Honorees

Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineers

Jon Atli Benediktsson President/Rector, University of Iceland

C.L. Philip Chen Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau

Dhiraj Kacker Co-founder, Canvera.com

Rasoul Safavian Senior Technical Advisor, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC

L. William Varner President, ManTech Mission, Cyber, and Intelligence Solutions Group

Yongbin Wei Senior Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Research, Qualcomm Inc.

Eaton Design Awards

Ishaan Kholi Eaton Award for Design Excellence

Mike Melloch Eaton Faculty Award

ECE Teaching Awards

Shreyas Sundaram Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award

Steve Pekarek Wilfred “Duke” Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence

Ray DeCarlo Motorola Award for Excellence in Teaching

Stanley Chan ECE Graduate Student Association (ECEGSA) Outstanding Mentor Award

ECE Faculty Honors and Recognitions

Jan Allebach Edwin H. Land Medal, Optical Society of America and Imaging Science and Technology

Charlie Bouman National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Edward Delp SPIE Technology Achievement Award College of Engineering Faculty Award of Excellence in Mentoring

Y. Charlie Hu IEEE Fellow

Pedro Irazoqui American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow

Dan Jiao IEEE Fellow

James Krogmeier Stephen O. Rice Prize, IEEE Communications Society Purdue Digital Education Award

Milind Kulkarni Presidential Early Career Award

Tongcang Li NSF Career Award

David J. Love Stephen O. Rice Prize, IEEE Communications Society

Mike Melloch A.A. Potter Award

Amy Reibman Elected 2016 Chair of the IEEE Fellow Committee

Vladimir Shalaev Honorary Doctorate, University of Southern Denmark

Haiyan Wang Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering

Peide Peter Ye Richard and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

HKN Awards

Mark Bell Outstanding Professor, Fall 2015

Mimi Boutin Outstanding Professor, Spring 2016

Stanley Chan Outstanding Teacher, Fall 2015