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IEEE CSC Senior Members are listed below by award year.

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Review panel: Senior members are invited to be on the panel to review Senior member applications.
Letter of Commendation: A letter of commendation on the achievement of Senior member grade will be sent to your employer (upon request.)
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Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields;
Have experience reflecting professional maturity;
Have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees);
Show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice

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2020

Sivaraju S S

Jing Peng

Itzhak Shapir

Dominic Maestas

Leonard Johnson

Ravi J

Xiaorong Wang

Krishna Prasad Satamraju

Sasha Ishmael

Glenn Friedman

Srinivasan Padmashree

Zhifeng Ren

Giridhar Archakam Vijaya Raghavulu

Niladri Maity

Soren Prestemon

Ajay Vyas

Sakthinathan Pitchaiah

Naoyuki Amemiya

Moussa Sofiane Karoui

Saeid Ajideh

Ziad Melhem

Hemanth C

Smita Nirkhi

William Hassenzahl

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

William Hassenzahl's career was initially with the three National Laboratories operated by the University of California. In that capacity, he carried out research and led groups of scientists and engineers in advanced technologies associated with superconductivity, magnetic systems, energy storage, particle accelerators, and tokamak fusion systems. In 1993 he retired from the University of California and founded Advanced Energy Analysis, a company dedicated to the analysis of energy-based systems ranging from medical devices to local battery-storage systems and to nationwide power connections (e.g., via direct-current cables).

Dr. Hassenzahl is a highly experienced scientist with over 40 years of research experience in a variety of technical areas relating to energy systems. He was the head of a team that developed precision magnetic devices necessary for the production of intense, laser-like beams of synchrotron radiation for studies of materials (organic, biological, polymers, crystals and metals). He was one of the two lead scientists in the US on the development of the magnetic systems for the ITER fusion power reactor. He worked with the UCSF Department of Radiology to develop an interventional technique that uses MRI instead of X-Rays to detect the position of a catheter within the body. During development, certain critical procedures were shown to take only 10-20% of the time of conventional methods (30 minutes instead of 4 hours). He jointly holds a patent on the technology with UCSF.

As a Senior Scientist on NSC’s Scientific Advisory Board, Bill will play a key advisory role in developing battery materials, assessing their functionality, predicting value, and guiding research, developmental and marketing strategies.

Bill is the author or co-author of over 150 technical publications. He is the author/editor of two books on energy storage and the author of several book chapters on technical subjects related to energy systems. He has been the guest editor of special issues of several IEEE publications on power systems and superconductivity.

Education:
Ph.D. in physics, 1967, University of Illinois, Urbana; thesis on elementary particles.
B.S. in physics and electrical engineering, 1962, California Institute of Technology.

Affiliation(s)

Advanced Energy Analysis

Stuart Wimbush

2019

Lixing You

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Lixing You received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 1997, 2001, and 2003 respectively.

From Apr. 2000 to Mar. 2001, he was a research student with the Research Institute of Electronics and Communication, Tohoku University, Japan. From Nov. 2003 to Oct. 2005, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. From Nov. 2005 to Jun. 2006, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Condensed Matter Physics and Devices Group, University of Twente, the Netherlands. From Sept. 2006 to Aug. 2007, he was a Guest Researcher with the Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. From Sept. 2015 to Feb. 2016, he was a Senior Visiting Scholar with the University of California, Berkeley.

Since Sept. 2007, he has been a research professor at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. He serves as the dean for the division of superconductivity since July 2017. His current research is related to superconducting nanowire single-photon detection and its applications. He has published ~80 papers on international peer-review journals. He is an editorial board member of “Scientific Reports” and advisory board member of “Superconductor Science and Technology”. Besides, he is a member of WG14 in IEC-TC 90, an associate editor of the IEEE CSC/ESAS Superconductivity News Forum, and an international board member for the International Workshop of Superconducting Sensors and Detectors (IWSSD).

