Rüdiger Urbanke: 2023 Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Alon Orlitsky: 2022 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Mary Wootters: 2022 James L. Massey Award
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Qian Yu: 2022 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
- Qian Yu, “Coded Computing: A Transformative Framework for Resilient, Secure, Private, and Communication Efficient Large Scale Distributed Computing.” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2020.
2022 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The purpose of the Communications Society & Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize the authors of outstanding papers appearing in any publication of the IEEE Communications Society or the IEEE Information Theory Society in the previous three calendar years.
- Vamsi K. Amalladinne, Jean-Francois Chamberland, and Krishna R. Narayanan, "A Coded Compressed Sensing Scheme for Unsourced Multiple Access," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 6509–6533, October 2020.
2022 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to three outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. The award is based on the paper’s technical contribution as well as the quality of its presentation. The prize was awarded to three papers this year:
- Spencer Compton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “A Tighter Approximation Guarantee for Greedy Minimum Entropy Coupling.”
- Jennifer Tang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Capacity of Noisy Permutation Channels,” co-authored with Yury Polyanskiy.
- Neha Sangwan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, “Byzantine Consensus Over Broadcast Channels,” co-authored with Varun Narayanan, and Vinod M. Prabhakaran.
2022 Chapter of the Year Award: UK and Ireland Section Chapter
The Chapter of the Year Award recognizes a chapter that has provided their membership with the best overall set of programs and activities.