Region 1 Board of Governors Meeting Executive Session 11 August 2018 2018 IEEE Region 1 Awards Region 1 Board of Governors Meeting Executive Session 11 August 2018 Dr. Jason Hui, Region 1 Awards and Recognition Committee Chair Harold Belson, Dan Sniezek, Dr. Greg Gdowski & Newman Wilson – Awards Committee Members

Region 1 Award Categories Professional Awards 3A Technological Innovation (Academic) 3B Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) 3C Managerial Excellence in an Engineering Organization 3D Outstanding Teaching in an IEEE area of interest (University or College) 3E Outstanding Teaching in an IEEE Area of interest (Pre- University or College) 3F Enhancement of the relationship between IEEE and Industry 3G Enhancement of the IEEE or Engineering Profession’s Image with the Public 3H Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section

Region 1 Award Categories, cont’d Lifetime Service Award 4A The William Terry Distinguished Service Award Region 1 Young Professionals Award Alex Gruenwald Region 1 PACE Award http://r1.ieee.org/r1-awards/

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Jiebo Luo For contributions in computer vision and data mining Section: Rochester Nominator: R. Ptucha

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Peng Zhang For strong leadership and outstanding contributions in research and teaching in the areas of microgrids, smart communities and cities, cyber-physical security and smart ocean systems Section: Connecticut Nominator: J.W. Philhower

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Emre Salman For outstanding contributions to developing energy-efficient and secure 3D integrated circuits Section: Long Island Nominator: T. Xia

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Shambhu Upadhyaya For research accomplishments and leadership in cybersecurity Section: Buffalo Nominator: J. Xu

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Ramalingam Sridhar For research accomplishments and leadership in system on chip, power- performance tradeoffs in mobile & embedded solutions Section: Buffalo Nominator: J. Xu

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Murat Demirbas For significant contributions in distributed systems Section: Buffalo Nominator: J. Xu

Category 3A: Technological Innovation (Academic) Tarunraj Singh For pioneering contributions in the field of controller design under uncertainty and nonlinear estimation for disparate applications Section: Buffalo Nominator: E. Esfahani

Category 3B: Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) Ajay Rajkumar For pioneering work in the area of modeling, service applications, network performance, end-to-end all-IP flat mobile network and seamless handovers across heterogeneous wireless networks Section: North Jersey Nominator: A. Dutta

Category 3B: Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) Xiaochuan Luo For pioneering cloud computing technology for large-scale power system planning simulations Section: Springfield Nominator: S. Zhang

Category 3B: Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) Gagan L. Choudhury For developing a wide array of SDN controller algorithms for greatly improving the flexibility, scalability and robustness of large packet/optical networks Section: New Jersey Coast Nominator: B.S. Prasanna

Category 3B: Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) Brian A. Telfer For technical leadership and contributions to radar and biosignal processing and machine learning for national security Section: Boston Nominator: P. Phu

Category 3B: Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) Frank Demarest For extensive industrial innovation in interferometry and metrology Section: Connecticut Nominator: R.A. Antonetti

Category 3B: Technological Innovation (Industry or Government) Huan Tan For outstanding and continuous contributions to innovation and leadership in creating service robotic systems significantly impacting the industry in various domains Section: Schenectady Nominator: D. Huang

Category 3C: Managerial Excellence in an Engineering Organization Suseel Thomas For excellence in electrical engineering management in the construction of vital railroad signaling capital infrastructure works for the MTA New York City Transit subway system Section: New York Nominator: R. Gomez

Category 3D: Outstanding Teaching in an IEEE Area of Interest (University or College) Liudong Xing For outstanding and sustained contributions as an educator and mentor in the fields of computer engineering and reliability engineering Section: Providence Nominator: H.A. Michel

Category 3D: Outstanding Teaching in an IEEE Area of Interest (University or College) Casimer M. DeCusatis For outstanding contributions to cybersecurity education Section: Mid-Hudson Nominator: M. Mukherjee

Category 3D: Outstanding Teaching in an IEEE Area of Interest (University or College) Cristian A. Linte For contributions to the biomedical engineering profession and to educating and training future generation of engineers, in particular, to the field of medical image computing, modeling, and visualization for computer-aided diagnosis and image-guided surgery Section: Rochester Nominator: C.J. James

Category 3F: Enhancement of the Relationship between IEEE and Industry John R. Yagielski For longstanding and significant contributions to Technical Committee activities, standards and guides representing the electric power industry Section: Schenectady Nominator: R.A. Nold

Category 3G: Enhancement of the IEEE or Engineering Profession’s Image with the Public Alexander B. Magoun For creating a space and maintaining the history of the Princeton/Central Jersey Section that allows the public to view important inventions created by electrical engineers Section: Princeton/Central Jersey Nominator: F.X. O'Connell

Category 3H: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section David Soll For outstanding service to the IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section through continuing service and contributions as a member of the Executive Committee Section: Princeton/Central Jersey Nominator: F.X. O'Connell

Category 3H: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section Craig E. Cobb For outstanding contributions to the IEEE Syracuse Section, the Circuits & Systems and Computer Chapters, and the Life Members Affinity Group Section: Syracuse Nominator: J.K. Lee

Category 3H: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section Thomas Villani For outstanding service to the IEEE New York Section and support of the mission to members within the Chapter and community Section: New York Nominator: W.M. Milian

Category 3H: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section Michael A. Miller For contributions to the IEEE New York and IEEE North Jersey Sections and its PES and IAS Chapters Section: North Jersey Nominator: A.J. van Wijngaarden

Category 3H: Outstanding Support for the Mission of the IEEE, MGA, Region 1 and Section William H. Nelson For outstanding service and continuing leadership to the IEEE Boston Section and the IEEE Photonics Society at the Chapter, Section, and international levels Section: Boston Nominator: P.W. Juodawlkis

Region 1 Young Professionals Award Cathy Chen For reviving the New York Section’s IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group; and, for being instrumental in organizing events and connecting young professionals in the NYC Metro area Section: New York Nominator: S. Das

Selection Statistics Total 2018 awards selected: 25 (out of 48 valid submissions; 25 Region 1 awards max) Award recipients by category 3A – 7 3D – 3 3G – 1 3B – 6 3E – 0 3H – 5 3C – 1 3F – 1 4A – 0 YP – 1 Alex Gruenwald PACE – 0

Selection Statistics, cont’d Award recipients by Section Boston – 2 Buffalo – 4 Connecticut – 2 Long Island – 1 Mid-Hudson – 1 New Jersey Coast – 1 New York – 3 North Jersey – 2 Princeton/Central Jersey – 2 Providence – 1 Rochester – 2 Schenectady – 2 Springfield – 1 Syracuse – 1

Acknowledgements & Next Step Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations Thanks to the Awards Committee for their work Please remember that all selections are confidential until announcements have been made by the Awards and Recognition Committee Chair Letters will be emailed to the award recipients in September