{"73012":{"#nid":"73012","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Essa, Egerstedt Named IEEE Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE Board of Directors has elected professors Irfan Essa and Magnus Egerstedt (\u003Cem\u003Eboth Interactive Computing\u003C\/em\u003E) as Fellows in its Class of 2012. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEssa is a professor whose research focus is in computer vision, computer graphics, computational perception, robotics and computer animation. In his Fellow citation, Essa was lauded for \u201ccontributions to computer vision and graphics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel honored to be selected to be part of a group of my peers that I respect and who have made amazing contributions to their fields,\u201d Essa said. \u201cI am glad that my contributions to computer vision and graphics are considered worthy for this honor, and I intend to continue working on my multi-disciplinary research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt, an adjunct faculty member in the School of Interactive Computing with a primary appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, works in optimal control, as well as modeling and analysis of hybrid and discrete event systems, with emphasis on motion planning and control of (teams of) mobile robots. His IEEE citation acknowledged \u201ccontributions to hybrid and networked control, with applications in robotics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth professors are affiliated with the Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines (RIM) Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon those members with extraordinary records of accomplishment in any IEEE field of interest. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. For a full list of the Fellow Class of 2012, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/documents\/fellows_class_2012.pdf \u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Evisit the IEEE website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE Board of Directors has elected professors Irfan Essa and Magnus Egerstedt (\u003Cem\u003Eboth Interactive Computing\u003C\/em\u003E) as Fellows in its Class of 2012. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-11-23 11:21:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:42","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/index.html","title":"IEEE Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.rim.gatech.edu\/","title":"Robotics and Intelligent Machine Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"3072","name":"IEEE Fellows"},{"id":"15155","name":"Irfan Essa"},{"id":"11528","name":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"id":"12920","name":"RIM center"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}