IEEE Awards Booklet - 2022 - 13

2022 IEEE MEDALS
IEEE Medal for Innovations
in Healthcare Technology
Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society
IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal
Sponsored by Google, LLC
James G. Fujimoto
Anantha Chandrakasan
For pioneering the development and
commercialization of optical coherence
tomography for medical imaging and
diagnostics
James G. Fujimoto's development of optical coherence tomography
(OCT) has provided the medical community with a powerful
tool for noninvasive, quantitative and rapid assessment of
disease. Considered the father of OCT, Fujimoto and his collaborators
demonstrated the potential of using echo time delays of
light to perform micron-resolution imaging in biological tissues,
laying the foundation for many of OCT's most important medical
imaging applications. OCT has become the standard of care
in ophthalmology, providing images that are impossible to obtain
by other techniques. OCT revolutionized management of many
eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic
retinopathy, and glaucoma. It enables objective and reproducible
measurement of retinal pathology, which has improved diagnosis,
monitoring of disease progression, and response to therapy. His
group at MIT played a sustained role in OCT technology innovation
and development, ranging from the invention of optical
delivery technologies such as novel endoscopes and catheters that
enable micron-scale in vivo imaging inside the body, to developing
advanced photonics and signal processing techniques that increase
imaging resolution, speed, and functionality. Beyond ophthalmology,
Fujimoto and his collaborators demonstrated many
of the first applications of OCT including early detection of cancer
in the gastrointestinal tract, assessment of coronary artery disease,
and surgical guidance, laying the foundation for applications
in several clinical and fundamental research areas. He has trained
multiple generations of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
who have become leaders in academic research and the biomedical
industry. He has been active in the commercialization of
OCT, cofounding Advanced Ophthalmic Devices, subsequently
acquired by Humphrey Instruments (a division of Zeiss), which
introduced the first commercial OCT instrument for ophthalmology.
He also cofounded LightLab Imaging, which developed
catheter-based intravascular OCT in interventional cardiology.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering, Fujimoto is the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical
Engineering with the Research Laboratory of Electronics and
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Scope: For exceptional contributions to technologies and applications
benefitting healthcare, medicine, and the health sciences.
For contributions to ultralow-power
circuits and systems, and for leadership
in academia and advancing diversity in
the profession
Regarded as one best-known circuits and systems designers, Anantha
Chandrakasan's innovations in the design and implementation
of energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems have played
a fundamental role in enabling ultralow-power computers, wireless
sensors, and personal multimedia terminals. Low-power circuit design
techniques are essential in current and future high-performance
computing and communication integrated circuits as power density
increases relentlessly due to continuous downscaling of circuit geometries
prescribed by Moore's Law. Early on, Chandrakasan had
the vision to explore approaches to reduce power dissipation, which
today is still the main bottleneck in all types of circuits and systems.
In 1994, he presented a complete low-power chip set for multimedia
applications requiring just 5 mW of power, at a time when
chips required 100 times that level. A radical concept that is now
commonplace, the work resulted in a tablet computer that was the
precursor to today's handheld multimedia devices. This achievement
was followed by a steady stream of innovations including Dynamic
Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DVFS); ambient energy scavenging;
ultra-low-voltage and power SRAM; an ultra-low-power, ultrawide-bandwidth
receiver; energy-efficient protocols and low-power
speech recognition; and GAZELLE, a low-latency framework for
secure neural network inference. He leads MIT's Energy-Efficient
Circuits and Systems Group, whose research projects have addressed
ultra-low-power circuit and system design, energy harvesting, energy-efficient
RF circuits, hardware security, energy-efficient multimedia
processing, and platforms for ultra-low-power biomedical
electronics. As head of MIT's department of electrical engineering
and computer science from 2011-17, he spearheaded a number of
initiatives including the creation of the Rising Stars program, which
has been very successful in encouraging women to pursue academic
careers in engineering. The program now rotates among several universities
including Stanford and California-Berkeley.
An IEEE Fellow, IEEE-HKN Member, and recipient of the
2013 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits,
Chandrakasan is currently dean of the School of Engineering
and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, USA.
Scope: For outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering
of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.
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