September 2023 Issue

IEEE INFORMATION THEORY SOCIETY

NEWSLETTER

Editor: Changho Suh

From the Editor

Awards

Congratulations to the members of our community who have recently received prestigious awards and honors!

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Claude E. Shannon Award
Andrew R Barron

The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Emina Soljanin

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
Hamed Hassani

The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Cheuk Ting Li Venkat Anantharam

The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.

Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
Jin Sima

The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.

National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow
Raymond Wai-Ho Yeung

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society.

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Upcoming Conferences & Workshops

Conference Date Deadline Description
October 20 - October 23
Chicago
 FOCS 2024
October 21 - October 24
South Korea
August 11
 WiOpt 2024 Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) - October 21-24, 2024, South Korea
November 10 - November 13
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TAIWAN
May 7
 2024 The International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA2024)
November 24 - November 28
Shenzhen, China
April 26
 2024 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
December 3 - December 6
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
 Australasian Summer School: Recent Trends in Algorithms
December 8 - December 12
Cape Town, South Africa
August 6
 IEEE Globecom 2024 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers
December 14 - December 15
Vancouver, Canada
September 30
 Machine Learning and Compression Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024
June 22 - June 27
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
January 15
 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2025

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