IEEE Awards Booklet - 2019 - 9

2019 Ieee medAls

IEEE Theodore W. Hissey
Outstanding Young Professional Award

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar
Technologies and Applications

Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society,
IEEE Power & Energy Society, and the
IEEE Young Professionals Committee

Sponsored by Raytheon Company

Mario Milicevic

Richard Klemm

For contributions to the technical fields of
error correction and quantum cryptography, engineering education, and the IEEE
member experience

For contributions to high-resolution
radar, adaptive clutter suppression, and
publications for the international radar
system community

Mario Milicevic's innovative research on error-correction decoders for next-generation wireless systems and quantum cryptography is enabling the high data rates demanded by modern Internet
traﬃc and providing secure communications for long-distance
fiber-optic communications. He introduced new techniques to
overcome CMOS technology scaling limitations in high-speed
error-correction circuits for 5G wireless networks. He developed,
fabricated, and tested a new integrated circuit decoder architecture that scales to sub-10nm CMOS technology nodes, enabling
multi-Gigabit/second communication while achieving up to
three times higher energy eﬃciency than the state of the art. In a
widely deployed 5G network, such silicon-based decoders would
provide high data rates for Internet traﬃc while reducing energy
consumption and operating costs. In the quantum cryptography
domain (a highly secure form of cryptography based on quantum
mechanics), Milicevic has provided future-proof security against
imminent quantum computing attacks in fiber-optic networks.
He designed error-correcting codes to reduce the computational
latency of error-correction decoding in a quantum key distribution system for optical fiber distances beyond 100 km. These
error-correcting codes can be implemented in single-chip solutions to accelerate the adoption of this evolving technology in
unconditionally secure network infrastructures for many industries with lower cost, power, and integration complexity. During
his doctoral work, he taught several engineering courses, mentored undergraduate-student design teams, and helped Institute
outreach programs to introduce high-school students to electrical
engineering. Milicevic is actively involved in the development
of products, services, and events that deliver an engaging IEEE
member experience and has played an instrumental role in growing the visibility and sustainability of the IEEE Young Professionals program. As an IEEE Technical Expert, Milicevic often provides commentary to the press on trending topics.
An IEEE member and recipient of the IEEE Member and
Geographical Activities' Graduates of the Last Decade Achievement Award (2013), Milicevic is a staﬀ communication system
engineer with Max Linear, Inc., Irvine, CA, USA.

Considered one of the most influential scientists researching
space-time adaptive processing (STAP) for radar systems, Richard Klemm's development and advancement of STAP algorithms
have enabled powerful airborne and space-based radar technologies that form the backbone of current intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance systems. STAP is a signal processing technique
that incorporates adaptive processing algorithms to aid in target
detection in the presence of ground clutter, jamming, and other
interference. During a career spanning almost 50 years, Klemm's
main areas of research have focused on adaptive clutter and jammer suppression for stationary as well as moving radar, array processing for active and passive sonar with an emphasis on matched
field processing for shallow water applications, and detection of
moving targets by moving sensor platforms. He helped evolve
STAP from an academic curiosity into a practical technique and
provided the foundations for today's radar and sonar communities.
His scientific achievements are thoroughly documented in several
books, which have become essential texts for scientists and engineers working in the field: Space Time Adaptive Processing: Principles
and Applications (1998), Principles of Space-time Adaptive Processing
(2002), and Applications of Space-time Adaptive Processing (2004). In
cooperation with five renowned experts, he edited the two-volume book Novel Radar Techniques and Applications (2017). Klemm
helped found the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture
Radar (EUSAR) and served as chair of its first meeting in 1996.
Considered the leading international SAR conference, through
EUSAR Klemm has changed the way in which SAR researchers
and engineers meet and exchange ideas. He has also impacted
the development of advanced radar signal processing technologies across North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries
through his initiation and support of NATO Science and Technology Organization groups. A passionate classical pianist, Klemm
combines his profession and hobby through "Science and Music"
recitals he performs at technical conferences.
Recipient of the NATO Research and Technology Organization von Kármán medal (2004), Klemm is a senior scientist (retired) with the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency
Physics and Radar Techniques, Wachtberg, Germany.

Scope: For contributions to the technical community and IEEE
fields of interest.

Scope: For outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields
of radar technologies and their applications.

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