Description:
To recognize meritorious and significant service to any SMC Society-sponsored activity.
Prize:
Certificate. Up to six (6) awards are made annually. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Funding:
Funded by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society through an endowment administered by the IEEE Foundation.
Eligibility:
Open to any person who has contributed to any SMC sponsored activity.
Basis for Judging:
Exceptional administrative, managerial and leadership achievement by anyone in any SMCS sponsored activity. Includes contributions as a Society officer, BoG member, associate editor or participant
in the management of SMCS-sponsored events.
Presentation:
At any appropriate SMC Society function.
Past Awardees
2024
- Yo-Ping Huang
For meritorious and significant service leading IEEE SMC Society conferences and meetings activities, and educating talent students to industry
2023
- Peng Shi, Yingxu Wang
For meritorious and significant service toward establishment of the IEEE Letters on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
2022
- Anikó Szakál
For meritorious and significant service to IEEE SMC Society sponsored and technically co-sponsored conferences and symposia - Chun Sing Lai
For meritorious and significant service to IEEE SMC Society technical activities and standards development - Jay (Jiacun) Wang
For meritorious and significant improvements to IEEE SMC Society project management and operations - Robert Kozma
For meritorious and significant service organizing the landmark 50th Anniversary Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems - Christopher Nemeth
For meritorious and significant service leading IEEE SMC Society promotion, branding, and industrial liaison activities - Anthony Maciejewski
For meritorious and significant service as Program Chair of the IEEE SMC 2021 conference
2021
- Giancarlo Fortino
For meritorious and significant service to the SMC Society as a Board of Governors Member - Ferat Sahin
For meritorious and significant service to the SMC Society as a Board of Governors Member
2020
- Tiago Falk
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored BMI technical activities - Ying Gina Tang
For meritorious and significant service to SMC as SMCS Secretary - Mengchu Zhou
For meritorious and significant service to SMC as VP Conferences & Meetings and SMCS Secretary - Liping Fang
For meritorious and significant service to SMC
2019
- Saeid Nahavandi
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities. - Tadahiko Murata
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities as the SMC 2018 Program Chair. - Witold Pedrycz
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities as the SMC 2017 Program Chair. - Irene Cheng
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities as the SMC 2017 Program Chair. - Vladik Kreinovich
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities as the SMC Vice President (Publications) 2015-2018. - György Eigner
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities. - Roxanna Pakkar
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities. - Mingcong Deng
For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities.
2018
- Haibin Zhu
For sustained outstanding service to SMC Society conferences, technical activities and publication
2014
- Ni-Bin Chang
“For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities.” - Mingcong Deng
“For meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities.”
