Frank Kschischang: 2023 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology. It is awarded to FRANK KSCISCHANG (FIEEE)—Professor, University of Toronto, Canada, for contributions to the theory and practice of error correcting codes and optical communications.
Rüdiger Urbanke: 2023 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
The IEEE Graduate Teaching Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and renamed in honor of Leon K. Kirchmayer in 2002. Dr. Kirchmayer was well known and revered throughout the world for his commitment to students and education. It is awarded to RÜDIGER URBANKE (FIEEE)—Professor, EPFL, Switzerland, for contributions to graduate education, empowering students and mentorship that advanced the world of wireless and engineering communication.
2022 Information Theory Society Paper Award
The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.
- A. B. Wagner, N. V. Shende, and Y. Altug, "A New Method for Employing Feedback to Improve Coding Performance," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 6660-6681, 2020.
Aylin Yener: IEEE Division IX Director
Our Past President Aylin Yener has been elected to the next IEEE Division IX Director in the recently concluded 2022 IEEE Elections. Division IX includes the following Societies: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
2023 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows:
Joao Barros
for contributions to physical-layer security and vehicular networking
Constantine Caramanis
for contributions to robust statistics and optimization in high dimensions
Yuejie Chi
for contributions to statistical signal processing with low dimensional structures
Jinho Choi
for contributions to multiple access signal processing systems
Natasha Devroye
for fundamental contributions to the theoretical understanding of cognitive, two-way, and relay networks
Marios Kountouris
for contributions to optimization and multi-antenna techniques in heterogeneous wireless networks
Mohammad Maddah-ali
for contributions to information theory for interference management, coded caching and computing
Gerald Matz
for contributions to signal processing for communications in nonstationary environments
Ralf Reiner Mueller
for contributions to the design and analysis of large multiantenna and multiple-access systems
Chandra Murthy
for contributions to Bayesian sparse signal recovery and energy harvesting communications
Hideki Ochiai
for contributions to power and spectral efficient wireless communication
Miguel Raul Rodrigues
for contributions to multimodal data processing and foundations of reliable and secure communications
Laurent Schmalen
for contributions to the design of error correction and modulation techniques for optical networks
Anthony So
for contributions to optimization in signal processing and communications
Changho Suh
for contributions to interference management and distributed storage codes
Olav Tirkkonen
for contributions in the theory and practice of wireless communications technology and standards
Mark Wilde
for contributions to the relative-entropy framework and theorems for quantum communications