The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membership, and cannot be applied for directly by the member – instead the candidate must be nominated by others. This grade of membership is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors in recognition of a high level of demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment.[1]
| Year | Fellow | Citation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Arch Luther | For engineering contributions to the design of color television cameras and video tape recorders. | |
| 1982 | G Thiele | For contributions to computational methods in electromagnetic theory. | |
| 1984 | Maurice Bellanger | For contributions to the theory of digital filtering, and the applications to communication systems. | |
| 1988 | Walter Ciciora | For contributions in the development of standards for the consumer electronics and cable industry. | |
| 1989 | Herbert Thal | For contributions to the application of computer-aided procedures in the development of microwave components | |
| 1989 | C Chou | For contributions to the understanding of biological effects and medical applications of microwave energy. | |
| 1990 | Charles M Rush | For leadership and technical contributions to telecommunications programs in high-frequency broadcasting and target location, and to radio propagation analysis and modeling. | |
| 1990 | Carl-erik Sundberg | For contributions to power-and bandwidth-efficient constant-amplitude modulation methods. | |
| 1991 | Charles Einolf | For leadership in industrial electronics and the application of microprocessors to nuclear instrumentation. | |
| 1993 | Makoto Kitazawa | For contributions to the development of television broadcasting transmitters and for leadership in the development of all solid-state high-power television transmitters. | |
| 1996 | Wayne Luplow | For leadership in establishing then terrestrial broadcast system of digital high definition for North America. | |
| 1996 | Takehiro Izumi | For leadership in the planning and institution of direct broadcasting by satellite and the development of channeling plan for such broadcasting. | |
| 1997 | H Clark Bell | For advancements in synthesis techniques and development of new prototype networks for microwave filters. | |
| 1997 | Edward Delp | For contributions to image compression and processing. | |
| 1998 | G Dienes | For contributions to the design and development of broadcast antenna systems. | |
| 2001 | Jozef Modelski | For contributions to microwave semiconductor phase modulators and phase shifters. | |
| 2001 | Yiyan Wu | For contributions to digital television research and standards development. | |
| 2002 | Stephen Dukes | For leadership in evolving cable television industry architecture, technology and standards for rapidly developing digital two-way communications systems. | |
| 2002 | Shuji Hirakawa | For contributions to the innovation of coded-modulation and set-partitioning, and applications of error-correcting codes to a real digital broadcasting system. | |
| 2002 | James Johnston | For contributions in perceptual audio coding and its standardization | |
| 2004 | J Farmer | For technical leadership in the cable television industry. | |
| 2004 | Paul Steffes | For contributions to the understanding of planetary atmospheres. | |
| 2006 | Frederick Raab | For contributions to modeling and design of high-efficiency power amplifiers and radio transmitters. | |
| 2006 | For contributions to the development of Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB). | ||
| 2006 | John Sahalos | For contributions to antenna analysis and design. | |
| 2007 | For contributions to advanced microwave amplification circuits and sub-systems | ||
| 2007 | For contributions to high speed devices and systems for wireless and wireline communications networks | ||
| 2008 | For contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology | ||
| 2010 | Valentino Trainotti | For contributions to the broadcast industry through development of antenna and propagation technologies | |
| 2011 | Susanto Rahardja | For leadership in digital audio and signal processing | |
| 2012 | Richard Tell | For contributions to assessment and safety standards for human exposure to radio frequency energy | |
| 2012 | For contributions to digital television systems and standards | ||
| 2013 | L Dennis Shapiro | For leadership in development and commercialization of personal emergency response systems | |
| 2014 | Jong-soo Seo | For contributions to digital multimedia and mobile broadcasting technologies | |
| 2015 | Hsiao-chun Wu | For contributions to digital video broadcasting and wireless systems | |
| 2017 | Lap-pui Chau | For contributions to fast computation algorithms for visual signal processing | |
| 2017 | Michael Isnardi | For contributions to compliance testing and vision-based video compression technologies | |
| 2017 | Xianbin Wang | For contributions to OFDM systems and distributed transmission technologies | |
| 2017 | Ce Zhu | For contributions to video coding and communications | |
| 2018 | Thomas Coughlin | For leadership in consumer electronics digital storage technology | |
| 2018 | Richard Chernock | For leadership in next generation digital TV | |
| 2019 | Tao Jiang | For contributions to coding, modulation, and cognitive radio systems design |