Newly Elected IEEE Fellows for 2010

The IEEE Board of Directors approved and announced the 2010 Class of IEEE Fellows at the Board of Directors meeting during November 2009 in New Brunswick, NJ.

The IEEE Fellows are an elite group from around the globe.

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.

The total number of Fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.

Please join us in congratulating the following members of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society who will be elevated as an IEEE Fellow on January 1, 2010:

Joseph Hellerstein
Google, Inc.
for contributions to control engineering for performance management of computing systems

Bart Kosko
University of Southern California
for contributions to neural and fuzzy systems

Ronald Patton
Hull University
for contributions to robust fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control

Robin Murphy
Texas A&M University
for contributions to rescue robotics and insertion of robots into major disasters

Yutaka Hata
University of Hyogo
for contributions to fuzzy logic based image processing in biomedical informatics

Seong-Whan Lee
Korea University
for contributions to pattern recognition for biometrics and document image analysis

Chih-Min (Jimmy) Lin
Yuan Ze University
for contributions to fuzzy system, neural network, and cerebellar model articulation controllers

Shun-Feng Su
National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology
for contributions to computational intelligence and intelligent control

A complete list of IEEE Fellows can be viewed at the following location