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IEEE Fellows 2025

"The IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors extends its heartfelt congratulations to our newly elevated IEEE Fellows," said Robert Schobert, IEEE Communications Society President. "Each year, our ComSoc Fellows Evaluation Committee, under the leadership of Chairwoman Sumei Sun, carefully reviews exceptional candidates and selects individuals whose contributions to communications engineering have made a significant, industry-wide impact. We are proud to welcome this esteemed class of Fellows into our community. Congratulations to all on this remarkable achievement!"

Being elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow is among the highest honors conferred by the Institute, recognizing outstanding technical, educational, and leadership accomplishments. Only a small, distinguished group of IEEE members receive this prestigious recognition each year.

For 2025, sixty-eight members of the IEEE Communications Society have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow.

Tareq Al-Naffouri
for contributions to adaptive signal processing and applications to wireless communications

Raheem Beyah
for contributions in rogue device detection in the field of cybersecurity

Xiaofeng Chen
for contributions to verifiable computation and verifiable storage in cloud computing

Kyungwhoon Cheun
for leadership in 5G mmWave and vRAN technologies

Xiaowen Chu
for contributions to algorithms for communication-efficient distributed machine learning

Vittorio Curri
for contributions to physical layer aware multi-band open optical networks

Qionghai Dai
for contributions to 3D content understanding and computational imaging

Davide Dardari
for contributions to theory and practice of radio positioning systems

Melike Erol Kantarci
for contributions to AI-enabled wireless networks and smart grid communications

Serge Fdida
for contributions to federated network research testbeds at scale, and quality of service

Carlo Fischione
for contributions to the theory and practice of wireless internet of things

Frank Fitzek
for contributions to cooperative wireless communications for tactile internet and 5G networks

Gabor Fodor
for contributions to radio resource management and optimization of cellular networks

Sinan Gezici
for contributions to wireless localization and ultra-wideband systems

Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic
for contributions to millimeter wave wireless communications

Hiroshi Harada
for technical leadership and contributions in wireless smart utility networks and software-defined cognitive radio

Kenichi Higuchi
For contributions to cellular wireless communications technology and standards

Volker Hilt
for leadership in multimedia communication and cloud-based software systems

Jiankun Hu
for contributions to biometrics security and anomaly intrusion detection

Yongming Huang
for contributions to signal processing for mmWave and MIMO wireless communications

C Huntley
for contributions to telecommunication and timing systems in electric power utilities

Zhensheng Jia
for contributions to optical communication systems and broadband access networks

Wolfgang Kellerer
for contributions to software-defined communication networks and cross-layer network design

Younsun Kim
for contributions and leadership in 5G physical layer standardization

Thierry Klein
for contributions to communication and networking technologies in multiple vertical industry sectors

Zan Li
for contributions in theoretical foundations and system development of spectrum monitoring and cognition-based secure communications

Jun Li
for contributions to mobile edge computing and wireless federated learning

Hyesook Lim
for leadership in the field of information and communication technology

Lingjia Liu
for contributions to multi-cell multi-user MIMO and intelligent spectrum access

Jiajia Liu
for contributions to vehicular edge computing and security, wireless mobile network evaluation, and optimization

Mahesh Marina
for contributions to software-oriented mobile networking systems and data-driven networking methods

Amiya Nayak
for contributions to wireless ad hoc networks and cybersecurity

Hien Quoc Ngo
for contributions to cellular and cell-free massive MIMO

Timothy Oshea
for contributions to deep learning for physical layer communications and sensing

Aarno Parssinen
for contributions to direct conversion and digital RF transceivers and hardware-aware communications systems

Philip Rubin
for contributions in speech synthesis and analysis, neuroscience, and ethics of research and technology

Ahmed Sadek
for contributions to the leadership and development of automated driving and cellular in unlicensed spectrum

Luca Sanguinetti
for contributions to signal processing of multi-antenna and multi-cell wireless communications

Abdallah Shami
for contributions to  methods for virtualized networks and optical access design

Min Sheng
for contributions to interference and resource management in space-air-ground networks

Yi Shi
for contributions to wireless network performance optimization and wireless security

Zhiguo Shi
for contributions to array signal processing with applications to UAV surveillance

Byonghyo Shim
for contributions to sparse signal processing and multi-antenna technology

Biplab Sikdar
for contributions to the security and privacy of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems

