In December 2025, IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. James McClellan, was announced as the recipient of the 2026 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal “for McClellan’s fundamental contributions to electrical and computer engineering education through innovative digital signal processing”.
James H. McClellan received his B.S. in 1969 in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University, followed by an M.S. (1972) and a Ph.D. (1973) from Rice University. In 1973, McClellan joined the research staff of MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. In 1975, he became a professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before leaving to join Schlumberger Oil Field Services.
Since 1987, McClellan has been at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1987, he received the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Technical Achievement Award; in 1996, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Award; and in 2004, the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (jointly with Thomas W. Park). McClellan is widely known for his creation of the McClellan Transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm.
McClellan will be recognized as the 2026 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal at the IEEE Awards Ceremony on 24 April 2026.
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