Affiliation(s)

SNF Associate Editor (Electronics)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

China

Anna E. Fox

Bhagwan Das

Barry Zink

Muhammad Ahmad

Soumen Kar

Hrvoje Glavas

Sanket Goel

Xuewei Zhang

Mohd. Abdul Ahad

Suresh Kumar Sethuramaswamy

Jok Tin Tan

Syed Ahmed Naveed A. S.

Pankaj Agarwal

Yi Zou

Akhilesh Tripathi

Giovanni Piero (Giampiero) Pepe

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Giovanni Piero Pepe (Giampiero) is Full professor for Experimental Physics and Nanomaterials for Electronics and Energetics at the University of Napoli Federico II, while from 2011 to 2019 he has been Deputy Director of the Naples Unit of the Institute for Superconducting, Innovative Materials and Devices (SPIN), National Council of Research (CNR), Italy. GPP has more than 25 years experience in superconducting electronics covering mainly topics regarding Josephson effects and tunneling in superconducting devices, unconventional superconducting devices for quantum applications, advanced superconducting detectors and non-equilibrium superconductivity, cryogenics, and material science at low temperatures. During the last years GPP and his group were involved in a number of national and European projects concentrating on the development of superconducting (nano)devices for quantum communications. He has authored more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He worked in advisory boards of international conferences and workshops like ASC, ISEC, EUCAS, ICSM. From 2019 he is Chair of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity, and chairman and organizer of ISEC 2017 Conference in Sorrento, of WOLTE13 2018 Conference in Sorrento, and of WOLTE14 to be held in Matera, Italy. He was Chair of ESAS International Summer School on “New Trends with Superconducting Quantum Detectors” (Genova, 2013), of the Winter ESAS School on “Novel frontiers in superconducting electronics: from fundamental concepts and advanced materials towards future applications” (Naples, 2016), and co-chair of the National CNR Workshop on Single Photon Devices: the Italian perspectives (Roma, 2016). From 2019 he is Senior IEEE Member.

Affiliation(s)