James Sluss
for contributions to advancing global engineering education through entrepreneurship and professional development

Alexander Sprintson
for contributions to wireless network coding and network security

Rahim Tafazolli
for contributions in wireless communications

Daxin Tian
for contributions to vehicular communications and networking

Nalini Venkatasubramanian
for contributions to the foundations of adaptive software and its application in enhancing community safety

Jiafu Wan
for contributions to resource interconnection and reconfiguration of the internet of manufacturing things

Hung-Yu Wei
for standardization of edge/fog computing and innovation in wireless relay networking technologies

Adam Wierman
for contributions to algorithms and scheduling theory in sustainable computing

Wei-Li Wu
for contributions to study of data communication and processing in wireless sensor networks

Chuan Wu
for contributions to resource scheduling in cloud computing and distributed machine learning systems

Jingxian Wu
for contributions to the modeling and energy efficient design of wireless communication systems

Liang Xiao 
for contributions to learning based wireless security

Chunsheng Xin
for contributions to secure resource sharing and core network control for resilient computing

Hongkai Xiong
for contributions to multi-scale multimedia signal representation, coding and communication

Wei Xu
for contributions to hybrid MIMO transceiver design and distributed optimization for wireless networks

Jie Xu
for contributions to wireless information and power transfer and unmanned aerial vehicle enabled wireless networks

Hao Xu
for leadership in development of radio propagation and MIMO technology  in mobile communications

Fan Ye
for contributions to the development of sensing networks, systems, and applications

Mika Ylianttila
for contributions to mobility management and network security

Alessio Zappone
for contributions to the energy-efficient design of wireless communication networks

Yong Zeng
for contributions to unmanned aerial vehicle communications and wireless power transfer

Yanning Zhang
for contributions in dynamic visual information reconstruction and recognition

Wanlei Zhou
for contributions to cyber security and privacy

Liang Zhou
for contributions to massive multimedia transmission and computing

IEEE Fellows 2024

Congratulations to the Newly Elected 2024 IEEE Fellows

“We are honored to celebrate the newly elevated IEEE Fellows and are proud to have them as esteemed members of our ComSoc community,” said Robert Schober, IEEE Communications Society President. “Identifying qualified candidates whose work significantly influences the industry is a critical undertaking and we’re thankful that our ComSoc Fellows Evaluation Committee, led by Chair Sumei Sun, determined those worthy of this prestigious honor.  A heartfelt congratulations to all the new Fellows.”

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Fifty-seven IEEE Communications Society members were elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for 2024.

Alagan Anpalagan
for contributions to resource management in wireless communication networks

Aggelos Bletsas
for contributions to cooperative relaying and backscatter communication networks

Matthew Caesar
for contributions to computer network verification and routing

Zhipeng Cai
for contributions to resource management and scheduling for high-performance computing

Ke-Horng Chen
for contributions to power management integrated circuits and system design

Yu Cheng
for contributions to secure wireless networks

Kaushik Chowdhury
for contributions to development of cognitive radio networks and applied machine learning for wireless systems

Subhrakanti Dey
for contributions to networked control systems and performance optimization over wireless and sensor networks

Min Dong
for contributions to transmission design and resource optimization for wireless communications

Gregory Durgin
for contributions to the theory of fading in multi-antenna RFID systems

Matthew Ettus
for contributions to software-defined radio products

Yue Gao
for contributions to sparse signal processing and smart antennas in cognitive radio and networks

Ana Garcia Armada
for contributions to wireless communications transceivers

Reza Ghanadan
for leadership in robust artificial intelligence technologies and applications

Warren Gross
for contributions to the design of algorithms and integrated circuit architectures for communication systems

Tao Gu
for contributions to mobile and wireless sensing systems

Guan Gui
for contributions to intelligent signal analysis and wireless resource optimization

Deukhyoun Heo
for contributions to CMOS power amplifiers in multi-layer packages and reconfigurable reactive components

Choong Seon Hong
for contributions to resource management in wireless networks

Jakob Hoydis
for contributions to the use of machine learning in communication systems

Chunxiao Jiang
for contributions to heterogeneous space-air-ground networks

Shi Jin
for contributions to MIMO and reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted communications

Josep Miquel Jornet
for contributions in terahertz communication and nanonetworking

Zaher Kassas
for contributions to navigation with signals of opportunity

Joerg Kliewer
for contributions to theory and applications of iteratively decodable error correcting codes and network coding

Raymond Knopp
for contributions to multiuser diversity and open radio access networks

Sastry Kompella
for leadership in advancing dynamic spectrum access and wireless communications

Matti Latva-aho
for contributions to mobile communication systems

Long Le
for contributions to resource management and optimization of wireless networks

Hongwei Li
for contributions to data security in cloud computing

Jie Li
for contributions to performance and management of network systems

Ming Li
for contributions to information and network security

Pan Li
for contributions to scaling laws and cross-layer optimization for wireless networks

Qinghua Li
for contributions to standardization of wireless channel probing and modeling technologies

Hang Liu
for contributions to the development and standardization of wireless mesh networking and video streaming technologies

Yuanwei Liu
for contributions to non-orthogonal multiple access technologies and wireless power transfer

Jun Luo
for contributions to wireless networking and sensing using Internet-of-Things

Jochen Maes
for contributions to crosstalk cancellation technologies for twisted pair access

Christos Masouros
for contributions to interference exploitation and joint sensing and communications

Max Muhlhauser
for contributions to distributed software engineering

Wei Ni
for contributions to resource allocation and cooperation in unmanned aerial vehicle networks

Mathini Sellathurai
for contributions to multi-user, multi-functional and multi-antenna wireless communications

Ho-Jin Song
for contributions to wireless terahertz technology

Kim Fung Tsang
for contributions to systems safety engineering

Alberto Valdes-Garcia
for contributions to millimeter-wave circuits and systems for communications

Beibei Wang
for contributions to wireless sensing and cognitive communications

Chao-Kai Wen
for contributions to deep learning technology for wireless systems

Qihui Wu
for contributions to cognitive radio networks

Henk Wymeersch
for contributions to radio localization and sensing

Bin Xiao
for contributions to wireless and system security

Jing Xiao
for contributions to the multiple modality knowledge mining technologies

Ke Xu
for contributions to optimal traffic management and network security

Zheng Yan
for contributions to trust management in communications and networking

Yifei Yuan
for contributions to non-orthogonal multiple access and narrow-band Internet-of-Things technology and standardization

Honggang Zhang
for contributions to intelligent wireless communications and networks

Lian Zhao
for contributions to modeling, performance analysis, and resource management of wireless networks

Sheng Zhong
for contributions to incentive-compatible and privacy-preserving mechanisms in distributed systems

IEEE Fellows 2023

Congratulations to the Newly Elected 2023 IEEE Fellows

"The ComSoc Board of Governors congratulates our newly elevated IEEE Fellows," said Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, IEEE Communications Society President. "Each year, our ComSoc Fellows Evaluation Committee, led this year by Chairwoman Sumei Sun, reviews qualified candidates and selects those whose contributions to communications engineering deliver industry-wide impact. We are honored to have the new class of Fellows as an esteemed and distinguished group of contributors within our ComSoc community. Congratulations to all!"

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Sixty-three IEEE Communications Society members elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for 2023.

Kemal Akkaya
for contributions to routing and topology management in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

Joao Barros
for contributions to physical-layer security and vehicular networking

Ertugrul Basar
for contributions to physical-layer design for next-generation wireless networks

Raymond Beausoleil
for contributions to classical and quantum communication and computation

Maite Brandt-Pearce
for contributions to optical wireless and fiber communications

Constantine Caramanis
for contributions to robust statistics and optimization in high dimensions

Tsung-Hui Chang
for contributions to distributed optimization methods and their applications in signal processing and wireless communications

Symeon Chatzinotas
for contributions to precoding technologies for multiple antennas

Guihai Chen
for contributions to large-scale distributed network architecture

Julian Cheng
for contributions to mathematical modeling of wireless systems and energy-efficient resource management of wireless networks

Jinho Choi
for contributions to multiple access signal processing systems

Jong-Moon Chung
for contributions in consumer wireless communications and networking systems technology

Song Ci
for contributions to reconfigurable electric vehicle batteries

Harpreet Dhillon
for contributions to heterogeneous cellular networks

Roberto Di Pietro
for contributions to the security of distributed systems

Guangjie Han
for contributions to Internet of Underwater Things and Industrial Internet of Things

Wonbin Hong
for contributions to millimeter-wave mobile and base station antennas

Muhammad Imran
for contributions to energy efficient and self-organized wireless systems

