IEEE Fellow Research Articles

IEEE Fellow Elevation for ComSoc Members

IEEE Fellow Elevation for ComSoc Members

The Pransky interview: Dr Ken Goldberg, Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley; Inventor and Artist

Purpose The following article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business, and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry PhD and inventor regarding his pioneering efforts and the commercialization of bringing a technological invention to market. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Dr Ken Goldberg, an inventor working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media. He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1995 where he is the UC Berkeley William S. Floyd Jr Distinguished Chair in Engineering and recently served as Chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. He has secondary appointments in UC Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Art Practice and the School of Information. Goldberg also holds an appointment at the UC San Francisco Medical School’s Department of Radiation Oncology where he pursues research in medical robotics. Goldberg is Director of the CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative and the UC Berkeley’s Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering (AUTOLAB) where he and his students research machine learning for robotics and automation in warehouses, homes, and operating rooms. In this interview, Goldberg shares some of his personal and business perspectives from his career-long pursuit of making robots less clumsy. Findings Goldberg earned dual BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990. Goldberg also studied at Edinburgh University and the Technion. From 1991-95 he taught at the University of Southern California, and in fall 2000, he was visiting faculty at the MIT Media Lab. Goldberg and his students pursue research in three primary areas: Geometric Algorithms for Automation, Cloud Robotics, and Robot Learning. Originality/value Goldberg developed the first complete algorithms for part feeding and part fixturing, and developed the first robot on the Internet. His inventions have been awarded nine US Patents. Goldberg has published over 250 peer-reviewed technical papers and edited four books. He co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He is also Co-Founder of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the African Robotics Network (AFRON), the Center for Automation and Learning for Medical Robotics (CAL-MR), the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative (DDI), Hybrid Wisdom Labs, and Moxie Institute. He has presented over four hundred keynote and invited lectures. Goldberg's artwork, closely linked with his research, has appeared in over seventy venues. Ken was awarded the Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995 by Bill Clinton, the Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award in 2000, elected IEEE Fellow in 2005, and selected by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the George Saridis Leadership Award in 2016.

IEEE Fellows: Congratulations to the Class of 2019 [Awards

IEEE Fellows: Congratulations to the Class of 2019 [Awards

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Members Elevated to IEEE Fellows [Society News

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Members Elevated to IEEE Fellows [Society News

Congratulations!: SPS Members and Affiliates Elected IEEE Fellow Class 2019

Congratulations!: SPS Members and Affiliates Elected IEEE Fellow Class 2019

Congratulations to Newly Elevated to IEEE Fellows [Society News

Congratulations to Newly Elevated to IEEE Fellows [Society News

Timos Sellis Speaks Out on Research in Australia and Greece

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are in Snowbird, Utah, USA, site of the 2014 SIGMOD and PODS conference. I have here with me Timos Sellis, who is a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology1. Before that, he was at the National Technical University of Athens and the University of Maryland. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow, and he has a VLDB 10-Year Paper Award. His PhD is from Berkeley.

Fellow nominations for the class of 2021 are due March 1, 2020

As the says on this link below: IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Fellow nominees must be a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Ronald R. Yager, 2018 Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award Winner: A Pioneering Figure of the Fuzzy Set and Intelligent System Community

In 2018, IEEE Fellow Prof. Ronald R. Yager (Figure 1) was awarded the 2018 Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) his fundamental contributions to the theory of fuzzy sets, human behavioral modeling, multicriteria aggregation, decision-making under uncertainty, and the fusion of information. This award was established courtesy of generous donations from Norm Zadeh (son of the late Prof. Lotfi Zadeh) and the SMCS and is granted to exceptional researchers for outstanding and innovative contributions to academic and/or industrial research in systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and/or cybernetics. This is great news for all of us who have had the chance to work and interact with Prof. Yager as well as the entire Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, since he has been a longtime member of the SMC community and a frequent contributor to Society publications and conferences for many years.

New IEEE Fellows [Recognitions

New IEEE Fellows [Recognitions

Corrections to “Capturing Drivers’ Lane Changing Behaviors on Operational Level by Data Driven Methods” [2018 57497-57506

In the above paper [1] , for author biography, Dr. Ronghui Zhang and Dr. Haiwei Wang are not IEEE member and not IEEE Fellow.

