List of fellows of IEEE Communications Society
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.
| Year | Fellow | Citation |
| 1968 | Jose B. Cruz Jr. | For significant contributions in circuit theory and the sensitivity analysis of control systems |
| 1968 | Robert Gallager | For contributions to information theory and error correcting codes |
| 1970 | Thomas Kailath | For inspired teaching of and contributions to information, communication, and control theory |
| 1972 | Laveen Kanal | For contributions to the theory of statistical pattern classification |
| 1973 | Andrew Viterbi | For contributions to information and communication theory |
| 1973 | Norman Abramson | For contributions to engineering education, coding theory, pattern recognition, and computer networks |
| 1973 | Julian J. Bussgang | For contributions to sequential detection theory, radar techniques, and statistical communication theory |
| 1973 | Edward Wolff | For contributions to antennas, geoscience instrumentation, and management of scientific projects |
| 1973 | Stephen Sik-Sang Yau | For contributions to switch theory, the reliability of computing systems, and engineering education |
| 1975 | Ralph Wyndrum | For contributions to hybrid integrated circuits development and application |
| 1975 | J. J. Stiffler | For contribution to the field of synchronous communications |
| 1977 | Hisashi Kobayashi | For contributions to data transmission and to modeling and performance analysis of computer communication systems |
| 1978 | James Melsa | For educational leadership in the information and control sciences |
| 1978 | John O. Limb | For contributions to efficient coding of color and monochrome video signals |
| 1978 | George Moschytz | For contributions to the theory and the development of hybrid-integrated linear communication networks |
| 1980 | Shu Lin | For contributions to coding theory and engineering education |
| 1982 | Michael Pursley | For contributions to information theory and spread-spectrum communications |
| 1983 | Tamer Başar | For contributions to multiperson decision making and deterministic and stochastic dynamic game theory |
| 1983 | Henri Nussbaumer | For contributions to the theory and development of line switching and data transmission systems |
| 1983 | Harry Rudin | For contributions to the analysis of computer communication network performance and protocols |
| 1983 | Stewart D. Personick | For contributions to the theory and application of optical fiber transmission systems |
| 1984 | Thomas Giallorenzi | For leadership in the development of optical fiber systems for military applications |
| 1984 | John Baras | For contributions to distributed parameter systems theory, quantum and nonlinear estimation, and control of queuing systems |
| 1984 | Maurice Bellanger | For contributions to the theory of digital filtering, and the applications to communication systems |
| 1984 | Anthony Ephremides | For contributions to statistical communication theory, modeling and analysis of communication network, and engineering education |
| 1984 | T. Regulinski | For contributions to research and education in reliability |
| 1984 | Stephen Weinstein | For contributions to the theory and practice of voiceband data communications, and IEEE publications activities |
| 1985 | Simon S. Lam | For contributions to the understanding of multiple access techniques, packet-switching networks, and communication protocols |
| 1985 | Ryszard Struzak | For contributions to electromagnetic compatibility instrumentation and to frequency management |
| 1985 | Fouad Tobagi | For contributions to the field of computer communications and local area networks |
| 1986 | Erol Gelenbe | For leadership in the development of computer system performance evaluation |
| 1986 | Richard D. Gitlin | For contributions to data communication techniques |
| 1986 | Jae Lim | For contributions to speech and image enhancement and digital signal processing |
| 1987 | John Anderson | For contributions to tree coding and band-width-efficient modulation |
| 1987 | Paul Henry | For contributions to spread-spectral digital mobile radio and lightwave transmission systems |
| 1987 | Victor B. Lawrence | For contributions to the understanding of quantization effects in digital signal processors and the applications of digital signal processing to data communications |
| 1987 | Vincent Poor | For contributions to the theory of robust linear filtering applied to signal detection and estimation |
| 1987 | Izhak Rubin | For contributions to the analysis and design of computer communication systems and networks, and to engineering education |
| 1987 | Ca Salama | For contributions to the development of power semiconductor devices and the design of integrated circuits |
| 1988 | Mostafa Kaveh | For contributions to diffraction tomography and to the signal processing aspects of that imaging technique |
| 1988 | Adrian Segall | For contributions to theory and practice in computer communication networks |
