IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award | IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society

To recognize outstanding contribution to or leadership in advancing instrumentation design or measurement technique.

Prize:

$2,000 ($4,000 total for shared awards), Plaque, and travel allowance of up to $1,000 ($2,000 total for shared awards) is granted on a need basis for the recipient(s) to attend the awards ceremony.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Presentation:

Awarded annually at the discretion of the I&M Society Awards Committee at the following year’s I2MTC awards ceremony.

Basis for Judging:

Recognizes an individual or group of individuals for outstanding contributions or leadership in advancing instrumentation design or measurement technique. The nomination must clearly indicate the achievements that define the excellence of the candidate and must reference/provide relevant documentation that is in/or not in/ the public domain. At least 2, but no more than 4, endorsements must be provided by individuals with close knowledge of a candidate’s activities that led to the achievements cited.

Eligibility:

Open to all, either individuals or groups. Must be a member of IEEE and the Instrumentation and Measurement Society at the time of nomination and presentation. Voting members of the Society Standing Awards Committee are not eligible. Nominees must exhibit actions that reflect positively on and enhance the reputation of the I&M Society. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4. on Awards Limitations (https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/ieee-policies.pdf). Previous award winners are not eligible.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: August 15

Note Regarding Endorsements: In addition to the Nominator’s letter, at least one, but no more than three support letters may be submitted.

Nomination Form:

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Recipients

2023

Shervin Shirmohammadi

Biography

Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and after spending 3 years in the industry as a senior architect and project manager, joined as Assistant Professor the same University, where since 2012 he has been a Full Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the Discover Laboratory, doing research in machine learning-assisted measurements, especially vision-based measurement, IoT measurements, and multimedia and network measurements. The results of his research, funded by more than $28 million from public and private sectors, have led to over 400 publications, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, 30+ patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and four Best Paper awards. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement from 2017 to 2021, the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine in 2014 and 2015, and is currently on the latter’s editorial board.

He has been an IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) AdCom member since 2014, currently serves as its Executive Vice President, and was a member of the IEEE I 2 MTC Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements”, and recipient of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, the 2021 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award, and the 2023 IEEE IMS Technical Award “for contributions to the advancement of machine learning-assisted measurements”.

Affiliation(s)

University of Ottawa

Canada

For contributions to the advancement of machine learning-assisted measurements.

2022

Olfa Kanoun

Biography

Olfa Kanoun is professor for measurement and sensor technology since 2007 at TU Chemnitz, Germany. She graduated in electrical engineering at the Technische Universität München from in 1996, where she specialized in the field of electronics. Her PhD at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich was awarded in 2001 by the Commission of Professors in Metrology (AHMT e. V.) in Germany.

In 2015 she was awarded by the Tunisian ministry of social affairs for her scientific excellence and outstanding achievements.In her research she focuses on sensors, measurement systems and measurement methods. Since 2001 she is developing new sensors and measurement solutions based on impedance spectroscopy in the fields of battery diagnosis, bio-impedance spectroscopy, inductive sensors, capacitive sensors, conductivity sensors and material testing. She has a deep expertize in the field of energy harvesting and energy transmission and develops since many years successfully flexible nanocomposite sensors for force, temperature and humidity measurements.

As senior IEEE member, she volunteers for the Instrumentation and Measurement Society and for IEEE. In 2004 she founded an IEEE IM Chapter and in 2014 she initiated a student branch at TU Chemnitz. She serves as co-chair of the Technical Committee on nanotechnology in instrumentation and measurement (TC 34). In 2001 she was co-founder of the international multi-conference on systems, signals and devices (SSD) and in 2008 she initiated the annual International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy (IWIS).

She is author or co-author of 7 books, 52 papers in international journals with peer review, 110 papers in proceedings of international conferences and 6 journal special issues. She is member of the editorial board of Technisches Messen (De Gruyter) and associate editor of the journal on Digital Signals and Smart Systems (IJDSSS, Inderscience) Nanotechnology Council Rep (2017-2018); TC-34 Member

Affiliation(s)

Chemnitz University of Technology

Germany

For pioneering the evolution of impedance spectroscopy from laboratory scale to field sensors.

2021

Leopoldo Angrisani

Biography

Leopoldo Angrisani received the M.S. degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy.

He is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements with the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II.

He is General Manager/Director of CeSMA – Center of Advanced Measurement Services of the University of Napoli Federico II.

He is member of the Board of the Ph.D. Program on Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II.

His research activity is currently focused on communication systems and networks test and measurement, compressive sampling based measurements, measurements for Internet of Things applications, measurements for Industry 4.0.

