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^ Ilesanmi Adesida
Scientific Member, Bohmische Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Engineering Council Advisers List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1993, 1999
Oakley-Kunde Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, U of I, 1994
Best Paper Award, Micro- and Nano-engineering Conference, 1996
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Electronic Device Society, 1977-1999
University Scholar, U of I, 1997, 1999
Associate Member, Center for Advanced Study, 2000-2001

^ Narendra Ahuja
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellow, International Society for Optical Engineering
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1984
University Scholar, U of I, 1985
Beckman Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1990-1991
Technology Achievement Award, International Society for Optical Engineering, 1998
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1998
Emanuel R. Piore Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1999
Campus Award for Guiding Undergraduate Research, Honorable Mention, U of I, 1999
Donald Biggar Willet Professorship, U of I College of Engineering, 1999

^ Tamer Basar
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Sedat Simavi Foundation Award in Mathematical Sciences (Istanbul), 1979
President, International Society of Dynamic Games, 1990-1992, 1992-1994
Editor, Automatica, 1992-
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1992-1994
Medal of Science (Turkey), 1993
Associate Member, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1993-1994
Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1993
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1995
Vice President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1997, 1998
Nearing Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of I, 1998-
Zaborszky Lecturer, Washington University, St. Louis, 1999
IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2000

^ Tangul Basar
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Faculty Initiate Eta Kappa Nu, 1990
Tokten Fellow, United Nations, 1991
Engineering Council Advisors List for Excellence in Advising, U of I, 1997

^ James Beauchamp, Emeritus
Fellow, Audio Engineering Society
Past President, International Computer Music Association
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 1999

^ Jennifer Bernhard
New Faculty Fellow, Sloan, 1997
Faculty Fellow, NASA-ASEE, 1999, 2000
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000
.Anderson Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 2000
Collins Scholar, U of I College of Engineering, 2000

^ Stephen G. Bishop
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Distinguished Alumni Award, Gettysburg College, 1990
Board of Trustees, Gettysburg College, 1992-

^ Richard Blahut
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, IBM, 1980
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 1982

^ Stephen Boppart
Soma Weiss Research Award, Harvard Medical School, 1999
Graduated cum laude, Harvard Medical School, 2000
Young Faculty Award, American Association of Anatomists, 2001

^ Yoram Bresler
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Senior Best Journal Paper Awards, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988, 1989
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1991
Technion Fellowship, 1995-1996
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1998
University Scholar, U of I, 1999
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 2001-2002

^ Donna J. Brown
Outstanding Young Woman of America, 1984
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1993

^ Marie-Christine Brunet
Anderson Consulting Outstanding Faculty Advisor, 2000

^ Andreas Cangellaris
Fellow, IEEE
Outstanding Technical Paper Award, 3rd Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC), Singapore, 2000

^ Nicholas Carter
Distinguished Paper Award, International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2000

^ Keh-Yung Cheng
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1994
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1995, 1997, 1998

^ Weng Cho Chew
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Founder Professorship, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Graduate Teaching Award, IEEE, 2000

^ Alfred Y. Cho
Member, American Philosophical Society
Member, Academia Sinica
Member, Chinese Academy of Science
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Associate Fellow, The Third World Academy of Sciences
Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute, 1995
The C & C (Computers and Communications) Prize, Japan, 1995
New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, 1997
Honorary Doctor of Engineering, U of I, 1999
W. E. Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, 1999
The IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
Alumni Achievement Award, U of I, 2000
Honorary Doctor of Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2000

^ Kent Choquette
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE/Laser and Electro-Optical Society, 2000-2001

^ Shun Lien Chuang
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1994
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1995
Sabbatical Chair, Sony Research Center, Japan, 1995

^ James J. Coleman
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Optical Society of America
IEEE LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE, 1997-1998, 1998-1999

^ Paul D. Coleman, Emeritus
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Honorary Doctor of Science, Susquehanna University
Centennial Medal, IEEE, 1984
IEEE-MTT Distinguished Educator Award, 1994