Uma Jha
for advancements in multi-standard and multi-function wireless communication system design

Hai Jiang
for contributions to cognitive radio networking and wireless performance analysis

Marios Kountouris
for contributions to optimization and multi-antenna techniques in heterogeneous wireless networks

Bhaskar Krishnamachari
for contributions to algorithms and protocols for wireless networks

Minglu Li
for contributions to wireless sensor and vehicular networks

Christina Lim
for contributions in hybrid fiber-wireless communications technology

Andrew Lord
for contributions to optical networking

Michail Matthaiou
for contributions to fundamental research and practical implementation of massive MIMO

Gerald Matz
for contributions to signal processing for communications in nonstationary environments

Ralf Reiner Mueller
for contributions to the design and analysis of large multiantenna and multiple-access systems

Gabriel Miro Muntean
for contributions in multimedia quality in heterogeneous network environments

Chandra Murthy
for contributions to Bayesian sparse signal recovery and energy harvesting communications

Tze Sing Eugene Ng
for contributions to circuit-switched innovations in datacenter network and scalable methods for Internet delay estimation

Hideki Ochiai
for contributions to power and spectral efficient wireless communication

Ye Ouyang
for leadership in network intelligence and self-organizing cellular networks

Jianping Pan
for contributions to topology control of wireless networks

Yihong Qi
for contributions to over-the-air testing of massive MIMO systems and development of over-the-air measurement systems

Miguel Raul Rodrigues
for contributions to multimodal data processing and foundations of reliable and secure communications

Laurent Schmalen
for contributions to the design of error correction and modulation techniques for optical networks

Ping Shum
for pioneering contributions in optical fiber-based technologies and their diverse applications

Houbing Song
for contributions to big data analytics and integration of AI with Internet of Things

Thomas Stockhammer
for contributions to media delivery and video streaming standards

Changho Suh
for contributions to interference management and distributed storage codes

Smail Tedjini
for contributions to the development of harmonic backscattering RFID systems and chipless tag solutions

Olav Tirkkonen
for contributions in the theory and practice of wireless communications technology and standards

Massimo Tornatore
for contributions to machine-learning and optimization algorithms for resource management in optical networks

Piet Van Mieghem
for contributions to network modeling and quality of service-based routing

Jianping Wang
for contributions to resiliency of complex systems

Qian Wang
for contributions to secure cloud data storage and wireless system security

Xin Wang
for outstanding contributions to wireless localization and dynamic resource allocation in broadband mobile networks

Stefan Werner
for contributions to in-band full-duplex wireless communication systems and selective data-reuse online learning

Tilman Wolf
for contributions to design of network processors and in-network processing services

Kaishun Wu
for contributions to wireless sensing and ubiquitous computing

Kun Yang
for contributions to resource management in wireless networks

Quan Yu
for technical leadership in radio and space-air-ground integrated network technologies

Shui Yu
for contributions to cyber security and privacy

Shucheng Yu
for contributions to information and network security

Haijun Zhang
for contributions to radio-resource management in heterogeneous networks

Yao Zhao
for contributions to image/video analysis and multimedia content protection

Zibin Zheng
for contributions to blockchain reliability engineering

Gang Zhou
for contributions to sensor networks and low-power wireless networks

Xiangyun Zhou
for contributions to physical layer security and wireless powered communications

Yongxing Zhou
for contributions to MIMO Beamforming codebooks and smart spectrum access in wireless networks

Haojin Zhu
for contributions to Vehicular Networks and  Internet-of-Things Security

Zuqing Zhu
for contributions to elastic optical networking and network virtualization

IEEE Fellows 2022

Congratulations to the Newly Elected 2022 IEEE Fellows

On behalf of the ComSoc Board of Governors, it is my great pleasure to congratulate our newly elevated IEEE Fellows," said Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, IEEE Communications Society President. "Their contributions to R&D in telecommunications have incredible impact and should be celebrated by the entire ComSoc community. I also want to extend my thanks to the members of the ComSoc Fellows Evaluation Committee, chaired by Jean Armstrong, for their diligence in evaluating all of the candidates. We are honored to have our new Fellows recognized with this esteemed distinction and grateful for our volunteers who are dedicated to recognizing the best of our community.

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Fifty-six IEEE Communications Society members were among those elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for 2022.

