IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow is a distinction conferred by the Board of Directors upon select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.

Prize:

Each new Fellow receives a beautifully matted and framed certificate with the name of the Fellow and a brief citation describing the accomplishment, a congratulatory letter from the incoming IEEE president, and a gold sterling silver Fellow lapel pin with an antique finish.

Nomination Details:

Fellow nominations are due March 1 each year. Any person, not just IEEE members, can prepare a Fellow nomination package. Candidates must be IEEE Senior Members. References from 3 to 5 IEEE Fellows are required, and up to 3 endorsements from any person may be submitted.

More information on the Fellow nomination process

Recipients

2023

Amir G. Aghdam

7 (Canada)

Biography

received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2000. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and the Academic Code Administrator in the School of Graduate Studies. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University in fall 2015, and was an Associate with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from September 2015 to December 2016. His research interests include multi-agent networks, distributed control, optimization, and sampled-data systems. Prof. Aghdam is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario, Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal, and was an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, IEEE ACCESS, IET Control Theory and Applications, and the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was a member of the Technical Program Committee of a number of conferences, including the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and the IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control. He was a member of the Review Panel/Committee for the NSF, Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency, Innovation Fund Denmark Projects, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ECE Evaluation Group. He was the 2014–2015 President of IEEE Canada and Director (Region 7), IEEE, Inc., and was also a member of the IEEE Awards Board for this period. He is a recipient of the 2009 IEEE MGA Achievement Award and 2020 IEEE Canada J. M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. Dr. Aghdam was a member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee for 2017–2019 and is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Medals Council.

Affiliation(s)

Concordia University

Canada

for research leadership in distributed control of large-scale interconnected systems

2021

Paul Hershey

for application of data analytic to assist human decision-making

2018

Ni-Bin Chang

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Ni-Bin Chang is a Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering having held this post in the United States (US) since 2002. He received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan in 1983, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Systems Engineering from Cornell University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, in the US. He is the director of the Stormwater Management Academy and a professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida in the US. He is also a Professional Engineer in the US with over thirty-seven years’ of experience in research, teaching, and outreach/service. Prof. Chang served as the program director of the Hydrologic Sciences Program and Cyber-Innovated Sustainability Science and Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation from Aug. 2012 to Aug. 2014 in the US. Prof. Chang has been working on the core area of “Environmental Sustainability, Green Engineering, and Systems Analysis” with various socio-technical approaches. His recent work has focused on developing multi-scale modeling for flood impact assessment and low impact development, urban food-energy-water nexus, and smart/green technologies for nutrient removal, climate change adaptation, and municipal infrastructure management with integrated sensing, monitoring, and modeling approaches. He has received 40+ honors/awards, including the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences (2016), the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) in the United Kingdom (2014), the Fulbright Scholar Award from the Department of State in the US (2012); Bridging the Gaps Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the United Kingdom (2012); and Outstanding Achievement Award from the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), ASCE (2010). Prof. Chang has been an editorial board member of 30+ international journals, including the SPIE Official Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (Editor-in-Chief) and the Journal of Hydroinformatics (Editor-in-Chief). He is an inducted Fellow of the International Society of Optics and Photonics (FSPIE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in the United Kingdom, the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS). He is also a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (FEASc), and the National Academy of Inventors (FNAI). He was a Board Member of the Earth Science and Environmental Science Division in the EASc from May 2009 to April 2016. He is now one of the executive board members of the Florida Climate Institute (FCI). According to Google Scholar, as of Jan. 2023, his research publications have been cited over 15,700 times with which his h-index being 64 and i10-index being 251.

Affiliation(s)

Distinguished Lecturer

University of Central Florida

for contributions to computational techniques for the analysis of environmental sustainability

Stephen Welby

for leadership in defense and aerospace systems engineering

2017

James Lambert

for contributions to risk analysis and systems engineering

Ning-Ching Lee

for leadership in Surface Mount Technology and interconnect materials