Sandro Carrara receives 2025 IEEE John Vig Award
Sandro Carrara (center) with IEEE Sensors Council Executive Committee members Deepak Uttamchandani (left) and Andrei Shkel (right) © 2025 IEEE Sensors Conference
Sandro Carrara, head of the Bio/CMOS Interfaces Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Sensors Council John Vig Meritorious Service Award. This prestigious recognition was given for his outstanding contributions as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Journal and for pioneering research in the emerging field of memristive sensors.
The IEEE Sensors Council John Vig Award is named in honor of John Vig, a visionary scientist whose influential work in frequency control, quartz resonators, and sensor technologies helped shape the field. Vig also founded the IEEE Sensors Council and served as President of IEEE, leaving an enduring legacy.
Reflecting on this recognition, Carrara remarked: “This is an award named after John Vig, a great scientist and a wise man whom I had the honor of meeting in the past. It is a special privilege to receive an award that bears his name.”
Carrara led the IEEE Sensors Journal, one of the largest and most impactful journals within IEEE, for six years. “This award recognizes not only my editorial work for a journal I deeply love, but also the team effort behind its extraordinary success,” he said.
In addition to his editorial leadership, the award acknowledges Carrara’s pioneering contributions to the field of memristive sensors. These novel sensors enable in-memory sensing: a paradigm that merges sensing and computing capabilities through advanced multi-sensing architectures. This approach opens the door to non-Von-Neumann computing, fundamentally reshaping how machines interact with and process data from their environment.
The award was formally presented to Carrara during the IEEE Sensors Conference, held in Vancouver in mid-October.