The following members of the IT community were elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2017:

• Raviraj Adve , for development of signal processing techniques for airborne radar
• Alexei Ashikhmin , for contributions to information theory and communication theory
• Huaiyu Dai , for contributions to MIMO communications and wireless security
• Xinzhou Dong , for contributions to traveling wave- based transmission line protection and fault location
• James Fowler , for contributions to lossy source coding and dimensionality reduction of multidimensional data
• Michael Gastpar , for contributions to network information theory
• Stephen Hanly , for contributions to capacity analysis and optimization of wireless communication networks 
• Masahito Hayashi , for contributions to Shannon theory, information-theoretic security, and quantum information theory
• Amir Khandani , for contributions to resource allocation and interference management in network information theory
• Witold Krzymien , for contributions to radio resource management for cellular systems and networks
• Teng-Joon Lim , for contributions to statistical signal processing in wireless communications
• Xiaojun Lin , for contributions to scheduling and control of wireless networks