Robert Weigel
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he 2023 IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS2023) Awards Banquet will be held on Wednesday evening, 14 June 2023, during the heart of Microwave Week. As part of the Awards Banquet program, the MTT-S Awards Committee will present the MTT-S major awards and the best paper awards, and recognition will be given to IEEE-Level Award recipients and new IEEE Fellows as well as student competition finalists and award recipients (Figures 1–4).
Figure 1. Ingo Wolff (right), recipient of the 2022 James Clerk Maxwell Medal, and companion Hannelore enjoying dinner at the IMS2022 Awards Banquet.
Figure 2. MTT-S 2022 President Rashaunda Henderson (left) with Madhu S. Gupta, recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Service Award, at the IMS2022 Awards Banquet.
Figure 3. Wolfgang J.R. Hoefer, recipient of the 2022 Microwave Career Award, at the IMS2022 Awards Banquet.
Figure 4. String quartet entertainment at the IMS2022 Awards Banquet in Denver, CO, USA.
It is important to acknowledge the efforts and care of those involved in the nomination and selection process and the impressive quality of all candidates who were brought forward for consideration. In 2023, our recipients are being recognized for significant contributions during a career, within a particular discipline, for important past contributions, or for significant contributions in an article published in an IEEE publication. In addition, two IEEE Technical Field Awards will be presented at the Plenary Session on the morning of Monday, 12 June 2023.
The IEEE Electromagnetics Award, which is a prestigious IEEE Technical Field Award for outstanding contributions to the theory and/or application of electromagnetics, has been given to John W. Bandler, professor emeritus, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, for contributions to electromagnetic optimization and the modeling of high-frequency structures, circuits, and devices.
The IEEE Transportation Technologies Award, which is a prestigious IEEE Technical Field Award for advances in technologies within the fields of interest to the IEEE as applied in transportation systems, has been given to Holger Meinel, technical director, retired, Daimler, Ulm, Germany, for the development and promoting the application of millimeter-wave technology in transportation systems.
The Microwave Career Award, which recognizes a career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution by an individual in the field of microwave theory and techniques, has been given to Peter Russer, professor emeritus, Munich University of Technology, Germany, for a career of leadership, meritorious achievement, creativity and outstanding contributions in the field of microwave theory and technology.
The Microwave Pioneer Award, which recognizes an individual or team, not exceeding three persons, having made outstanding pioneering technical contributions that advance microwave theory and techniques, which are described in an archival article published at least 20 years prior to the year of the award, has been given to Richard J. Cameron, technical director, retired, Com Dev Europe, U.K., for seminal and impactful contributions to the theories for direct synthesis of high-performance microwave filters.
The Microwave Application Award, which recognizes an individual or team of no more than five individuals for an outstanding application of microwave theory and techniques, which has been reduced to practice nominally 10 years before the award, has been given to Bumman Kim, professor emeritus, Seoul National University, South Korea, for the creation of microwave amplifications for wireless applications.
The Distinguished Educator Award, which recognizes a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science who best exemplifies the special human qualities of Fred Rosenbaum, who considered teaching a high calling and demonstrated his dedication to the MTT-S through tireless service, has been given to Payam Heydari, full professor, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, and to Michal Mrozowski, full professor, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, respectively, for outstanding achievements as educators, mentors, and role models of microwave engineers and engineering students.
The Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual who has given outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of the MTT-S, has been given to George E. Ponchak, senior research engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA, in recognition of a distinguished record of service to the MTT-S and the microwave profession over a sustained period of time.
The N. Walter Cox Award, which recognizes an individual who has given exemplary service to the Society in a spirit of selfless dedication and cooperation, has been given to Ramesh K. Gupta, vice president, Ligado Networks, Reston, VA, USA.
The Outstanding Young Engineer Award recognizes an outstanding young MTT-S member who has distinguished him/herself through achievements within the MTT-S field of interest that may be technical, may represent exemplary service to the MTT-S, or may be a combination of both. In the category “Industry,” this award has been given respectively to Arnaud Amadjikpe, senior RF engineer, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, USA, for outstanding early career achievements in millimeter-wave phased-array in low-cost organic packages and to Timo Jaeschke, CEO, 2pi-LABS, Bochum, Germany, for outstanding early career achievements in advancing wideband millimeter-wave radar sensors for industrial applications. In the category “Academia,” it has been given respectively to Taylor W. Barton, associate professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, for outstanding early career achievements in high-efficiency and reconfigurable power amplifiers; to Changzhan Gu, associate professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, for outstanding early career achievements in short-range microwave radar sensing for biomedical applications and innovative human-computer interaction; and to Dimitra Psychogiou, full professor, University College Cork, Ireland, for outstanding early career achievements in the development of 3D and planar RF filtering devices with multiconfigurable and multifunctional capabilities and exemplary service to the Society.
The IEEE Microwave Prize, which recognizes the most significant contribution by a published article to the field of interest of the MTT-S, has been given to Wael Abdullah Ahmad, Maciej Kucharski, Arzu Ergintav, Salah Abouzaid, Jan Wessel, Herman Jalli Ng, and Dietmar Kissinger for their article, “Multimode W-Band and D-Band MIMO Scalable Radar Platform,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 1036–1047, Jan. 2021.
The IEEE Tatsuo Itoh Award, which recognizes the most significant contribution in an article published in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, has been given to Fabian Thome and Arnulf Leuther for their article, “A 75–305-GHz Power Amplifier MMIC With 10–14.9-dBm Pout in a 35-nm InGaAs mHEMT Technology,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 741–743, June 2021.
The IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology Best Paper Award has been given to Caitlyn M. Cooke, Kevin M. K. H. Leong, Alexis Zamora, Ben S. Gorospe, X. B. Mei, Pekka Kangaslahti, Erich Schlecht, Mehmet Ogut, Yuriy Goncharenko, Steven C. Reising, and William R. Deal for their article, “A 670 GHz Integrated InP HEMT Direct-Detection Receiver for the Tropospheric Water and Cloud Ice Instrument,” IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 566–576, Sept. 2021.
The IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award has been given to Ho-Jin Song for his article, “Terahertz Wireless Communications: Recent Developments Including a Prototype System for Short-Range Data Downloading,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 88–99, May 2021.
The IEEE Journal of Microwaves Best Paper Award has been given to Christopher Rodenbeck, Paul Jaffe, Bernd Strassner, Paul Hausgen, James McSpadden, Hooman Kazemi, Naoki Shinohara, Brian Tierney, Christopher DePuma, and Amanda P. Self for their article, “Microwave and Millimeter Wave Power Beaming,” IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 229–259, Jan. 2021.
Congratulations to all recipients!
To receive nomination forms for the 2024 MTT-S major awards, see https://mtt.org/2024-mtts-awards-nominations or contact mttawardschair@ieee.org. The deadline for nominations is 31 July 2023.
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