Università di Napoli Federico II

Italy

Ashish Bagwari

W Gregory Lyons

Sumithra M G

Joseph Minervini

Ramachandra Pujeri

Lai King Anna Tee

Chiara Tarantini

Hanuman Shukla

Jack McCoy

Syed Waqar Jaffry

Ying Xin

Saikumar Tara

Ulf Trociewitz

Sanjeev Raghuwanshi

Kalyan Baital

Deborah Cooper

Xin Liu

Shafiyoddin Sayyad

Yachin Ivry

Dan Apetrei

Jayan Padmanabhan

Antonino Fiorillo

Pramod Kumar

Selvakumar Gopalasamy

Mohammed Mudassar

Oleksandr Prokopenko

Peter Hopkins

Pankaj Kumar

Chetan Gowda

Xianghua Han

Vladimir Robles

Elias Bortokan

Shane Cybart

Naresh Darimireddy

Akash Saxena

Harinatha Chennam

Adam Panarello

Anantha Lakshmi Vuyyuru

Abdul Azeez

Amjad Alarab

Gayatri Phade

Renuka Rajput-Ghoshal

Yongdong Lu

Ram Kripal Prasad

Deepu Nair

2018

Yuri Alvarez-Lopez

Herman H. J. ten Kate

Ahmed Abu-Siada

Jennifer Ammentorp

George Kemp

Bhanwar Lal Bishnoi

Azniza Abd Aziz

Gin-ichiro Oya

Bill Moore

Rodney Badcock

Yasir Al-Zubaidi

Carlos Leal Saballos

Mohammad Alam

Deborah Cooper

Alexander Polasek

Pravin Raghuwanshi

Yanuar Arief

David Allee

Carlos Lozano

2017

Mohamed Aboukhousa

Anna Leese de Escobar

Yasar Ayaz

Dean Jennings

Bernd Seeber

Robert Laibowitz

Premlet B

Arezoo Emadi

Pascal Febvre

M Lopez-Lopez

Abhilasha Mishra

Luigi Muzzi

Arivudainambi Deivasigamani

Akira Fujimaki

Enric Pardo

Nicola Pompeo

Adel Ahmed Hamed

Ali Arefi

Afsaneh Minaie

Joe Alanis

Ian Harvey Arellano

Eric Hellstrom

T. C. Manjunath

Howard Dyckman

Debbie Hall

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology

Since January of 2001, Dr. Deb Hall has had the honor of teaching at Valencia College within its Division of Engineering, Computer Programming, and Technology. Deb has been teaching courses under a variety of Valencia’s degree programs. These include Valencia’s Pre-Major Engineering Associate in Arts Degree, Valencia’s Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, and Valencia’s Electronics Engineering Technology Associate in Science Degree. Currently, she is in the midst of developing Valencia’s exciting new Energy Management and Controls Technology (EMCT) Associate in Science Degree. Valencia’s EMCT graduates will assist in making our buildings more energy-efficient which right now is responsible for approximately 40% of our nation’s overall energy consumption. As you might be guessing right about now, Deb is most passionate about energy efficiency and renewable energy. Prior to coming on board with Valencia College, she worked in the industry as an electrical engineer involved in theme park ride and show control, electric vehicle battery testing, and solar power feasibility studies. Deb has earned both her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida where her thesis research involved the fabrication of thin-film solar cells at the Florida Solar Energy Center. She has participated in a variety of renewable energy-related trainings in wind, solar, and biodiesel with Solar Energy International, North Carolina State University’s Renewable Energy Technologies Diploma Series, the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center Fellows Institute, the Florida Solar Energy Center’s Banner Center Project “Train-the-Trainer” program, and the CERET Renewable Energy Train the Trainer Academy Photovoltaic Education and Training. Deb earned her Doctor of Education in Higher Education Leadership from Nova Southeastern University where her doctoral dissertation research involved yet another one of her passions. Deb wanted to better understand how to implement effective methods of increasing the number of female students within Valencia’s Engineering, Computer Programming, and Technology Division. She currently is the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Valencia Collegiate Section Faculty Advisor. Deb has also been involved in SWE as a past SWE National Conference presenter, past CFL SWE Director of Education officer, and with various K-12 hands-on engineering project outreach events within the Central Florida area and at past National Conferences with her extraordinary SWE Valencia Collegiate Section student members as well as with her fellow CFL SWE Professional members.

Affiliation(s)

