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2007 recipient of the IEEE's annual Medal of Honor |
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Email: anjali@casaengineering.com |
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Thomas Kailath, emeritus professor of engineering at Stanford University and a pioneer of IC lithography techniques, has been recognized as the 2007 recipient of the IEEE's annual Medal of Honor. He is only the
second Indian American to receive this award- the first scientist of Indian
origin to received this award was Prof Kumar Patel who also happens to be a graduate of
COEP(1958 Electronics and Telecom) - See below contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE's fields of interest. This year's medal honors Prof Kailath for his contributions in communications, computing, control, and signal processing. It will be awarded in a June ceremony in Philadelphia. |
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Prof. Thomas Kailath Satnford University |
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COEP Foundation Board of Directors Mr Sandeep Johri (Mech 1983) Chairman: sandeep@johri.com Mr Susheel Jadhav (Metallurgy 1998) Secretary: susheelj@gmail.com Mrs. Anjali (Dadhe) Nandedkar, Ph.D (Metallurgy 1977) FundRaisingChair: anjali@casaengineering.com Mr. Mangesh Honwad (Instrumentation 1975): mangesh.honwad@impactinfosys.com Mr. Narendra Kale : Narendra_Kale@kaleconsultants.com Mr. Sameer Vaidya (Electrical 1999) : sam.vaidya@gmail.com |
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Prof Kailath received a B.E. (Telecom) degree from COEP in 1956, and S.M. and Sc,D, degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 1959 and June 1961,respectively. He has also received honorary degrees from Linkoping University(Sweden), Strathclyde University (Scotland), the University of Carlos III, Madrid (Spain), and the University of Bordeaux (France), From October 1961 to December 1962, he worked in the Communications Research division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, CA, and also taught part-time at the California Institute of Technology. Since then he has been at Stanford University, where he is currently Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus. He has also held
shorter-term appointments at several institutions around the world. |
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Prof. Kumar Patel, Inventor: Carbon Dioxide Laser IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, 1989 |
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