^ Thomas DeTemple, Emeritus
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

^ Floyd Dunn, Emeritus
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow and Past President, Acoustical Society of America
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Fellow, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Fellow (founding), International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow, Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Honorary Member, Japan Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
Honorary Member, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health
American Cancer Society-Eleanor Roosevelt-International Cancer Fellow, 1982-1983
Fulbright-Hays Senior Fellow, 1982-1983
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, 1982, 1996
William J. Fry Memorial Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1984
Medal of Special Merit, Acoustical Society of Japan, 1988
University Scholar, U of I, 1988
Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America, 1989
Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1990
Fogarty International Fellow, 1990
World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, History of Ultrasound Pioneer Award, 1990
Career Achievement Award, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995
University of Illinois Bioengineering Distinguished Service Award, 1995
Edison Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996
Distinguished Alumnus Award, U of I Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Association, 1997
Alumni Award for Distinguished Service, U of I College of Engineering, 1998
Gold Medal, Acoustical Society of America, 1998
Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2000

^ J. Gary Eden
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1987-1988
Beckman Research Award, U of I, 1988
Board of Governors, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 1990-1993
Associate Editor, Photonics Technology Letters, 1990-1994
Vice President (Technical Affairs), IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 1993-95
IBM Research Award, U of I, 1995
Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 1996
Editor, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1996-
Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 1996
James F. Towey University Scholar, U of I, 1996-1999
President, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), 1998
Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Milton Feng
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Ford Aerospace Corporate Technology Award, 1988
Beckman Research Award, U of I, 1993
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1995, 1996, 1998
Best Paper Award, IEEE/International Electronic Manufacturing Technology Symposium, 1995
David Sarnoff Award, Technical Field Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1997
Associate Member, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1998
Outstanding Research Award, Dr. Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, Taiwan, 2000
Nick Holonyak, Jr. Professorship, 2000-2005

^ Steven J. Franke
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1989
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1996
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1999

^ Leon A. Frizzell
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1993
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

^ Oscar L. Gaddy, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

^ Chester S. Gardner
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Optical Society of America
R. V. Pole Memorial Plenary Lecturer, IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1991
CEDAR Prize Lecture, National Science Foundation, 1996

^ George Gross
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Franz Edelman Management Science Achievement Award, Institute of Management Science, 1985
Grainger Professor in Electrical Engineering, U of I College of Engineering, 1993-1998
IEEE Power Engineering Society Prize Paper Award, 1999

^ Christoforos Hadjicostis
Career Award, National Science Foundation, 2001

^ Bruce E. Hajek
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1981
Eckman Award, American Automatic Control Council, 1982
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1984
Beckman Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1984
Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1985
University Scholar, U of I, 1986
COMCON Award, 1991
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1992
President, IEEE Information Theory Society, 1995

^ Ibrahim Hajj, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 1992
Golden Jubilee Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1999
Administrative Vice President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2000, 2001, 2002

^ Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
F. V. Hunt Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 1996-1997
Individual National Research Service Award, 1998-1999
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technologies, 1999

^ Charles D. Hendricks, Emeritus
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Foreign Fellow, Electrostatics Society, Japan

^ Karl Hess
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2001
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, American Physical Society
Louis A. Fridrich University Scholar, 1993
J. J. Ebers Award, IEEE Electron Devices Society, 1993
David Sarnoff Field Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1995
Tau Beta Pi D. C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1995
Swanlund Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of I, 1996-
Professor, U of I Center for Advanced Study

