the development and commercialization of vertical-cavity surface-emitting
lasers (VCSEL)

A. Paul Brokaw has created many of the foundational integrated
circuit topologies employed over the last four decades in successful semiconductor devices and helped establish an entire philosophy of analog circuit design. Brokaw improved on temperaturecompensated bandgap circuits with what would become known
as the " Brokaw Bandgap Reference, " now the dominant reference/bias source for analog and mixed-signal circuits. This work
was also integral to the analog transition from bipolar to CMOS
technologies. His contributions to analog-to-digital and digitalto-analog converters pushed the level of precision available in integrated converters with innovations that improved the matching
accuracy of scaled reference currents over a wide dynamic range
and temperature range, leading to best-selling products from Analog Devices, Inc.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Brokaw retired as an Analog Devices Fellow
with Analog Devices, Inc., currently residing in Tucson, AZ, USA.

Jack Jewell's crucial innovative advances regarding vertical-cavity
surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) sparked worldwide industrial
VCSEL development and set the standard for an indispensable
optoelectronic component. Featuring an all-semiconductor design,VCSELs are a low-power laser source that is more efficient,
less expensive to produce, and easier to test compared to edgeemitting lasers. Jewell was the first to assemble many existing VSCEL concepts within a single device and in a unique and desirable fashion. Jewell's research and commercialization efforts have
driven VCSEL's pervasive use in applications including optical
mice, Ethernet communications, supercomputers, and advanced
facial and gesture recognition.
An IEEE Senior Member, Jewell is a consultant currently residing in Boulder, CO, USA.

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