Alon Orlitsky: 2022 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Soci­ety has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. It is awarded to ALON ORLITSKY (FIEEE)—Professor, UC San Diego, USA, for his numerous and impactful service contributions to the IEEE Information Theory Society.

P. R. Kumar: 2022 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering. It is awarded to P. R. KUMAR (LFIEEE)—Professor, Texas A&M University, USA, for seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.

Madhu Sudan: 2022 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology. It is awarded to MADHU SUDAN (FIEEE)—Professor, Harvard University, USA, for fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.

David L. Donoho: 2022 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal

The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in signal processing. It is awarded to DAVID L. DONOHO (FIEEE)— Professor, Stanford University, USA, for groundbreaking contributions to sparse signal recovery and compressed sensing.

Ingo Wolff: 2022 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

The IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal is awarded for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields. It is awarded to INGO WOLFF (LFIEEE)—Research Director, IMST GmbH, Germany, for the development of numerical electromagnetic field analysis techniques to design advanced mobile and satellite communication systems.

Ali H. Sayed: 2022 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

The IEEE Fourier Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the advancement of signal processing, other than in the areas of speech and audio processing. It is awarded to ALI SAYED (FIEEE)—Professor, EPFL, Switzerland, for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive signal processing.

Muriel Médard: 2022 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award

The purpose of the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Commu­nications Award is to recognize outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications.  It is awarded to MURIEL MÉDARD (FIEEE)—Professor, MIT, USA, for contributions to the theory and practice of network coding, optical networks, and wireless communications.

Christopher Rose: 2022 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

The IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 to honor teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines. It is awarded to CHRISTOPER ROSE (FIEEE)—Professor, Brown University, USA,  for innovations in team-oriented signature design and inspiring women and under-represented minority students to pursue engineering.

Elza Erkip: 2021 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award

This award is named in honor of Edwin H. Armstrong, most notably the inventor and father of the complete FM radio system. It is awarded to ELZA ERKIP (FIEEE)—Professor, New York University, USA, for pioneering work in cooperative communications and relay networks.

Andrea Goldsmith: 2020 Marconi Prize

The Marconi Prize is awarded annually to innovators who have made a significant contribution to increasing digital inclusivity through advanced information and communications technology. It is awarded to ANDREA GOLDSMITH (FIEEE)—Professor, Princeton University, USA, for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive wireless communications.

Giuseppe Caire: 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme awards prizes to exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research. It is awarded to GIUSEPPE CAIRE (FIEEE)—Professor, TU Berlin, Germany, for laying the foundation for key principles in information theory within the field of wireless modern communication and information technology. 

Weijie Su: 2022 SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Early Career Prize

The SIAM Activity Group on Data Science awards this prize every two years to an outstanding early career researcher in the field of Data Science for distinguished contributions to the field in the six calendar years prior to the award year. It is awarded to WEIJIE SU (MIEEE)—Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA, for outstanding contributions to the theoretical and computational foundations of data science.

 

2022 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows:

 

Petros Boufounos

for contributions to compressed sensing

Anthony Chan Carusone

for contributions to integrated circuits for digital communication

Minghua Chen

for contributions to delay-critical networked systems

Todd Coleman

for contributions to biomedical signal processing and leadership in neuro-engineering

Andrea Conti

for contributions to wireless communication and localization systems

Alexandros G. Dimakis

for contributions to distributed coding and learning

Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

for contributions to the analysis and design of wireless communication systems

Deniz Gündüz

for contributions to the foundations of source-channel coding, cooperative and cache-aided communications

Steve Hranilovic

for contributions to optical wireless communication systems

Michael Langberg

for contributions to the theory and practice of network coding

Amir Leshem

for contributions to multi-channel and multi-agent signal processing

Yingbin Liang

for contributions to information theoretic methods for wireless systems

Devavrat Shah

for contributions to network and information science, inference and machine learning

Kumar Sivarajan

for leadership in optical networking

Sriram Vishwanath

for contributions to information theory and coding for wireless communication systems

Rebecca Willett

for contributions to the foundations of computational imaging and large-scale data science

Jun Zhang

for contributions to dense wireless networks