The IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award is given annually to the author(s) of outstanding papers, relevant to both societies, published in any publication of either society during the previous three calendar years. The 2011 award goes to the following paper:

G. Caire , N. Jindal , M. Kobayashi , and N. Ravindran , " Multiuser MIMO achievable rates with downlink training and channel state feedback ," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 6, pp 2845 - 2866, June 2010

Giuseppe Caire was born in Torino, Italy, in 1965. He received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 1990, the M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Torino in 1994.
He was a recipient of the AEI G.Someda Scholarship in 1991, has been with the European Space Agency (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, from May 1994 to February 1995, was a recipient of the COTRAO Scholarship in 1996 and of a CNR Scholarship in 1997. He has been visiting Princeton University in summer 1997 and Sydney University in summer 2000. He has been Assistant Professor in Telecommunications at the Politecnico di Torino, Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy, Professor with the Department of Mobile Communications at the Eurecom Institute, Sophia-Antipolis, France, and he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His main research interests are in the field of communications theory, information theory, channel and source coding with particular focus on wireless communications.
Dr. Caire served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS in 1998–2001 and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY in 2001–2003. He received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003, and the Joint IT/Comsoc Best Paper Award in 2004. He has served in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007, and in 2009 was elected third VP of the Society. He has been the IEEE Fellow since 2005.

Nihar Jindal received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2001 and 2004, respectively.
He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His industry experience includes internships at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, in 2000 and at Lucent Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, in 2002. His research spans the fields of information theory and wireless communication, with specific interests in multiple-antenna/multiuser channels, dynamic resource allocation, and sensor and ad hoc networks.
Dr. Jindal currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, and was a Guest Editor for a special issue of the EURASIP Journal onWireless Communications and Networking on the topic of multiuser communication. He was the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Awad, the University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Award in 2007, the NSF CAREER award in 2008, and the best paper award for the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS in 2009.

Mari Kobayashi received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1999 and the M.S. degree in mobile radio and the Ph.D. degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. From November 2005 to March 2007, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Since May 2007, she has been an Assistant Professor at Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Her current research interests include multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, multiuser communication theory.

Niranjay Ravindran received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2005 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2008.
He interned at the Wireless Communications Research Laboratory, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, in 2008. His research interests include multiple-antenna channels, multiuser communication systems, and limited feedback techniques.
Mr. Ravindran was a recipient of the best paper award for the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS in 2009.