Congratulations to the 16 SSCS Members Elevated to IEEE Fellow [Society News

Presents a list of SSCS members who were elevated to the status of IEEE Fellow.

2018 IEEE Fellow Awards from the Antennas and Propagation Society

2018 IEEE Fellow Awards from the Antennas and Propagation Society

Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations - Class of 2020 [Society News

Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations - Class of 2020 [Society News

The Pransky interview: Professor Robin R. Murphy, Co-founder of the Field of Disaster Robotics and Founder of Roboticists Without Borders

Purpose This paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned successful innovator and leader regarding the challenges of bringing technological discoveries to fruition. This paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Dr Robin R. Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University; Co-lead, Emergency Informatics EDGE Innovation Network Center, Texas A&M, Director of the Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory and Vice President of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) http://crasar.org. In this interview, Dr Murphy provides answers to questions regarding her pioneering experiences in rescue robotics. Findings As a child, Dr Murphy knew she wanted to be a mechanical engineer and obtained her BME degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). While working in industry after her BME, she fell in love with computer science and received an MS and PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech where she was a Rockwell International Doctoral Fellow. In the mid-1990s, while teaching at the Colorado School of Mines, she pioneered rescue robots after one of her graduate students returned from the Oklahoma City bombing and suggested that small rescue robots should be developed for future disasters. The National Science Foundation awarded Murphy and her students the first grant for search-and-rescue robots. She has since assisted in responses at more than 20 worldwide disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse, the Tohoku Tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Originality/value The response to the World Trade Center attacks after September 11, 2001 by Dr Murphy’s team from the University of South Florida (the only academic institution), along with four other teams brought together by CRASAR, marked the first recorded use of a rescue robot at a disaster site. In addition to being a founder in the field of rescue robots, she is also a founder in the field of human–robot interaction and the Roboticists Without Borders. She has written over 100 publications and three books: the best-selling textbook, Introduction to AI Robotics, Disaster Robotics and Robotics-Through-Science-Fiction: Artificial Intelligence Explained Six Classic Robot Short Stories. Dr Murphy has received approximately 20 national awards and honors including: the AUVSI’s Al Aube Outstanding Contributor Award, the Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics, CMU Field Robotics Institute “Pioneer in Field Robotics” and TIME Magazine, Innovators in Artificial Intelligence. She is an IEEE Fellow.

The Breadth of MTT [From the Editor's Desk

The theme of this issue is "The Breadth of MTT," and, in keeping with the MTT-S field of interest statement, the aim is to introduce you to details of technologies with which you may not be familiar. In addition to six feature articles, we also have many of our regular columns in this issue, as well as an introduction to the new cohort of MTT-S members recently elevated to IEEE Fellow (and who will be recognized during the plenary session at IMS2018). There are four technical features, along with two articles describing winning entries for the IMS2017 Student Design Competitions, which are briefly summarized here.

2018 IEEE Fellows Elevation and Recognition

This year, 11 honorees were awarded the status of Fellow of the IEEE, with the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) as the evaluating Society. Another ten new Fellows are members of the MTT-S but were awarded the level of Fellow by other Societies or Councils.

IEEE Fellow Yahia Antar Speaks at Al Ain University of Science and Technology, UAE [Around the Globe

The College of Engineering at Al Ain University of Science and Technology (AAU), in conjunction with the IEEE United Arab Emirates (UAE) Section, IEEE UAE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)/IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IM-S) Joint Chapter, and the IEEE AAU Student Branch, organized a technical talk at the Abu Dhabi campus (Mohammed Bin Zayed City).

Society Members Named to IEEE Fellow Grade

Society Members Named to IEEE Fellow Grade

Interview with Andy van Dam

Andries van Dam, is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has been a member of Brown's faculty since 1965, was a co-founder of Brown's Computer Science Department and its first Chairman from 1979 to 1985, and was also Brown's first Vice President for Research from 2002--2006. His research includes work on computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP and natural user interfaces (NUI), including pen- and touch-computing, and educational software. He has been involved for five decades with systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research. In 1967 Prof. van Dam co-founded ACM SICGRAPH (the precursor of SIGGRAPH) and from 1985 through 1987 was Chairman of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and the IEEE Centennial Medal, and holds honorary doctorates from Darmstadt Technical University, Swarthmore College, the University of Waterloo, and ETH Zurich. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and nine books, including "Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics" and three editions of "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice".