IEEE Fellow | IEEE Council on Superconductivity

2021

Amit Goyal

For contributions to high-temperature superconducting materials.

Alan Kleinsasser

For contributions to superconducting electronic devices, circuits, and systems.

2020

Akihiko Kandori

For contributions to superconductive magnetocardiography and diagnostic technology.

2019

Antonio della Corte

For leadership in superconducting magnets.

Venkat Selvamanickam

For contributions to development and manufacturing of superconductor tapes.

2018

Zhuo Li

For contributions to physical synthesis and modeling of integrated circuits.

2017

Quanxi Jia

For contributions to coated superconductors and metal-oxide thin films for electronic applications.

Daniel Oates

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Daniel E. Oates is a staff member in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group. His current research interests are microwave-frequency superconducting electronics, specifically applications in receiver front ends to reduce noise figure and interference. He is also active in characterization of superconducting materials for microwave applications using resonator techniques he pioneered that have been used to understand the basic physics of high-temperature superconductors.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Oates was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany. He was also employed at Bell Laboratories for several years. Research during his first 11 years at Lincoln Laboratory was in the field of microwave acoustics. He invented and developed temperature-stable surface-acoustic-wave dispersive-delay lines. He also developed surface-acoustic-wave programmable transversal filters in which surface-wave devices were coupled with silicon integrated circuits.

Dr. Oates has published as author or coauthor 86 papers in the field of superconductivity and related areas. He holds seven patents and has written three book chapters. He has given numerous invited talks at the international conferences on superconductivity and has served on the organizing committees for several important conferences. He organized two Materials Research Society Symposia and was the general chair for the 2002 Symposium on High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, serves on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.

Dr. Oates received his PhD degree in atomic physics from MIT and his BA degree in physics, with honors, from Yale University.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For contributions to high-temperature superconductors and applications to RF receiver technology.

Sri Niwas Singh

For leadership and contributions to power engineering education.

2016

Karl Berggren

For contributions to nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing in the sub-10 nm regime.

2015

Deepnarayan Gupta

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Gupta is responsible for the Digital-RF Circuits and Systems Business Division that includes the entire digital-RF technology program. Dr. Gupta was instrumental in changing HYPRES’ business direction in 2000-2001 to focus on RF applications and small-scale digital-RF systems and creating a multi-faceted program consisting of synergistic research and development (R&D) projects funded by a variety of government agencies and other sources. This branch of business has attracted more than $85M in revenue and encompasses analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs), digital signal processors (DSP), multi-chip modules (MCMs), cryogenic analog RF modules (CARM), and complete cryocooled digital systems. Dr. Gupta has led the development of three generations of digital-RF receiver systems, the latest of which are modular, multi-function systems operating in customer facilities. Dr. Gupta served in various capacities, including VP R&D (2003-2012), since joining HYPRES in 1997. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr. Gupta was a post-doctoral research affiliate at Stanford University (1995-1997), working on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor electronics, a theme that he has continued to develop into the hybrid-temperature heterogeneous-technology (HTHT) systems concept that combines the strengths of various warm and cold electronic and photonic technologies to solve difficult technical problems. His doctoral research (1990-1995) at the University of Rochester involved the invention of an inductive opening switch built with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) thin films and triggered by short laser pulses. He earned B. Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering (1990) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Dr. Gupta, a Fellow of the IEEE, is a co-author of more than 60 articles and holds 45 U.S. patents. He serves on the boards of the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) and the United States Committee for Superconductor Electronics. Dr. Gupta has been serving as the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) representative on the IEEE Council on Superconductivity since 2009.

Affiliation(s)

Hypres, Inc.

For contributions to superconductor digital radio-frequency receivers.

2014

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

For contributions to high power density electric machines for renewable energy and aerospace applications.

Flix Miranda

For contributions to high-temperature superconductors and ferroelectric tunable microwave components for satellite communications

Nate Newman

For contributions to the development and production of novel thin-film materials and devices

Elie Track

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Elie Track is founder and CEO of nVizix LLC, a company that focuses on developing and commercializing a new high-efficiency vacuum solar cell. He also continues his lifelong work in superconducting electronics with a focus on commercialization. This included technology transfer of the Primary Voltage Standard designs from NIST to Hypres, Inc., where he was President and CEO (1994-2000) and remained Sr. Partner until recently.

He was a Visiting Professor of Physics at Fairfield University (2003-2005). He is an IEEE Fellow (2014). Since 1998, he has been Chair and Program Chair of major conferences/workshops in superconductivity, including the 2014 Applied Superconductivity Conference.

He was President of the Yale Science and Engineering Association (YSEA, 2007-2010) and chaired the Coalition for the Commercial Applications of Superconductors (CCAS, 2008- 2010). He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University and has authored/co-authored 45+ publications in the field.

IEEE ACTIVITIES

COMMITTEES/BOARD:

Member of the TAB Future Directions Committee 2011-2016
Co-founder and co-Chair of the IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative (started as a TAB initiative and currently a NIC initiative) 2012-present
Member of the Advisory board for transitioning the Biometrics Council from provisional to permanent status
Member of the Advisory board for the successful creation and commissioning by TAB of the Council on RFID 2015-present
Member of the Advisory board for the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS) 2016-present
SOCIETY: Council on Superconductivity
VP-Pubs: 2006-2010;
VP (President-Elect): 2006-2010;
President: 2011-2014;
Treasurer (2015-present)
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Co-founded in 2013 the IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative which established, in 2016, the International Roadmap of Devices and Systems (IRDS), the successor to the ITRS roadmap to carry the technology beyond the end of Moore’s Law and ensure a central role for IEEE.
Successfully demonstrated interdisciplinary success within IEEE which brought twelve IEEE Organizational Units together.
Initiated and shepherded the system for IEEE members to indicate interest in a particular Council. This is now data that is recorded and allows Societies to determine how many of their members are interested in a given Council (leading to maintaining, adding, or discontinuing their sponsorship).
Combining his industry and academic experience and knowledge of IEEE, advised (and continues to advise) two Councils and one Society on efficient and relevant operations.

Affiliation(s)

nVizix LLC

For leadership in superconducting electronics and its applications

Gq Zhang

For contributions to heterogeneous micro/nano electronics packaging, system integration and reliability.

2013

Swarn Kalsi

For development and application of high temperature superconductor electric power equipment

William Robert McCown

For leadership in the design, application, and manufacturing of superconducting generators and turbogenerators

Lucio Rossi

for leadership in developing magnetic systems for the Large Hadron Collider

John Spargo

For leadership in superconducting electronics and related technologies

2012

Haran Karmaker

For contributions to the analysis, design and standards of large electrical machines

Oleg Mukhanov

For leadership in research and development of superconducting digital electronics

2010

Samuel Benz

For contributions to quantum-based Josephson junction array waveform synthesizer

Donald U. Gubser

For contributions to applied superconductivity

2009

Ilan Ben-Zvi

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Ilan Ben-Zvi is a tenured senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He serves as the Associate Chair for Accelerator R&D and the head of the Accelerator R&D Division in the Collider-Accelerator Department and as a Brookhaven Professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department at Stony Brook University. His current research interests are electron cooling of hadron beams, the generation of high-brightness electron beams, superconducting RF, Energy Recovery Linacs, and high-power Free-Electron Lasers thorough superconducting accelerator techniques. He has developed the Superconducting Quarter Wave Resonator, the superconducting reentrant cavity and the Superconducting RFQ for heavy ion accelerators, a number of generations of the BNL photoinjector, spearheaded the measurement of slice-emittance and phase space tomography of photoinjectors, the “Fresh-Bunch” technique for seeded High-Gain Harmonic-Generation FEL and the development of a new type of super-ferric undulator. He is currently developing ampere average current, high-brightness electron beam based on a superconducting photoinjector and energy recovery linac.

Ben-Zvi is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is the recipient of the 1999 IEEE Accelerator Science and Technology Award, the 2001 BNL Science and Technology Award, the 2007 Free Electron Laser Prize and the 2008 IEEE/NPSS Merit Award.

Ilan Ben-Zvi received his Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1970. From 1970 to 1989 he was a member of the scientific staff of the Weizmann Institute. He held visiting positions as Research Associate at Stanford University (1970-1975), Associate Professor of Physics at the University at Stony Brook (1980-1982) and Professor of Physics at Stony Brook (1988-1990). He joined the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1989, and the Collider Accelerator Department in 2000. He also is a Brookhaven Professor of Physics at Stony Brook. He served as the Director of the Accelerator Test Facility, a user's facility for beam physicists, from 1989 to 2004, building up the facility to serve as the premier DOE facility for advanced accelerator R&D.

Ben-Zvi's active involvement in international cooperative projects led to his design and construction of the current leads for the superconducting magnets of the HERA proton ring in DESY, Germany, participation in the design and construction of the University of Washington's superconducting heavy ion booster, advisory work on beam optics, cavity design and controls of the INFN superconducting linac in Legnaro, Italy and new generation photoinjectors in collaboration with SLAC and UCLA (Gun III) and with KEK and Sumitomo (Gun IV) in Japan. In 1996 he initiated the archival of accelerator conference proceedings on the web, later to become known as JACoW. Ilan Ben-Zvi developed special relations with industry, including transfer of technology projects and collaborations on the development of novel accelerator components and software.

Ilan Ben-Zvi participated in the earliest stages of the development of superconducting linear accelerators at Stanford University. His work there included SRF techniques such as UHV firing of niobium cavities; particle beam dynamics in heavy ion linacs including work on alternating phase focusing and beam dynamics of high brightness ion beams, and accelerating structures. In this field he is the co-developer of the superconducting reentrant cavity and wrote codes that explained high order multipactoring in RF cavities. In 1975 he founded the Cryogenic Technology Laboratory at the Weizmann Institute and worked there on SRF, cryogenics and electrostatic accelerators. He developed a chopper-buncher system with emittance-independent chopper, harmonic buncher and a superconducting re-buncher and built the first quarter wave resonator superconducting booster linac. At Stony Brook he participated in the construction of its Heavy Ion Superconducting Linac, developed the Superconducting Quarter Wave Resonator, a wide-band RF cavity controller circuit and the Superconducting RFQ, all in wide use around the world. At BNL he headed the construction of the ATF Users Facility where he did research on laser and plasma acceleration, FEL physics, superferric undulators, high brightness electron guns and optical stochastic cooling. In most of these instances he led teams of scientists, engineers, technicians and administrators to carry out complex R&D and construction projects.

Ben-Zvi serves as a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters. He was a member of the editorial board of Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams from its inauguration in 1998 until 2004. He is a member of the ICFA Panel on Advanced and Novel Accelerators. He was the elected Secretary-Treasurer of the APS Division of Physics of Beams from 1999 to 2002. From 1997 to 1999 he chaired the BNL Council. He has served on or chaired several advisory and program committees of Beam Physics conferences and workshops, (including acting as a co-chair of the 1995 International FEL Conference, Program chair of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference and the 2001 International FEL Conference, chair of the 2004 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop etc.), technical advisory panels and reviews of accelerator and FEL projects, including a committee of the National Academies of Science. He served as the chair of the IEEE/NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Committee from 2005 to 2008. He is the author or co-author of over four hundred publications.

Affiliation(s)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

United States

For leadership in superconducting accelerators, high brightness electron sources and free electron lasers

Alex I. Braginski

For leadership in research and development in magnetics and applied superconductivity

Yong Lian

For contributions to the design of low-power high-performance digital filters

Konstantin K. Likharev

For contributions to superconducting digital electronics and single-electron tunneling devices

Richard Stacy Withers

For development of superconductive and cryogenic radio frequency circuits for NMR

2008

Manuel Castro

For contributions to distance learning in electrical and computer engineering education

Michael Ingram

For contributions to high-temperature superconductor synchronous condensers

Alexis P. Malozemoff

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Malozemoff is Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of American Superconductor Corporation. He is responsible for R&D strategy, advanced conductor development and the intellectual property portfolio. Before joining AMSC in 1991, Dr. Malozemoff served for 19 years as staff scientist, manager and senior manager in magnetism, superconductivity and condensed matter physics at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY. Beginning in 1987, he acted as IBM Research Division Coordinator for High-Temperature Superconductivity.

Oral History ⧉

He has more than 30 years of experience in superconducting materials and systems, as well as in magnetic materials and devices, and has numerous publications and patents. Recognized for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity, Dr. Malozemoff is a co-discoverer of “giant flux creep.” This phenomenon is a factor in determining the maximum amount of current a superconductor can carry and is a key element in the development of applications with superconducting materials. He is also well known for his work on magnetic materials and his discoveries related to magnetic bubble technologies.

A graduate of Harvard and Stanford Universities, Dr. Malozemoff is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Senior Member of IEEE. He has been active in the magnetism and superconductivity technical community as chairman of the Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and through a variety of national committees and centers of high-temperature-superconductivity research and development.

Affiliation(s)

American Superconductor Corporation

United States

for leadership in the development of vortex dynamics of high temperature superconductors

John Wikswo

For contributions to understanding electromagnetic effects on materials and biological tissues

Charles Wilker

For contributions to microwave measurements of cryogenic and high power components

2007

Charles Jackson

For leadership in the development of high-temperature superconductor microwave devices, quasi-optical techniques, and millimeter-wave subsystems for space and imaging systems

Robert Shull

For contributions to nanocomposites, superconductors, and magnetocaloric materials

Harold Weinstock

For leadership in superconducting magnetometry

2006

Masanori Hara

For contributions to electrical insulation technology in superconducting power devices

Shuichi Tahara

For contributions to superconducting digital integrated circuits and single-flux quantum electronics

Charles W. Turner

For contributions to engineering education

2005

Janina Mazierska

For contributions to measurements of high temperature superconducting and dielectric materials

Bruce Strauss

For leadership in low-temperature superconducting materials and magnet systems

Ljiljana Trajkovic

For contributions to computer-aided design tools for circuit analysis

2004

Shirabe Akita

For contributions in applied superconductivity in support of electric power applications

Ronald Goldfarb

For contributions to magnetic metrology for the characterization of superconductors

R. Wayne Johnson

For contributions to electronics that must operate in harsh environments

Justin Schwartz

For contributions to high-temperature superconductors and magnet systems

2003

Robert Fagaly

For leadership in the development and commercialization of SQUID instrumentation

William Gallagher

For contributions to the development of oxide-barrier tunnel junctions for superconducting and magnetic device applications

Wilhelm W. Jutzi

For contributions to superconducting digital integrated circuits and microwave technologies

Paulo Ribeiro

For contributions to the understanding of harmonic penetration in transmission systems, and advancement of superconducting magnetic energy storage system applications

2001

Raafat Mansour

7 (Canada)

Biography

Dr. Raafat R. Mansour received the BSc and MSc degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1977 and 1981, respectively, and the PhD degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1986 — all in electrical engineering.

Dr. Mansour is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and holds a Tier 1-Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems. He held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for two terms (2001-2005) and (2006-2010). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in January 2000, Dr. Mansour was with COM DEV Cambridge, Ontario, over the period 1986-1999, where he held various technical and management positions in COM DEV’s Corporate R&D Department. Dr. Mansour holds 37 US and Canadian patents (35 awarded, 2 pending) and more than 350 refereed publications to his credit. He is a co-author of the most comprehensive 20-chapter Microwave Filters book published by Wiley and also contributed 6 chapters to four other books. He was the recipient of COM DEV’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 1991 and COM DEV’s CEO Special Award in 1994. He also received several Best Paper Awards and outstanding research performance awards from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Mansour is the Founding Director of the Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) facility at the University of Waterloo cirfe.uwaterloo.ca, which houses a state-of-the-art clean room and RF-MEMS test/characterization laboratory. CIRFE launched the UW-MEMS process, a research-oriented multi-user MEMS fabrication process, and, through the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), it has been offering the UW-MEMS as a multi-project wafer university-based fabrication process to researchers across Canada. Dr. Mansour’s research group has made seminal contributions to the field of nano-instrumentation by introducing a new class of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) capable of imaging surfaces at the nano-scale. Dr. Mansour and his graduate students co-founded Integrated Circuit Scanning Probe Instruments (ICSPI-Corp; www.icspicorp.com), a start-up company that commercializes CMOS-MEMS SPM technologies.

Dr. Mansour served as the Chair of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium IMS2012. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Dr. Mansour was the recipient of the 2014 Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Engineering Medal for Research and Development.

Affiliation(s)

University of Waterloo

For contributions to the development of high-temperature superconductive filters and multiplexers

Martin Nisenoff

For leadership in the application of high-temperature superconductivity and cryogenics to microwave components and systems

John Przybysz

For contributions in the development and application of Josephson digital circuits to electronic systems, especially radars, communication satellites and data switching networks

Edward Rezek

For contributions to GaAs and InP monolithic microwave integrated circuits and optoelectronic devices

Ke Wu

For contributions to hybrid integration of planar and non-planar microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and guided-wave structures

1998

Masamitsu Kosaki

For contributions to the understanding of electrical insulation characteristics of polymers in the cryogenic temperature region and the development of extruded polymer insulated superconducting cable

Peter McLaren

For contributions to the development of digital relays and real-time simulators for testing relays

S K Yngvesson

For contributions to the development of millimeter wave devices and systems

1997

Naoki Maki

For contributions to the development of superconducting generators and magnetically levitated systems

Gerhard Sollner

For pioneering the development of resonant-tunneling structures and contributions to the understanding of high-speed semiconductor devices

1996

Mark Ketchen

For the development of superconducting devices and technology for scientific and practical applications.

