John M. Cioffi and H. Vincent Poor have been elected International Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, two of only three engineers worldwide to be so elected this year. They were inducted into the Academy at its New Fellows Dinner on 9 November 2009, in London, UK.
John Cioffi is Chairman and CEO of ASSIA, Inc., in Redwood City, CA, and Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in 1984. Also an IEEE Fellow and a member of the U. S.