| 1989 | Tariq Durrani | For contributions to signal processing and leadership in engineering education |
| 1989 | John Vig | For contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing |
| 1989 | Ezio Biglieri | For contributions to the modeling, analysis, and simulation of digital communications systems |
| 1989 | K Feher | For contributions to digital communications research and for leadership in applied communications engineering education |
| 1989 | Bruce Hajek | For contributions to stochastic systems, communications networks, and control systems |
| 1989 | Debasis Mitra | For contributions to mathematical foundations of computer and communication system design and analysis |
| 1989 | Yrjö Neuvo | For contributions to digital-signal processing algorithms and engineering education |
| 1989 | Krishna Pande | For contributions to III-V semiconductor materials and device technology, particularly for advancing the indium-phosphide, metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect-transistor technology |
| 1989 | M. Pitke | For technical leadership in the design and implementation of a family of digital switches for India's national telecommunications network |
| 1989 | Birendra Prasada | For leadership in the development of industry/university research in image coding and processing and for contributions to digital encoding of image signals |
| 1989 | W. Rummler | For contributions to the modeling of multipath fading and its effect on microwave digital radio |
| 1989 | Paul Shumate | For contributions to lightwave system technology |
| 1990 | Keshoolal Bakhru | For contributions to the analysis and technology of jam-resistant communication systems |
| 1990 | L. Campbell | For contributions to the understanding of signals and noise in nonlinear devices |
| 1990 | A. Howland | For leadership in the development and production of automated microwave instrumentation systems |
| 1990 | Salvatore D. Morgera | For contributions to finite-dimensional signal processing methods |
| 1990 | Hussein T. Mouftah | For contributions to communications modeling |
| 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 |
| 1990 | Charles R. Terreault | For contributions to the digitization of the telecommunications network |
| 1990 | Iwao Toda | For contributions to on-line computer systems, computer networks, and switching theory |
| 1990 | Rodney Tucker | For contributions to microwave frequency optoelectronic circuits and the direct modulation of high-speed semiconductor lasers |
| 1991 | Richard Cox | For contributions to real-time speech coding, and to the standardization of digital technology for secure voice, cellular radio, and telephony applications |
| 1991 | Charles Einolf | For leadership in industrial electronics and the application of microprocessors to nuclear instrumentation |
| 1991 | WRoss Stone | For contributions to the fields of inverse problems and computational electromagnetics |
| 1991 | Leonid Kazovsky | For contributions to coherent optical communications technology |
| 1991 | Arogyaswami Paulraj | For leadership in and technical contributions to the development of sonar systems in India |
| 1991 | John Pullen | For technical leadership in computing systems and networking |
| 1991 | Martha E. Sloan | For contributions to engineering education, leadership in the development of computer engineering education as a discipline, and leadership in extending engineering education to women |
| 1992 | Vijay Bhargava | For leadership in the development and applications of error control coding devices |
| 1992 | Charles Bostian | For contributions to and leadership in the understanding of satellite path radio wave propagation |
| 1992 | Werner Bux | For contributions to the design, analysis, and standardization of data-link and medium-access protocols |
| 1992 | John Cafarella | For contributions to the development of surface-wave and other advanced signal-processing components |
| 1992 | Peter Cochrane | For leadership in and contributions to digital transmission systems and networks |
| 1992 | Hamid Gharavi | For contributions to low bit-rate video coding and research in subband coding for image and video applications |
| 1992 | Jerry Gibson | For contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive prediction and speech waveform coding |
| 1992 | Kohei Habara | For contributions as a technical leader to the development and standardization of integrated services digital networks |
| 1992 | Hiromasa Ikeda | For contributions to and leadership in the development of digital switching systems and technologies |
| 1992 | Yoshikazu Ikeda | For contributions to the multinational development of an advanced signaling system for international telecommunications services |
| 1992 | Hideki Imai | For contributions to the theory of coded modulation and two-dimensional codes |
