The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology. It is awarded to ALEXANDER BARG (FIEEE)—Professor, University of Maryland, USA, for contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.
This award was established in 1956 by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and continued by the Board of Directors of IEEE. It is through this medal that IEEE recognizes the importance of the educator's contributions to the vitality, imagination, and leadership of the members of the engineering profession. It is awarded to ANDREA J. GOLDSMITH (FIEEE)—Professor, Princeton University, USA, for educating, mentoring, and inspiring generations of students, and for authoring pioneering textbooks in advanced digital communications.
The IEEE Graduate Teaching Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and renamed in honor of Leon K. Kirchmayer in 2002. Dr. Kirchmayer was well known and revered throughout the world for his commitment to students and education. It is awarded to DAVID N.C. TSE (FIEEE)—Professor, Stanford, USA, for inspiring mentoring and contributions to graduate teaching in wireless communication, power systems, computational biology, and blockchains.
The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to three outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. The award is based on the paper’s technical contribution as well as the quality of its presentation. The prize was awarded to three papers this year:
- Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge, “Discrete Generalised Entropy Power Inequalities for Log-Concave Random Variables.”
- Paul Gondolf, University Tübingen, “General Continuity Bounds for Quantum Relative Entropies,” co-authored with Andreas Bluhm, Ángel Capel, and Antonio Pérez-Hernández.
- V. Arvind Rameshwar, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), “A version of Delsarte’s linear program for constrained systems,” co-authored with Navin Kashyap.
The Johann-Philipp-Reis prize is sponsored by the Municipality Gelnhausen, the Municipality Friedrichsdorf, Deutsche Telekom AG, and VDE. It is awarded to ANTONIA WACHTER-ZEH (SMIEEE)—Associate Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany, for her pioneering work in security for future telecommunications and ensuring reliable storage for rapidly growing data.
2024 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows:
for contributions to model-based signal processing and semi-definite programming
for contributions to networked control systems and performance optimization over wireless and sensor networks
for contributions to the design of algorithms and integrated circuit architectures for communication systems
for contributions to nonlinear approximation and sparsity-based signal processing
for contributions to theory and applications of iteratively decodable error correcting codes and network coding
for contributions to multiuser diversity and open radio access networks
for contributions to the mathematical theory of artificial intelligence in signal processing and communication
for contributions to theory and practice of quantum cryptography
for contributions to multidimensional signal processing
for contributions to information measures and finite-blocklength information theory
for contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting coding for storage systems
for contributions to machine learning and data science
for contributions to graph-based error-correcting codes and network codes
The nomination deadline for the IEEE Fellow Class of 2025 is February 7, 2024.
