PhD Student Fellowship Program

2012 IEEE Electron Devices Society PhD Student Fellowship

Description: One year fellowships are awarded to promote, recognize, and support PhD level study and research within the Electron Devices Society’s field of interest.

It is expected that three fellowships will be awarded, with the intention of at least one fellowship being given to eligible students in each of the following geographical regions every year: Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia & Pacific. Only one candidate can win per educational institution.

Prize: US$5,000 to the student and if necessary funds are also available to assist in covering travel and accommodation cost to attend the IEDM for presentation of an award plaque. The EDS Newsletter will feature articles about the EDS PhD Fellows and their work over the course of the next year.

Eligibility: Candidate must: be an IEEE EDS student member at the time of nomination; be pursuing a doctorate degree within the EDS field of interest on a full-time basis; and continue his/her studies at the current institution with the same faculty advisor for twelve months after receipt of award. Sponsor must be an IEEE EDS member. Previous award winners are ineligible.

Basis for Judging: Demonstration of his/her significant ability to perform independent research in the fields of electron devices and a proven history of academic excellence. Nomination Package:

Nominating letter by an EDS member
Two-page (maximum) statement by the student describing his or her education and research interests and accomplishments
One-page biographical sketch of the student (including student's mailing and email addresses)
One copy of the student’s under-graduate and graduate transcripts/grades. Please provide an explanation of the grading system if different from the A-F format.
Two letters of recommendation from individuals familiar with the student’s research and educational credentials. Letters of recommendation cannot be from the nominator

Timetable:

Nomination packages are due at the EDS Executive Office no later than May 15, 2012
Recipients will be notified by July 15, 2012
Monetary awards will be given by August 15, 2012
Formal award presentations will take place at the EDS Administrative Committee Meeting in December 2012.
Nomination packages can be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail, but a hard copy must be received at the EDS Office.

Send completed package to:

IEEE Operations Center
EDS Executive Office
EDS PhD Student Fellowship Program
445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA

For more information contact: edsfellowship@ieee.org

2011 Winners	School
Sungsik Lee	London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK
Nagarajan Raghavan	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Deblina Sarkar	University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

2010 Winners	School
Can Bayram	Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Jing Zhuge	Peking University, Beijing, China
Guruprasad Katti	IMEC / Katholieke Universiteit, Lueven, Belgium

2009 Winners	School
Faisal Amir	The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Pierre-Yves Delaunay	Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Ximeng (Simon) Guan	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Rinus Lee Tek Po	National University of Singapore, Singapore

2008 Winners	School
Ahmed E. Islam	Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Jay Mody	IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Runsheng Wang	Peking University, Beijing, China
Jiahui Yuan	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

2007 Winners	School
Tuo-Hung Hou	Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Danijel Dankovic	University of Nis, Nis, Serbia
Kah-Wee Ang	National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Chen Yang	Tsinghua Iniversity, Beijing, China

2006 Winners	School
Ravi Todi	University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Rimoon Agaiby	Newcastle, United Kingdom
Wen Wu	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Chi Yung Ng	Nanyang Technological University

2005 Winners	School
Christopher Morris	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Elena Smotrova	National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine
Sun-Jung Kim	National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tony Aik Seng Low	National University of Singapore, Singapore

2004 Winners	School
David Wesley DiSanto	Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
David John	Univ of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Martin von Haartman	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
Hongyu Yu	National University of Singapore, Singapore

2003 Winners	School
Javier Salcedo	University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Yu-Long Jiang	Fudan University, Shanghai, China

2002 Winners	School
Jack Chen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Yung Fu Chong	National University of Singapore , Singapore
Ofir Bochobza-Degani	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
David M. Fried	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

2001 Winners	School
Tushar Kanti Ghosh	Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Sergei Kucheyev	The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Yee-Chia Yeo	University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Although the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) is pleased to invite all individuals and groups in the OFAC embargoed countries to submit nominations for IEEE EDS Awards, the IEEE EDS cannot provide any award monies to members from such countries at this time.

Last Updated on 04 April 2012