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Nominations are due May 15, 2024.

Presentations. These annual awards are presented at the IEEE SENSORS Conference — held typically in late October or early November each year. Selected award winners may be announced on the IEEE Sensors Council website, newsletter, and Council social media — Facebook, Twitter and/or LinkedIn.

Sensors Council Award Procedures. The detailed procedures are available in the official Sensors Council Award Procedures

In case of discrepancy, the award rules listed in the IEEE TAB awards manual will prevail.

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2016 IEEE Sensors Council Award Recipients

IEEE Sensors Council Lifetime Contribution Award

Technical Achievement Award in Sensor Systems or Networks – Early Career

Changzhi Li
“For contributions to low-power smart radar sensors for healthcare applications.”

Technical Achievement Award in Sensor Systems or Networks – Advanced Career

Sandro Carrara
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
“For design of nanoscale biological CMOS sensory systems and for leadership in the emerging area of co-design in Bio/Nano/CMOS interfaces for sensing. In this new domain, the design of the electronic front-end is developed together with a detailed design of the biological and nano-structured films incorporated in the sensors.”

Technical Achievement Award in Sensors – Early Career

Ravinder S. Dahiya
University of Glasgow
“For outstanding contributions to Tactile Sensing and Electronic Skin in Robotics.”

Technical Achievement Award in Sensors – Advanced Career

Xin Zhang
Boston University
“For distinguished contributions to the field of micro/nanoelectromechanical systems, addressing a wide range of important problems in advanced materials, biophotonics and energy.”

IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award

Alper Bozkurt
North Carolina State University
“For his outstanding research, teaching, and outreach performance, including his leadership in innovating novel bionic cyberphysical systems using microelectronic and MEMS based neural and hemodynamic interfaces with various biological organisms to provide sensing and actuation solutions to engineering problems from healthcare to security.”

IEEE Sensors Council Certificate of Distinction

Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
“for authoring the paper: Wearable Sensors for Human Activity monitoring: A Review in IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 3, 2015. The most accessed paper between December 2014 and May 2016, attracting more than 10,000 full text views”

Sensors Journal Best Performing Topical Editor

Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

Sensors Journal Best Performing Associate Editor

Anna Grazia Mignani

Sensors Journal Best Performing Associate Editor

Ashish Pandharipande

Sensors Journal Best Performing Associate Editor

Kazuaki Sawada

Sensors Council Volunteers who are IEEE Fellows

Omer Inan
2024
"For contributions to wearable systems for health sensing"
Michael McShane
2024
"For contributions to biomaterials-based optical biosensors"
Beibei Wang
2024
"For contributions to wireless sensing and cognitive Communications"
Paul C.-P. Chao
2023
"For contributions to optical bio-imaging and sensing technologies"
Radislav Potyrailo
2023
"For contributions to sensor technologies for gas differentiation, interference rejection, and drift elimination"
Richard Syms
2023
"For contributions to mass spectrometers based on microelectromechanical system technology"
Stephen Beeby
2022
"For contributions to energy harvesting and its application in etextiles"
David Horsley
2022
"For development of micro-electromechanical systems for ultrasonic transduction"
Sudip Misra
2022
"For contributions to intelligent sensing in constrained IoT environments"
Euisik Yoon
2022
"For contributions to bio-microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS) technologies for opto-electrical neural interfaces and microfluidic biochips"
Bernhard Jakoby
2021
"For contributions to fluidic sensors"
Roya Maboudian
2021
"For contributions to surface coatings and structural materials for microelectromechanical systems"
Ashwin Seshia
2021
"For contributions to resonant-based inertial and mode-localized sensors"
Thomas Thundat
2021
"For contributions to multi-modal microelectromechanical systems for chemical and biological sensors"
Kukjin Chun
2020
"For leadership in microelectromechanical systems technology development."
Ravinder Dahiya
2020
"For contributions to tactile sensing."
Deepak Uttamchandani
2019
"For contributions to photonics-based sensing."
Julian Gardner
2019
"For contributions to electronic noses and gas sensors."
Hulya Kirkici
2017
"For contributions to high frequency, high field dielectric breakdown and electrical insulation for space and aerospace power systems."
Sandro Carrara
2016
"For contributions to design of nanoscale biological CMOS sensors."
Paddy French
2016
"For contributions to micro-electromechanical devices and systems​."
Weileun Fang
2015
"For contributions to measurement methods and process technologies for micro-electro-mechanical systems."
Andrei Shkel
2014
"For contributions to micromachined gyroscopes"
Srinivas Tadigadapa
2014
"For contributions to microeletromechanical systems for fluidic and biochemical sensors."
Thilo Sauter
2014
"For contributions to synchronization and security in automation networks"
Zeynep Celik-Butler
2012
"For contributions to the understanding of noise and fluctuation phenomena in solid-state devices."
Yogesh Gianchandani
2012
"For contributions to silicon-based microactuators and on-chip microplasmas."
Veena Misra
2012
"For contributions to metal electrodes and high-K dielectrics for CMOS applications."
Subhas Mukhopadhyay
2011
"For development of low-cost smart sensors and sensing systems."
Gianluca Lazzi
2008
"For contributions to bioelectromagnetics and implantable devices."
Lina​ ​Sarro
2007
"For contributions to micromachined sensors, actuators, and microsystems."
Okyay Kaynak
2003
"For contributions to variable structure systems theory and its applications in mechatronics."
Franco Maloberti
1996
"For contributions to design methodologies for analog integrated circuits and outstanding leadership in microelectronics education and research."
Mona Zaghloul
1996
"For leadership in education and research in integrated circuit design and their application to neural networks."
Vladimir Lumelski
1994
"For contributions to the field of robotics and automation, particularly for developing the theory of sensor-based motion planning in an uncertain environment."
Robert Bannon
1993
"For leadership in ocean engineering and the practical application of sensor technologies."
Donald Malocha
1993
"For contributions to the development of computer-aided design for surface acoustic wave (SAW) transducers and filters."
Michael Shur
1989
"For contributions to the development of high-speed devices and integrated circuits."
John R. Vig
1989
"For contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing."
H Troy Nagle
1983
"For contributions to industrial electronics, data acquisition, and control instrumentation."