Paper Awards Committee

The Paper Awards 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, Senior Editors or Guest Editors of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory or the Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory within the past three years. The 1st and 2nd Vice Presidents of the Society shall serve as ex-officio voting members of this Committee, with the 1st Vice President serving as Chair. At least two members of the Committee (in addition to the two Officers) shall be members of the Board. The Committee shall be appointed by the Nominations and Appointments Committee no later than January 31st.

The Committee shall be responsible for submitting a recommendation to the Board for the Information Theory Society Paper Award. It is also responsible for selecting the recipient(s) of the Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award, and for contributing members to serve on the IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award selection committee.

	Ex-Officio and Chair (01/01/20 until 12/31/20) Wei Yu Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 Canada
	Ex-Officio (01/01/20 until 12/31/20) Christina Fragouli Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles
	Member (03/19/20 until 12/31/21) Matthieu Bloch Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Member (03/19/20 until 12/31/22) Holger Boche Technische Universität München Department of Electrical Engineering  Institute of Theoretical Technology Theresienstraße 90 80333 München, Germany phone.: +49 89 289 23240 fax: +49 89 289 23242
	Member (03/19/20 until 12/31/21) Jean-Francois Chamberland Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University
	Member (03/19/20 until 12/31/22) Bikash Kumar Dey Bikash Kumar Dey Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 India                                                                                  Ph.  +91-22-2576-7429 (Office) Fax: +91-22-2572-3707 Email: bikash@ee.iitb.ac.in, bikash.kr.dey@gmail.com URL: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/wiki/faculty/bikash
	Member (03/19/20 until 12/31/22) Maxim Raginsky Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1308 W Main St Urbana, IL 61801 USA
	Member (01/01/19 until 12/31/20) Kannan Ramchandran EECS Department University of California, Berkeley
	Member (03/19/20 until 12/31/21) Daniela Tuninetti University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 851 S. Morgan Street, M/C 154 Chicago, IL 60607-7053, USA Tel. +1.312.413.7431 Fax: +1.312.996.6465