IEEE Fellows
Recently bestowed IEEE Fellows who are members of the Information Theory Society
Since 1963, IEEE has acknowledged those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of engineering science and technology. The grade of Fellow is bestowed on the recipient who has had an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
The deadline for nominations is March 1st of each year. For details on the nomination process read About the IEEE Fellow Program.
2022 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Petros Boufounos | Andrea Conti | Steve Hranilovic | Devavrat Shah | Jun Zhang |
| Anthony Chan Carusone | Alexandros G. Dimakis | Michael Langberg | Kumar Sivarajan | |
| Minghua Chen | Albert Guillén i Fàbregas | Amir Leshem | Sriram Vishwantath | |
| Todd Coleman | Deniz Gündüz | Yingbin Liang | Rebecca Willett |
2021 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Stephan Ten Brink | Tara Javidi | Hyundong Shin | Daniela Tuninetti |
| Chan-byoung Chae | Francis Lau | Erik Strom | Pascal Vontobel |
| Dongning Guo | Sandeep Pradhan | Edward Tiedemann | Birsen Yazici |
2020 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Amir Avestimehr | Octavia Dobre | Eduard Jorswieck | Christ Richmond |
| Chong-yung Chi | Christoforo Hadjicostis | Markku Juntti | Aaron Wagner |
| Wan Choi | Philippe Jacquet | Panagiotis Papadimitratos | Richard Wesel |
2019 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Brian Classon | Don In Kim | Mikael Skoglund | Namrata Vaswani |
| Timothy Davidson | Yonghui Li | Joseph Tabrikian | Yimin D Zhang |
| Nicola Elia | Joachim Rosenthal | Meixia Tao | Venkatesan Guruswami |
| Igal Sason |
2018 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Erik Agrell | Martin Haardt | Andrea Montanari | Lawrence Ozarow |
| Emmanuel Candes | Aleksandar Kavcic | Mehul Motani | Weifeng Su |
| Massimo Franceschetti | Riccardo Leonardi | Chandra Nair | Sergiy Vorobyov |
| Pascal Frossard | Olgica Milenkovic | Girish Nair |
2017 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Raviraj Adve | James Fowler | Amir Khandani |
| Alexei Ashikhmin | Michael Gastpar | Witold Krzymien |
| Huaiyu Dai | Stephen Hanly | Teng-joon Lim |
| Xinzhou Dong | Masahito Hayashi | Xiaojun Lin |
2016 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Ozgur Akan | Erik Larsson | John Thompson | Liang-Liang Xie |
| Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto | Petar Popovski | Sennur Ulukus | Lie-Liang Yang |
| Faramarz Fekri | Sundeep Rangan | Zhengdao Wang | Jinhong Yuan |
| Christina Fragouli | Osvaldo Simeone | Kaikit Wong | Lizhong Zheng |
2015 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Jean Armstrong | Christian Cachin | Pingzhi Fan | Gianluca Mazzini |
| Gerhard Bauch | Ning Cai | Nihar Jindal | Krishna Narayanan |
| Kristine Bell | Biao Chen | Young-Han Kim | Aylin Yener |
| Daniel Bliss | Merouane Debbah | David Love | Wei Zhang |
2014 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Randall Barry | Martin Haenggi | Mingyan Liu | Ashutosh Sabharwal | Patrick Thiran |
| Shuguang Cui | Peter Hoeher | Angel Lozano | Philip Schniter | Wade Trappe |
| Guang Gong | Syed Jafar | Balaji Rajan | Emina Soljanin | Wei Yu |
| Vivek Goyal | J. Nicholas Laneman |
2013 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Pramod Viswanath | Suhas Diggavi | Tsachy Weissman | L. Shapiro | Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado |
| Gerard Cohen | Antonia Tulino | Tamas Linder | Jeff Andrews | Daniel Palomar |
| Max Costa | Andrew Barron | Feng Wu | Anders Host-Madsen | Erchin Serpedin |
2012 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Roger Cheng | Stefano Galli | Ryuji Kohno | Soung Chang | Ranjan Mallik | Eytan Modiano | Guu-Chang |
| Junshan | Eric Miller | Erdal Arikan | Liew | Adam | Jong-Seon No | Yang |
| Zhang | Jean-Christophe | Konstantinos | Martin Bossert | Krzysak | Ljubisa | Emre Telatar |
| Bane Vasic | Pesquet | Plataniotis | Wonjong Rhee | Akbar Sayeed | Stankovic | Jiangtao Wen |
2011 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Thomas Kolze | Elza Erkip | Kwang Bok Lee | Vinay Vaishampayan | Yossef Steinberg | Holger Boche | Li-Chun Wang |
