The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) congratulates the following members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2023.
The Norbert Wiener Society Award honors outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the SPS and outstanding leadership within that field. The Norbert Wiener Society Award includes a plaque, a certificate, and a monetary award of US$2,500. It is the highest-level award bestowed by the SPS. This year’s recipient is Richard Baraniuk, “for fundamental contributions to sparsity-based signal processing and pioneering broad dissemination of open educational resources.”
The Claude Shannon–Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, and a recognized impact in this field. The prize for the award is US$1,500, a plaque, and a certificate. The recipients of the Claude Shannon–Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award are Nicholas Sidiropoulos, “for exemplary contributions to tensor decomposition, beamforming, and spectral analysis” and Arnold Lee Swindlehurst, “for contributions to multiuser and multiantenna communications and sensor array signal processing.”
The Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award honors educators who have made pioneering and significant contributions to signal processing education. Judging is based on a career of meritorious achievement in signal processing education as exemplified by the writing of scholarly books and texts, course materials, and papers about education; inspirational and innovative teaching; creativity in the development of new curricula and methodology. The award comprises a plaque, a monetary award of US$1,500, and a certificate. The recipient of the Signal Processing Society Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award is H. Vincent Poor, “for outstanding contributions to education and mentoring in statistical signal processing and wireless communications.”
The Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award was presented this year to Ahmed Tewfik and Tulay Adali, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.” The award comprises a plaque and a certificate; judging is based on dedication, effort, and contributions to the Society.
The Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award recognizes an industry business or technical leader whose leadership has resulted in major and outstanding advances or new directions using signal processing technologies within the scope of the Society. This award is for executive leadership resulting in major advances and new directions using signal processing in a business area. The prize is US$1,500, a plaque, and a certificate. The recipient of the Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award is Xuedong Huang, “for contributions to speech recognition and industrial leadership in artificial intelligence.”
The Industrial Innovation Award is presented this year to Ivan Tashev, “for outstanding contributions to microphone array and speech enhancement systems.” The Industrial Innovation Award recognizes an individual or team at any level who were industry employees whose technical contributions have resulted in significant advances using signal processing technologies within the scope of the Society. Selection is based on major industrial accomplishments, standards, deployment of important processes or products, and so on that are of substantial benefit to the public, use signal processing technologies, and are visible beyond the company or institution where the contribution was made. The award is open to individuals at any level who were industry employees who played a significant role in the technical contribution at the time of the accomplishments being recognized. The prize includes US$1,500 per awardee (up to a maximum of US$4,500 per award), a plaque, and a certificate.
The Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award honors an individual who, over a period of years in his/her early career, made significant technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, and a recognized impact on the field, including but not limited to a standard, product, or technology trend. The award comprises a plaque, a monetary award of US$1,500, and a certificate. The recipient of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award is Mingyi Hong, “for contributions to nonconvex, distributed and learning-based optimization for signal processing.”
The Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award recognizes relevant signal processing doctoral work that stimulates further research in the field. The award consists of a monetary award of US$1,500 and a certificate. The recipients of the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award are Elvin Isufi and Geethu Joseph.
The Meritorious Regional/Chapter Service Award honors the outstanding contributions of any member of the Society to regional activities of the SPS. Judging is based on dedication, effort, and contributions made to activities aimed at promoting the technical and educational activities of the SPS in one specific Region/Chapter as well as its local membership participation. The award comprises a plaque and a certificate. The recipient of the Meritorious Regional/Chapter Service Award is Sarath S., “for leadership and outstanding contributions as a volunteer and mentor at Section and Regional levels.”
Six Best Paper Awards were awarded, honoring the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in one of the Society’s transactions, irrespective of the author’s age. The prize is US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. Eligibility is based on a six-year window preceding the year of election, and judging is based on general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. Up to six Best Paper Awards may be presented each year. This year, the awardees are
The Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award honors the author(s) of a journal article of broad interest that has had substantial impact over several years on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope. A paper considered for the award should present an overview of a method or theory with technical depth and application perspective. It should have a multiyear record of impact and also be relevant to current researchers and/or practitioners. The prize consists of US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. This year, the Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award recipients are Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos, Lieven De Lathauwer, Xiao Fu, Kejun Huang, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, and Christos Faloutsos, for “Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, July 2017.
The IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of a letter article of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in IEEE Signal Processing Letters. The prize consists of US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. To be eligible for consideration, an article must have appeared in IEEE Signal Processing Letters in an issue predating the Spring Awards Board meeting by five years (typically held in conjunction with ICASSP). Judging is based on technical novelty, research significance, and the quality and effectiveness in presenting subjects in an area of high impact to the Society’s members. The recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award is Lorenzo Vangelista, for “Frequency Shift Chirp Modulation: The LoRa Modulation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, December 2017.
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award honors the author(s) of a column of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in the Society’s magazine. The prize consists of US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize is divided equally among all authors, each of whom receives a certificate. This year, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award recipients are Dong Yu and Li Deng, for the article “Deep Learning and Its Applications to Signal and Information Processing [Exploratory DSP],” published in the January 2011 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of an article of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in the Society’s magazine. The prize includes US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize is divided equally among all authors, each of whom receives a certificate. This year, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award recipients are Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu, George E. Dahl, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Navdeep Jaitly, Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke, Patrick Nguyen, Tara N. Sainath, and Brian Kingsbury, for the article “Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups,” published in the November 2012 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
The Sustained Impact Paper Award honors the author(s) of a journal article of broad interest that has had sustained impact over many years on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope. The prize consists of US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize is divided equally among all authors, each of whom receives a certificate. To be eligible for consideration, an article must have appeared in one of the SPS transactions or in Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing in an issue predating the Spring Awards Board meeting by at least 10 years (typically held in conjunction with ICASSP). This year, the Sustained Impact Paper Award recipients are Petre Stoica and Arye Nehorai, for “MUSIC, Maximum Likelihood, and Cramér–Rao Bound,” published in IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1989.
The Young Author Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of an especially meritorious paper dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in one of the Society’s transactions and who, upon date of submission of the paper, is younger than 30. The prize is US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. Eligibility is based on a four-year window preceding the year of election, and judging is based on general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. Two Young Author Best Paper Awards are being presented this year:
The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award will be presented to Alexander Waibel, “for pioneering contributions to spoken language translation and supporting technologies.”
The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing will be presented to Rabab Kreidieh Ward, “for outstanding contributions to advancing signal processing techniques and their practical applications, and for technical leadership.”
IEEE has announced the recipients of the 2023 IEEE medals, which are the highest-honor awards it presents. The medals will be given at the 2023 IEEE Honors Ceremony. Two SPS members have been awarded an IEEE medal for 2023:
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