CSL Professors Deming Chen and Romit Roy Choudhury have been elevated to IEEE Fellows by the IEEE Fellow Committee for their contributions to FPGA high-level synthesis and to wireless network protocols and indoor localization, respectively. Each year, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for elevation to IEEE Fellow following a rigorous evaluation procedure. Less than 0.1% of voting members are annually selected for this member elevation.

Chen has primarily focused his research on circuits and computer-aided design of integrated circuits while Choudhury has focused on networking and distributed computing. 

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Chen and Choudhury are also professors of Electrical and Computer Engineering.