| Dharmendra Modha | Dennis Goeckel | Shivendra Panwar | Roy Yates | Mitchell Trott | Rainer Martin | Marco Chiani |
| Piyush Gupta | James Ritcey | Ioannis Kontoyiannis | Emanuele Viterbo | Hermann Ney | Keith Chugg | Yunghsiang Han |
| William Ryan | Erik Ordentlich | Hirosuke Yamamoto | Anna Scaglione | Tolga Duman | Robert Heath | Jawad Salehi |
| Balaji Prabhakar | Mark Bell | Xiaolin Wu |
2010 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Eitan Altman | Bart Kosko | Aria Nosratinia | Robert Schober | Howard C. Yang |
| Roy D. Cideciyan | Gerhard Kramer | Robert Nowak | Andrew C. Singer | Ram Zamir |
| Hesham M. El-Gamal | Ping Li | Ramesh Rao | Madhu Sudan | Zoran Zvonar |
| Pooi Yuen Kam | Victor S. Miller | Christian Schlegel | Mahesh K. Varanasi |
2009 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Claude Berrou | Gerhard Fettweis | Michael Luby | Eero Simoncelli | Gustavo de Veciana |
| Helmut Bolcskei | Brendan Frey | Narayan Mandayam | Iickho Song | Xiang-Gen Xia |
| Char-Dir Chung | Bijan Jabbari | Ramjee Prasad | Vahid Tarokh | |
| Michelle Effros | Ralf Koetter | Hayder Radhu | David Tse |
2008 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Naofal Al Dhahir | Steven H. Low | Jinyun Zhang |
| Alexander Barg | Muriel Medard | En-hui Yang |
| Thomas D. Howell | Athina P. Petropulu | Philippe Loubaton |
2007 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Kwang-Cheng Chen | Peter de With | Ilya Dumer | Shuo-Yen Li |
| Zhi-Quan Luo | Urbashi Mitra | Marc Moonen | Antonio Ortega |
| Ioannis Pitas | Thomas Richardson | Christopher Rose | Seiichi Sampei |
| Leandros Tassiulas | Marcelo Weinberger | Zixiang Xiong | Michele Zorzi |
2006 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Harrison Barrett | Giovanni Cherubini | Marc Fossorier | Johannes Huber |
| Hamid Jafarkhani | Frank Kschischang | Ye Li | Armand Makowski |
| Steven McLaughlin | Masao Nakagawa | Sedat Olcer | Richard Olsen |
| Alon Orlitsky | Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom | Ulrich Reimers | Hermann Rohling |
| Dirk Slock | Rayadurgam Srikant | Gary Sullivan | Venugopal Veeravalli |
2005 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Rick S. Blum | Guiseppe Caire | Andrea J. Goldsmith | Rodney A. Kennedy |
| Hanoch Lev-Ari | Upamanyu Madhow | Jaekyun (Jae) Moon | Geoffrey Charles Orsak |
| Gregory Joseph Pottie | Christian Roux | Lang Tong | Adrianus Johannes Vinck |
| Frans M. J. Willems |
2004 Class of IEEE Fellows
| James Antonio Bucklew | Edwin Chong | Tuvi Etzion | Minyue Fu |
| Thomas Edward Fuja | Lajos Hanzo | Amos Lapidoth | Xiao-Rong Li |
| Hans-Andrea Loeliger | Seiichi Namba | Vladimir Parizhsky | Michael G. Strintzis |
| Moe Z. Win | Zhen Zhang |
2003 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Yuval Bistritz | Rene L. Cruz | Rolf Ernst | Robin Evans |
| Hironori Hirata | Torleiv Kløve | Kingo Kobayashi | Khaled Ben Letaief |
| Vladimir I. Levenshtein | Thomas L. Marzetta | Ueli M. Maurer | John J. Metzner |
| Pierre Moulin | Takehiro Moriya | Joseph A. O'Sullivan | Erdal Panayirci |
| Kenneth Rose | Ron M. Roth | Peter K. Willett | Branka Vucetic |
| Raymond W. Yeung |
2002 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Richard G. Baraniuk | Sankar Basu | William D. Blair | Bor-Sen Chen |
| Oliver Collins | Evangelos S. Eleftheriou | Patrick G. Farrell | Patrick P. Flandrin |
| Shuju Hirakawa | James D. Johnston | Douglas L. Jones | Jalena Kovacevic |
| P. Vijay Kumar | Rajiv Laroia | Murray H. Loew | Michael W. Marcellin |
| Sean P. Meyn | Shojiro Sakata | Igor Vajda | Wing S. Wong |
| Bin Yu |
2001 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Sirikiat L. Ariyavisitakul | Charles A. Bouman | Jehoshua Bruck | Jay S. Goldstein |
| Ton A. Kalker | Moshe M. Kam | Iven M.Y. Mareels | Prakash Narayan |
| Ali H. Sayed | Arne Svensson | Hatsukazu Tanaka | Kamil S. Zigangirov |
2000 Class of IEEE Fellows
| Mario Blaum | David B. Cooper | Abbas El Gamal | Mitsutoshi Hatori |
| Tom Hoholdt | Joseph M. Kahn | James S. Lehnert | Weiping Li |
| Brian H. Marcus | Michael T. Orchard | Steen A. Parl | Soo-Chang Pei |
| Bixio Emilio Rimoldi | Nambirajan Seshadri | Robert Michael Tanner | Demosthenis Teneketzis |
| Aad van den Bos | Henk van Tilborg | Kenneth A. Zeger | Ofer Zeitouni |