| 1992 | Demetrios Kazakos | For contributions to detection and estimation theory, with applications to multiuser data communications and statistical pattern recognition |
| 1992 | Lin-nan Lee | For contributions to applying coding theory, cryptography, and digital signal processing to commercial satellite communications |
| 1992 | Victor Li | For contributions to the design and analysis of communications networks |
| 1992 | Richard Linke | For contributions to single -frequency semiconductor lasers and to their applications in high-capacity and coherent lightwave communication systems |
| 1992 | Curtis Siller | For contributions to the development of interference reduction systems for microwave radio, especially high-frequency digital filters for communications |
| 1992 | Rabinder Madan | For leadership in research programs for signal processing, communications, and nonlinear phenomena |
| 1992 | Michael Pecht | For contributions to and leadership in electronics packaging and reliability |
| 1992 | Amir Zaghloul | For contributions to the application of phased array antennas to communications satellite systems |
| 1993 | Mark Karol | For contributions to the theory, design, and analysis of high-performance packet switches and multiuser lightwave communication networks |
| 1993 | Jules Bellisio | For contributions to and leadership in the conception and realization of digital television systems for current and emerging telecommunication networks |
| 1993 | Imrich Chlamtac | For contributions to the design and analysis of channel control protocols and their application to communication networks |
| 1993 | John Daigle | For contributions to queuing theory and its application to telecommunications systems |
| 1993 | David Haccoun | For contributions to the study of probabilistic decoding algorithms for convolutional codes |
| 1993 | Pierre Humblet | For contributions to optical-fiber networks, distributed algorithms, and protocols |
| 1993 | Ferdo Ivanek | For contributions to the development of fundamental-frequency microwave oscillators and amplifiers and their application in analog and digital radio relay systems |
| 1993 | Raj Jain | For contributions to performance analysis and modeling of computer systems and networks and for providing a new direction for solutions to the problem of network congestion |
| 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 |
| 1993 | Rikio Maruta | For contributions to the practical application of digital signal processing techniques for telecommunications systems through the development of algorithms and DSP LSI chips |
| 1993 | Josef Nossek | For contributions to the design of discrete-time networks and technical leadership in the development of radio communication systems |
| 1993 | Mansoor Shafi | For contributions to the propagation modeling of microwave radio paths and for leadership in the development of digital radio |
| 1993 | Jean Walrand | For the development of highly efficient techniques for the analysis, control, and simulation of stochastic networks and stochastic resource allocation problems |
| 1994 | Gordon Day | For technical contributions and leadership in lightwave measurement and optical fiber sensors |
| 1994 | David Lynch | For leadership in the development of programmable signal processors and low probability of intercept radar |
| 1994 | Francis Magee | For contributions to data communications through receivers innovation in high-speed modems, and to protocols for packet-switched networks |
| 1994 | Tibor Berceli | For contributions in the fields of microwave photonics and nonlinear microwave circuits |
| 1994 | Vincent Chan | For leadership in optical communication systems |
| 1994 | Chen Wen-tsuen | For contributions to software engineering and parallel processing systems design |
| 1994 | Anthony Davies | For contributions to the theory and analysis of active networks |
| 1994 | David J. Farber | For contributions to computer languages, distributed computing and advanced computer communications networking |
| 1994 | Michael Hluchyj | For contributions to the theory, design, and analysis of switching and queueing in high-performance packet communication networks |
| 1994 | Koichi Inada | For contributions to the development of low-loss, high reliability optical fiber and cables |
| 1994 | Lev Levitin | For contributions to physical information theory and quantum communication systems |
| 1994 | Bernard Levy | For contributions to the modeling and estimation of multidimensional random processes |
| 1994 | David Neuhoff | For contributions to the theory of universal source coding and asymptotic vector quantization |
| 1994 | Lionel Ni | For contributions to parallel processing and distributed systems |
| 1994 | Shlomo Shamai | For contributions to Shannon theory as applied to the evaluation of reliability of communication channels |
| 1994 | D Taylor | For contributions to the theory and practice of signal space encoding signaling |
| 1994 | Jitendra Tugnait | For contributions to statistical signal processing and stochastic systems analysis |
