The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors elected Professors Anish Arora and Xiaodong Zhang on November 12, 2008. The grade of IEEE Fellow is awarded to recognize extraordinary accomplishments to its members world-wide as one of the Institute's most prestigious honors. The total number of IEEE Fellows selected in any one year is limited to no more than 0.1% of the total IEEE memberships.
Dr. Anish Arora received this recognition for his contributions to scalability and stabilization of networks of sensors and computers. Dr. Arora joined CSE in 1992 and quickly became a strong member of the networking research group. Leading the Dependable Distributed and Networked System Group a description of his recent work in People-Centric Wireless Sensor Networking may be found in the CSE 2007-2008 Annual Report.
IEEE honored Dr. Xiaodong Zhang, CSE Chairperson and Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, for his contributions to computer memory systems. A member of both the Networking and System Groups, Dr. Zhang came to CSE from College of William and Mary in 2006 and has made exceptional impact in the growth of the Department's research productivity and academic excellence . As Director of the High Performance Computing and Software Laboratory, his research covers a wide spectrum in the areas of high performance and distributed systems, a common thread being a focus on fast data accesses and resource sharing with cost- and energy-efficient management at different levels of the memory and storage hierarchies in computer, distributed, and Internet systems.
The CSE Department at Ohio State has a total of 8 IEEE Fellows, 2 ACM Fellows and one AAAI Fellow.