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IEEE Boston Section Award Recipients

Congratulations to our 2025 Awards Ceremony Honorees

IEEE Fellows

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.

Stefano Di Cairano – For contributions to model predictive and constrained control in automotive and aerospace applications 2025

Roozbeh Jafari – For contributions to sensors and systems for digital health paradigms 2025

Thomas L. Szabo – For contributions to ultrasound education and establishing technical standards 2025

Dong Tian – For contributions to 3D video compression, processing, and analysis 2025

William D. Oliver – For contributions to superconductive quantum computing technology and its teaching 2025

Dirk R Englund – For contributions to semiconductor quantum photonics and machine learning 2024

Josep Miquel Jornet – For contributions in terahertz communication and nanonetworking 2024

Jonathan Le Roux – For contributions to multi-source speech and audio processing 2024

Marko Loncar – For contributions to thin film lithium nanophotonics 2024

Yue Lu – For contributions to multidimensional signal processing 2024

Yury Polyanskiy – For contributions to information measures and finite-blocklength information theory 2024

IEEE Medal Recipients

IEEE Medals are awarded for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in IEEE fields of interest, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation.

2024 IEEE William E Newell Power Electronics Award For outstanding contributions to power electronics

David J. Perreault – For contributions to the development of very-high frequency power converters

2024 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications For outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar

technologies and their applications

Fred Daum – For research, design, development, analysis, and testing of complex phased array radar systems, making them work in the real world

2024 IEEE Edison Medal For a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts
Vincent Wai Sum Chan – For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications
and networks

2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award For contributions in the field of robotics and automation

Marc Raibert – For pioneering and leading the field of dynamic legged locomotion

Region 1 Award Recipients

2019 IEEE Region 1 Managerial Excellence in an Engineering Organization Award

Francesca Scire Scapuzzo – For Starting a Bold Revolution in the Defense and Aerospace Industry in the USA

2023 IEEE Region 1 Enhancement of the Relationship between IEEE and Industry Award

Denise Griffin – For Expanding Engagement between IEEE, Women in Engineering and Industry

2023 IEEE Region 1 Enhancement of the IEEE Engineering Profession’s Image with the Public Award

Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan – For Exemplary Leadership in IEEE Global Humanitarian Activities

2023 IEEE Region 1 Enhancement of the Relationship of IEEE and Industry

Wayne A. Bishop Jr. – For Dedicated Service in Enhancing the Relationship between IEEE and the Power and Energy Industry

2023 IEEE Region 1 Award for Technology Innovation (Industry or Government)

Laura Brattain For Outstanding Innovation in Biomedical Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence

Boston Section Award Recipients

2024 IEEE Boston Section Distinguished Member Award

Eric Evans – For continuous and dedicated support of the section’s historic milestones, its members and volunteers, and extraordinary effort in
advancing the mission of the IEEE

2025 IEEE Boston Section Distinguished Service Award

Len Long – For his outstanding effort in championing the Section through the years

2025 IEEE Boston Section Distinguished Member Award

Adarsh Ravi – For his leadership in establishing the Microelectronics Chapter

2025 IEEE Boston Section Arthur Winston Student Award

Bruce Jia – For outstanding contributions to the Boston Section Local Conference Committee

2025 IEEE Boston Section Chapter Contribution Award

Marcel Gaudreau – Marcel has been a pioneer in high power electronics and fusion for 40 years

2025 IEEE Boston Section Chapter Leadership Award

Aseem Singh – Has grown and sustained the Chapter on a path of success

2025 IEEE Boston Section Conferences Award

Jeff Herd – Past Chair of Phased Array and continues to support the conference in a role as advisor, cheerleader and industry mover and

shaker

Chapter with the Most Non-Administrative Meetings in 2024

Boston/Providence/New Hampshire Joint Sections of the Reliability Chapter

Chapter with the Most Number of Attendees in Meetings in 2024

Boston Section Computer Society

The Most Innovative Chapter 2024

Boston Section Microelectronics Chapter

Boston Section Recognition Award

Bob Alongi for his 30 years of service as the IEEE Boston Section Business Manager