The Fellow grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 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 | |
| 1981 | Robert Meyer | For contributions to analysis and design of high-frequency amplifiers | |
| 1983 | H Troy Nagle | For contributions to industrial electronics, data acquisition, and control instrumentation | |
| 1987 | Paul Liao | For contributions to nonlinear optics and laser spectroscopy | |
| 1988 | Walter Ciciora | For contributions in the development of standards for the consumer electronics and cable industry. | |
| 1988 | Robert Glorioso | For leadership in the development of high-performance minicomputers. | |
| 1990 | Kees Immink | For contributions to optical laser recording and compact disk digital audio systems | |
| 1991 | Clark Johnson | For contributions to both the theory and application of photoelectrons, image conversion, and electron multiplication | |
| 1994 | Shinichi Makino | For leadership in the research and development of multipath signal suppression techniques employed in television equipment. | |
| 1994 | Yasuo Takemura | For contributions to color television camera technologies | |
| 1995 | Fumitaka Ono | For contributions to the research and development of Markov source coding, and arithmetic codes and applications | |
| 1996 | Wayne Luplow | For leadership in establishing then terrestrial broadcast system of digital high definition for North America | |
| 1997 | Edward Delp | For contributions to image compression and processing | |
| 1997 | Kou-hu Tzou | For contributions and leadership to the technology of progressive image transmission and video compression technology | |
| 1998 | Marilyn Wolf | For contributions to Hardware/Software Co-Design | |
| 1999 | Frederick Mintzer | For contributions to the development of digital libraries, digital watermarking, and multirate signal processing | |
| 1999 | Said El-khamy | For contributions to signaling techniques for propagation through natural media | |
| 1999 | Stuart Lipoff | For contributions leading to commercialization of advanced consumer electronics products | |
| 2000 | Soo-chang Pei | For contributions to the development of digital eigenfilter design, color image coding and signal compression, and to electrical engineering education in Taiwan | |
| 2001 | Patrick Mantey | For leadership in engineering education, in research and in academic-industrial-government projects | |
| 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 | |
| 2003 | Wai-chi Fang | For contributions to VLSI systems using neural-based methods | |
| 2003 | Masaru Sakurai | For contributions to digital signal processing technology in HDTV systems | |
| 2004 | Hou Chaohuan | For technical leadership in advancing VLSI system technology | |
| 2004 | J Farmer | For technical leadership in the cable television industry | |
| 2006 | Karlheinz Brandenburg | For contributions to audio coding | |
| 2006 | William Chen | For contributions to packaging and assembly technology | |
| 2006 | Ulrich Reimers | For contributions to the development of Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) | |
| 2006 | John Sahalos | For contributions to antenna analysis and design | |
| 2006 | Gary Sullivan | For contributions to video coding and its standardization | |
| 2007 | Peter H De With | For contributions to compression techniques and architecture of television and recording systems | |
| 2008 | Ikuo Awai | For contributions to microwave passive components | |
| 2008 | Manuel Castro | For contributions to distance learning in electrical and computer engineering education | |
| 2008 | Tomlinson Holman | For contributions to the recording of cinema sound and its realistic reproduction in both cinema and home environments | |
| 2008 | Nam Ling | For contributions to video coding algorithms and architectures | |
| 2009 | Leslie Baxter | For contributions to high-speed digital communication networks | |
| 2009 | Nicholas Economou | For leadership in developing and commercializing focused ion beam systems | |
| 2010 | Peter Corcoran | For contributions to digital camera technologies | |
| 2010 | Uwe Kraus | For contributions to digital television signal compression and transmission | |
| 2010 | Richard Prodan | For leadership in the development of high definition television and broadband networks | |
| 2011 | Robert Frankston | For contributions to the first electronic spreadsheet and home networking | |
| 2011 | Akihiko Sugiyama | For contributions to speech and audio signal processing | |
| 2011 | Anthony Vetro | For contributions to video coding, three-dimensional television, and multimedia adaptation | |
| 2012 | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | For contributions to real-time and biomedical image processing | |
| 2012 | Sung Jea Ko | For contributions to digital camera technologies | |
| 2012 | Robert Sherratt | For contributions to embedded signal processing in consumer electronic devices and products | |
| 2012 | Wan Chi Siu | For leadership in signal processing and contributions to video technologies | |
| 2013 | Branislav Djokic | For contributions to precision metrology in electrical power applications | |
| 2013 | L Dennis Shapiro | For leadership in development and commercialization of personal emergency response systems | |
| 2014 | Rahul Dixit | For leadership in microwave monolithic integrated circuits technologies and in active electronically steerable arrays application | |
| 2014 | John Schneider | For leadership in advancing the field of ultrasonic imaging and fingerprint identification | |
| 2015 | Joseph Decuir | For contributions to computer graphics and video games | |
| 2015 | Detlev Marpe | For contributions to video coding research and standardization | |
| 2016 | Hitoshi Kiya | For contributions to filter structure, data hiding, and multimedia security | |
| 2016 | Mark Laubach | For leadership in design and standardization of cable modems | |
| 2016 | Richard Nute | For contributions to safety engineering of electrical and electronic products | |
| 2017 | Michael Isnardi | For contributions to compliance testing and vision-based video compression technologies | |
| 2017 | Panos Nasiopoulos | For leadership in DVD authoring and digital multimedia technologies | |
| 2017 | Xianbin Wang | For contributions to OFDM systems and distributed transmission technologies | |
| 2017 | Dianguo Xu | For contribution to control of electrical drives and power electronic converters | |
| 2017 | Ce Zhu | For contributions to video coding and communications | |
| 2018 | Thomas Coughlin | For leadership in consumer electronics digital storage technology | |
| 2018 | Kohtaro Asai | For contributions to video coding development and standardization | |
| 2019 | Wen-chung Kao | For leadership in the development of electrophoretic display technology | |
| 2019 | Danilo Pau | For contributions to the development of memory efficient architectures for advanced multimedia applications | |
| 2019 | Seishi Takamura | For application of video coding |