Professor Ragu Balakrishnan has been elevated to IEEE Fellow and is part of the 2012 class of IEEE Fellows. The IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Professor Balakrishnan was cited for his contributions to convex optimization in control systems. The total number of IEEE fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.