| 1995 | J. Roberto De Marca | For leadership and contributions to international communications |
| 1995 | Nim Cheung | For contributions to the understanding and development of high speed lightwave technology and to the architecture and application of gigabit networks |
| 1995 | Pierre Chevillat | For contributions to the theory and application of digital communication techniques |
| 1995 | Amitava Dutta-roy | For contributions to the development of techniques and programs for the effective dissemination of information on computer networks and communication technologies in Brazil |
| 1995 | Shri Goyal | For the integration of artificial intelligence technology in telecommunications and for researching techniques for the development and deployment of intelligent systems in telecommunications networks |
| 1995 | Chris Heegard | For development and analysis of families of efficient channel codes |
| 1995 | To Hsing | For leadership in the development of technology to transport video rate data on existing telephone access lines |
| 1995 | Yih-fang Huang | For fundamental contributions to set-membership identification for signal processing and control systems |
| 1995 | Louis Ippolito | For contributions to the study and applications of radiowave propagation effects in space communications systems design |
| 1995 | Gerd Keiser | For contributions to the development and evaluation of asynchronous transfer mode switches and fiber optic networks |
| 1995 | Hikmet Sari | For contributions to advanced signal processing in digital microwave radio systems |
| 1995 | Don Towsley | For contributions to modeling and analysis of computer networks |
| 1996 | Douglas Zuckerman | For leadership in the development of network operations and management in industry |
| 1996 | John Cioffi | For contributions to the theory, practice, and promotion of advanced communication methods in data transmission and storage |
| 1996 | Ian F. Akyildiz | For contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks |
| 1996 | A Bush | For contributions in communications theory and engineering education, and for the promotion of fundamental and applied research in communications |
| 1996 | Changxin Fan | For contributions to and leadership in the area of communication engineering education and research |
| 1996 | Thomas Fischer | For contributions to the theory and practice of data compression, including trellis coded quantization and pyramid vector quantization |
| 1996 | Peter Grant | For contributions to surface acoustic wave processing and leadership in signal processing research |
| 1996 | Gerald Lebizay | For the advancement of the state of the art in data and voice communication systems and entrepreneurship that contributed to the adoption of asynchronous transfer mode switching by the computer network industry |
| 1996 | Osama Mohammed | For contributions to three-dimensional electromagnetic field computation and for the development of intelligent systems techniques for the optimal design of electromagnetic devices and systems |
| 1997 | Justin Chuang | For contributions to radio link techniques, system architecture, and resource management of low-power wireless personal communications |
| 1997 | Edward Delp | For contributions to image compression and processing |
| 1997 | Dariush Divsalar | For contributions to the analysis and design of coding and modulation techniques for satellite, mobile, and deep-space communication systems |
| 1997 | Michael Honig | For contributions to adaptive interference suppression and multiuser detection of digital communications |
| 1997 | M A Lagunas | For leadership in industrial applications of signal processing |
| 1997 | Tho Le-ngoc | For contributions to modulation and error correction coding and multiple-access schemes for digital wireless communications |
| 1997 | Raymond J. Leopold | For leadership and contributions to world-wide satellite communications and personal wireless |
| 1997 | Fuyun Ling | For the development and analysis of adaptive signal processing algorithms and their application to digital communication systems |
| 1997 | Rico Malvar | For contributions to the theory and practice of lapped transforms, fast multirate filter banks, and signal coding |
| 1997 | Paul Siegel | For contributions to signal processing and coding for storage systems |
| 1997 | Satish K. Tripathi | For advancing the state of the art in computer and network systems analysis and for excellence in technical and educational leadership |
| 1998 | Michael Lightner | For contributions to the Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits |
| 1998 | Ender Ayanoglu | For contributions to communication theory and coding applications in communication networks |
| 1998 | Antonio Cantoni | For contributions to the design of filter, antenna arrays and telecommunications systems using constrained optimization methods |