He was and is being involved in many industrial research projects, in cooperation with small, medium and great enterprises, of which he plays the role of scientific coordinator with a total economic value of more than 10M€.

He is Senior Member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement and Communications Societies, Chair of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Italy Chapter, General Chairman of the first (M&N2011), second (M&N2013), third (M&N2015) and fourth edition (M&N2017) of the IEEE International Workshop on Measurements and Networking, and was one of the co-founders of the TC-37 “Measurements and Networking” technical committee of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

He is the Italian Representative in the IEC Validation Team-VT 60050 for maintenance and management of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary and member of the Italian Association “GMEE-Electrical and Electronic Measurements Group”, of CNIT, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, of the Technical Committee CT 1/25 “Terminology, Quantities and Units” of CEI (Italian Electrotechnical Committee), of the Administrative Committee of Me.S.E., National Inter-University Research Consortium on Metrics and Measurement Technology on Electrical Systems.

In 2009, he was awarded the IET Communications Premium for the paper entitled “Performance measurement of IEEE 802.11b-based networks affected by narrowband interference through cross-layer measurements” (published in IET Communications, vol. 2, No. 1, January 2008).

In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious recognition "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Outstanding Reviewer".

He is the author or co-author of more than 270 scientific articles, one-third of which published in relevant international journals.

Affiliation(s)

University of Napoli Federico II

Italy

For contributions in the advancement of innovative methods and techniques for communication systems test and measurement.

2020

Sam Benz

For outstanding contributions to the use of Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) as a reference standard for the measurement of harmonics in distorted waveforms.

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

For outstanding contributions to the use of Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) as a reference standard for the measurement of harmonics in distorted waveforms.

Ilya Budovsky

For outstanding contributions to the use of Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) as a reference standard for the measurement of harmonics in distorted waveforms.

2019

Ruqiang Yan

For significant contributions to energy efficient sensing and advanced data analytics.

2018

Tuan Guo

For outstanding contributions to the Advancement of Energy and Health monitoring technologies.

2017

Julian Gardner

For outstanding contribution to the field of chemical sensing over a period of 25 years. Dr. Gardner is a pioneer in the measurement of gases and odors using electronic based instrumentation. He has designed and developed novel electronic nose instrumentation, which has been employed to measure complex smells from food production to disease detection.

2016

Darine Haddad

For technical leadership in constructing the NIST watt balance and leading a measurement campaign to determine Planck’s constant to 34 parts in 1,000,000,000. In the record time of 5 years, Dr. Haddad assembled an apparatus that can realize the unit of mass in the redefined system of units.

2015

Paolo Carbone

For outstanding contributions to the advancement of the state-of-the-art in the quantization of signals in digital instrumentation.

2014

George Xiao

For outstanding contributions to the advancement and implementation of safety and security monitoring instrumentation and measurement technologies.

2013

Robert X. Gao

Biography

Robert Gao is the Cady Staley Professor of Engineering and Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at Case Western Reserve University. He previously served as Pratt & Whitney Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1991, he has been working in the areas of physics-based sensing methods, smart structures and materials, energy harvesting, multi-resolution signal analysis, wireless communication, and energy-efficient sensor networks. He has published two authored and edited books and over 290 scientific papers in archival journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, graduated over 30 Ph.D. and M.S. students, and holds 4 patents. He is a recipient of multiple awards, including the Technical Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2013), Outstanding Associated Editor Award from the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2012), Best Paper Award from the International Symposium on Flexible Automation (2012), etc. Professor Gaois currently an Associate Editor for the IFAC Journal of Mechatronics and ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. He was an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ASME, an elected Associated Member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), and an electedMember of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Distinguished Lecturer (May, 2014 thru 12/31/2017)|| TIM Associate Editor (2007-2008, 2011-2013)|| TC Chair

Affiliation(s)

Case Western Reserve University

For significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in electrical capacitance tomography instrument design.

2012

Paolo Ferrari

Biography

Paolo Ferrari got the Master degree with honors in Electronics in 1999, and the PhD in Electronic Instrumentation at the University of Brescia in 2003. Since 2004, he works at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Brescia as an Assistant Professor in the field of Electric and Electronic Instrumentation and Measurements.

The research areas are: signal processing of sensor output; performance measurement and optimization of industrial communication networks, time synchronization of distributed networks. The research activity includes field bus systems, Real Time Ethernet networks, wireless networks for sensors and controls, software defined radio, sensor networking, smart sensor, and the development of measurement methods and tools. Special attention has been paid to the time synchronization through Ethernet (or wireless) for industrial and civil applications. The contribution to the development of instruments for evaluating the performance of the transmission systems of measurement information in the industrial sector is noticeable. Currently, he is involved in the national research project PRIN 2009: Next-generation of hybrid networks for measurement and industrial automation - Wired / wireless performance characterization and measurement.

