1/20/2010
Five College of Engineering faculty members--Jennifer Truman Bernhard, William Gropp, John Rogers, Andrew Carl Singer, and Nitin H. Vaidya--were named IEEE Fellows for the class of 2010.
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Five College of Engineering faculty members--Jennifer Truman Bernhard, William Gropp, John Rogers, Andrew Carl Singer, and Nitin H. Vaidya--were named IEEE Fellows for the class of 2010.
This honor, the highest in the IEEE, is given to IEEE Senior Members with “an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest,” according to IEEE's website. This year, 309 IEEE Senior Members worldwide received this honor.
The IEEE Board of Directors named Jennifer Bernhard an IEEE Fellow for her development of multifunctional, reconfigurable, and integrated antennas. As a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), her research interests include reconfigurable active and passive antennas, electromagnetics and antennas for wireless communication, wireless sensor systems, multifunction antennas and antenna systems.
Bernhard also was a U.S. Defense Science Study group member, sponsored by DARPA, 2008-09. In addition, she served as president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2008, won the Xerox Award for Faculty Research in 2006, and was a Willett Faculty Scholar from 2005 to 2009, among other honors.
William Gropp, the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in the Department of Computer Science, was selected for his contributions to high performance computing and message passing. Gropp’s research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. His work investigates methods for combining numerical analysis techniques with parallel processing techniques to form solutions appropriate for execution on modern computing systems. His research also addresses issues such as scalability and hierarchical memory models in parallel computers.
Gropp played a major role in creating the MPI, the standard interprocessor communication interface for large-scale parallel computers. Gropp is also co-author of MPICH, one of the most influential MPI implementations to date, and co-wrote two books on MPI: Using MPI and Using MPI2. He also co-authored the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), one of the leading packages for scientific computing on highly parallel computers, recognized with a R&D 100 award earlier this year.
Among his other accomplishments, Gropp developed adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition methods with a focus on scalable parallel algorithms, and discussed these algorithms and their application in Parallel Multilevel Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations.
Gropp serves as co-principal investigator for Blue Waters, a project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to build the first sustained-petascale resource for open scientific computing. Gropp also serves as deputy director for research at the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technology at the University of Illinois.
Gropp is a fellow of the ACM, has received the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award honoring innovative uses of high performance computing in problem solving, and was recently named the inaugural HPC Community Leader by insideHPC.com.
Andrew Singer was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to signal processing techniques for digital communication. He is an ECE professor and director of the college's Technology Entrepreneur Center .
Singer’s research interests include signal processing; wired, wireless and optical communications; and financial modeling. He has received many honors for research, including best paper awards from the IEEE and the Xerox Award for Faculty Research. He was also named a Willett Faculty Scholar. For his work in the Technology Entrepreneur Center, he has received the Pride of CASE V Gold Award for Best Student Alumni Programming from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District V for TEC’s Silicon Valley Alumni Workshop.
John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation and a professor of materials science and engineering was recognized "for contributions to nanomaterials and nanofabrication techniques for electronic and photonic devices."
Rogers’ research focuses on new materials for classes of electronics that overcome design limitations associated with conventional systems, all of which rely on planar, rigid and brittle semiconductor wafers. The soft, stretchable and curvilinear devices enabled by these approaches open entirely new application opportunities, ranging from cameras with designs that are inspired by the human eye, to electronics that can integrate intimately with the soft tissues of the human body for advanced monitoring or therapeutic purposes.
During the past two years, Rogers’ innovations include the first electronic-eye cameras, flexible inorganic light-emitting diode displays, stretchable integrated circuits, and bendable monocrystalline silicon solar modules. His current work also focuses on conformal, biointerfaced, and bioresorbable electronics and sensors.
Rogers is affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, the Department of Chemistry, the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an inaugural Fellow of the Materials Research Society, and a U.S. Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. In September 2009, Rogers named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.