| 1998 | David Du | For contributions to database structures and retrieval algorithms |
| 1998 | Pierre Duhamel | For contributions to the optimization of the Fast Fourier Transform |
| 1998 | Luigi Fratta | For contributions to packet switching technology |
| 1998 | Victor Frost | For contributions to the simulations, monitoring and control of communication networks |
| 1998 | Costas Georghiades | For contributions to the theory of optimum receiver design |
| 1998 | Joseph Katz | For contributions to the development of optoelectronic devices and systems for optical communications, remote sensing, and bar-code reading |
| 1998 | Anthony Kuh | For contributions to the analysis of neural network models and their application to signal processing |
| 1998 | Sukhan Lee | For contributions to human-machine systems and intelligent robots through development of teleoperator control systems and neural networks |
| 1998 | Wu-hon Leung | For contributions to operating systems, protocols and programming methods supporting the development of distributed systems and multimedia communication applications |
| 1998 | Yasuo Matsuyama | For contributions to learning algorithms with competition |
| 1998 | Curtis Menyuk | For contributions to mathematics and computation of light propagation in nonlinear and disperse optical fibers |
| 1998 | Roger Peterson | For contributions to spread spectrum communication system design and personal communication systems |
| 1998 | Wayne Stark | For contributions to the theory and practice of coding and modulation in spread-spectrum communication systems |
| 1998 | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | For outstanding contributions to research and education in computer networks and operating systems |
| 1998 | Patrick Trischitta | For contributions to the development and worldwide deployment of undersea fiber optic communications systems |
| 1998 | Marilyn Wolf | For contributions to Hardware/Software Co-Design |
| 1999 | Behnaam Aazhang | For contributions to multi-user wideband digital cellular communications |
| 1999 | Ken-ichi Sato | For contributions to the architecture and technologies of Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks and photonic networks |
| 1999 | Arun K. Somani | For contributions to the theory and application of computer networks |
| 1999 | Marco Ajmone Marsan | For the development of generalized stochastic petri net theory and its applications |
| 1999 | Rashid Ansari | For contributions to multirate digital signal processing and digital filter banks |
| 1999 | Tor Aulin | For contributions to the analysis of Continuous Phase Modulation systems, and characterization of radio channels |
| 1999 | Magdy Bayoumi | For contributions to application specific digital signal processing architectures and computer arithmetic |
| 1999 | Norman C. Beaulieu | For contributions to the analysis and modeling of wireless data and digital communication systems |
| 1999 | Said El-khamy | For contributions to signaling techniques for propagation through natural media |
| 1999 | Andrzej Jajszczyk | For contributions to the theory and practice of telecommunications switching |
| 1999 | Byoung Kim | For contributions to the theory and practice of fiber optic devices, including few-mode devices, for telecommunications and sensing applications |
| 1999 | Alberto Leon-Garcia | For contributions to multiplexing and switching of integrated services traffic |
| 1999 | Stuart Lipoff | For contributions leading to commercialization of advanced consumer electronics products |
| 1999 | Kyu Tae Park | For contributions to education in computer and image processing technology and for technical leadership |
| 1999 | Craig Partridge | For contributions to the development of Internet protocols that support larger and faster networks |
| 1999 | Vellenki Reddy | For contributions to adaptive spectral estimation and eigensubspace estimation |
| 1999 | Nihal Sinnadurai | For contributions to the field of cost effective, reliable microelectronics packaging |
| 1999 | Michael Soderstrand | For contributions to engineering education in curriculum development and contributions to analog and digital signal processing |
| 1999 | Gordon Stuber | For contributions to mobile radio and spread spectrum communications |
| 2000 | Leonard Cimini | For contributions to the theory and practice of high-speed wireless communications |
| 2000 | S Jamaloddin Golestani | For contributions to the theory of congestion control and provision of fairness and guaranteed services in packet networks |
| 2000 | Nambirajan Seshadri | For contributions to theory and practice of reliable communications over wireless channels |
| 2000 | Mitsutoshi Hatori | For contributions in communication engineering and broadcasting engineering |
| 2000 | Joseph Kahn | For contributions to optical communications systems |
| 2000 | Shuzo Kato | For contributions to satellite and personal communications systems |
