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Professional Society Fellows
MIT Lincoln Laboratory staff members are active in professional societies: they attend conferences and present papers, chair committees and conferences, publish journal articles, and serve as editors for their societies' publications.
Over the years, many Laboratory staff members have been honored for their technical accomplishments and service to professional societies through elevation to the grade of Fellow.
Listed below are Lincoln Laboratory staff members who are Fellows of professional societies.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
Earle Williams, for his unselfish cooperation in scientific research with colleagues around the world and for his uncompromising, high standard of achievement in the geophysical sciences, 2010 |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
Marc Bernstein (Associate Fellow), 2015 Hsiao-hua Burke, for outstanding leadership in the development of missile defense systems, hyperspectral imaging technology and algorithms, and satellite systems for military and civilian applications, 2013 Steven Bussolari (Associate Fellow), 2016 Tom Reynolds, (Associate Fellow), 2017 Scott Stadler, (Associate Fellow), 2017 |
American Meteorological Society (AMS) |
Earle Williams, for outstanding contributions to the atmospheric sciences and their applications, during a substantial period of years, 2008 Marilyn Wolfson, for outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences, or their applications, during a substantial period of years, 2012 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
Roshan L. Aggarwal, 1977; Senior Fellow, 1994 Gerald Dionne, 2003 William Oliver, for pioneering contributions to the physics and associated engineering of robust, reproducible, superconducting quantum systems and high-performance cryogenic control electronics, 2016 |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Mohamed Abouzahra, for leadership in the development of passive planar microwave components and in planar microwave circuits, 2011 Robert Cunningham, for leadership in computer security, 2017 Jeffrey Herd, for leadership in the development of low-cost phased array technology, 2018 Paul Juodawlkis, for contributions to optically sampled converters and waveguide amplifiers, 2017 Thomas Quatieri, for contributions to sinusoidal speech and audio modeling and nonlinear signal processing, 1999 William Song, for contributions in high-performance low-power embedded processors, 2015 |
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) |
National Academy of Engineering members are elected to recognize distinguished achievements in their fields. The disciplines in which the following members were honored follow their names. William Delaney, Special Fields* and Interdisciplinary Engineering, 2012 |
National Academy of Inventors (NAI) |
Christine Wang, 2014 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
Tso Yee Fan, for the development of diode-pumped solid-state lasers, particularly Yb-YAG, and for innovations in laser beam combining, 2002 Darryl Greenwood, for contributions to the fundamental understanding and early development of adaptive optics, 1991 Paul Juodawlkis, for significant contributions to optically sampled analog-to-digital conversion and the development of the slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifier, 2013 Peter Moulton, for pioneering contributions to the development of new solid state lasers and the invention of the titanium-doped sapphire laser, 1991 |
SPIE |
Don Boroson, for achievements in satellite laser communications, 2012 Keith Doyle, for achievements in advances in optomechanical engineering and integrated modeling, 2014 Theodore Fedynshyn, for achievements in photoresist materials and process technology, 2012 |
Peter Moulton, for achievements in solid state lasers and nonlinear optical devices, 2015 |
Listed below are former Lincoln Laboratory staff members who are Fellows of professional societies.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
Mykel Kochenderfer, (Associate Fellow), 2017 Eliahu Niewood (Associate Fellow), 2016 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
Aram Mooradian, Fellow, 1968 |
Richard Osgood |
Elias Towe |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Randy Avent, for leadership in automatic target recognition technology, 2015 |
Serpil Ayasli, for contributions to the development of military radars, 2002 |
Edward Baranoski, for leadership in knowledge-aided radar systems for indoor environments, 2016 |
Daniel Bliss, for contributions to adaptive sensor systems in radar and communications, 2015 |
Vincent Chan, for leadership in optical communication systems, 1994 |
Alice Chiang, for contributions to signal processors using charge-coupled devices, 1997 |
Paul Drouilhet, for leadership in developing the Discrete Address Beacon System, 1987 |
Bernard Gold, for contributions to speech communication and digital signal processing, 1972 |
Anand Gopinath, for contributions to the analysis of microstrip discontinuities and to the development of microwave integrated circuits, 1990 |
Robert McAulay, for contributions to the development of sinusoidal speech processing and its application to speech coding, 1997 |
Alan McCree, for contributions to low bit-rate coding of speech signals, 2005 |
Ivars Melngailis, for contributions to narrow-gap semiconductor lasers and detectors, 1986 |
Pratap Misra, for contributions to global satellite navigation systems, 2007 |
Walter Morrow, for contributions to the development of space and tropospheric scatter communication systems, 1966 |
Leslie Novak, for contributions to optimal processing radar data, 2001 |
Robert O'Donnell, for contributions to advanced surveillance and tracking radar systems, 2003 |
Alan Oppenheim, for contributions to digital signal processing and speech communications, 1977 |
Richard Osgood, for the development of novel gas lasers, and for contributions to the development of laser chemical processing technology for microelectronics fabrication, 1987 |
Charles Rader, for contributions to digital signal processing, 1978 |
Robert Rediker, for contributions to semiconductor device research, 1962 |
Peter Staecker, for leadership and contributions to the design and development of microwave and millimeter-wave devices and circuits, 1995 |
Allan Steinhardt, for contributions to space-time adaptive sensors, 2004 |
Ernest Stern, for leadership in the development of surface-acoustic-wave devices for signal processing in radar and communication systems, 1980 |
Roger Sudbury, for leadership in gallium arsenide integrated circuits, 2004 |
Eric Swanson, for contributions to optical coherence tomography and leadership in optical networking, 2017 |
Elias Towe, for contributions to nanostructure optoelectronic technology, 2003 |
Richard Williamson, for contributing reflective grating devices to the field of surface-acoustic-wave filters, 1982 |
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) |
Bernard Gold, Computer Science, 1982 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
Steven Brueck, 1987 |
Vincent Chan, for seminal contributions to the development of the field of optical space communications and optical communications and networks, 2002 |
Charles Cox, for outstanding research and development contributions in photonic links and their applications, 2011 |
Harold Fetterman, 1980 |
Anand Gopinath, for seminal contributions in modeling and design of integrated optical devices, 2002 |
Katherine Hall, for contributions to the understanding of ultrafast semiconductor devices, development of advanced fiber communication systems, and entrepreneurship in optics, 2013 |
Paul Kelley, 1977 |
Dennis Killinger, 1987 |
Aram Mooradian, 1977; Fellow Emeritus, 2009 |
Nathan Newbury, for pioneering contributions to the development of fiber laser frequency combs and their application to spectroscopy, metrology, and LIDAR, 2012 |
Richard Osgood, 1992 |
Jinendra Ranka, for outstanding contributions to ultrafast nonlinear optics, including his discovery of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers, 2007 |
Robert Rediker, 1988 |
Henry Smith, for contributions to optical nanolithography and nanophotonic systems, 2009 |
Eric Swanson, for pioneering contributions to the fields of intersatellite laser communication systems, fiber optic communication networks, and biomedical optical imaging, 2002 |
Elias Towe, for original contributions to semiconductor optoelectronic devices and for leadership in optics and optoelectronics, 2003 |
As part of the effort to promote nominations to the rank of Fellow, the Professional Societies Committee is recognizing those staff members who have achieved this honor. If your name is missing from this list or if you wish assistance with a nomination for Fellow, please contact the committee.
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