MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EECS Announcement

EECS faculty members cited by IEEE, APS for 2004 honors

November 26, 2003

The following members of the EECS department faculty were named as 2004 IEEE Fellows:

• Anantha Chandrakasan has been cited for "contributions to the design of energy efficient integrated circuits and systems."
• Eric Grimson was cited for "contributions to surface reconstruction, object-recognition, image database indexing and medical applications."
• Martin Schmidt was cited for "contributions to design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems."
• Greg Wornell was cited for "contributions to efficient signal processing algorithms for wireless communications."

Ken Stevens is the co-recipient (with Gunnar Fant of KTH in Stockholm) of the 2004 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. Ken was cited for "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of acoustic phonetics and speech perception."

Alan Willsky has received the 2004 IEEE Donald G. Fink Paper Award. The paper cited is: A.S. Willsky, "Multiresolution Markov Models for Signal and Image Processing," Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 90, No. 8, August 2002, pp. 1396-1458, viewable (with membership password) at Proceedings of the IEEE.

In addition, Jeffrey Shapiro has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation reads, "For pioneering contributions to the theory of the generation, detection and applications of novel quantum states of light, particularly the squeezed states of light."