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Graduate School Spotlight

Welcome New Eminent Members

Are You
Eta Kappa Nu?

IEEE-HKN Elevates Three Pioneers
to Eminent Member Ranks
Since 1950 when the Eminent Member
designation was established, only 143 Eta
Kappa Nu members, out of more than
100,000 worldwide, have been elevated to
this prestigious membership category.

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In 2019, IEEE-HKN welcomed three
industry and academic giants as Eminent
Members: Dr. Henry Samueli, Dr. G. David
Forney Jr. and Dr. Robert Metcalfe.

National Academy of Inventors. He has received
numerous awards and honors, including the Marconi
Society Prize and Fellowship, bestowed upon him for
"pioneering advancements in the development and
commercialization of analog and mixed signal circuits
for modern communication systems, in particular
the cable modem." He sits on several Boards of
Directors, including the Samueli Foundation, and
serves as Chairman of the Broadcom Foundation
Board. He was inducted into the HKN Iota Gamma
Chapter at UCLA.

Dr. Samueli is the co-founder of Broadcom
Corporation and serves as Chairman of the Board
of Broadcom Inc., a global leader in providing
semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless
communications. He is a Professor (on leave since
1995) at UCLA, involved in teaching and research
in digital signal processing and integrated circuit
design. He graduated 18 Ph.D. students. He is a
named inventor in 75 U.S. patents, and was elected
a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the

Dr. G. David Forney Jr., Epsilon Pi Chapter.

Dr. Forney received a BSE in Electrical Engineering,
from Princeton University where he was inducted
into the Epsilon Pi Chapter of HKN. Dr. Forney
earned his Master's and Doctorate of Science
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It was during that time, he built his thesis around
information theory and solving errors in digital
communication through Concatenated Codes, which
remain at the basis of all modern communications
systems today. Upon leaving MIT, Dr. Forney began
his career at Codex, working on NASA's Pioneer
Dr. Henry Samueli, Iota Gamma Chapter.

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