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2007 Fellows
Edward I. Ackerman
for contributions to the optimization of analog optical links
Edward Ackerman received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1989 and 1994, respectively. From 1989 through 1994 he was employed as a microwave photonics engineer at Martin Marietta’s Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York, where he used low-loss narrowband impedance matching techniques to demonstrate the first amplifierless direct modulation analog optical link with RF gain (+3.7 dB at 900 MHz). From 1995 to July 1999 he was a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he developed high-performance analog photonic links for microwave communications and antenna remoting applications. During this time he achieved the lowest noise figure ever demonstrated for an amplifierless analog optical link (2.5 dB at 130 MHz). While at Lincoln Laboratory he also developed and patented a novel linearization technique that uses a standard lithium niobate modulator with only one electrode to enable improved analog optical link dynamic range across broad bandwidths and at higher frequencies than other linearization techniques currently allow. Currently he is Vice President of R & D for Photonic Systems, Inc. of Billerica, Massachusetts. He has co-edited a book and has authored or co-authored three book chapters as well as more than fifty technical papers on the subject of analog photonic subsystem performance modeling and optimization. Dr. Ackerman is a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds one US patent.
Steven B. Leeb
for contributions to modeling, design, analysis, and construction of servomechanisms
Steven B. Leeb received his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. He has served as a commissioned officer in the USAF reserves, and he has been a member on the M.I.T. faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1993. He also holds a joint appointment in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. He currently serves as MacVicar Fellow and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems. In his capacity as a Professor at M.I.T, he is concerned with the design, development, and maintenance processes for all kinds of machinery with electrical actuators, sensors, or power electronic drives. A major thrust in his current research is the development of power electronic drives and supplies for servomechanical and industrial applications, including medical drug delivery devices, battery chargers, motion controllers and fluorescent lamp ballasts. Another research interest related to power quality issues and on-line machine diagnostics involves the development of a Nonintrusive Load Monitor (NILM). The NILM determines the operating schedule of the major electrical loads in a commercial or industrial building from measurements made solely at the electrical utility service entry. He is currently working to develop the NILM into a virtually sensorless platform to determine power quality, perform critical load diagnostics, and monitor manufacturing processes and actuator performance on ships, aircraft, automobiles, and satellites. He is the author or co-author of over 70 publications and 13 US Patents in the fields of electromechanics and power electronics.
Pratap Misra
for contributions to global satellite navigation systems
Dr. Pratap Misra is a Senior Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Since 1989, his professional focus has been on GPS and its Russian counterpart, GLONASS. His early work dealt with applications of these global satellite navigation systems in civil aviation, and he served as a technical adviser to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on GLONASS-related issues. He has also led research at the Laboratory on precise (centimeter-level) navigation with GPS and GLONASS carrier phase measurements. He is a coauthor of the first GPS textbook, now in wide use.
Dr. Misra was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION) in 2004, and a Fellow of the IEEE in 2007 "for contributions to global satellite navigation systems."
Betty Salzberg
for contributions to access methods, online re-organization methods, and robust application techniques in computing
Betty Salzberg is a Professor of Computer Science in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University in Boston. Professor Salzberg was elected to IEEE Fellow for her contributions to the database field including "access methods, online re-organization methods, and robust application techniques in computing".
Professor Salzberg's spatial access method (called the hB-tree or Holey Brick tree) clusters data in several dimensions on the same disk page. Her temporal access method (the Time-split B-tree) is optimized to answer the query: "show me the state of the data collection at a given past time." Professor Salzberg's work on online reorganization concerns merging B-trees (the standard one-dimensional index found in all DBMSs) and consolidation of B-trees while database access is ongoing. Most recently, to make applications robust, Professor Salzberg has been working on making server methods recoverable.
Professor Salzberg joined the faculty at Northeastern University in 1971, after obtaining a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). She served as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Mathematics until 1982, when she became one of the founders of the new College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. She has published two textbooks and numerous technical articles. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1989. She served the IEEE as president of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) from 1998 to 2001. She was co-general chair of the IEEE ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering) held in Boston in 2004. She is currently an associate editor of ACM TODS (Transactions on Database Systems).
M. Selim Ünlü
for contributions to optoelectronic devices
M. Selim Ünlü is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics at Boston University. He is also serving as the Associate Director of Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology. His research laboratories are located in the Photonics Center.
Prof. Ünlü received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1986, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. In 1992, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, as an assistant professor. He worked as a visiting professor at University of Ulm, Germany in 2000, ETH Zürich, Switzerland in 2006, and Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2007.
Dr. Ünlü's career interest is in research and development of photonic materials, devices and systems focusing on the design, processing, characterization, and modeling of semiconductor optoelectronic devices, especially photodetectors, as well as high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy of semiconductor and biological materials.
During 1994-1995, Dr. Ünlü served as the Chair of IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society, Boston Chapter, winning the LEOS Chapter-of-the-Year Award. He was awarded National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award in 1993, United Nations TOKTEN award in 1995 and 1996, and both the National Science Foundation CAREER and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards in 1996. He has authored and co-authored over 250 technical articles and several book chapters and magazine articles; edited one book; and holds several patents. His professional service includes the former chair of the IEEE/LEOS technical subcommittee on photodetectors and imaging and currently, the chair of IEEE/LEOS Nanophotonics and an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Dr. Ünlü has been selected as a LEOS Distinguished Lecturer for 2005-2007. He has been elevated to IEEE Fellow rank in 2007 for his contributions to optoelectronic devices.
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