| 2000 | Roger Marks | For contributions to standards and measurement techniques for wireless communication systems and components |
| 2000 | John Haig Marsh | For contributions to development of integrated optics based on semiconductor quantum well devices |
| 2000 | Tetsuya Miki | For contributions to optical transmission systems and Fiber-To-The-Home |
| 2000 | William Miniscalco | For contributions to development and application of optical fiber amplifiers and lasers |
| 2000 | Madihally Narasimha | For contributions to development of transmultiplexers and discrete cosine transform computational algorithms |
| 2000 | Naohisa Ohta | For contributions to the research and development of technologies and applications for high quality digital image and video communications |
| 2000 | Steen Parl | For contributions to high data rate communications over fading multipath channels |
| 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 |
| 2000 | Bhaskar Rao | For the statistical analysis of subspace algorithms for harmonic retrieval |
| 2000 | Roger Elliott Ray | For contributions to power systems communications and protective relaying systems |
| 2000 | Bixio Rimoldi | For contributions to multiple-access information theory |
| 2000 | Kotikalapudi Sriram | For the development of performance models, algorithms, protocols, and bandwidth management techniques for multimedia high-speed packet networks |
| 2000 | Robert Tkach | For contributions to the understanding and mitigation of nonlinear effects in optical fibers, enabling significant advances in the capacity and performance of lightwave systems |
| 2000 | Demosthenis Teneketzis | For contributions to the theory of decentralized information systems and stochastic control |
| 2001 | Moshe Kam | For contributions to the theory of decision fusion and distributed detection |
| 2001 | Vincenzo Piuri | For contributions to neural network techniques and embedded digital architectures for industrial applications |
| 2001 | Yoshihiko Akaiwa | For contributions to digital modulation techniques and distributed dynamic channel assignment for mobile radio communications |
| 2001 | Hung Jonathan Chao | For contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high speed packet networks |
| 2001 | Belur V. Dasarathy | For contributions to pattern recognition, sensor fusion, automated intelligent decision system design and image processing |
| 2001 | Sang Hoo Dhong | For contribution to high speed processor and memory chip design |
| 2001 | Wei Hwang | For contributions to high density cell technology and high speed Dynamic Random Access Memory design |
| 2001 | Takashi Iida | For contributions and leadership in satellite communications systems |
| 2001 | Kin Leung | For contributions to performance analysis, protocol design, and control algorithms for communications networks |
| 2001 | Prakash Narayan | For contributions to Shannon Theory and its application to the evaluation of the reliability of communication channels |
| 2001 | Masakazu Sengoku | For contributions to graph theoretic research on circuits and communication network systems |
| 2001 | Tatsuya Suda | For contributions to the advancement of high speed networks |
| 2001 | Shigehiko Suzuki | For leadership in the development and standardization of technologies for intelligence in telecommunications networks |
| 2001 | Arne Svensson | For contributions to detection of digital modulation methods |
| 2001 | Yang Yuan Wang | For leadership in China's semiconductor research and education |
| 2001 | Yiyan Wu | For contributions to digital television research and standards development |
| 2002 | Fumiyuki Adachi | For contributions and leadership in digital cellular communication technologies |
| 2002 | Mostafa Ammar | For contributions to the design of scalable multimedia services and their network support |
| 2002 | Tomonori Aoyama | For contributions to digital signal processing for communications and broadband communication networks |
| 2002 | Anthony Boucouvalas | For contributions to the understanding and development of optical fiber components and optical wireless communications |
| 2002 | James Cavers | For contributions to the theory and practice of digital transmission over wireless channels |
| 2002 | Stephen Dukes | For leadership in evolving cable television industry architecture, technology and standards for rapidly developing digital two-way communications systems |
| 2002 | Evangelos S. Eleftheriou | For contributions to equalization and coding, and for noise-predictive maximum likelihood detection in magnetic recording |
| 2002 | Eweda Eweda | For contributions to the theory of adaptive filtering |
| 2002 | J. Haslett | For contributions to high temperature instrumentation and noise in solid-state electronics |
| 2002 | Yingbo Hua | For contributions to high resolution signal processing and blind system identification |
| 2002 | James Johnston | For contributions in perceptual audio coding and its standardization |
