Awards Committee

The Awards Committee shall be responsible for submitting a recommendation to the Board for the Information Theory Society Paper Award according to Article VII, Section 3. It is also responsible for selecting the recipient(s) of the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award according to Article VII, Section 7, and for contributing members to serve on the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award selection committee, according to Article VII, Section 6. A subcommittee of the Awards Committee shall be responsible for selecting the recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, according to Article VII, Section 8. Another subcommittee of the Awards Committee shall be responsible for selecting the recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars, according to Article VII, Section 9.

The Committee shall consist of at least nine members representing all major technical areas in the Society. At least four members shall have served as Associate Editors of the Transactions within the past three years. The First and Second Vice Presidents of the Society shall serve as ex-officio voting members of this Committee, with the First Vice President serving as Chair. At least two members of the Committee (in addition to the two officers) shall be members of the Board of Governors. The Committee shall be appointed by the Nominations and Appointments Committee no later than the 31st of January. The Cover Dissertation Award and Massey Research & Teaching Award Subcommittees shall be appointed by the Nominations and Appointments Committee by the 31st of December of the previous year.

	Ex-Officio and Chair (01/01/19 until 12/31/19) Aylin Yener Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean's Fellow The Pennsylvania State University 121 Electrical Engineering East, University Park, PA 16802
	Ex-Officio (01/01/19 until 12/31/19) Wei Yu Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 Canada
	Member (05/12/18 until 12/31/19) Sae-Young Chung Department of Electrical Engineering KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Alex Dimakis UTA 7.210, UT Austin WNCG,  1616 Guadalupe St. Mail Code: C0806 Austin, Texas 78701
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Negar Kiyavash Assistant Professor Dept. of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Eng. (ISE) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 117 Transportation Building 104 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801, USA  Tel: (217) 244-2525 Fax: (217) 244-570
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Krishna R Narayanan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 Phone: (979) 862 2691 Fax: (979) 862 4630
	Member (01/01/19 until 12/31/20) Kannan Ramchandran EECS Department University of California, Berkeley
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Antonia Tulino Univerisità di Napoli, Federico II, Italy & Bell Labs, USA
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Michele Wigger Communications and Electronics Department Telecom ParisTech, LTCI 46, rue Barrault 75634 Paris Cedex 13 France Tel.: +33 1 45 81 7528