Andras Kis and Dario Floreano Elected IEEE Fellows
Andras Kis and Dario Floreano © Alain Herzog
Andras Kis and Dario Floreano have been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2023, in recognition of their contributions to the development of 2D materials and electronic devices, and to bio-inspired drone development and evolutionary robotics, respectively.
According to the IEEE, the title of IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select members "for their extraordinary accomplishments".
Andras Kis directs the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) in the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEL) and Materials Science and Engineering Institute (IMX) in EPFL’s School of Engineering (STI). Research in the LANES lab focuses on growing 2D materials, and studying their fundamental properties and emerging applications in nanoelectronic, excitonic, spintronic and optoelectronic devices. His group was the first to demonstrate a transistor based on a 2D semiconductor, paving the way to studying their fundamental properties and practical applications. Andras Kis was also recently named one of 2022's highly cited researchers by Clarivate.
Dario Floreano is director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) in STI's Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IGM). The LIS explores future avenues of artificial intelligence and robotics at the convergence of biology and engineering, humans and machines. Fields of activity span aerial, wearable, and soft robotics. Dario Floreano has made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics; has served on numerous advisory boards and committees; and has helped spin off two drone companies (senseFly.com and Flyability.com) and a non-profit portal on robotics and AI (RoboHub.org). Dario Floreano has been the initiator and director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Robotics (NCCR Robotics) from 2010 to 2022.