Two from MIT are named 2025 IEEE Fellows
Among the newly selected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) are two members of the MIT community: Roozbeh Jafari, principal staff in Lincoln Laboratory's Biotechnology and Human Systems Division, and William Oliver, the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and professor of physics at MIT. The IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, annually confers the rank of Fellow on senior members who have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement or application of engineering, science, and technology, resulting in a significant impact on society. Fellow is the highest grade of membership within the IEEE.
Jafari was elevated to Fellow for his "contributions to sensors and systems for digital health paradigms." Oliver was elevated for his "contributions to superconductive quantum computing technology and its teaching."
Roozbeh Jafari
Jafari holds a joint research appointment on MIT campus and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the School of Engineering Medicine at Texas A&M University. He seeks to establish impactful and highly collaborative programs between the Laboratory, MIT campus, and other U.S. academic entities to promote health and wellness for national security and public health.
Jafari's research interests are wearable-computer design, sensors, systems, and artificial intelligence (AI) for digital health paradigms. Most recently, he has focused on digital twins for precision health. His research has been funded by government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as industry.
He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has served as the general chair and technical program committee chair for several flagship conferences focused on wearable computers. Jafari received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award (2012), the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium Best Paper Award (2011), the IEEE Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award (2014), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Best Paper Award (2019), among others.
Jafari serves on the editorial boards of Nature Digital Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
William Oliver
Oliver is also director of the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, associate director of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and a member of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.
Oliver leads the Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) group at MIT. His research spans the materials growth; fabrication; and 3D integration, design, control, and measurement of superconducting qubits and their use in small-scale quantum processors. He also develops cryogenic packaging and control electronics that incorporate cryogenic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor circuits and single-flux quantum digital logic.
The EQuS group closely collaborates with the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group at Lincoln Laboratory, where Oliver had been a staff member since 2003, most recently as Laboratory Fellow from 2017 – 2023. At the Laboratory, Oliver provided programmatic and technical leadership for programs related to the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies for quantum information science applications. He stepped down from his role in 2023 to co-found the spinout company Atlantic Quantum.
Through MIT xPRO, Oliver developed in 2018 a set of four online professional development courses addressing the fundamentals and practical realities of quantum computing. These courses, which run continuously, have helped more than 5,000 learners to date across government and industry become quantum aware.
Oliver has published more than 130 journal articles and seven book chapters. He is an active seminar lecturer and the inventor or co-inventor on more than 10 patents. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society; serves on the U.S. Committee for Superconducting Electronics; and is a lead editor for the IEEE Applied Superconductivity Conference.
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