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 The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Fellow Evaluation Committee evaluates nominations for IEEE Fellow. The Vehicular Technology Society receives such nominations in portable and mobile communications, automotive electronics, and land transportation. Accordingly, the VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee may change each year depending on the mixture of nominations received in each of the three technical areas.
2016 IEEE VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee
- Gordon L. Stüber, Chair, Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Gerhard Bauch, Professor, University of Delaware, USA
- Greg Bottomley, Signal Processing Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA
- Kwok Chau, Professor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Mehrdad Ehsani, Robert M. Kennedy '26 Professor II, Texas A&M University, USA
- James Gover, Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at Kettering University
- David Haccoun, Professor Emeritus, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
- Lajos Hanzo, Professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Abbas Jamalipour, Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
- Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Andreas Molisch, Professor, University of Southern California, USA
- Yi Murphey, Professor and Chair, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
2017 Elected VTS Fellows
The following individuals were evaluated by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Fellows Committee and received IEEE Fellow.
 Witold A. Krzymień
University of Alberta, Canada
For contributions to radio resource management for cellular systems and networks
IEEE Society Memberships: Vehicular Technology, Communications, Signal Processing, Information Theory
Witold A. Krzymień
received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. degrees (both in Electrical
Engineering) in 1970 and 1978, respectively, from the Poznań
University of Technology in Poznań, Poland. He received a Polish
national award of excellence for his PhD thesis.
Since April 1986 he has
been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he currently
holds the endowed Rohit Sharma Professorship in Communications &
Signal Processing. In 1986, he was one of the key research program
architects of the newly launched Telecommunications Research
Laboratories (initially known as ATRC, than TRLabs and finally as
TRTech), which for the next 30 years was Canada’s largest
industry-university-government pre-competitive research consortium in
the Information and Communication Technology area, headquartered in
Edmonton. His research activity was closely tied to the consortium over
these three decades.
Over the years he has also
done collaborative research work with Nortel Networks, Ericsson Wireless
Communications, German Aerospace Centre (DLR Oberpfaffenhofen), TELUS
Communications, Huawei Technologies and the University of Padova
(Italy). He held visiting research appointments at the Twente University
of Technology (Enschede, The Netherlands; 1980-1982), Bell-Northern
Research (Montréal, Canada; 1993-1994), Ericsson Wireless
Communications (San Diego, USA; 2000), Nortel Networks Harlow
Laboratories (Harlow, UK; 2001), and the Department of Information
Engineering at the University of Padova (2005). His research is
currently focused on network MIMO techniques and optimized radio
resource management for coordinated heterogeneous broadband cellular
networks. He also devotes an increasing amount of research effort to the
evaluation of potential benefits of large-scale antenna systems (massive
MIMO), especially for dense heterogeneous cellular networks.
Dr. Krzymień is a
Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a licensed
Professional Engineer in the Provinces of Alberta and Ontario, Canada.
He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology and a member of the Editorial Board of Wireless Personal
Communications (Springer). From 1999 to 2005 he was the Chairman of
Commission C (Radio Communication Systems and Signal Processing) of the
Canadian National Committee of URSI (Union Radio Scientifique
Internationale), and from 2000 to 2003 he was the Associate Editor for
Spread Spectrum and Multi-Carrier Systems of the IEEE Transactions on
Communications. He received the 1991/1992 A.H. Reeves Premium Award from
the Institution of Electrical Engineers (U.K.) for a paper published in
the IEE Proceedings, Part I. In April 2008 he was a co-recipient of the
Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking
Conference (WCNC’08).
 Hamid Sharif
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
For development of
railroad wireless communication
IEEE
Society Memberships: Vehicular Technology, Communications, Computer
Hamid Sharif received a
BSEE degree from the University of Iowa, an MSEE degree from the
University of Missouri-Columbia, and a PhD degree from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the Charles J. Vranek Professor in the
College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, where
he is also Director of the Advanced Telecommunications Engineering
Laboratory. He has published a large number of research articles in
international journals and conferences.
He received a number of best
papers awards. He has served on many IEEE and other international journal
editorial boards, and currently is the Co-editor-in-chief for the
Wiley Journal of Security and Communication Networks. He has contributed
to IEEE in many roles including the elected Chair of the Nebraska
Section, elected Chair of the Nebraska Computer Chapter, elected Chair
of the Nebraska Communication Chapter, and Chapter Coordinator for the
IEEE Region 4 in US.
Further details about the IEEE Fellow program,
including the nomination form are available on the
IEEE website. |
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