Three from Carnegie Mellon Elected 2007 Fellows of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

Carnegie Mellon University faculty members John Lafferty, Chuck Thorpe and Tsuhan Chen have have been elected 2007 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The Institute represents engineers, scientists and allied professionals whose technical interests are rooted in electrical and computer sciences, engineering and related disciplines. The IEEE has more than 360,000 members in 150 countries around the world. Being named a Fellow is one of the organization¹s most prestigious honors.

Lafferty, a professor of computer science and machine learning, has been cited for his contributions to statistical pattern recognition and statistical language processing, while Thorpe, a member of the Robotics Institute faculty and dean of the university¹s Qatar campus, is being recognized for his leadership in the research and development of vision-based autonomous outdoor vehicles. Chen, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and head of CIT¹s Advanced Multi-Processing Laboratory, is being honored for his contributions in the area of multidisciplinary multimedia signal processing.

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