During the period from 2004 to 2012 he held various positions within the technical committees of national and international regulations, including CEI (Italian Electrotechnical Committee) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) in the field of industrial communications, fieldbuses and wireless sensors.

He served in the Program Committee of several international conferences, including ETFA, ISPCS, SAS and I2MTC, all of them organized by the IEEE. He is regular reviewer of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Communications Letters, Elsevier Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, Elsevier Mechatronics Journal.

He is responsible for several “applied research” contracts between the Department and companies or consortia in the field of Real-time networks and sensor networks for industry. Since 2004, he manages the activities of the "PROFIBUS and PROFINET Competence Center" accredited with the PROFIBUS International Association.

Since 2002 he was supervisor of more than 50 thesis works. Currently, he is the author of more than 80 international papers (scientific journals and conference proceedings).

Affiliation(s)

University of Brescia

For contributions to the analysis and experimental evaluation of clock synchronization in real-time applications for industry.

2011

Dan Apetrei

For leadership in implementation of novel measurement solutions in power distribution systems.

2010

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Biography

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is University Research Chair and Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa and recipient of the Professional of the Year Award (2008), the Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007) the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004), and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) New Professorship Incentive Award (2004). He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab). He was a Theme co-Leader in the LORNET NSERC Research Network and Director of the Information Technology Cluster, Ontario Research Network on Electronic Commerce (http://www.ornec-ict.uottawa.ca/). He is Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (IEEE TCIAIG) and Guest Editor for several IEEE Transactions and Journals. Dr. El Saddik has been serving on several technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events. He has been the General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 25 international conferences symposia and workshops on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications and instrumentation and measurement. He was the general co-chair of ACM MM 2008. He is leading researcher in haptics, service-oriented architectures, collaborative environments and ambient interactive media and communications. He has authored and co-authored two books and more than 250 publications. He has received research grants and contracts totaling more than $14 million and has supervised more than 90 researchers. His research has been selected for the BEST Paper Award three times. Dr. El Saddik is a Senior Member of ACM, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of tghe Engineering Institute of Canada, and Fellow of IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Ottawa

For outstanding contributions to multimedia computing.

2009

Jacques L. Willems

For outstanding contributions to the analysis of electric power systems under nonsinusoidal conditions.

2008

Thomas Linnenbrink

For leadership of the Society's TC-10 Waveform Generation, Measurement, and Analysis which runs five sub-committees and is active in developing or promoting five major IEEE standards.

2007

John C. Eidson

For outstanding leadership in developing the IEEE 1588 Standard for Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems.

2006

Mel Siegel

Biography

Mel did his undergraduate work at Cornell University and his graduate work, leading to the PhD under Nobel Laureate John L. Hall at the University of Colorado - Boulder. He is currently a faculty member in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the founding director of the Sensors, Measurement, and Control Lab. His previous employment includes service in the US Peace Corps teaching physics and mathematics in Ghana, a post-doc at the University of Virginia, a professorship at the State University of New York - Buffalo, and an eight-year foray into industry with the specialty mass spectrometer system manufacturer Extrel, where he directed research, development, and applications. At the Robotics Institute he and his students and colleagues conduct research at all levels of sensor and measurement science, from devices to instruments to systems to advanced sensor fusion software. His interest in the human-machine interaction aspect of robotics led also to substantial contributions to the field of three dimensional display systems, including innovations for which several patents have been issued. At the robotics theory level, Mel has recently been studying energy and communication scaling issues, focusing especially on systems made up of very large numbers of very small sensor-carrying robots. In addition to teaching courses in Sensing and Sensors regularly and Electromechanical Systems occasionally, Mel runs a professional masters degree program – Master of Science in Information Technology / Robotics Technology – with a distance education component that is part of Carnegie Mellon’s internationalization effort. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

Carnegie Mellon University

For dedicated service to the I&M Society as Treasurer and for leadership as Co-Chair of TC-22, TC-27, TC-28 and TC-30.

2005

Kang Lee

For dedicated contributions and services to the Society as Chair of the TC-9 and developer of mini-transducer specifications.

2004

Yves Rolain

For contributions to non-linear circuit technology.