^ Nick Holonyak, Jr.
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Fellow, American Physical Society
Member, Center for Advanced Study, U of I
Cordiner Award, General Electric Co., 1962
Morris N. Liebmann Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1973
John Scott Medal, City of Philadelphia, 1975
First GaAs Symposium Award with Welker Medal, 1976
Jack A. Morton Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1981
Solid-State Science and Technology Award, Electrochemical Society, 1983
Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award, 1988
Edison Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1989
National Medal of Science, 1990
Charles H. Townes Award, Optical Society of America, 1992
Honorary Doctor of Science, Northwestern University, 1992
Honorary Member, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1992
Award for the Industrial Application of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 1993
American Electronics Association 50th Anniversary Award, "Inventing America's Future," 1993
Centennial Medal, American Society for Engineering Education, 1993
John Bardeen Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Physics, 1993-
Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Notre Dame University, 1994
Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1994
Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Member's Award of Eta Kappa Nu, 1994
John Bardeen Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 1995
Japan Prize, 1995
Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award, Optical Society of America, 1997
Eminent Member, Eta Kappa Nu, 1998
Distinguished Alumnus of Tau Beta Pi, 1999
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Thomas S. Huang
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, International Association of Pattern Recognition
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Fellow, SPIE: The International Optical Society
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1971
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1976-1977
Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society, 1987
Best Paper Award, Pattern Recognition, 1989, 1993, 1995
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1990
University Scholar, U of I, 1990
Society Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1991
Fujitsu Endowed Chair Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, 1993
IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, 1993-1994
William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor, U of I, 1996-
Peter H. Bartels Visiting Professor, University of Washington, 1997
Honored as a Pioneer in Signal Processing at the IEEE ICASSP, 1998
Honda Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
IEEE Jack Kilby Medal, 2001

^ Seth Hutchinson
Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 1991
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, 1994

^ Wen-Mei Hwu
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, for Service as Both General and Program Chair for the Silver Anniversary MICRO Conference
Intel Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1992-1993
Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award, 1993
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1994
University Scholar, U of I, 1994
Eta Kappa Nu Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, 1997
Stanley H. Pierce Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1997
ACM SigArch Mauvice Wilkes Award, 1998
ACM Grace M. Hopper Award, 1999

^ Ravishankar K. Iyer
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
IEEE Distinguished Visitor, 1989-
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1991
List for Outstanding Advising, U of I Engineering Council Advisors, 1994, 1996
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 1996
Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on VLSI Design, 1997
Distinguished Service Certificate, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997
George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor, U of I College of Engineering, 1998-
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, 2001

^ Jianming Jin
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1994
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1995
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1997
Henry Magnuski Outstanding Young Scholar, 1998-2000
Value Service Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, 1999

^ Douglas L. Jones
Fulbright Fellowship, 1987

^ Sung-Mo Kang, Emeritus
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Foreign Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea
President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1991
Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, 1992-1995
CAS Darlington Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1993
SRC Inventor Recognition Award, 1993, 1996
Series Editor, Advances in VLSI CAD, Elsevier, 1994-
Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1994-1997
Charles Marshall University Scholar, U of I, 1995
IEEE Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award, 1996
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1996
Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1997
Korean Broadcasting System Award in Science and Technology, 1998
Technical Excellence Award, Semiconductor Research Corp., 1999
Golden Jubilee Medal, IEEE CAS Society, 1999
IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Kyekyoon, (Kevin) Kim
Beckman Research Award, U of I, 1985
Japanese Government Foreign Specialist Award, Science and Technology Agency of Japan, 1989
Best Presentation Award, ACERS, Nuclear Division, 1990
Meritorious Award, Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Fabrication Specialists Association, 1995

^ Paul W. Klock, Emeritus
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1988

^ Ralf Koetter
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IBM Invention Achievement Award, 1997
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1999-
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2000-
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000
Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent, 2000

^ Philip T. Krein
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Grainger Associate, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1995-
Technical Vice President, IEEE Power Electronics Society, 1997, 1998
Fulbright Scholar, 1997-1998
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1997
President, IEEE Power Electronics Society, 1999, 2000
University Scholar, U of I, 1999-2002

^ P. R. Kumar
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Donald P. Eckman Award, American Automatic Control Council, 1985
Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of I, 2000-

^ Benjamin C. Kuo, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

^ Mark J. Kushner
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Vacuum Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1988, 1991
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1990
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1991, 1994, 1998
Thomas Murphy University Scholar, U of I, 1991-1994
Japan Society for Advancement of Science Fellow, 1992
Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award, 1995
Tegal Thinker Award for Plasma Etch Technology, 1997
Founder Professor of Engineering, U of I, 1999-2004
Plasma Science and Technology Award, American Vacuum Society, 1999
IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award, 2000

