Liberzon and Viswanath named IEEE Fellows

Two faculty members from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering--Daniel M. Liberzon and Pramod Viswanath—are been announced as IEEE Fellows for 2013.

Liberzon, was cited for his “contributions to the analysis and design of switched, nonlinear and quantized control systems.” He is also a member of the Decision and Control group at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) where his research interests focus on uncertain and stochastic systems, control with limited information, nonlinear control theory and switched and hybrid systems. His background is in math, not electrical engineering; however, he has been a member of IEEE’s Control Systems Society since 1998 and has been a senior member since 2004. Cited for his “contributions to the theory and practice of wireless communications,” Viswanath is a member of the Communications group at CSL, and his work focuses on wireless communication networks, mainly related to cell phones. His interests include understanding the fundamental limitations of network information transmission and representation. His background is in electrical engineering and computer science, and he was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2006 to 2008.

IEEE Fellows are chosen by the IEEE Board of Directors and the designation is awarded to members with outstanding records of accomplishments in any of the fields of interest. The Fellow grade is the highest grade of membership within IEEE. Out of its 400,000 members from around the world, 297 individuals were named IEEE Fellows for 2013.

The IEEE is the world’s largest professional organization for advancing technology, and is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas including, aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications and biomedical engineering. The IEEE also publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature on electrical and electronics engineering and computer science, and is a leading developer in the international standards of telecommunications, information technology and power generation products and services.
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Contact: Daniel Liberzon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 217/244-6750.

Pramod Viswanath, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 217/244-8999.

Writer: Elise King, CSL Communications

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