UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Vishal Monga, professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Penn State, were recently recognized as 2025 fellows by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the highest level of recognition available in the organization.
The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, according to their website. Less than 0.1% of voting members in the IEEE are selected annually for the grade elevation to fellow. Fellows are vetted and selected based on their outstanding work in electrical engineering and adjacent fields of study.
"The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) is very proud to have two faculty members receiving this elevation to IEEE fellow in the same year,” said Madhavan Swaminathan, department head of electrical engineering, William E. Leonhard Professor and director of the Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems. "This distinction is reserved for a select group of outstanding researchers, and, in the cases of Vishal and Swaroop, it is very well deserved."
Monga’s contributions to computationally efficient image analysis and restoration are responsible for his elevation to IEEE fellow. His work in numerical optimization methods has enabled high quality image acquisition and rendering, as well as improved classifying image content. Over the course of his 15 years as a professor at Penn State, Monga has made outstanding contributions in the fields of data science, artificial intelligence and signal and image processing. His elevation to IEEE fellow is the most recent of a list of research-based awards, including best paper awards from the IEEE, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and induction into the National Academy of Inventors.
Ghosh was elevated to IEEE fellow in recognition of his lasting impacts in the design and security of memories in scaled technologies. Ghosh’s group works on integrated circuits, systems and security and privacy of emerging memory and computing technologies. Ghosh has received more than 20 awards for excellence in research, teaching and advising, including best paper awards at the 2024 Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration Conference and American Society of Engineering Education’s 2020 annual conference, IEEE Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration’s Outstanding Mid-Career Award in 2022 and the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools’ Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award in 2024.