^ Jean-Pierre Leburton
Member, New York Academy of Science
Hitachi Ltd. Quantum Materials Chair, Research Center for Advanced Sciences and Technology, University of Tokyo, 1992
Chevalier Dans L'Ordre Des Palmes Academiques, 1994
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1999
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1999

^ Shung-Wu Lee, Emeritus
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Million Dollar Award, Lockheed Corp., 1985
Certificate of Recognition, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1993

^ Stephen Levinson
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

^ Zhi-Pei Liang
Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Best Paper Award, Medical Physics, 1990
Outstanding Staff Member Award, Panhellenic Council, U of I, 1995
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1995
Beckman Fellow, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1997
Henry Magnuski Scholar, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society, 1999

^ Chang Liu
Academician, Academia Sinica, 1998
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000

^ Yuen T. Lo, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member, Academy of Electromagnetics
Member, International Union of Radio Sciences
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Honorary Professor, Northwest Telecommunication Institute, Xian, China
Honorary Professor, Northwestern Technical University, Xian, China
Centennial Medal, IEEE, 1984
Halliburton Award for Engineering Education Leadership, U of I College of Engineering, 1986
Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Service to IEEE, 1991
Distinguished Alumni Award, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1993
Distinguished Achievement Award, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 1996

^ Michael C. Loui
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1984
Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1985
Harriet and Charles Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award, U of I, 1995
College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, U of I, 1996

^ Steven Lumetta
Best Student Paper, Supercomputing '97: High-Performance Networking and Computing, 1997
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000

^ Joseph W. Lyding
IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, 1983
Arthur K. Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society, 1983
Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Teaching Award, 1984
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, U of I, 1984, 1985
Beckman Fellow, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1987-1988
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1996-1997
IBM Partnership Award, 1996-1997
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1997
University Scholar, U of I, 1997
Fellow, American Vacuum Society, 2000

^ P. Edward Mast, Emeritus
Honorary Member, Illinois Junior Academy of Science

^ Paul E. Mayes, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member, Electromagnetics Academy

^ Amit Mehrotra
Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference of Computer Design (ICCD), 1997

^ Sean Meyn
ORSA TIMS Award for the best publication in applied probability, 1994
Vice Chancellor's Teaching Scholar's Award, U of I, 1994
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, Manufacturing System Design and Analysis, 1994
Fulbright Research Scholar for Research on Optimization and Network Scheduling, 1997

^ Eric Michielssen
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1995

^ George H. Miley
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Nuclear Society
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Senior Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Exceptional Service Award, American Nuclear Society, 1980
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985
United Kingdom Research Fellow, 1987
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1990
Outstanding Achievement Award, American Nuclear Society, Fusion Energy Division, 1992
NATO Senior Fellow, Eastern European Outreach, 1994
Edward Teller Medal, 1995
Outstanding Scientist Award, Journal of New Energy, 1996

^ Raj Mittra, Emeritus
Fellow, Electromagnetics Academy
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1965-1966
Past President, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
Centennial Medal, IEEE, 1984

^ Pierre Moulin
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1996-1998
Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, Spring 1996, Spring 1999
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1998
Senior Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1997
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1999-

^ David C. Munson, Jr.
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Past President, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Founding Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1995
Outstanding Alumnus Award, University of Delaware College of Engineering, 1995
Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2000-2001
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Saburo Muroga
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Honorary Member, The Information Processing Society of Japan