2003

Emil Petriu

Biography

Emil M. Petriu, P.Eng. F'IEEE, F'CAE, F'EIC is a Professor and University Research Chair in the School of Information Technology (SITE), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
He received his Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania, in 1978. In 1979, he held a UNESCO postdoctoral scholarship in the Department of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Since 1985, Dr. Petriu has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and then SITE, University of Ottawa, and has served as Chairman of the former from 1995 to 1997 and as Director of SITE from 1998 to 2001.
On half year sabbatical leaves, he was visiting researcher at the Canadian Space Agency (1992), visiting professor at the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan (1994), visiting researcher at the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa (2002), visiting professor at the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing, Graz University of Technology, Austria (2003), and visiting researcher at the Larus Technologies, Ottawa (2006),
Dr. Petriu has published 90 refereed journal papers, 10 book chapters, 220 papers in refereed conference proceedings, authored two books, edited two books, and received two patents.
He has supervised 72 graduate students (25 PhD, 47 Master’s), 5 post-doctoral fellows and 18 research engineers.
Dr. Petriu served as a member of the Administrative Committee (1996-2005) and Vice-President (2000-2002) of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He served as Chair of the IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee (2007-present) and member of the IEEE Technical Field Awards Council(2007-present). He is serving as Chair of theTC-15 on Virtual Systems In Measurements,Co-Chair of theTC-30 Security and Contraband Detection of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society,and Chair of the Virtual Reality Task Force of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee of theIEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
He has been actively involved in the organization of many international conferences, symposia and workshops. He was General Chair of the IMTC/2005 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2005, in Ottawa, ON, Canada and VECIMS 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, July 2008, in Istanbul, Turkey, and Honorary Chair of VECIMS 2009, May 2009, in Hong Kong, China. He served as Program Chair of the IMTC/97 - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 1997, in Ottawa, ON, Canada, IMTC/98 in St. Paul, MN, USA, IMTC/2002 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, IMS 2005 - IEEE International Workshop on Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety, March 2005, in Orlando, FL, USA, IMS 2006 in Alexandria, VA, USA, VECIMS 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, June 2007, in Ostuni, Italy, I2MTC/2008 - IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2008, in Victoria, BC, Canada, and CIVE 2009 - IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments, March 2009, in Nashville, TN, USA.
In recognition of his contributions to the engineering profession, in 2000, he was elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), and in 2001, he was inducted as Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) "for contributions to the development of pseudorandom encoding techniques for absolute position measurement." He received the 2003 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award "for contributions to imaging processing systems, robotics, virtual reality and applications of artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic and neural networks." He was a co-recipient of the 2003 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the unique paper award presented by IEEE in that year.
TC-15 Chair

Affiliation(s)

Univerisity of Ottawa

For contributions to imaging processing systems, robotics, virtual reality and applications of artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic and neural networks.

2002

Vincenzo Piuri

Biography

Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1989). He has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at George Mason University, USA. He is Full Professor in computer engineering (since 2000) and has been Director of the Department of Information Technology at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

His main research interests are: theory and industrial applications of neural networks, machine learning, intelligent measurement systems, signal and image processing, pattern analysis and recognition, biometrics, industrial applications, fault tolerance, digital processing architectures, embedded systems, and arithmetic architectures. Original results have been published in more than 350 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters.

He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-15), and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. He has been IEEE Director, IEEE Delegate for Division X, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council.

He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) for the contributions to the advancement of theory and practice of computational intelligence in measurement systems and industrial applications, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award (2008), and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Meritorious Service Award (2009). TC-6 Chair

Affiliation(s)

University of Milan

For outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of computational intelligence in measurement systems and industrial applications.

2001

Hugo Loggeman

2000

A. Ray Howland

For outstanding contributions to electrical engineering in the field of electromagnetic shielding and relating disciplines including measurements.

1999

Jacques Vanier

For outstanding contributions to and leadership in the science of metrology and for dedication to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

1998

Kenzo Watanabe

For outstanding contributions to the field of electrical engineering and switched-capacitor circuit techniques for instrumentation and measurement.

1997

David W. Braudaway

For contributions to the field of electrical engineering in the development of primary standards, techniques and equipment to provide and improve precision measurements.

1995

Bernard P. Gollomp

1992

George B. Hoadley

For a lifetime of technological contributions in the field of electrical engineering education and as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement for 24 years.

1987

Robert Soderman

For technical contributions to the field of high frequency and microwave measurements, for skillful guidance and management of engineers engaged in development of electronic test equipment, and for personal dedication to the Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Andrew Dunn

For a lifelong achievement and dedication in the field of physical and written electrical standards.

1986

William J. M. Moore

1985

Norris Nahman

1984

Harry Peters

1983

Joseph F. Keithley

1982

David W. Ricci

Gerald E. Nelson

Donald C. Loughry

Daryl E. Knoblock