Faculty Awards
Prof. LKM Foundation Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner 2011
This award honors the best graduates from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
2011 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field.
Inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame
He joins other famed Stanford faculty including Profs. Terman, Ginzton, Gibbons, Widrow, Kailath and Hennessy
IEEE Medal of Honor
IEEE’s highest honor
For pioneering the RISC processor architecture and for leadership in computer engineering and higher education.
National Academy of Sciences, India - Foreign Fellow.
2012 IEEE John von Neumann Medal
This award is given each year for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology, and is IEEE's highest award in the computing area.
2012 Claude E. Shannon Award
The most prestigious recognition in information theory. The Shannon Award is given to persons who provide consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Rayleigh Award from the IEEE Ultrasonics Society
For outstanding contributions and pioneering developments in novel micro and nano ultrasound transducer technologies.
SRC Aristotle Award
Recipient of this year’s SRC Aristotle Award for outstanding teaching and a deep commitment to the educational experience of his students. As their press release states, "With SRC support, Dutton’s Stanford research team has pioneered the development of a suite of technology computer-aided design (TCAD) tools for simulation and modeling of integrated circuit fabrication processes."
PAN – IIT Alumni Technical Leadership Award
He is being honored for his breakthrough research in MIMO wireless communications.
Grant in the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation's "Transformative Science" program
Fifty-three pre-proposals were submitted to the first round of the newly announced 'Transformative Science' program of the BSF. The program seeks ideas that may revolutionize the fields they are in, or create new paradigms. Two of the applications were submitted by Nobel Laureates. A special scientific panel consisting of six senior scientists, three from each country, discussed the pre-proposals and approved 12 for full submission. These were written in a form that did not reveal the identities of the applicants, and were sent for external reviews to both experts in the specific topics, as well as scientists with broad understanding of the fields.
2011 Alexander Graham Bell Medal
The Alexander Graham Bell Medal is the highest IEEE honor for achievements in telecommunications sciences and engineering, awarded for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering in the field of telecommunications.
Humboldt Research Award
2010 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Outstanding Researcher Award
2010 Okawa Research Foundation Award
This selective award, which recognizes and encourages innovation in computer science, information systems and/or telecommunications, will be presented in San Francisco next month and provides a $10,000 unrestricted gift to the awardees’ research program. Ada joins a number of our EE faculty members who have been selected for Okawa awards in past years.
2010 Academia Sinica
Teresa Meng has been elected to the Academia Sinica which is the most preeminent academic institution in the Republic of China. The Academia Sinica is described as the Taiwan equivalent of US National Academies (all three combined). (Link)
2010 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
John Cioffi was awarded the 2010 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, one of the highest honors from the IEEE. The medal, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, recognizes Cioffi for pioneering discrete multitone modem technology as the foundation of the global DSL industry.
2010 ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award
Bill Dally was named the winner of the 2010 ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, which is considered the most prestigious award in the computer architecture community. Bill is honored "for his innovative contributions to the architecture of interconnection networks and parallel computers.
Inducted into the NAE
For contributions to the physics and application of semiconductor nanostructures, including the discovery of the Quantum Confined Stark Effect.
Bhushan Award in Science and Engineering
Paulraj won a Padma Bhushan Award in Science and Engineering from India. This is the third highest civilian award that the Indian government gives out.
NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.
Received the SEMI Lifetime Achievement Award
This award is the highest honor for someone in the semiconductor industry. He was recognized for almost five decades of technical and collaborative contributions to semiconductor manufacturing.
Inducted into the NAE
Bill was recognized for his contributions to the design of high-performance interconnect networks and parallel computer architectures. Mendel was recognized for his fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.
IEEE Computer Society 2008 Computer Pioneer Award
Ed was selected as an IEEE Computer Society 2008 Computer Pioneer for seminal contributions to the design and synthesis of digital systems over five decades, including the first algorithm for logic synthesis (the Quine-McCluskey method). This prestigious award recognizes significant contributions to concepts and definitions in the electronic computer field which have clearly advanced the state of the art in computing.
Padma Bhushan Award
Tom Kailath was awarded the Padma Bhushan Award by the President of India. This was announced on India's Republic day at the end of Jan. Padma Bhushan is roughly equivalent to a knighthood in the UK. (India does not have hereditary awards like Lords and Barons). It will be presented at Presidential Palace, Delhi, in April by the President of India. He joins a select few of about 7-8 academics / scientists working outside India, to receive the award since its inception 60 years ago. It is a great honor.
Awarded the prestigious Leith Medal from the Optical Society of America
This award recognizes seminal contributions in optical signal processing. His cite reads, "for pioneering work in optical information processing, holography and statistical optics, particularly for work on statistical properties of speckle and optical interconnects.
Agilent Early Career Professor Award
This national award was extremely competitive, and Boris is the first recipient of this award.
2009 Esther Hoffman Beller Medal of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
This honor is given to individuals to recognize outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education. Prof. Siegman is being honoredfor outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education with his books, especially "Lasers", and for mentoring numerous students who have become luminaries in their careers.
Recognized as a fellow of the Materials Research Society
They just started awarding Fellows last year, and Jim is the first (and currently only) MRS fellow at Stanford.
Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
The Royal Society is the academy of sciences for the United Kingdom, and like most of these organizations election as a Foreign Member is a particularly distinguished honor.
2008 ACM outstanding new faculty award (ONYA)
Elected as a Fellow of the European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP)
This award was established last year and is presented annually to at most only five researchers in signal processing. It is the Association's most prestigious honor. The distinction of EURASIP Fellow is being awarded to Bernd in recognition of his "many important contributions to the filed of signal processing."
Appleton Prize by the International Radio Science Union (URSI)
The prize is awarded every three years on the occasion of an Assembly of the International Radio Science Union (URSI) and is presented by the Council of the Royal Society of London in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of ionospheric physics. The citation is for "fundamental contributions to understanding of whistler-mode wave-particle inter-action in near-Earth space and the electrodynamic coupling between lightning discharges and the upper atmosphere."
2009 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award in Computers and Communication
This is one of the technical field awards of the IEEE, and was awarded to Nick for "For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of input- queued switches, their scheduling algorithms and router buffers."
SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award
He is being honored for his outstanding contributions to CAD and test during the past several decades.
2008 IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award
This award recognizes distinguished contributions to education within the field of interest of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, and is one of the IEDM Society's highest honors.
Both were just elevated to IEEE Fellow
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Each year NSF select PECASE from among the most meritorious new CAREER awardees. The PECASE program recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge.
Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
An honor limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership, for his contributions to the theory and applications of nanophotonic structures and devices, including photonic crystals, plasmonics and metamaterials.