Region 8 Fellows for the Class of 2021


Austria Section
Bernhard Jakoby
for contributions to fluidic sensor
Dieter Schmalstieg
for contributions to augmented reality

 

Benelux Section
Filip De Turck
for contributions to network resource management and adaptive service delivery
Jacquelien Scherpen
for contributions to nonlinear model reduction and passivity-based control
Johan Nuyts
for contributions to theory and algorithms for image reconstruction in emission and transmission tomography
Nathan Van De Wouw
for contributions to hybrid, data-based and networked control
Wim Bogaerts
for contributions to design methodologies for silicon photonics components and circuits

 

Denmark Section
Poul Sorensen
for contributions to wind power converter control and grid integration

 

Egypt Section
Salah Obayya
for contributions to computational photonics

 

Finland Section
Enrique Acha
for contributions to power electronics modelling and applications in electrical power systems
Mehdi Bennis
for contributions to resource optimization in heterogeneous and low-latency wireless networks
Tuomas Virtanen
for contributions to sound event detection and source separation

 

France Section
Claude Samson
for contributions to mobile and underactuated mechanical systems control
Laurent Larger
for contributions to optoelectronic delay oscillators and neuromorphic processing applications
Lori Lamel
for contributions to automatic speech recognition
Stephane Mangin
for contributions to ultrafast magnetisation manipulation

 

Germany Section
Haris Gacanin
for development of operations and management systems for home broadband networks
Mehdi Tahoori
for contributions to resilient nanoscale integrated circuits
Stephan Ten Brink
for contributions to iterative detection and decoding
Wil Van Der Aalst
for contributions to process mining and workflow processes
Wolfgang Utschick
for contributions to signal processing algorithms for multi-antenna communications systems
Xiaoxiang Zhu
for contributions to artificial intelligence and data science in Earth observation and global urban mapping

 

Israel Section
Sharon Gannot
for contributions to acoustical modelling and statistical learning in speech enhancement
Yakov Krasik
for contributions to plasma-based electron sources

 

Italy Section
Chiara Petrioli
for contributions to wireless and underwater networks
Gabriella Cincotti
for contributions to planar photonic devices and beam diffraction in anisotropic media
Gianluca Antonelli
for contributions to modeling and control of underwater robots
Gianluigi Pillonetto
for contributions to kernel-based linear system identification
Giovanni Mazzanti
for contributions to high voltage direct current cable systems
Luciano Tarricone
for contributions to microwave interactions with living systems and biomedical applications
Luisa Verdoliva
for contribution to multimedia forensics
Marco Mellia
for contributions to Internet traffic analysis
Roberto Oboe
for contributions to remote motion control systems

 

Portugal Section
Joao Gama
for contributions to mining data streams

 

South Africa Section
Saurabh Sinha
for leading micro/nanoelectronics research and education in Africa

 

Spain Section
Enrique Herrera-viedma
for contributions to fuzzy decision systems and linguistic modeling
Jose Lozano
for contributions to the estimation of distribution algorithms in evolutionary computation
Jose Neira
for contributions to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for robot navigation
Oriol Gomis Bellmunt
for contributions to grid integration of renewable energy sources
Sergio Vazquez
for contributions to control techniques for power converters and drives

 

Sweden Section
Erik Strom
for contributions to reliable low latency communications and synchronization of code-division systems
Stefanos Kaxiras
for contributions to high-performance and power-efficient memory hierarchies
Zhinong Ying
for contributions to mobile terminal antenna technology

 

Switzerland Section
David Basin
for contributions to formal methods for information security
Matthias Grossglauser
for contributions to the modeling and analysis of network traffic and data

 

Turkey Section
Hilmi Demir
for contributions to semiconductor nanocrystal optoelectronics, colloidal nanophotonics, and lighting

 

United Arab Emirates Section
Ling Shao
for contributions to computer vision and representation learning

 

United Kingdom and Ireland Section
Ashwin Seshia
for contributions to resonant-based inertial and mode-localized sensors
Dragan Jovcic
for contributions to improvements in multi-terminal HVDC transmission grids and development of HVDC transformers
Gan Zheng
for contributions to optimization and design of multiuser multi-antenna communications
Hanyang Wang
for contributions to mobile terminal antennas
Honghai Liu
for contributions to theory and applications of human-machine systems
Jaafar M.h. Elmirghani
for contributions to energy-efficient communications
Jonathan Garibaldi
for contributions to computational intelligence techniques in data analysis and decision support
Julia Schnabel
for contributions to medical image computing
Patrick Wheeler
for contributions to matrix power converter technology
Robert Henderson
for contributions to solid-state single photon imaging
Stephen Hodges
for leadership in pervasive computing systems
Yi Huang
for contributions to rectenna technology
Zhongdong Wang
for contributions to insulating liquids and frequency response analysis methods for power transformers

 

Western Saudi Arabia Section
Wolfgang Heidrich
for contributions to high dynamic range display and computational cameras