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2022 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society
Paresh C. Sen
For contributions to the theory, practice,
education, and development of advanced
industrial motor drives and power
electronics systems
Paresh C. Sen's conception, development, analysis, and control of
advanced power electronics and innovative electric drive systems
have been advancing the state of the art for over 50 years. His
pioneering work on thyristor control of reactive power eliminated
bulky and inefficient rotating machines and paved the way for the
static power compensators that are widely used in the power industry
for efficient voltage regulation. His design and development
of chopper control of induction motors has provided simple and
effective control of pump drives. His innovative vector control using
stator flux orientation has contributed to the development of
a new generation of high-performance ac motor drives. His recent
work includes techniques to eliminate flicker in LED lighting and
control strategies for wind energy conversion systems.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Sen is the Emeritus Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Queens's University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada.
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Joos Vandewalle
For fundamental contributions to
mathematical foundations of circuits
and systems
One of the world's most impactful circuits and systems experts, Joos
Vandewalle has made sustained contributions to many aspects of the
field, providing theoretical insights and practical algorithms to applications
ranging from secure data communications to data mining
and complex systems. He supervised the postdocs that designed the
Advanced Encryption Standard, one of the most used approaches
to secure data communications. He has also worked to simplify the
computational complexity of support vector machines, using a leastsquares
approach for learning-based classifiers. His work on enhancing
the theory behind singular-value decomposition by extending it
to multilinear dimensions has opened the door to addressing complex
data-mining challenges and has been effective for signal separation
in sensor fusion and medical signal processing applications.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Vandewalle is a Professor Emeritus with
the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium.
IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and
Distribution Award
Sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory
of Herman and Edna Halperin, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society
John Undrill
For contributions to the development
of analytical tools and stability testing
methods for electric power systems
John Undrill is the architect of the Power System Simulator for
Engineering (PSS/E) power system analysis software that has allowed
power engineers to plan, design, and operate their systems
safely and efficiently for decades, playing a key role in mitigating
major power outages. PSS/E was a quantum leap in usability
and detail compared to existing analytical software available at
the time. It enabled static and dynamic analysis of generation and
transmission systems and higher-voltage distribution systems. He
also developed the Positive Sequence Load Flow (PSLF) software
package, which models and calculates how power is transmitted
from generation resources to points of end use. These packages
have become industry standards. Undrill has also advanced techniques
for testing stability of power plant components such as
turbines and generators.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Undrill is the principal (retired) with
John Undrill, LLC, Sedona, AZ, USA.
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Marilyn C. Wolf
For creating a community of researchers
and practitioners in embedded computing
through education, outreach, and
research
Marilyn C. Wolf has enabled a new generation of researchers to
conceptualize, build, and validate modern embedded computing
systems through influential textbooks, high-impact conferences, and
mentoring graduate students. These computers embedded within
physical objects power our world in transportation, healthcare, and
many other disciplines. Wolf wrote one of the first textbooks in the
field, Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System
Design, as well as High-Performance Embedded Computing: Applications
in Cyber-Physical Systems and Mobile Computing, which is geared
specifically to graduate courses. She has helped to create many of the
technical meetings and technical publications in the field, including
Embedded Systems Week and the journal Design Automation for
Embedded Systems, providing essential forums for graduate students.
An IEEE Fellow, Wolf is the Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering
and director of the School of Computing at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
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