The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently announced its 2019 IEEE Fellows, with a plethora of Indian American and South Asian-origin engineers making the cut.

IEEE Fellowships are conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments. The total number of Fellows selected in any single year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership, the organization said in a news release.

IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement, it said.

Among the recipients of the IEEE Fellowship include Navakanta Bhat, Santosh Devasia, Venkatesan Guruswami, Nitin Jain, Srinivasan Keshav, Shrikrishna Kulkarni, Anant Madabhushi, Neelesh Mehta, Joydeep Mitra, Siddharth Ramachandran, Srinivasan Ramani, Romit Roy Choudhury, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Rajiv Sabherwal, Samar Saha, Tapan Saha, Murti Salapaka, Venkatesh Saligrama, Venkat Selvamanickam, Ramesh Sitaraman, Deepak Uttamchandani, Namrata Vaswani, Ahmed Hassan and Syed Islam.

Ramachandran, a professor at Boston University’s College of Engineering, was named for contributions to higher-order modes in optical fibers.

Saligrama, a professor at Boston University’s College of Engineering, was named for contributions to distributed detection and estimation of structured signals.

Sitaraman, an academic at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s computer science department, was named for contributions to content delivery, internet performance, and distributed systems.

The IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. Through its more than 400,000 members in 160 countries, the association is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics.

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