Bo Ai
for contributions to channel modeling and wireless communications in high-speed railways

Arturo Azcorra
for leadership in developing the midhaul and core of 5G networks

Sujata Banerjee
for leadership in programmable and energy efficient networks

Suman Banerjee
for development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems

Emil Bjornson
for contributions to multi-antenna and multi-cell wireless communications

Jinjun Chen
for contributions to scalable architecture for cloud data storage and processing

Minghua Chen
for contributions to delay-critical networked systems

Xiang Cheng
for contributions to vehicular communication channel modeling and system design

Thomas Clancy
for leadership in security and wireless communications

Holger Claussen
for contributions to small cell wireless network technology

Bruno Clerckx
for contributions to multi-antenna communications and wireless power transmission

Sinem Coleri
for contributions to wireless technologies and sensor networks

Andrea Conti
for contributions to wireless communication and localization systems

Mauro Conti
for contributions to communications network security

Linglong Dai
for contributions to massive MIMO

Riccardo Degaudenzi
for leadership in digital communication standards for satellite communications

Trung Q. Duong
for contributions to cooperative communications and physical layer security

Tarek El-Bawab
for contributions to the definition, recognition, accreditation criteria, and program development of modern network-engineering education

Sonia Fahmy
for contributions to design and evaluation of network protocols and sensor networks

Giancarlo Fortino
for contributions to Engineering of IoT-enabled Wearable Computing Systems

Xiaoming Fu
for contributions to resource management in edge computing and networking

Ibrahim Gedeon
for leadership in consumer-oriented applications of broadband communications

Nada Golmie
for contributions to wireless technologies and standards

Albert Guillen I Fabregas
for contributions to the analysis and design of wireless communication systems

Deniz Gunduz
for contributions to the foundations of source-channel coding, cooperative and cache-aided communications

Chuanxiong Guo
for contributions to design of data center networking

Steve Hranilovic
for contributions to optical wireless communication systems

Yusheng Ji
for contributions to distributed computing in mobile and dynamic systems

Admela Jukan
for contributions to optical communications and networking

Kang-Won Lee
for contribution to development of SDN and virtualization technologies for 5G wireless networks

Amir Leshem
for contributions to multi-channel and multi-agent signal processing

Keqiu Li
for contributions to resource-efficient and QoS-oriented cloud computing

Sudip Misra
for contributions to intelligent sensing in constrained IoT environments

Moriyasu Miyazaki
for leadership in developments of airborne active-phased-array radars and satellite communication microwave subsystems

Apurva Mody
for leadership in cognitive dynamic spectrum sharing and standards

Webert Montlouis
for leadership in the development of radar systems

Yoshihiro Ohba
for contributions to standardization of network security protocols

Adrian Perrig
for contributions to network and system security

Kumar Sivarajan
for leadership in optical networking

Kiyohisa Terai
for contribution to optical fiber sensors and electrical discharge applications

Elif Uysal
for pioneering contributions to energy-efficient and low latency communications

Mikko Valkama
for contributions to physical layer signal processing in radio systems

Daniel Van Der Weide
for contributions to ultrafast terahertz electronics and biomedical applications of microwave technologies

Peter Vetter
for leadership in broadband access technologies in advanced passive optical networks

Sriram Vishwantath
for contributions to information theory and coding for wireless communication systems

Guiling Wang
for contributions to distributed algorithm design for sensor networks and vehicular networks

Ping Wang
for contributions to radio resource allocation and performance modeling of heterogeneous wireless networks

Zheng Yang
for contributions to wireless localization and sensing

Lei Ying
for contributions to resource allocation in cloud computing systems and wireless networks

Mohamed Younis
for contributions to protocols, architecture, and analysis of multihop wireless networks

Jiguo Yu
for contributions to data storage and processing in cloud and social environments

Jun Zhang
for contributions to dense wireless networks

Zhangdui Zhong
for contributions to theory, technology and development of mobile communications for railways

Anding Zhu
for contributions to behavioral modeling and digital predistortion of RF power amplifiers

Jiang Zhu
for contributions to antenna design for wireless communications

Gil Zussman
for contributions to the design of wireless network systems

IEEE Fellows 2021

Congratulations to the Newly Elected 2021 IEEE Fellows

"On behalf of the ComSoc Board of Governors, it is my pleasure to congratulate our newly elevated ComSoc Fellows," said Vincent Chan, IEEE Communications Society President. "Their contributions to our industry have incredible impact and should be celebrated by the entire ComSoc community. I also want to extend my thanks to the ComSoc Fellows Evaluation Committee, chaired by Steve Alexander, for their hard work in evaluating all of the candidates. We're honored to have our new Fellows recognized with this esteemed distinction and grateful for our volunteers who are dedicated to recognizing the best of our community."