^ William D. O'Brien, Jr.
Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
Fellow and Past President, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Past President, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Past President, IEEE Sonics and Ultrasonics Group
Past Treasurer, World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Honorary Member, Society of Vascular Technology
Centennial Medal, IEEE, 1984
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 1985-
Presidential Recognition Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1985, 1992
History of Ultrasound Pioneer Award, World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 1988
Outstanding Region 4 IEEE Student Branch Counselor Award, 1989
Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1993
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society, 1997-1998
Achievement Award, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, 1998
IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Burks Oakley II
Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, 15 times, U of I
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Searle Scholar, 1982
Named "one of the most distinguished Ph.D. recipients over the past 50 years," University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 1988
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1989
Stanley H. Pierce Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1991
Finalist, Campus Outstanding Teacher Award, U of I, 1991, 1992
Wyatt Challenge Award, EDUCOM, 1991
BP Amoco Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction, U of I, 1992
Harriet and Charles Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award, U of I, 1993
Outstanding Teacher Award, American Society for Engineering Education, Illinois/Indiana Section, 1993
Centennial Certificate, American Society for Engineering Education, 1993
Benjamin Dasher Award, IEEE Education Society/ASEE ERM Division, 1994
Outstanding Advisor List, U of I College of Engineering, 1994, 1995
Educom Medal, 1996
IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award, 1996
Helen Plants Award, Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996
Best Workshop, American Society for Engineering Education, Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, Continuing Professional Development Division, 1997
Meritorious Service Award, Education Society, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1998
Best Paper, American Society for Engineering Education, Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, Continuing Professional Development Division, 1999
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Thomas Overbye
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1993, 1994
Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society, 1993
Prize Papers, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, North American Power Symposium 1997
Best Paper Award, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1997
Best Paper Award, North American Power Symposium, 1997
Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society, 1999
BP Amoco Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, U of I College of Engineering, 2000
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Mangalore A. Pai
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Institution of Engineers, India
Fellow, National Academy of Engineering, India

^ Janak H. Patel
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Emanuel R. Piore Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1998
Donald Biggar Willet Professor, U of I College of Engineering, 1999

^ William R. Perkins
Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Past President, IEE Control Systems Society
Distinguished Member, IEEE Control Systems Society
Centennial Medal, IEEE, 1984
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1986-1987
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I, 1987
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Press, 1992-1994
President, American Automatic Control Council, 1996-1997
Education Award, American Automatic Control Council, 1997
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Constantine D. Polychronopoulos
Board of Directors, ACM SIGARCH
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1989
Editor, International Journal of High-Speed Computing, 1989-
Mitsubishi Endowed Professorship, University of Tokyo, 1993
Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, 1998
Best Research Paper Award, IEEE Supercomputing, 2000

^ N. Narayana Rao
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Undergraduate Instructional Award, U of I, 1982, 1988
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1987
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, U of I, 1989
Oakley Award for Innovation in Instruction, U of I, 1989
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1991
AT&T Foundation Award for Excellence in the Instruction of Engineering Students, ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section, 1991
IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1994
Excellence in Education Award, Telugu Association of North America, 1999

^ Umberto Ravaioli
Fellow, Institute of Physics
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1990, 1994
Engineering Council Advisors List for Advising Excellence, U of I, 1994, 1996, 1998

^ Elyse Rosenbaum
SRC Technical Excellence Award, 1991
Roger A. Haken Best Student Paper Award, International Electron Devices Meeting, 1991
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1996

^ Elizabeth Rudnick
Best Paper Award, VLSI Test Symposium, 1997

^ William Sanders
Faculty Award, Digital Equipment Corporation, Incentives for Excellence, 1989, 1990, 1991

^ Dilip V. Sarwate
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

^ Peter W. Sauer
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Grainger Associate, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1982-1998
U.S. Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, 1993
Honorary Professional Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1995
Academy of Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1996
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1996, 1998, 1999
Outstanding Educator Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society, 1997
Grainger Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1998-
IEEE Power Engineering Society Prize Paper Award, 1999
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

^ Paul D. Schomer
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
Vice President, Membership, Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Associate Editor, Community Noise, Noise Control Engineering Journal
Head of the U.S. Delegation to International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee, 1994

^ Chalmers F. Sechrist, Jr., Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Past President and Vice President, IEEE Education Society
Palmes Academiques Award, French Ministry of Education, 1993
Education Society Achievement Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1993
Meritorious Service Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Association, 1996
IEEE Millennium Award, 2000