| 2002 | Leo Ligthart | For contributions to antenna research and radar technology |
| 2002 | Marc Moeneclaey | For contributions to the theory of synchronization in digital communications |
| 2002 | Kazuo Murano | For contributions to the research and development of communications signal processing and DSP LSIs, and the standardization of ISDN user-network interface |
| 2002 | Tapio Saramäki | For contributions to the design and implementation of digital filters and filter banks |
| 2003 | Daniel Blumenthal | For contributions to optical packet switching and agile optical networking |
| 2003 | Kenneth Bow | For contributions to the development of polymer compounds, coated metal shielding, and laminate sheaths for wire and cable applications |
| 2003 | Prosper Chemouil | For contributions to the design and implementation of dynamic routing and traffic management systems in telecommunications networks |
| 2003 | Zhi Ding | For contributions to blind estimation and equalization of communication |
| 2003 | Mario Gerla | For contributions to ad hoc wireless networks |
| 2003 | Sadahik Kano | For contributions to and leadership in the development of international digital network standards |
| 2003 | Kenichi Kitayama | For contributions to optical fiber communications, radio-on-fiber communications, and photonic networks |
| 2003 | Khaled Letaief | For contributions to the analysis, design, and performance evaluation of high-speed wireless communication systems |
| 2003 | K. J. Ray Liu | For contributions to algorithms, architectures, and implementations for signal processing |
| 2003 | Thomas Marzetta | For contributions to the theory of multidimensional signal processing and multiple-antenna communications |
| 2003 | Antonio Mecozzi | For contributions to the theory of nonlinear transmission in optical fibers |
| 2003 | Takehiro Moriya | For contributions to speech compression and audio coding technologies and their standardization |
| 2003 | Tony Ng | For contributions to signal processing techniques in spread spectrum communications |
| 2003 | Erdal Panayirci | For contributions to carrier symbol synchronization and channel estimation in digital communications |
| 2003 | Kenneth Rose | For contributions to information-theoretic methods in signal processing |
| 2003 | Bhavani Thuraisingham | For contributions to secure systems involving database systems, distributed systems, and the web |
| 2003 | Toshitaka Tsuda | For contributions to digital signal processing and its application to the communication industry, and leadership in broadband telecommunications |
| 2004 | Philip Chou | For contributions to variational methods in information theory, signal processing, and compression |
| 2004 | Jon Crowcroft | For contributions to network protocols |
| 2004 | J. Farmer | For technical leadership in the cable television industry |
| 2004 | Thomas Fuja | For contributions to error control coding |
| 2004 | Lajos Hanzo | For contributions to adaptive wireless communication systems |
| 2004 | Kenneth Kerpez | For contributions to digital subscriber line technology and standards |
| 2004 | Harold Kirkham | For leadership in the field of optical measurements for power systems |
| 2004 | Jean-Yves Le Boudec | For contributions to the theory and practice of service guarantees in packet networks |
| 2004 | Will Leland | For contributions to the characterization of traffic on data networks |
| 2004 | Michael Marcus | For leadership in the development of spectrum management policies |
| 2004 | Yukou Mochida | For contributions to the development and deployment of digital transport system |
| 2004 | Koso Murakami | For contributions to switching technologies and systems for broadband communications networks |
| 2004 | Björn Ottersten | For contributions to antenna signal processing and wireless communications |
| 2004 | Surendra Pal | For contributions to space-borne communication systems |
| 2004 | Sanjoy Paul | For contributions to the design and development of communication network protocols |
| 2004 | Subramaniam Ramadorai | For leadership in the development of multidisciplinary software solutions |
| 2004 | Robert Rassa | For contributions to automated system testing |
| 2004 | Lee Swindlehurst | For contributions to the field of space-time signal processing for radar and wireless communications |
| 2004 | David L. Tennenhouse | For leadership in the development of active networks |
| 2004 | Moe Z. Win | For contributions to wideband wireless transmission |
| 2005 | Rick Blum | For contributions to detection, data fusion, and signal processing for multiple sensors |
| 2005 | Ljiljana Trajković | For contributions to computer aided design tools for circuit analysis |
| 2005 | Abdol-hamid Aghvami | For contribution to the advancement of multiple access protocols for mobile communications |
| 2005 | Joseph Campbell | For leadership in biometrics, speech systems, and government applications |
