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 (01/01/18 until 12/31/18) Emina Soljanin ECE, Rutgers 94 Brett Rd Piscataway, NJ 08854  office: (848) 445 5256  emina.soljanin@rutgers.edu
	Ex-Officio (01/01/18 until 12/31/18) Helmut Bölcskei ETH Zurich Dept. IT & EE Sternwartstrasse 7 8092 Zürich Switzerland Room ETF E122 Tel: +41 44 63 23433 Fax: +41 44 63 21209 boelcskei@nari.ee.ethz.ch
	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  dimakis@austin.utexas.edu
	Member (01/01/17 until 12/31/18) Tor Helleseth Department of Informatics University of Bergen torh@ii.uib.no
	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 kiyavash@illinois.edu
	Member (01/01/17 until 12/31/18) Olgica Milenkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign milenkov@uiuc.edu
	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   krn@ece.tamu.edu
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Haim Permuter Ben Gurion University Electrical & Computer Engineering Departmen haimp@bgu.ac.il
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Antonia Tulino Univerisità di Napoli, Federico II, Italy & Bell Labs, USA antoniatulino@gmail.com
	Member (01/01/18 until 12/31/19) Michele Wigger Assistant Professor Communications and Electronics Department Telecom ParisTech 46, rue Barrault 75634 Paris Cedex 13 France Email: michele.wigger(at)telecom-paristech.fr Tel.: +33 1 45 81 7528 michele.wigger@telecom-paristech.fr