Meritorious Service Award

Description

To recognize meritorious and significant service to any SMC Society-sponsored activity. (Established in 2014)

Prize

Certificate. Up to six (6) awards made annually. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.

Funding

Funded by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

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

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.”