April 24, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected new fellows for 2024, and two fellows of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) have been selected for this list. We warmly congratulate them!

The two IETI fellows selected as academicians this time are:

Pedro J. Alvarez, Rice University

Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley

About Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli:

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980-1981, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. In 1987, he was Visiting Professor at MIT. He is an author of over 800 papers, 17 books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems andinnovation.

He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation and the founder and Scientific Director of the PARADES Research Center in Rome.

Board Participation:

Public Companies: He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence and of KPIT-Cummins.

Privately Held Companies: He is a member of the Board of Directors of Sonics, and of Expert Systems.

Advisory Boards: He had been a member of the ST microelectronics Advisory Board for 10 years. He was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board (2005-2007), a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General Motors (2003-2013), and is a member of theTechnology Advisory Council of United Technologies Corporation (2005-present).

He is a member of the Advisory Board of Innogest, Xseed and a member of the Investment Committee of Atlante Venturesand Fondo Next.

Since January 2013, he is the President of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund.

He is member of the Scientific Council ofthe Italian National Science Foundation (CNR). Since February 2010, he has beena member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology.

Since July 2012, he has been named Chairperson of the Comitato Nazionale Garanti per la Ricerca.

Honors:

Teaching: In 1981, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California. He received theworldwide 1995 Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE for “inspirational teachingof graduate students”. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Aristotle Award ofthe Semiconductor Research Corporation.

Research: He received numerous researchawards including the Guillemin-Cauer Award (1982-1983), the Darlington Award(1987-1988) of the IEEE for the best paper bridging theory and applications, and two awards for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on CAS and CAD, five best paper awards and one best presentation awards at the Design Automation Conference, the best paper award at the International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems, other best paper awards at the Real-Time Systems Symposium, and the VLSI Conference.

Major Honors

In 2001, he was given the Kaufman Award of the Electronic Design Automation Council for “pioneering contributions to EDA”.

In 2008, he was awarded the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields” with the following citation: “For pioneering innovation and leadership in electronic design automation that have enabled the design of modern electronics systems and their industrial implementation”

In 2009, he received the first ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation to honor persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation.

In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from EDAA.

He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1982, a fellow of the ACM since 2014, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor bestowed upon a US engineer, since 1998.

Honorary Degrees:

In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the combined EE and CS departments of the University of Aalborg in Denmark. In 2012, he was given an Honorary Doctorate from KTH in Sweden.

About Pedro J.J. Alvarez:

Pedro J.J. Alvarez is the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, where he also serves as founding Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) and as Director of the Rice WaTER Institute.

Alvarez also serves on the board of directors of the Houston Endowment Inc., which is a private foundation to improve quality of life for the residents of greater Houston. His research interests include environmental implications and applications of nanotechnology, bioremediation, fate and transport of toxic chemicals, water footprint of biofuels, water treatment and reuse, and antibiotic resistance control. Professor Alvarez received the B. Eng. Degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is the 2012 Clarke Prize laureate for outstanding research in water science and technology, and also won the AAEES Grand Prize for Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science.

Past honors include a Collegiate Excellence in Teaching Award, President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), the Perry McCarty AEESP Founders’ Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Engineering Education and Practice, the AEESP Frontiers in Research Award, the WEF McKee Medal for Groundwater Protection, the SERDP cleanup project of the year award, the Outstanding Achievement Award in Environmental Chemistry from the Chinese Chemical Society, the Brown and Caldwell lifetime Achievement Award for Site Remediation, the ASCE Simon Freese Award, and various best paper awards with his students.

Alvarez is an Executive Editor of Environmental Science and Technology and previously served on the scientific advisory board of the EPA and of the advisory committee of the NSF Engineering Directorate. Prof. Alvarez was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for outstanding contributions to the practice and pedagogy of bioremediation and environmental nanotechnology, as well as to the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.