Valencia College

United States

Nagabhushana Rao

Carmine Senatore

Pasquale Arpaia

Mohammad Soleymani

Muhammad Mahadi Abdul Jamil

Matthew Jewell

Enrico Silva

2016

Cesar Luongo

Anzar Mahmood

Boxue Du

Brajesh Kumar Kaushik

Dmitrios Georgakopoulos

Daniel Morehead

Emanuela Barzi

Sam Adhikari

Chia-Chi Chu

Herbert Freyhardt

Chong Li

Alexandre Nassif

Mario Aleman

Mohamed Elsoury

Haider Alsabbagh

Benjamin Engel

2015

Howard Jones

Vasily Anashin

Delvis Gonzalez

Aseem Chandel

Ashok Mittal

Karen Pedersen

Jorge Him

Boris Karasik

Alan Kleinsasser

Ibrahim Abdalla

Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo

2014

Allen Windhorn

David Mindham

Antonio Morandi

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Antonio Morandi holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Since 2006 he has been with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering where is appointed professor of Elements of Electrical Engineering, Electric Energy Storage and Applied Superconductivity. He is also supervisor of PhD programs on Applied Superconductivity. His research interests are on power applications of High-Temperature Superconductors and advanced energy systems. He has coordinated several research projects in this field funded by Public Agencies and by private companies and has contributed to the prototyping of superconducting power apparatus (FCL and SMES) and to the development of modelling and design tools. Antonio Morandi is the author of about 50 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. He is the inventor of two patents. He is a reviewer of research projects in the energy sector for the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research and foreign research institutes. He has given several invited talks at international conferences and research associations and has moderated several technical discussions. He is a member of the Italian mirror Committee IEC TC90 – Superconductivity and is a member of the International Steering Committee on HTS Modeling. He has been a member of program committees in international conferences. He has been the chairman of the 5th International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High-Temperature Superconductors, Bologna-Italy, 2016. Antonio Morandi is a member of the ESAS board. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as a technical editor for IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity.

Affiliation(s)

University of Bologna

Italy

Abdel Rahman Khatib

Alan Kadin

Henrique Boneti

John Michaels

Adebowale Onifade

Harry Braunstein

Dongmei Han

Horst Rogalla

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Website

Biography

Dr. Horst Rogalla was appointed as an IEEE CSC Distinguished Lecturer in 2013. Dr. Rogalla was born in Germany in 1947, studied physics and mathematics in Münster and did his habilitation in Giessen, both in Germany. After 2 years in the group of Prof. Tinkham in Harvard, he accepted in 1987 a professorship in Low-Temperature Physics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands from which he retired recently.

In his time at the University of Twente, he was Director of the Material Science Institute CMO for a number of years and a founding member of the MESA+ micro-/nano-technology institute. In the European Community, he was a member of the board of the Network of Excellence in Superconductivity SCENET and director of the European Network PiShift. He was a founding member of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity ESAS and the European Foundry Network FLUXONICS. He also organized major conferences in Superconductivity and Superconducting Electronics and many national and international workshops. Currently, he is a Research Professor at the University of Colorado and a scientist at NIST.

In his scientific career, he worked on the materials' properties of superconductors, their deposition as thin films and their application in Superconducting Electronics. Before the finding of High-Temperature Superconductivity (HTS), he worked on the application of Nb3Ge nano bridge Josephson-junctions in Superconducting Electronics operated in liquid hydrogen. After the finding of HTS, he invented the HTS ramp-type Josephson junction and developed with his co-workers in Twente an HTS integration technique, which resulted in superconducting circuits with up to 4 superconducting layers. This technique was successfully applied to HTS Superconducting Electronics devices. Later on, he was involved among others in the development of sd-wave Josephson junctions based on Nb/YBCO ramp-type junctions, which allowed to realize and apply π- Josephson junctions, in the development of integrated micro-coolers and the application of Nb-based Josephson junctions in highly sensitive magnetic sensors for biomagnetism and gravitation wave detectors.

Currently, he is working on noise thermometry using normal and superconducting electronics and also on arrays of YBCO split-ring resonators for cloaking applications.

He is a long-time member of the IEEE receiving the IEEE Max Swerdlow Award for Sustained Service to the Applied Superconductivity Community in 2011. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary lifetime voting membership on the board of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity (ESAS).

Affiliation(s)

