REC alumnus, IISc prof among 24 Indian techies honoured with prestigious IEEE fellowship

Houston, Dec 30: Twenty-four Indian engineers and technical academicians, including an alumnus of Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering College and a professor of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science Centre, have been named 2019 Fellow of the prestigious US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

IEEE is world’s largest association of technical professionals

The IEEE is the world’s largest association of technical professionals. IEEE Fellow, the highest membership grade of the association, is considered as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement by the technical community. It has over 4,00,000 members in 160 countries.

Selvamanickam, REC alumni and Houston University professor, conferred with IEEE Fellow

The persons conferred with the honour include Venkat Selvamanickam from Tamil Nadu who is currently a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston. Venkat is one of the world’s leading experts on innovative manufacturing technologies related to superconductors. He did his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College (REC), Tiruchirappalli and moved to the US for his masters in Mechanical engineering and Doctorate of Philosophy.

CeNSE, IISc prof honoured for contributions to electrochemical biosensors in nanoelectronic devices

Other Indian origin recipients of the IEEE Fellowship include Navakanta Bhat, Santosh Devasia, Venkatesan Guruswami, Nitin Jain, Srinivasan Keshav, Shrikrishna Kulkarni, Anant Madabhushi, Neelesh Mehta, Joydeep Mitra, Siddharth Ramachandran, Srinivasan Ramani, Romit Roy Choudhury, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Rajiv Sabherwal, Samar Saha, Tapan Saha, Murti Salapaka, Venkatesh Saligrama, Ramesh Sitaraman, Deepak Uttamchandani, Namrata Vaswani, Ahmed Hassan and Syed Islam.

Bhat, a professor at the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science’s Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, was named for contributions to electrochemical biosensors in nanoelectronic devices.

Indian-origin computer science professor at Canadian University also honoured

Devasia, a faculty member at the University of Washington, was elected for contributions to feed forward control of non minimum-phase systems. Guruswami, a professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, was chosen for contributions to list error-correction and algorithmic coding theory.

Hassan, a professor of computer science at Queens University in Canada, was named for contributions to the quality assurance of large-scale software systems. Islam, a professor at Australia-based Curtin University, was named for contributions to wind energy conversion systems.

Jain, a technical lead at WebMD, was elected for leadership in the development of physics-based models for mm-wave System-on-Chip Ics. Keshav, a computer science professor at Canada’s University of Waterloo, was among those elected for contributions to fair queuing techniques and flow-control algorithms in computer networks.

IIT-Mumbai academic named for contributions to transformer engineering education

Kulkarni, an academic at the Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai’s Department of Electrical Engineering, was named for contributions to transformer engineering education.

Madabhushi, a biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University, was chosen for contributions in image analysis tools for diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. Mehta, a communications engineer at the Indian Institute of Science’s Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, was named for contributions to opportunistic selection in wireless communication systems.

Mitra, a faculty member at Michigan State University’s electrical and computer engineering department, was elected for contributions to the development of power system reliability method. Ramachandran, a professor at Boston University’s College of Engineering, was named for contributions to higher-order modes in optical fibers.

Romit Roy Choudhury, a professor at the University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, was elected for contributions to wireless network protocols and indoor localization. Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor and chair at UC Riverside in its Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, was named for contributions to video-based tracking and behavior analysis.

Professor from Bangalore-based IIIT also chosen for the fellowship

Ramani of the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, was chosen for contributions to computer networks for developing countries.

Sabherwal, a professor and department chair at the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business, was among those chosen for contributions to research on management of knowledge and information technologies.

Samar Saha, currently the junior past president of IEEE’s Electron Devices Society’s Indonesia Chapter, was elected as Fellow for contributions to compact modeling of silicon field-effect transistors.

Tapan Saha, a professor at Brisbane, Australia-based University of Queensland, was among the new Fellows for contributions to monitoring and assessment of power transformers. Salapaka, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was elected for application of control and systems technology in nano-science.

Saligrama, a professor at Boston University’s College of Engineering, was named for contributions to distributed detection and estimation of structured signals. Sitaraman, an academic at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s computer science department, was named for contributions to content delivery, internet performance, and distributed systems.

Uttamchandani, a professor of microsystems engineering at UK-based University of Strathclyde, was named a Fellow for contributions to photonics-based sensing.  Vaswani, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University, was elected for contributions to dynamic structured high-dimensional data recovery.

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