Each year, the IEEE Standards Association honors incredible contributions by groups and individuals to standards development. It is our great privilege to announce this year’s recipients.
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The awardees for 2024 include:
- The IEEE UAS Application Conformity Assessment Program Committee is receiving an IEEE SA Conformity Assessment Award for the establishment of a new conformity assessment and evaluation program for UAS applications with accrediting three test laboratories, and certification of UAS products which meet the requirements of IEEE 1937.1™
- The IEEE 2933™ Working Group is receiving an IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award for the development of IEEE 2933™-2024, IEEE Standard for Clinical Internet of Things (IoT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS—Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security
- James T. Reilly is receiving an IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award for leadership and contributions to the development of a series of standards on distributed energy resource integration and aggregation within microgrids and related sustainable energy systems
- Teruo Onishi is receiving an IEEE SA International Award for leadership in standardization and harmonization for human protection from millimeter waves exposures
- Four recipients of the IEEE SA Lifetime Achievement Award:
- R. Allen Bernstorf: For nearly 50 years of dedicated service to the industry and countless contributions to IEEE, ANSI, and NEMA across many areas related to overhead lines and insulator standards
- Thomas M. Kurihara: For a lifetime of unceasing dedication to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and its working groups, and for advancing technologies and standards to make all forms of transportation safer and more efficient
- Kang B. Lee: For three decades of tireless leadership and dedication to the development and promotion of IEEE precision time protocol and other standards profoundly impacting global industry and commerce
- Wei-Jen Lee: For leadership in advancing standards in the field of electrical safety
- Kevin Lu is receiving an IEEE SA Standards Board Distinguished Service Award for superior IEEE SA Governance leadership as the IEEE SA Standards Board Audit Committee Chair and as the IEEE SA Industry Connections Committee Chair
- The IEEE Computer Society Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Committee is receiving an IEEE SA Standards Committee Award for Outstanding Contributions to Entity Standards Development for overseeing the development of a significant number of IEEE blockchain and distributed ledger standards, including standards for green and sustainable development
- The IEEE Power and Energy Society Transmission & Distribution Committee is receiving an IEEE SA Standards Committee Award for Outstanding Contributions to Entity Standards Development for exceptional support of entity standards management and development processes in electric transmission and distribution technologies
- 20 people are receiving an IEEE SA Standards Medallion:
- Doug Arnold: For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE standards for time synchronization in networks
- Stephen Balakirsky: For outstanding leadership on IEEE standards for robotics and automation
- Robert V. Binder: For outstanding contributions to standardized analysis and measurement of software dependability, reliability, availability, supportability, and recoverability
- Rodney Cummings: For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE standards for time synchronization in networks
- Randall K. Curey: For leadership and contributions to the development of inertial sensor and system standards, as well as standards for quantities, units, and symbols
- Justin Dobbins: For outstanding technical input during the revision of IEEE 149™-2021
- Touradj Ebrahimi: For leadership and contributions to the next-generation JPEG standards: JPEG XS, JPEG XL, JPEG AI, JPEG Trust, JPEG DNA, and JPEG XE
- Keith Flowers: For leadership in the creation of process innovations for the evaluation and acceptance of standards projects initiated externally of a Standards Committee
- Jon Lewis: For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet standards
- Dan Mulkey: For sustained leadership and contributions to the development of distribution transformer standards
- Manish Patel: For consistently exceptional leadership of IEEE 2800™ and related efforts to maintain power system reliability during the transition to high levels of inverter-based resources
- Rubén Pérez – Aranda: For key technical contributions in the development of optical Ethernet physical layers and test methods for automotive applications
- Adee Ran: For contributions and expertise across multiple generations of high-speed interface IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet standards
- Robby Robson: For outstanding leadership, dedication, and contributions to enabling and facilitating the use of Open Source in standards
- Daniel Sabin: For outstanding leadership in the many evolutions of IEEE 1159.3™, Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF)
- Christopher (Chris) G. Searles: For expanding the role of an existing technical committee in the IEEE Power and Energy Society to cover the rapidly expanding, but standards-deficient, area of battery energy storage systems
- Eugene Song: For exceptional leadership as Working Group Chair driving the development of IEEE 1451.0™-2024 standard for smart transducer interfaces for sensors and actuators
- Jordon Woods: For leadership and navigating the complex maze of competing ideas with skill through editing IEC/IEEE 60802
- Yi Yang: For exceptional leadership and contributions to the development of IEEE standards on transmission and distribution
- Jizhong Zhu: For leadership and contributions to the development of standards in the field of distributed energy management systems
- Aparna Dey is receiving a Ron Waxman Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) Meritorious Service Award in recognition of outstanding service exemplifying the spirit of the DASC
- And Gary Hoffman is receiving the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award for leadership in and development of power systems standards to increase global adoption
Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees! The awards will be formally presented at the annual IEEE SA Awards Ceremony on 8 December 2024.
To learn more about the IEEE SA Awards and how (and when) you can nominate your worthy colleagues for future awards, please visit the IEEE SA Awards webpage.
