The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Fellow Evaluation Committee evaluates nominations for IEEE Fellow. IEEE VTS 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.
2017 IEEE VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee
- Abbas Jamalipour, Chair, Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking, University of Sydney, Australia
- Gerhard Bauch, Professor, University of Delaware, 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
- Ali Emadi, Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair, McMaster University, Canada
- Lajos Hanzo, Professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Inkyu Lee, Professor, Korea University, South Korea
- Dusit Niyato, Professor, Nanyang Technological University
- Hamid Sharif, Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Gordon L. Stüber, Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Jinhong Yuan, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Wei Zhang, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
2018 Elected VTS Fellows
The following individuals were evaluated and elevated to IEEE Fellow.
Jelena Misic
Ryerson University, Canada
Citation: For contributions to modeling and performance evaluation in wireless communications |
Fei Richard Yu
Carleton University, Canada
Citation: For contributions to mobility management and radio resource allocation in mobile wireless networks |
In addition, the following VTS members have been evaluated by other IEEE Societies, and awarded the IEEE Fellow this year.
- Pan Hui, for contributions to social-based opportunistic networks
- Guoqiang Mao, for contributions to localization algorithms for wireless networks
- Xudong Wang, for contributions to wireless mesh networks
- Yang Yang, for contributions and leadership in wireless access and networking
- Earl McCune, for leadership in polar modulation circuits and signals
- Philip Winston, for development of standards in power system protection reliability
On behalf of the IEEE VTS Board of Governors, congratulations to all for this great achievement. VTS will recognize them formally during an upcoming VTC at the Awards Luncheon.
Click here for further details about the IEEE Fellow program, including the nomination form.
Don’t forget that the next deadline for submitting IEEE Fellow nominations is 1 March 2018, and you are invited to consider nominating a member with extraordinary accomplishments. A Call for Nominations appears in the December 2017 issue of VTS Mobile World. |