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22023 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
023 IE E TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS
IEEE Rao R. Tummala Electronics Packaging Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society and Friends of
Rao R. Tummala
Guoqi (Kouchi) Zhang
For scientifi c and technological leadership
in " More than Moore " (MtM)
packaging, co-designing, and reliability
Guoqi (Kouchi) Zhang made outstanding technical contributions
to More than Moore (MtM) packaging, co-designing, and
reliability. His technical achievements enabled many key applications
including energy saving via LED packaging, IoE via sensor
packages, 5G via AiP, and much more. He is one of the persistent
leaders of developing co-designing methods that lays down the
foundation for designing for reliability, lifetime diagnostics and
prognostics, virtual prototyping/qualification, and digital twin of
packaging. Zhang developed an accelerated test method for LED
systems that substantially reduced testing time. His accelerated test
method opened the way to commercialization of LED technology
and has been a key technology in reducing global energy
consumption.
An IEEE Fellow, Zhang is a chair professor at Delft University
of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society
Dragan Maksimovic
For contributions to digital control,
modeling, and topologies of switchedmode
power supplies
Dragan Maksimovic
tributions to power electronics, particularly in the practical
implementation of digital
has made numerous
control
for
fundamental conswitched-mode
power
supplies. His work on mixed-signal power ICs laid the foundation
for a new paradigm in power supply control and enabled many
new applications. The technologies he developed brought digital
control into the mainstream of the switched-mode power supply
industry and, today, his developments have influenced mobile
devices and data centers. His work in the converter topologies and
control area includes the synthesis of new DC-DC and AC-DC
converter topologies, nonlinear carrier control of PFC rectifiers,
and small-signal modeling of the discontinuous conduction mode.
An IEEE Fellow, Maksimovic is the Charles V. Schelke Endowed
Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy
Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
Sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Rüdiger L. Urbanke
For contributions to graduate education,
empowering students and mentorship
that advanced the world of wireless and
engineering communication
Rüdiger L. Urbanke has made seminal contributions to information
and coding theory, particularly to the LDPC and polar
codes that are indispensable to 4G and 5G wireless standards.
Urbanke has devoted his career to educating, mentoring, and
empowering the next generation of communication engineers.
For years, he worked tirelessly to lift the École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne's presence in communication and
information-theory research and build its School of Computer
and Communications Sciences into a world-leading program.
Under his guidance, students have made multiple contributions
to information theory, communications, and networking that
have impacted the development of LDPC, polar and other
codes that play a vital role in 4G, 5G, and WiMAX.
Urbanke is an IEEE Senior Member and a professor at École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Education Society
Carlotta A. Berry
For contributions to multidisciplinary
robotics education and leadership in
creating a national platform to diversify
STEM
Carlotta A. Berry has a passion for increasing diversity in engineering.
She is utilizing robotics and engineering education,
as well as human-robot interaction research to bring STEM to
diverse populations. She has built several organizations that reach
out to women and marginalized and minoritized populations
and encourage them to pursue STEM degrees. She founded the
Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program
to increase the participation of underprivileged and underrepresented
students in electrical and computer engineering. Berry
worked with colleagues worldwide to start the nonprofits Black
in Engineering and Black in Robotics that build community and
advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
An IEEE Senior Member, Berry is the Rose Hulman Institute
of Technology Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair and professor
for Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana, USA.
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