2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Awards Announcement
Congratulations to the authors of the book below who are the recipients of the
2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Awards!
2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award
is awarded to
Babu Dayal Padullaparthi, Jim Tatum, Kenichi Iga
for the book
VCSEL Industry: Communication and Sensing
The book is in the ComSoc Guides to Communications Technologies series, Series Editor, Nim Cheung.
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Award Ceremonies
Kenichi Iga Awarded 2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award
Kenichi Iga receiving IEEE Press award at ISLC 2022 from Akihiko Kasukawa
Kenichi Iga, IEEE Life Fellow and Professor Emeritus/Former President of Tokyo Institute of Technology received the 2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award during an award ceremony held at the International Conference on Semiconductor Lasers (ISLC2022) in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan on 18 October 2022. This award is given to excellent technical books published by Wiley-IEEE Press.
The subject of the award is “VCSEL Industry: Communications and Sensing,” a specialized book on surface-emitting lasers published in 2021 by Iga as one of the authors (Babu Dayal Padullaparthi, Jim Tatum, and Kenichi Iga). Dr. Akihiko Kasukawa, General Chair of ISLC2022 that is technically sponsored by IEEE, presented the commemorative plaque on behalf of IEEE Press. After the ceremony, Iga gave an IEEE Edison Medal commemorative lecture and appreciated receiving the book award during his talk.
Iga poses in front of a photo montage of all three co-authors
Babu Dayal Padullaparthi Awarded 2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award
Babu Dayal Padullaparthi has received the 2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award for the book “VCSEL Industry: Communications and Sensing,” a book on surface-emitting lasers. The award was presented during a ceremony held at the recent OFC Conference in San Diego by Sherman Shen, IEEE Communications Society President.
Co-authors Kenichi Iga and Jim Tatum received their awards in 2022. Iga was presented with his award at the International Conference on Semiconductor Lasers (#ISLC2022) in Japan in October 2022 and Tatum received his award separately.
The Wiley-IEEE Press Awards annually recognize the authors of an outstanding textbook and an outstanding professional book published by Wiley-IEEE Press. Nominations for the 2023 awards are being accepted now through 5 May 2023. To view a list of nominees and to submit a nomination, visit our nominations site at https://bit.ly/36QtwnT.