2007 IEEE Fellows

Congratulations to the following members of the Robotics and Automation Society have been elected to Fellow of the IEEE. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. A brief citation is issued to new Fellows describing their accomplishments and the total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth percent of the total voting Institute membership.

People elevated to Fellow through RAS (i.e., the nominees requested that RAS evaluate their nominations):

• Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
• Alessandro De Luca
• Zeungnam Bien
• Seth Hutchinson
• Michael Wang
• Jean-Paul Laumond
• Charles Thorpe
• Shigeki Sugano

RAS members elevated to Fellow through other societies

• Jun Wang, CIS
• Toshiharu Sugie, Control Society
• Mo-Yuen Chow, IE
• Ning Xi, ITS
• Xiaohong Guan, PE
• Mu-Der Jeng, SMC
• C. Philip Chen, SMC

Nominations for 2008 Fellows are due March 1, 2007 and must be submitted online via the IEEE Fellows website.