| 2005 | Mehmet Civanlar | For contributions to video transport over communications networks |
| 2005 | Romano Fantacci | For contributions to wireless communication networks |
| 2005 | Andrea Goldsmith | For contributions to the development of adaptive techniques and the analysis of fundamental capacity limits for wireless communication systems |
| 2005 | K. K. Ramakrishnan | For contributions to congestion control and traffic management in communication networks |
| 2005 | Joseph Guerci | For contributions to advanced radar theory and its embodiment in real world systems |
| 2005 | Geza Kolumban | For contributions to double sampled phase-locked loops and noncoherent chaotic communications |
| 2005 | T Lakshman | For contributions to high-speed packet networking |
| 2005 | Joy Laskar | For contributions to the modeling and development of high frequency communication modules |
| 2005 | Upamanyu Madhow | For contributions to adaptive multiuser detection for wireless communication theory |
| 2005 | Paul Nikolich | For leadership in enabling ubiquitous broadband internet access and associated standards |
| 2005 | Mohammad S. Obaidat | For contributions to adaptive learning, pattern recognition and system simulation |
| 2005 | A. J. Han Vinck | For contributions to coding techniques |
| 2005 | Walter Willinger | For the analysis and mathematical modeling of Internet traffic |
| 2006 | Karlheinz Brandenburg | For contributions to audio coding |
| 2006 | Chung-ju Chang | For contributions to radio resource management for mobile communication systems |
| 2006 | Giovanni Cherubini | For application of signal-processing techniques to digital data transmission and storage |
| 2006 | Yun Chung | For contributions to optical network performance monitoring and passive optical network architectures |
| 2006 | Marc P. Fossorier | For contributions to coding and decoding methods |
| 2006 | Nicholas Frigo | For contributions to optical communications technology and access network architectures |
| 2006 | Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves | For contributions to theory and design of communication protocols for network routing and channel access |
| 2006 | Hideki Hayashi | For contributions to and leadership in compound semiconductor device technologies |
| 2006 | Johannes Huber | For contributions to coded modulation and digital subscriber line design |
| 2006 | Frank Kschischang | For contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes |
| 2006 | Luc Vandendorpe | For contributions to digital communications |
| 2006 | Anurag Kumar | For contributions to communication networks and distributed computing systems |
| 2006 | Luis Kun | For contributions to health care information infrastructure |
| 2006 | Hideo Kuwahara | For contributions to high capacity optical fiber communication technologies |
| 2006 | David Lucantoni | For contributions to stochastic modeling of communication systems |
| 2006 | Richard Lynch | For leadership in advancing wireless voice and data technologies |
| 2006 | Douglas O'Shaughnessy | For contributions to education in speech processing and communication |
| 2006 | Ulrich Reimers | For contributions to the development of Digital Video Broadcasting |
| 2006 | Thomas Robertazzi | For contributions to parallel processor scheduling |
| 2006 | John Sahalos | For contributions to antenna analysis and design |
| 2006 | Henning Schulzrinne | For contributions to the design of protocols, applications, and algorithms for Internet multimedia |
| 2006 | Dirk Slock | For contributions to adaptive filtering and signal processing for wireless communications |
| 2006 | Gary Sullivan | For contributions to video coding and its standardization |
| 2006 | Tomohiko Taniguchi | For contributions to speech coding technologies and development of digital signal processing based communication systems |
| 2006 | Jan Uddenfeldt | For contributions to cellular telecommunications systems |
| 2006 | Venugopal Veeravalli | For contributions to wireless communication systems and sensor networks |
| 2006 | Andreas Weisshaar | For contributions to modeling of on-chip interconnects and integrated passive microwave components |
| 2007 | Gregory Bottomley | For contributions to wireless communication systems |
| 2007 | Paul Antonik | For contributions to knowledge-based radar systems |
| 2007 | Kwang-cheng Chen | For contributions to wireless broadband communications and wireless local area networks |
| 2007 | Grace Clark | For contributions in block adaptive filtering |
| 2007 | Fadhel M. Ghannouchi | For contributions to advanced microwave amplification circuits and sub-systems |
| 2007 | Steven Scott Gorshe | For invention and standardization of elements of optical transmission systems |
| 2007 | Xiaohong Guan | For contributions to optimization of hydrothermal generation scheduling |
| 2007 | Zygmunt Haas | For contributions to wireless and mobile ad-hoc networks |
| 2007 | Stefan Heinen | For contributions to radio freque |