Congratulations to the 2020 Bell Labs Fellows
Every year Nokia Bell Labs recognizes a select few individuals who have made outstanding and sustained R&D contributions to Nokia and the global technical community, bestowing on them the distinguished title of Bell Lab Fellow. This is the highest honor given to members of our technical community, and the Fellows serve as examples to Nokia and the industry at large by setting the highest standard for the technical community.
At a virtual awards ceremony in December Nokia inducted seven new Fellows. These honorees hail from across Nokia’s research and development functions and their work spans many disciplines, ranging from the most advanced optical and mobile network technologies to advances in video processing and the pioneering of new VPN types. Their innovations and ideas have not only been critical to Nokia’s business – leading to groundbreaking new products, platforms and software – but have also set or defined new standards in their fields. The Bell Labs Fellows program launched in 1982, and since then only 330 researchers and engineers have joined its august ranks, with 90 Fellows currently working for the company, include the new 2020 cohort.
“The Bell Labs Fellow Award is really the pinnacle of technical accomplishment in industrial technical innovation, as the award requires not only technical brilliance but significant industry impact through the widespread adoption of the approach in systems and solutions,” said Marcus Weldon, Nokia Corporate CTO and President of Bell Labs. “Every year it is incredibly rewarding to recognize these outstanding individuals who have dedicated their professional lives to the pursuit of excellence with real human impact, and this year’s group of Fellows is particularly impressive in this regard.”
The recipients of the 2020 Bell Labs Fellows award and their citations are:
Name: Fred Buchali
Citation: For fundamental and sustained contributions to high-baud-rate systems and digital signal processing for optical transmission systems.
Name: Devaki Chandramouli
Citation: For seminal contributions to several generations of mobile network technologies and demonstrating excellence in leading technology development in industry standards bodies.
Name: Giancarlo Gavioli
Citation: For creation of industry-leading optical networks solutions and seminal contributions in communication theory and algorithmic development and dense integrated digital circuit implementation.
Name: Jani Lainema
Citation: For developing outstanding video technologies and driving those into the dominant global standards.
Name: Klaus Ingemann Pedersen
Citation: For outstanding contributions to radio resource management research and holistic end-to-end system-level performance modeling and analysis.
Name: Jorge Rabadan
Citation: For consistent and sustained contribution to the development and standardization of Virtual Private Network technologies.
Name: Shahriar Shahramian
Citation: For seminal contributions to the field of mmWave integrated circuits and architectures with significant impact on wireless communication systems.
