IEEE Awards Booklet - 2022 - 11

2022 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr.
Education Medal
Sponsored by MathWorks, Pearson,
Lockheed Martin Corp., and the
IEEE Life Members Fund
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Sponsored by IBM
Ned Mohan
Deborah Estrin
For leadership in power engineering
education by developing courses,
textbooks, labs, and a faculty network
With a teaching philosophy centering on mutual respect, Ned
Mohan is fulfilling his long-term legacy of providing an entire
generation of young engineers with an education in power electronics,
a critical element in modern smart-grid and renewableenergy
systems, through his innovative courses, important textbooks,
and widely accessible labs. His efforts to revamp, simplify,
and concentrate energy systems education and curricula have
been internationally recognized and supported by organizations
such as the U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation,
and the Office of Naval Research. He created the online
Consortium of Universities for Sustainable Power (CUSP) portal,
which has 19 graduate-level courses and includes teaching
materials such as video lectures, PowerPoint slides, data files for
labs, sample homework problems, and exams with solutions. With
course materials created by Mohan with a group of recognized
experts, CUSP includes 235 U.S. universities as members and is
also impacting tens of thousands of students in locations such as
Africa, Asia, and South/Central America where access to such
advanced knowledge otherwise may not be available. All materials
are free and can be downloaded and used by teachers and
students. He has also designed hardware labs being used in 109
U.S. universities and updates them with an U.S. Office of Naval
Research grant. His six widely used textbooks (all published
by Wiley) have been translated cumulatively into nine languages.
Based on his belief that education to combat climate crisis is not
the purview of just a handful of elite universities, he has organized
39 NSF-sponsored workshops to promote the teaching of sustainable
power, each attended by as many as 150 faculty members,
including department heads and engineering deans, thus creating
a network of thousands of academics.
An IEEE Life Fellow, member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering, and recipient of the 2010 IEEE Undergraduate
Teaching Award, Mohan is the Regents Professor and Oscar
A. Schott Professor of Power Electronics and Systems with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
Scope: For a career of outstanding contributions to education in
the fields of interest of IEEE.
For leadership in mobile and wireless
sensing systems technologies and
applications, including personal health
management
One of the earliest and highest impact innovators and thought
leaders in mobile sensing systems, Deborah Estrin was among
the first to recognize that mobile phones could serve as powerful
sensing and engagement platforms for patient observation and intervention,
transforming the health technology sector. She created
software systems that implemented and demonstrated the power
of passive and active data collection for patient health management
and led the development and demonstration of energy-constrained
sensing systems, including the directed diffusion protocol,
in-network processing, time synchronization, and tiered system
architectures. She was among the first to demonstrate on-device
and cloud-based activity classification algorithms, support for a
broad range of clinical research, and privacy-by-design systems
that supported selective sharing of data. Her collaboration with
clinicians has shown how mobile sensing and technology can be
important to supporting behavioral changes for management of
chronic conditions, including oncology, cardiology, orthopedics,
gastroenterology, rheumatology, and geriatrics. She also explored
an expanded scope of personal data sources beyond mobile phones
to include consumer transaction and language data generated
through online activities, and she promoted the development of
algorithms and systems that transform noisy and diverse personal
data streams into digital biomarkers to report on clinical care, selfcare,
and research as well as identification of threats and approaches
to privacy preservation. She was the founding director of the
U.S. National Science Foundation's Center for Embedded Networked
Sensing (CENS), which pioneered the development of
mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real-time data
about the physical world and the people who occupy it. She also
cofounded the nonprofit startup Open mHealth, whose mission is
to catalyze an open ecosystem for technical, methodological, and
social innovation, and she initiated and led the development of the
ResearchStack software framework that extended mobile health
research participation beyond iOS devices to include individuals
with Android devices.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of
Medicine and National Academy of Engineering, Estrin is a professor
with the Department of Computer Science and Associate
Dean for Impact at Cornell Tech, New York, NY, USA.
Scope: For outstanding achievements in computer-related science
and technology.
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