2006 IEEE CAS Awards

Every year the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) recognizes individuals who have paid outstanding contributions to the technical fields covered by the Society. One way we recognize our deserving members is by elevating them to IEEE Fellowship. We also select deserving individuals for each of the six CAS Awards that are handed out annually (and one Award biannually).

In addition, CAS presents six Awards annually to authors of selected best papers published in the Society’s journals in one of the two preceding years. All are selected by a dedicated committee after a call for nominations which is open to the entire membership.

The following are the recipients of the 2006 CAS Awards:

For sustained fundamental contributions to analog signal processing, and for the major impact they have had on applications ranging from communications systems to bio-engineering, as well as for his outstanding leadership in engineering education and within the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

For sustained and outstanding technical contributions for nearly four decades to graph theoretic foundations of circuits, systems and computing emphasizing theoretical and algorithmic aspects and bridging theory and practice in diverse areas of applications ranging from classical circuit theory to modern areas such as VLSI physical design, VLSI testing, fault tolerance in WDM optical networks, etc. For sustained leadership efforts in promoting graph theory based research through research publications, text books, monographs and CAS society technical committee/editorial/conference activities.

For outstanding education and leadership in VLSI systems and embedded computing.

2006 Industrial Pioneer Award

For the development of practical techniques and algorithms for automated logic synthesis, for their realization as usable tools, and for their successful application to high performance computing products.

For devoted long-term service to the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society holding various key volunteer positions, from Transactions Editor-in-Chief and ISCAS Chair to Vice President - Technical Activities, and for the promotion of newly emerging technical subject areas in the Society.

 

2007 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award

Dr. Yannis P. Tsividis of Columbia University, USA, was selected as the 2007 recipient of the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. He is being recognized for his contributions to circuits and MOS device modeling.