^ Naresh Shanbhag
Darlington Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1994
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1996
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1997-1999
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Leon K. Kirchmayer Best Paper Award, IEEE, 1999

^ Andrew Singer
Hughes Aircraft Graduate Fellow
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2001
ONR Special Research Award in Ocean Acoustics 2001

^ Leslie G. Smith, Emeritus
Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, U of I, 1988

^ Mark W. Spong
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 1982
Best Paper Award, Robotics and Expert Systems Symposium, 1987
Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1996-1999
Best Video Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1998
Senior Scientist Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, 1999
Visiting Professor, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, 1999
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1999
Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore, 1999
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2000
Vice President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2000-2001

^ George W. Swenson, Jr., Emeritus
Member, Academy of Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1984

^ Timothy N. Trick
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, International Engineering Consortium
Past President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Past Vice President, IEEE Publication Board
Centennial Medal, IEEE, 1984
IEEE Board of Directors, 1986-1989
National Engineering Consortium Board of Directors 1990-
President, National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association, 1994-1995
M. E. Van Valkenburg Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1994
Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Illinois Dads Association, 1996
Golden Jubilee Medal for Extraordinary Contributions to the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society, 2000
IEEE Third Millennium Medal for Outstanding Achievement and Contributions, 2000
Alumni Award for Excellence, University of Dayton, School of Engineering, 2000

^ Ricardo Uribe
E. A. Reid Engineering Open House Award, Advanced Digital Systems Laboratory
Elected to the Incomplete list of Excellent Teachers more than 32 consecutive semesters
Nominated Three Times for the Everitt Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Honorable Mention for Paper, Ben Dasher Award Committee, An Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering for Freshmen: Laboratories and Lectures (coauthored), 1995
Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997
Collins Award for Innovative Teaching, U of I College of Engineering, 1998

^ Venu Veeravalli
Editor for .:italic{Communications in Information and Systems}
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Browder J. Thompson Award, co-recipient, 1996
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1998
Chair, IEEE Ithaca Section, 1999-2000
Michael Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell University College of Engineering, Cornell University, 1999
Presidential Career Award, 1999
Associate Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications-Wireless Series, 2000-2001
Invited Participant in the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Conference, 2000
Associate Editor, Detection & Estimation for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2001-2003
Co-organizer of the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Conference, 2001

^ Joseph T. Verdeyen, Emeritus
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, American Physical Society

^ Benjamin W. Wah
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, Society for Design and Process Science
University Scholar, U of I, 1989
IEEE Distinguished Visitor, 1989-1992
Fujitsu Visiting Chair Professor on Intelligence Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1992
Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1993-1996
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Information Sciences, 1993-
McKay Visiting Professorship, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
Second Vice President, IEEE Computer Society, 1998
Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1998
First Vice President Elect, IEEE Computer Society, 1998
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1999
Robert T. Chien Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of I, 1999
Best Paper Award, Journal of Global Optimization, 1999
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
President-Elect, IEEE Computer Society, 2000
President, IEEE Computer Society, 2001

^ Andrew Webb
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1995, 1998
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1997
Guest Professorship, University of Wurzburg, 2000-2001

^ Bruce C. Wheeler
Stanley H. Pierce Award, U of I College of Engineering, 1987
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1989, 1993
Honorary Knight of St. Pat, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Outstanding Faculty Award, Illinois Dad's Association, 1999
Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, U of I, 2000

^ Kung C. Yeh, Emeritus
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1973; Life Fellow, 1995
Panel Member, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel, AGARD, NATO, 1984-1992
Scientific Achievement Award, Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, NATO, 1992
Honorary Guest Professor, Wuhan University, 1993
Chair Professor, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan, 1995-1997
Advisory Professor, Fundan University, 1997
Distinguished Alumnus Award, U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997
Distinguished Schmidt Visiting Professor, Florida Atlantic University, 1999

^ Jianhua (David) Zhang
Outstanding Advisor Award, U of I College of Engineering and Engineering Council, 2001


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