Annual Awards Program
Membership
MIPI Member Awards
The MIPI Alliance Membership Awards Program is an annual awards program recognizing outstanding contributions and achievements by both individual and corporate members.
To emphasize impartiality and fairness, the Membership Awards Program is administered by an Awards Recognition Committee (ARComm) named by the Board of Directors.
Nominations for the 2026 membership awards will open in early 2027.
Lifetime Achievement
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an individual who has participated in MIPI Alliance efforts for at least seven years and provided significant contributions or leadership to a working group, the board, or other MIPI Alliance entities.
Distinguished Service
The Distinguished Service Award is presented to current member(s) or past member(s) of MIPI Alliance to recognize distinguished service based on momentous contributions to the MIPI Alliance specification development process or in the areas of the board, marketing or test.
Working Group Leadership
The Working Group Leadership Award is presented to a leader within a working group in recognition of significant contributions to the development and publication of a MIPI specification.
Corporate
The Corporate Award is presented to a member company displaying outstanding corporate leadership to MIPI Alliance.
Special Achievement
The Special Achievement Award is presented to an individual who has taken a lead role in MIPI Alliance and who has actively and consistently performed and contributed toward MIPI initiatives.
Legacy
The Legacy Award is presented posthumously for notable participation in MIPI Alliance.
View Award Winners
2025
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Working Group Leadership Award

Aruni Nelson, Intel Corporation, Chair of the MIPI Audio Working Group
Lead of the Audio PHY subgroup
Chair of the I/O Bridges Working Group
Co-chair of the I3C Working Group
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Special Achievement Award

George Goodman, MIPI Alliance
Program Manager for the MIPI PHY Steering Group; the A-PHY, Security, RFFE and Display working groups; the A-PHY Compliance Program and MIPI liaison management -
Distinguished Service Award

Rod Hogan, Apple, Inc.
Member of the MIPI Audio Working Group -
Lifetime Achievement Award

Edo Cohen, Valens Semiconductor, Vice chair of MIPI Technical Steering Group
Co-chair of the A-PHY Working Group
Chair of the Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) Group
2024
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Working Group Leadership Award

Ruben Sousa, member of the M-PHY Working Group
Synopsys, Inc. -
Special Achievement Award

ADI MENACHEM, MEMBER OF THE CAMERA WORKING GROUP
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

CHANDRKANTH RAPALLI, MEMBER OF THE UNIPRO WORKING GROUP
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. -
Distinguished Service Award

ARIEL LASRY, MEMBER OF THE UNIPRO WORKING GROUP
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

HARAN THANIGASALAM, CHAIR OF THE CAMERA INTEREST GROUP & CO-VICE CHAIR OF THE CAMERA WORKING GROUP
MIPI ALLIANCE -
Lifetime Achievement Award

NIEL WARREN, FORMER CHAIR OF THE AUDIO WORKING GROUP
GOOGLE LLC -
Legacy Award

AFSHIN ATTARZADEH, MEMBER OF THE M-PHY WORKING GROUP
BITIFEYE DIGITAL TEST SOLUTIONS GmBHAccepted by Tom Kopf, Chief Operating Officer of BitifEye

2023
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Working Group Leadership Award

Tom Kopet, Chair of the MIPI Camera Working Group
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Corporate Award

Valens Semiconductor
Accepted by Valens representatives Nadav Banet, Edo Cohen & Yair Darshan -
Distinguished Service Award

Yasuhiro Kitamura, Member of the C-PHY Working Group
Sony Group Corporation

Marcin Kowalewski, Member of the D-PHY Working Group
Synopsys Inc.

Frank Seto, Member of the D-PHY Working Group
Samsung Electronics, Co. -
Special Achievement Award

Aradhana Kumari, Member of the I3C Working Group
STMicroelectronics -
Lifetime Achievement Award

George Wiley, Chair of the C-PHY Working Group
Qualcomm Incorporated
2022
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Working Group Leadership Award

Philip Hawkes, Co-Chair of the Security Working Group
Qualcomm Incorporated
Niel Warren, Chair of the Audio Working Group
Google LLC -
Corporate Award
Western digital technologies Inc.
Accepted by Kirill Dimitrov, chair of the M-PHY Working Group -
Distinguished Service Award
Nadav Banet, Lead of the Camera Adaptation Layer Subgroup
Valens Semiconductor
Hendrik Lange, Unipro working group
KIOXIA Corporation
Cédric Marta, Co-Vice chair of the camera working group
Synopsys, Inc.
Jürgen Urban, unipro working group
KIOXIA Corporation -
Special Achievement Award
Chris Grigg, Specifications and Technical Editing Director
MIPI Alliance -
Lifetime Achievement Award

Sergio Silva, M-PHY Working Group
Synopsys, Inc. -
Legacy Award
Presented posthumously to Paul KimelmaN
NXP Semiconductors
2021
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Working Group Leadership Award
Edo Cohen, Co-Chair of the A-PHY Working Group
Valens Semiconductor
Kirill Dimitrov, Chair of the M-PHY working group
Western Digital Technologies Inc.
Ramesh Hanchinal, chair of the UniPro Working Group
Synopsys Inc. -
Corporate Award
Google LLC
Accepted by Larry Madar -
Distinguished Service Award
Wonseok Lee
Samsung Electronics
Eyran Lida
Valens Semiconductor
Takashi Miyamoto
Sony Group Corporation -
Special Achievement Award
Automotive Marketing Subgroup
Participants: Kevin Yee of Samsung Electronics, AMSG chair; Dana Zelitzki of Valens Semiconductor; Rick Wietfeldt of Qualcomm Incorporated; Tim Dry, also of Samsung; Tom Wong of Cadence Design Systems, and Christina Slape, Ian Smith, Sharmion Kerley and Becky Obbema(Interprose) on the MIPI team.
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Legacy Award
Presented posthumously to Dr. Earl McCune





















