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

Chunhua Liu

Erik DeBenedictis

Jeff Tallon

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Dr. Jeff Tallon CNZM, FRSNZ, HonFIPENZ is Senior Principal Scientist at Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and, until recently, was concurrently Professor of Physics at Victoria University. He is internationally known for his research and discoveries in high-Tc superconductors (HTS), both fundamental and applied, leading to commercialization through the company HTS-110 Ltd. With colleagues, he secured European and US patents for Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 and a number of other HTS and over the past 25 years has led research in materials science, processing, flux pinning, novel superconducting materials and wire development. His more fundamental studies have focused on thermodynamics, magnetism, spectroscopy and electronic transport properties of HTS; especially in elucidating the phenomenology and nature of the once mysterious pseudogap that competes with superconductivity and which imposes severe limits on critical currents and critical fields. Dr. Tallon’s other research interests include nanotechnology, hybrid organic/inorganic materials, spin crossover materials and physics at high pressure. He has received many awards for his work, including the Rutherford Medal, the Dan Walls Medal for Physics and the inaugural New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Medal for commercialization of fundamental science. Dr Tallon has been a frequent Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He has published nearly 300 papers, with a Hirsch index of 50 and total citation close to 10,000. HTS-110 manufactures magnets, NMR systems, ion-implantation equipment, current leads and coils for motors and generators – all based on HTS Dr. Jeff Tallon CNZM, FRSNZ, HonFIPENZ is Senior Principal Scientist at Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and, until recently, was concurrently Professor of Physics at Victoria University. He is internationally known for his research and discoveries in high-Tc superconductors (HTS), both fundamental and applied, leading to commercialization through the company HTS-110 Ltd. With colleagues, he secured European and US patents for Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 and a number of other HTS and over the past 25 years has led research in materials science, processing, flux pinning, novel superconducting materials and wire development. His more fundamental studies have focused on thermodynamics, magnetism, spectroscopy and electronic transport properties of HTS; especially in elucidating the phenomenology and nature of the once mysterious pseudogap that competes with superconductivity and which imposes severe limits on critical currents and critical fields. Dr. Tallon’s other research interests include nanotechnology, hybrid organic/inorganic materials, spin crossover materials and physics at high pressure. He has received many awards for his work, including the Rutherford Medal, the Dan Walls Medal for Physics and the inaugural New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Medal for commercialization of fundamental science. Dr. Tallon has been a frequent Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He has published nearly 300 papers, with a Hirsch index of 50 and total citation close to 10,000. HTS-110 manufactures magnets, NMR systems, ion-implantation equipment, current leads and coils for motors and generators – all based on HTS technology.technology.

Affiliation(s)

Robinson Research Institute

Australia

Richard Arsenault

Henryk Piekarz

Jok Tin Tan

Congzheng Han

2013

Vasudeva Atluri

Mark Bird

George Clark

Debangshu Dey

Ayyoub Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Dmitry Kholodnyak

David F. Sutter

Marc Matsuura

Steven Eckroad

David W. Doll

Balamurugan K

Amol Inamdar

Cij Pearl Kurian

Anandakumar Haldorai

2012

Jeffrey O. Willis

Lance Cooley

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Lance Cooley is a Florida State University professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in addition to his MagLab roles as director of the Applied Superconductivity Center (ASC) and an associate lab director.

Cooley began his career in superconducting materials in 1986 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, in the Applied Superconductivity Center under the direction of Prof. David Larbalestier. Lance’s early career, starting with his Ph.D. thesis, explored the ultimate limits of electric current in superconducting wires used for magnets. His thesis was awarded the Materials Research Society Graduate Award for the construction of periodic arrangements of flux-pinning centers at nanometer scale in superconducting wires. He earned a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, and later returned to Madison, Wisconsin, as a member of the research faculty to further investigate limits of superconductors.

The discovery of superconductivity in magnesium diboride in 2001 prompted Cooley to move to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he eventually became head of the Superconducting Materials Group. He moved to Fermilab in 2007 to lead the SRF Materials Group, and later the Superconducting Materials Department. During this time, he coordinated external programs at multiple universities, laboratories and industry to improve performance of superconducting radio-frequency cavities and superconducting wires. This led to specifications and international standards related to niobium commerce, for which he received the International Electrotechnical Commission 1906 Award. He joined Florida State University and MagLab in 2017. He is also the manager of conductor acquisition for the Large Hadron Collider High-Luminosity Accelerator Upgrade Project as well as the head of Conductor Procurement and R&D for the National Magnet Development Program, both in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics.

Cooley serves as vice-president for publications for the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, which publishes the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. He has served on many review panels of the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has over 120 refereed publications, and has given more than 30 colloquia, plenary or public lectures.

Affiliation(s)

Florida State University

Bill Schwenterly

Arnaud Devred

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.