IEEE Celebrates Innovators Shaping the Future

Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards. The honorees are selected by the IEEE Awards Board based on their extraordinary technical achievements, societal impact, and leadership in specialized engineering disciplines and are approved by the IEEE Board of Directors. “The 2027 IEEE Technical Field Award recipients embody the relentless spirit of innovation and ingenuity that defines our global community,” said Mary Ellen Randall, 2026 IEEE president and CEO in a news release. “Across microelectronics, artificial intelligence, medical robotics, wireless networks, energy conversion, and technical education, their groundbreaking accomplishments continue to push the boundaries of science and solve critical challenges for the benefit of humanity.” The recipients are: IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award Sponsors: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Signal Processing societies IEEE Life Fellow Kullervo Hynynen Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, and the University of Toronto “For pioneering contributions to the development, advancement, and clinical translation of therapeutic ultrasound.” IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award Sponsor: The Brunetti Bequest IEEE Member Edward Charles Gage IEEE Fellow Ganping Ju IEEE Fellow Jan-Ulrich Thiele Seagate Technology in Cupertino, Calif. “For contributions to heat-assisted magnetic technology powering ultra-high-capacity hard disk drives and enabling greater storage of digital information.” IEEE Roger W. Brockett Control Systems Award Sponsors: IEEE Control Systems Society and Friends and Family of Roger W. Brockett IEEE Life Fellow Arjan van der Schaft Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (Retired) “For contributions to robust and geometric approaches to nonlinear control, hybrid systems, and the control of physical systems.” IEEE Electromagnetics Award Sponsors: IEEE Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology societies IEEE Fellow Zoya Popović University of Colorado Boulder “For contributions to microwave and millimeter-wave circuit designs, including power amplifiers, power-combining, and wireless power systems.” IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award Sponsor: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) IEEE Life Fellow Chin-Hui Lee Georgia Tech “For contributions to and leadership in technologies that enable automatic speech and speaker recognition, including innovations in adaptive learning and discriminative training.” IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing Sponsor: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) IEEE Fellow Nicholas Dimitrios Sidiropoulos University of Virginia in Charlottesville “For contributions to signal processing methods for analyzing complex data and identifying patterns in multiple dimensions.” IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award Sponsor: IEEE Electron Devices Society IEEE Fellow John Robert Brews University of Arizona in Tucson (Retired) “For foundational contributions to the physics and technology underlying MOS devices and circuits.” IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Technology Award Sponsor: Sony Group Corporation IEEE Honorary Member Mike Lazaridis Quantum Valley Investments in Waterloo, Ont., Canada “For transformative contributions to mobile communication through visionary leadership that reshaped global consumer technology.” IEEE Internet Award Sponsor: Google LLC IEEE Fellow Matthew Roughan Adelaide University in Australia “For foundational contributions to analyzing Internet traffic and network structures, enabling better network management and understanding.” IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award Sponsor: IEEE Industry Applications Society IEEE Fellow Akshay Kumar Rathore National University of Singapore “For developing innovative current-fed and multilevel power electronics converters.” IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement Sponsors: Tektronix Inc. and the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society IEEE Life Fellow Pasquale Daponte University of Sannio in Benevento, Italy “For contributions to the measurement and standardization of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.” IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award Sponsor: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society IEEE Life Fellow Janusz Rajski Siemens Digital Industries Software in Wilsonville, Ore. “For contributions to testing digital integrated circuits at the silicon level.” IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award Sponsor: The IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund IEEE Life Fellow Rama Chellappa Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore “For contributions to multi-disciplinary graduate education and mentoring of doctoral students in image processing, computer vision, and pa

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