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. It is awarded to ALON ORLITSKY (FIEEE)—Professor, UC San Diego, USA, for his numerous and impactful service contributions to the IEEE Information Theory Society.
P. R. Kumar: 2022 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering. It is awarded to P. R. KUMAR (LFIEEE)—Professor, Texas A&M University, USA, for seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.
Madhu Sudan: 2022 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 MADHU SUDAN (FIEEE)—Professor, Harvard University, USA, for fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.
David L. Donoho: 2022 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in signal processing. It is awarded to DAVID L. DONOHO (FIEEE)— Professor, Stanford University, USA, for groundbreaking contributions to sparse signal recovery and compressed sensing.
Ingo Wolff: 2022 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal
The IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal is awarded for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields. It is awarded to INGO WOLFF (LFIEEE)—Research Director, IMST GmbH, Germany, for the development of numerical electromagnetic field analysis techniques to design advanced mobile and satellite communication systems.
Ali H. Sayed: 2022 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing
The IEEE Fourier Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the advancement of signal processing, other than in the areas of speech and audio processing. It is awarded to ALI SAYED (FIEEE)—Professor, EPFL, Switzerland, for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive signal processing.
Muriel Médard: 2022 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
The purpose of the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award is to recognize outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications. It is awarded to MURIEL MÉDARD (FIEEE)—Professor, MIT, USA, for contributions to the theory and practice of network coding, optical networks, and wireless communications.
Christopher Rose: 2022 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
The IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 to honor teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines. It is awarded to CHRISTOPER ROSE (FIEEE)—Professor, Brown University, USA, for innovations in team-oriented signature design and inspiring women and under-represented minority students to pursue engineering.
Elza Erkip: 2021 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award
This award is named in honor of Edwin H. Armstrong, most notably the inventor and father of the complete FM radio system. It is awarded to ELZA ERKIP (FIEEE)—Professor, New York University, USA, for pioneering work in cooperative communications and relay networks.
Andrea Goldsmith: 2020 Marconi Prize
The Marconi Prize is awarded annually to innovators who have made a significant contribution to increasing digital inclusivity through advanced information and communications technology. It is awarded to ANDREA GOLDSMITH (FIEEE)—Professor, Princeton University, USA, for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive wireless communications.
Giuseppe Caire: 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme awards prizes to exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research. It is awarded to GIUSEPPE CAIRE (FIEEE)—Professor, TU Berlin, Germany, for laying the foundation for key principles in information theory within the field of wireless modern communication and information technology.
Weijie Su: 2022 SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Early Career Prize
The SIAM Activity Group on Data Science awards this prize every two years to an outstanding early career researcher in the field of Data Science for distinguished contributions to the field in the six calendar years prior to the award year. It is awarded to WEIJIE SU (MIEEE)—Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA, for outstanding contributions to the theoretical and computational foundations of data science.
2022 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows:
Petros Boufounos
for contributions to compressed sensing
Anthony Chan Carusone
for contributions to integrated circuits for digital communication
Minghua Chen
for contributions to delay-critical networked systems
Todd Coleman
for contributions to biomedical signal processing and leadership in neuro-engineering
Andrea Conti
for contributions to wireless communication and localization systems
Alexandros G. Dimakis
for contributions to distributed coding and learning
Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
for contributions to the analysis and design of wireless communication systems
Deniz Gündüz
for contributions to the foundations of source-channel coding, cooperative and cache-aided communications
Steve Hranilovic
for contributions to optical wireless communication systems
Michael Langberg
for contributions to the theory and practice of network coding
Amir Leshem
for contributions to multi-channel and multi-agent signal processing
Yingbin Liang
for contributions to information theoretic methods for wireless systems
Devavrat Shah
for contributions to network and information science, inference and machine learning
Kumar Sivarajan
for leadership in optical networking
Sriram Vishwanath
for contributions to information theory and coding for wireless communication systems
Rebecca Willett
for contributions to the foundations of computational imaging and large-scale data science
Jun Zhang
for contributions to dense wireless networks