Osama Mohammed

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Osama Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He published numerous journal articles over the past 30 years in areas relating to power and energy systems as well as in the area of computational electromagnetics and the design optimization of electromagnetic devices. He has performed research work in artificial intelligence applications related to these areas. He authored and co-authored more than 400 technical papers in the archival literature in Journal and major conference record. He has conducted research work for government and research laboratories in shipboard power conversion systems and integrated motor drives. He also has recent interest in energy cyber-physical systems and the application communication and sensor networks for the distributed control of smart power grids. He has been successful in obtaining a number of research contracts and grants from industries and Federal government agencies on projects related to these areas. Professor Mohammed also published several book chapters including; Chapter 8 on direct current machinery in the Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, 15th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007 and 2012 as well as a book chapter entitled ” Optimal Design of Magnetostatic Devices: the genetic Algorithm Approach and System Optimization Strategies,” in the Book entitled: Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Professor Mohammed is a Fellow of IEEE and is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award in 2012. Dr. Mohammed is also an elected Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES). Professor Mohammed received the excellence in research award from Florida International University in 2012. He is Editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is also an Editor of COMPEL and was editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics-conferences, the Power Engineering Letters. Professor Mohammed is the past President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES). He received many awards for excellence in research, teaching, and service to the profession and has delivered numerous invited lectures at scientific organizations around the world.

Professor Mohammed has been the general chair of several international conferences including; ACES 2006, IEEE-CEFC 2006, IEEE-IEMDC 2009, IEEE-ISAP 1996 and COMPUMAG-1993. He has also chaired technical programs for other major international conferences including; IEEE-CEFC 2010, IEEE-CEFC-2000 and the 2004 IEEE Nanoscale Devices and System Integration. Dr. Mohammed also organized and taught many short courses on power systems, Electromagnetics, and intelligent systems in the U.S.A and abroad. Professor Mohammed has served ACES in various capacities for many years. He also serves IEEE in various Boards, committees and working groups at the national and international levels.

Affiliation(s)

Florida International University

United States

For contributions to three-dimensional electromagnetic field computation and for the development of intelligent systems techniques for the optimal design of electromagnetic devices and systems

1995

Alan Clark

For contributions to superconductivity research, development of accurate characterization methods for superconductors, and development of related industry standards.

Clark Hamilton

For his key role in developing the Josephson voltage standard & other novel superconducting circuitry

Makoto Ibuka

For contributions to, and leadership in, the development of superconducting quantum devices and their application to precise measurement

Moises Levy

For contributions to the characterization of superconducting and magnetic materials by ultrasonic techniques

1992

James Edmonds

For contributions to the development of superconducting technology and its application to the design of larger alternating current motors and generators

1991

John Adam

For contributions to the development of microwave device applications of ferrite thin films

James Kirtley

For contributions to the theoretical understanding, development, and implementation of superconducting turbogenerators

1990

Steinar Dale

For contributions to gaseous dielectrics and break-down phenomena, and testing techniques for gas-insulated systems

1989

Eric Forsyth

For contributions to the development and operation of superconducting power transmission lines

Robert A. Kamper

For leadership and technical contributions to the application of superconductivity in instrumentation, measurement, and standards

1984

A Kerr

For contributions to millimeter-wave receivers

1982

L G Rubin

For contributions to cryogenic temperature and high-strength magnetic field measurement technology

1981

Reece Roth

For development in superconducting magnet technology and discoveries in plasma instabilities and turbulence

1979

Paul Carr

For contributions to microwave acoustics and their use as signal-processing components

1977

Barry Taylor

For contributions to the understanding of electron tunneling in superconductors and for leadership in the development of Josephson junction voltage standards

Theodore Van Duzer

For contributions to superconducting devices and to engineering education

1968

Vernon L. Newhouse

For contributions to magnetic and superconducting memory elements and their applications in computers