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Forty-five IEEE Communications Society members were among those elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for 2021.

Ahmed Ali
for leadership in high-speed analog-to-digital converter design and calibration

Mehdi Bennis
for contributions to resource optimization in heterogeneous and low-latency wireless networks

Danijela Cabric
for contributions to theory and practice of spectrum sensing and cognitive radio systems

Chan-Byoung Chae
for contributions to MIMO design and prototypes for emerging communication systems

Min Chen
for contributions to data-driven communication, caching, and computing

Filip De Turck
for contributions to network resource management and adaptive service delivery

Jaafar Elmirghani
for contributions to energy-efficient communications

Haris Gacanin
for development of operations and management systems for home broadband networks

Matthias Grossglauser
for contributions to the modeling and analysis of network traffic and data

Dongning Guo
for contributions to multi-user detection and estimation theory

Ismail Guvenc
for contributions to heterogeneous wireless networks and wireless localization

Kaibin Huang
for contributions to wirelessly powered communications and multi-antenna communications

Chih-Lin I
for leadership in wireless mobile networks

Tara Javidi
for contributions to stochastic resource allocation and active hypothesis testing

Byoung-Hoon Kim
for contributions to development and standardization of mobile communication technologies

Laurent Larger
for contributions to optoelectronic delay oscillators and neuromorphic processing applications

Francis Lau
for contributions to analysis of chaotic communications systems and low-density parity-check code design

Wonjun Lee
for contributions to multiple access and resource allocation in wireless networks

Jiandong Li
for leadership in heterogeneous self-organizing wireless networks

Rongxing Lu
for contributions to security and privacy in vehicular communications

Huadong Ma
for contributions to multimedia sensor networks

Athina Markopoulou
for contributions to network coding systems and network measurement

David Matolak
for contributions to wireless channel modeling and applications

Matthew Mckay
for contributions to random matrix theory in statistical signal processing

Marco Mellia
for contributions to Internet traffic analysis

Wing Kwan Ng
for contributions to resource allocation for wireless communication networks

Ai-Chun Pang
for contributions to resource management and service provisioning for mobile edge networks

Gurudatta Parulkar
for contributions to improving the architecture of the internet and software defined networking

Chiara Petrioli
for contributions to wireless and underwater networks

Dario Pompili
for contributions to underwater acoustic communication networks

Eve Schooler
for contributions to multimedia protocols and internet standards

Hyundong Shin
for contributions to the analysis and design of wireless communication and networking

Erik Strom
for contributions to reliable low latency communications and synchronization of code-division systems

Stephan Ten Brink
for contributions to iterative detection and decoding

My Thai
for contributions to modeling, design, and optimization of networked systems

Edward Tiedemann
for innovation and standardization of digital cellular communications

Daniela Tuninetti
for contributions to theory of repetition protocols and wireless interference management

Jaideep Vaidya
for contributions to privacy protection in data analytics and access control management

Rath Vannithamby
for contributions to resource allocation for cellular and internet of things technologies

Cong Wang
for contributions to security of cloud storage and computation

Zhaocheng Wang
for contributions to pilot design and modulation of OFDM wireless systems

Honggang Wang
for contributions to low power wireless for IoT and multimedia applications

Dong Xuan
for contributions to connected coverage in wireless networks

Chau Yuen
for contributions to energy efficient wireless communications

Hongke Zhang
for contributions to high-speed railway communications

Gan Zheng
for contributions to optimization and design of multiuser multi-antenna communications

IEEE Fellows 2020

Congratulations to the Newly Elected 2020 IEEE Fellows

"On behalf of the IEEE Communications Society, it gives me great pleasure to extend my warmest congratulations to our newly elected fellows," ComSoc President Khaled B. Letaief said. "They now join a truly distinguished roster of colleagues. I would like to thank our ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee for the time and work they put into the evaluation process. A special thanks goes to Robert Schober, the Chair of ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee, for his leadership and contributions."

Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.

