Since 1963, IEEE has acknowledged those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of engineering science and technology. The grade of Fellow is bestowed on the recipient who has had an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

The following members of the Information Theory Society were elected IEEE Fellow in 2011:

• Thomas Kolze for contributions to physical layer architecture in communication systems
• Dharmendra Modha  for contributions to cognitive computing and caching algorithms
• Marco Chiani  for contributions to wireless communication systems
• Keith Chugg  for contributions to adaptive and iterative data detection and decoding
• Tolga Duman  for contributions to coding and modulation for wireless, recording and underwater acoustic channels
• Elza Erkip  for contributions to multi-user and cooperative communications
• Dennis Goeckel  for contributions to wireless communication systems and networks
• Piyush Gupta  for contributions to wireless networks
• Yunghsiang Han  for contributions to decoding techniques
• Robert Heath  for contributions to multiple antenna wireless communications
• Kwang Bok Lee  for contributions to high-speed wireless communication systems
• Shivendra Panwar for contributions to design and analysis of communication networks
• James Ritcey  for contributions to bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding
• William Ryan  for contributions to channel coding for reliable data transmission and storage
• Jawad Salehi  for contributions to fundamental principles of optical code division multiple access
• Vinay Vaishampayan  for contributions to error-resilient compression systems
• Roy Yates  for contributions to wireless network resource allocation
• Ioannis Kontoyiannis  for contributions to data compression
• Erik Ordentlich  for contributions to universal algorithms and data compression
• Balaji Prabhakar  for contributions to network theory and algorithms
• Yossef Steinberg  for contributions to information theory
• Mitchell Trott  for contributions to wireless communication
• Emanuele Viterbo  for contributions to coding and decoding for wireless digital communications
• Hirosuke Yamamoto  for contributions to source coding and information-theoretic secure coding
• Mark Bell  for contributions to signal design and processing in radar and communication systems
• Holger Boche  for contributions to signal processing and multi-user wireless communications
• Rainer Martin  for contributions to speech enhancement for mobile communications and hearing aids
• Hermann Ney for for contributions to statistical language modeling, statistical machine translation, and large vocabulary speech recognition
• Anna Scaglione  for contributions to filterbank precoding for wireless transmission  and signal processing for cooperative sensor networks
• Xiaolin Wu  for contributions to image coding, communication and processing
• Li-Chun Wang  for contributions to cellular architectures and radio resource management in wireless networks