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Members who qualify each year will be notified by mail in the fourth quarter of the qualifying year. "Life" status will be effective on 1 January of the following year.
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IEEE "Life" status is an automatic process which is based on an individual's membership record.
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Richard E. Harris
was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on 28 May 1941, and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois.
Harris worked at the United Technologies for United Aircraft Research Laboratories, where he did research in aviation transport mechanics as well as other electronic and conductive studies. Much of his career has been spent at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he researched superconductive technologies and introduced NIST to lithography and superconducting integrated circuits. He was also the Group Leader for the Cryoelectronic Metrology Group on superconducting electronics as well the Quantum Devices Group.
Silver is best known for his role in the Invention of the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device, better known as the SQUID, while working at the Ford Motors Scientific Lab. He later continued his work at superconducting electronic devices as a scientist and administrator at the Aerospace Corporation and TRW.
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.
Ron Goldfarb is Science Advisor in the Quantum Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA. From 2000 to 2015 he supervised six teams of scientists and engineers, including two working on the characterization of superconductor strands and cables. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions to magnetic metrology for the characterization of superconductors.” He helped establish and promote IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 1989-1993, was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1995-2004, and was the founder and chief editor of IEEE Magnetics Letters, 2010-2019. In 2016, he received the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Service Award “for two decades of leadership in advancing the quality and operational excellence of Magnetics Society and IEEE publications.” He was elected to the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society in 2018. He led the establishment of IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering in 2019 and chaired its steering committee in 2020. He has served as a Magnetics Society representative to the IEEE Council on Superconductivity for many years.
Moises Levy
received his B. S. Chemistry, Cal Tech, 1952; M. S. Chemical Engineering, Cal Tech, 1955; PhD, UCLA, Physics,1963; Co-authored over 200 papers and gave about 200 invited and contributed talks, lectures and colloquia at national and international meetings, at universities, and at government and industrial labs; Supervised 20 PhD students.
Founding President, IEEE Council on Superconductivity
Ultrasonic investigation of Type I and Type II superconductors, High Tc and unconventional superconductors, rare earth metal single crystals, 2-dimensional electron gas and magnetic films; high pressure on superconductors; and, vapor deposition of High Tc superconducting films.
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.
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.
Ulrich L. Rohde is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corp., Paterson, NJ and President of Communications Consulting Corp. Rohde studied electrical engineering and radio communications at the universities of Munich and Darmstadt, Germany. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering (1978) and an Sc.D. (hon., 1979) in radio communications. In 2004, he obtained a Dr.-Ing. Degree from the University in Berlin, Germany. In 2011, Rohde earned the Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. degree from the University of Cottbus, Germany. Rohde has published more than 200 scientific papers and either contributed to or written a large number of books.
Van Duzer spent his long career at the University of California-Berkeley developing superconducting devices and circuits. He was also the founding editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Theodore (Ted) Van Duzer passed away in 2023.
