IEEE Awards Booklet - 2016 - 29

2016 ieee PriZe PaPer

IEEE Donald G. Fink Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Life Members Fund

timothy York, samuel B. powell, shengkui gao, lindsey Kahan, tauseef Charanya,
debajit saha, nicholas w. roberts, thomas w. Cronin, Justin Marshall, sanuel achilefu,
spencer p. lake, Baranidharan raman, and viktor gruev
For the paper, "Bioinspired Polarization Imaging Sensors: From Circuits and Optics to Signal Processing Algorithms and Biomedical Applications"

Representing an integration of work in biology, mathematics, optics, materials science, and electronics, Timothy York and his colleagues present recent developments in bioinspired polarization
imaging sensors and their applications to biomedicine in their
paper "Bioinspired Polarization Imaging Sensors: From Circuits
and Optics to Signal Processing Algorithms and Biomedical Applications." To emulate the highly efficient sensory systems found
in biology to better detect features that are hard to see with the
human eye, the paper, which appeared in the October 2014 issue
of the Proceedings of the IEEE (vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 1450-1469),
presents a bioinspired complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) current-mode polarization imaging sensor based on the
compound eye of the mantis shrimp. The work presented in the
paper has important implications for applications such as noninvasive neural recording, tissue evaluation, and tumor detection.
Timothy York is an IEEE Member and assistant professor with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, USA. Samuel B. Powell is
a Ph.D. student with the Department of Computer Science and

Engineering, Debajit Saha is a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Samuel Achilefu is director of the
Optical Radiology Lab, Spencer P. Lake is an assistant professor with
the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Baranidharan Raman is an assistant professor with the Department
of Biomedical Engineering, and Viktor Gruev is an IEEE Senior
Member and associate professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis,
MO, USA. Lindsey Kahan is a research assistant with the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Shenkui
Gao is an electrical engineer with Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA.
Tauseef Charanya is a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, Toronto, Canada. Nicholas W. Roberts is director of
research with the School of Biological Sciences at the University
of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Thomas W. Cronin is a professor with the
Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA. Justin Marshall is a professor of neuroscience and marine biology at the Queensland Brain
Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

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