Three professors from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering were recently elected 2013 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), bringing the total number of IEEE Fellows at HKUST to 30. HKUST will have the highest number of newly elevated IEEE Fellows among universities and institutions in Hong Kong.

Fellowship of IEEE is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number of IEEE Fellows selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one-percent of the total voting membership.

The three newly elevated IEEE Fellows at HKUST are:

Prof Amine Bermak
For contributions to sensing and processing of vision and olfactory circuits and systems. 

Prof Mansun Chan
For contributions to CMOS device modeling. 

Prof Daniel Palomar
For contributions to convex optimization-based signal processing for communications. 

For the 2013 session, Hong Kong welcomes 7 new IEEE Fellows and three of them are from HKUST. With the newly elevated Fellows, HKUST will have a total of 30 IEEE Fellows, including 21 from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, seven from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and two from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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