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Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society in 2000, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society in 2008 and the Fiorino Oro
Award from the CeTeM, Italy in 2010. He received the William Pecora Award cosponsored by the U.S. Department
of Interior and NASA in 2012. He is the recipient of the
2013 IEEE Electromagnetics Award. He has been member
of the Washington State Academy of Sciences since 2012.

FIguRE 1. General Cochairs Simon Jones and Peter Woodgate
opening IGARSS 2013.

he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, where he has
taught since 1983. He was the Chair of the Department
from August 2006 to September 2011. Between 2001 and
2004, he was on leave with the Department of Electronic
Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong. He was
a Visiting Professor of the National Central University of
Taiwan between January to June 2013. Leung Tsang is the
coauthor of 4 books, Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing
and Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves Volumes 1, 2 and
3. His current research interests are in waves in random
media and rough surfaces, remote sensing and geoscience applications, computational electromagnetics, signal
integrity and optics.
He was the President of the IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Society in 2006-2007, and the Editorin-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing in 1996-2001. He was the Chair of the IEEE TAB
Periodicals Committee in 2008-2009, and the Chair of
the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee (PRAC) in 2010-2011. He is presently a Member-atLarge of the IEEE PSPB and a Member of PRAC.
He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow the Optical Society
of America. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal
in 2000, the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE

IEEE FEllow REcognItIons
The grade of IEEE Fellow recognizes unusual distinction
in the profession and shall be conferred only by invitation of the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person of
outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE designated fields. The IEEE Bylaws limit
the number of members who can be advanced to Fellow
grade in any one year to 1‰ of the Institute membership, exclusive of students and affiliates. To qualify, the
candidate must be a Senior Member and be nominated
by an individual familiar with the candidate's achievements. Endorsements are required from at least five IEEE
Fellows and an IEEE Society best qualified to judge. The
IEEE Fellow Committee, comprising about 50 IEEE Fellows, carefully evaluates all nominations and presents
a list of recommended candidates to the IEEE Board of
Directors for the final election.
The following GRSS members were elevated to the Fellow status effective January 1, 2013:
◗ Dr. Maurice Borgeaud from the European Space Agency,
Frascati, Italy
◗ Dr. Om-Prakash Narayan Calla from the International
Centre for Radio Science, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
◗ Dr. Mihai Datcu from the German Aerospace Center,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
◗ Prof. Giles M. Foody from the University of Nottingham, UK
◗ Prof. Paolo Gamba from the University of Pavia, Italy
◗ Prof. Akira Hirose from the University of Tokyo, Japan

FIguRE 2. GRSS President Melba

FIguRE 3. IEEE President Peter Staecker

Crawford welcoming attendees and
presenting Society activities and
achievements.

providing an overview of IEEE.

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FIguRE 4. Leung Tsang saying a few
words after he received the IEEE Electromagnetics Award from IEEE President
Peter Staecker. Note the bronze medal.

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