IEEE Honors Innovators Shaping AI and Training

Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the group’s highest-level honors. Introduced on behalf of the IEEE Board of Administrators, these medals acknowledge innovators whose work has formed trendy know-how throughout disciplines together with AI, training, and semiconductors.

The medals might be offered on the IEEE Honors Ceremony in April in New York Metropolis. View the total listing of 2026 recipients on the IEEE Awards web site, and comply with IEEE Awards on LinkedIn for information and updates.

Sponsor: IEEE

Jensen Huang

Nvidia

Santa Clara, Calif.

“For management within the improvement of graphics processing items and their utility to scientific computing and synthetic intelligence.”

Sponsor: IBM

Luis von Ahn

Duolingo

Pittsburgh

“For contributions to the development of societal enchancment and training via modern know-how.”

Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs

Scott J. Shenker

College of California, Berkeley

“For contributions to Web structure, community useful resource allocation, and software-defined networking.”

Sponsor: Mani L. Bhaumik

Co-recipients:
Eric Dahlman
Stefan Parkvall
Johan Sköld

Ericsson

Stockholm

“For contributions to and management within the analysis, improvement, and standardization of mobile wi-fi communications.”

Sponsor: Google

Karen Ann Panetta

Tufts College

Medford, Mass.

“For contributions to laptop imaginative and prescient and simulation algorithms, and for management in creating applications to advertise STEM careers.”

Sponsor: The Edison Medal Fund

Eric Swanson

PIXCEL Inc.

WITH

“For pioneering contributions to biomedical imaging, terrestrial optical communications and networking, and inter-satellite optical hyperlinks.”

Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp.

Wea-Jeren

College of Texas at Arlington

“For contributions to advancing electrical security within the office, integrating renewable power and grid modernization for local weather change mitigation.”

Sponsor: IEEE Basis

Marian Rogers Croak

Google

Reston, VA.

“For management in communication networks, together with acceleration of digital fairness, accountable Synthetic Intelligence, and the promotion of range and inclusion.”

Sponsor: Qualcomm, Inc.

Muriel Médard

WITH

“For contributions to coding for dependable communications and networking.”

Sponsor: Associates of Nick Holonyak, Jr.

Steven P. DenBaars

College of California, Santa Barbara

“For seminal contributions to compound semiconductor optoelectronics, together with high-efficiency seen light-emitting diodes, lasers, and LED shows.”

Sponsor: IEEE Engineering Medication and Biology Society

Rosalind W. Picard

WITH

“For pioneering contributions to wearable affective computing for well being and wellbeing.”

Sponsor: Apple

Biing-Hwang “Fred” Juang

Georgia Tech

“For contributions to sign modeling, coding, and recognition for speech communication.”

Sponsor: ARM, Ltd.

Paul B. Corkum

College of Ottawa

“For the event of the recollision mannequin for robust discipline mild–matter interactions resulting in the sector of attosecond science.”

Sponsor: IEEE Life Members Fund and MathWorks

James H. McClellan

Georgia Tech

“For elementary contributions to electrical and laptop engineering training via modern digital sign processing curriculum improvement.”

Sponsor: IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Fund

Eric R. Fossum

Dartmouth School

Hanover, N.H.

“For the invention, improvement, and commercialization of the CMOS picture sensor.”

Sponsor: Intel Corp.

Chris Malachowsky

Nvidia

Santa Clara, Calif.

“For pioneering parallel computing architectures and management in semiconductor design that reworked synthetic intelligence, scientific analysis, and accelerated computing.”

Sponsor: RTX

Yoshio Yamaguchi

Niigata College

Japan

“For contributions to polarimetric artificial aperture radar imaging and its utilization.”

Sponsors: IEEE Business Functions, Industrial Electronics, Energy Electronicsand Energy & Power societies

Fang Zheng Peng

College of Pittsburgh

“For contributions to Z-Supply and modular multi-level converters for distribution and transmission networks.”

Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.

Michael D. Griffin

LogiQ, Inc.

Arlington, Va.

“For management in nationwide safety, civil, and industrial programs engineering and improvement of chic design rules.”

Sponsor: IBM

Donald D. Chamberlin

IBM

San Jose, Calif.

“For contributions to database question languages, notably Structured Question Language, which powers many of the world’s information administration and evaluation programs.”