Sixty IEEE Communications Society members were among those elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for 2020.

Chadi Assi
for contributions to resource allocation for optical and wireless networks

Amir Avestimehr
for contributions to the analysis of communication and computation over wireless networks

Hari Balakrishnan
for contributions to the design and application of mobile sensing

Lin Cai
for contributions to topology control of wireless networks

Ranveer Chandra
for contributions to software-defined wireless networking technologies

Shanzhi Chen
for leadership in standardization of wireless mobile systems

Yingying Chen
for contributions to mobile computing and mobile security

Chong-Yung Chi
for contributions to convex analysis and optimization for blind source separation

Sen-Ching Cheung
for contributions to multimedia data processing and their applications in autism interventions

Wan Choi
for contributions to the analysis and design of multi-cell communication systems

Zhiguo Ding
for contributions to non-orthogonal multiple access and energy harvesting communication

Marco Di Renzo
for contributions to spatial modulation and to performance evaluation of wireless networks

Octavia Dobre
for contributions to the theory and practice of signal intelligence and emerging wireless technologies

Xiaojiang Du
for contributions to wireless security

Ashutosh Dutta
for leadership in mobility management and security monitoring in mobile networks

Touradj Ebrahimi
for contributions to visual information representation and assessment of quality of experience in multimedia

Feifei Gao
for contributions to channel estimation and signal processing for wireless communications

Song Guo
for contributions to high performance and resilient distributed computing

Markus Hofmann
for leadership in development of content distribution networks

Daesik Hong
for contributions to wireless and cellular communication technologies

Rose Hu
for contributions to design and analysis of mobile wireless communications systems

Victor Huang
for leadership in the development of microprocessors in mobility products

Weijia Jia
for contributions to optimal network routing and deployment

Masahiko Jinno
for contributions to elastic optical networks and C- and L-band transmission systems

Eduard Jorswieck
for contributions to resource allocation in wireless interference networks

Markku Juntti
for contributions to multiuser and multiantenna communications

Thomas Kuerner
for contributions to terahertz data communication

Mo Li
for development of wireless and networked sensing systems

Gong-Ru Lin
for contributions to ultrafast fiber lasers and highspeed laser diodes for optical communications

Xue Liu
for contributions to power and performance management of data centers and networked servers

Amir-Hamed Mohsenian-Rad
for contributions to optimal resource management in wireless networks and the smart grid

Guido Montorsi
for contributions to error-correcting codes and iterative decoding

Yasamin Mostofi
for contributions to control and communications co-optimization in mobile sensor networks

Moshe Nazarathy
for contributions to optical systems and analog fiber-optic transmission

Panagiotis Papadimitratos
for contributions to wireless mobile network security and privacy

Mugen Peng
for contributions to radio resource management of wireless networks

Ana Perez-Neira
for contributions to signal processing for satellite communications and systems

Dennis Prather
for contributions to diffractive optical systems

Joel Rodrigues
for contributions to Internet of Things and vehicular communications

Alex Snoeren
for contributions to management and security of networked systems

Dimitra Simeonidou
for contributions to optical networking systems and applications

Karthikeyan Sundaresan
for contributions to algorithms for mobile computing

Shahrokh Valaee
for contributions to localization of wireless nodes

Malathi Veeraraghavan
for contributions to control-plane architectures, signal protocols and hybrid networks

Aaron Wagner
for contributions to distributed data compression

Haining Wang
for contributions to network and cloud security

Yonggang Wen
for contributions to cloud systems for multimedia signal processing and communications

Richard Wesel
for contributions to channel coding and reliable communication

Joerg Widmer
for contributions to wireless networking and millimeter-wave communications

Hongyi Wu
for contributions to resilient mobile computing systems

Pengfei Xia
for contributions to multi-input multi-output millimeter wave wireless communications

Yang Xiang
for contributions to network and system security

Yang Xiao
for contributions to wireless medium access control

Jiang Xie
for contributions to mobility and resource management of wireless networks

Guoliang Xing
for contributions to sensor networks and low-power wireless networks

Laurence Tianruo Yang
for contributions to modeling and design for cyber-physical-social systems

Jianjun Yu
for contributions to high-performance optical fiber communication systems

Yonghong Zeng
for contributions to spectrum sensing and medium access control in cognitive radio

Yingjun Zhang
for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless communications

Yan Zhang
for contributions to resource management in wireless networks