The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.
The Norbert Wiener Society Award honors outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the IEEE SPS and outstanding leadership within that field. The Norbert Wiener Society Award comprises a plaque, a certificate, and a monetary award of US$2,500. It is the highest-level award bestowed by the IEEE SPS. This year’s recipient is Georgios B. Giannakis, “for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing, especially for networking and communications, and for outstanding mentoring of young researchers. ”
The Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award is presented this year to C.-C. Jay Kuo “for significant contributions to visual signal processing technologies and their applications.” The Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on this field. The prize for the award is US$1,500, a plaque, and a certificate.
The Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award was presented this year to Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas and Helen Meng, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.” The award comprises a plaque and a certificate; judging is based on dedication, effort, and contributions to the Society.
The Signal Processing Society Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award honors educators who have made pioneering and significant contributions to signal processing education. Judging is based on a career of meritorious achievement in signal processing education as exemplified by writing of scholarly books and texts, course materials, and papers on education; inspirational and innovative teaching; creativity in the development of new curricula and methodology. The award comprises a plaque, a monetary award of $1500 and a certificate. The recipient of the Signal Processing Society Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award is Peter Stoica, “for lifetime contributions to education and mentoring in statistical signal processing.”
The Industrial Leader Award recognizes an industry business or technical leader whose leadership has resulted in major and outstanding advances or new directions using signal processing technologies within the scope of the Society. This award is for executive leadership resulting in major advances and new directions using signal processing in a business area. The prize is US$1,500, a plaque, and a certificate. The recipient of the Industrial Leader Award is Li Deng “for leadership in pioneering research and development on large-scale deep learning that disrupted worldwide speech recognition industry and for leadership in natural language processing and finance engineering.”
The Industrial Innovation Award is presented this year to Gene Alan Frantz ” for contributions to the development of signal processing systems.” The Industrial Innovation Award recognizes an individual or team at any level who were industry employees whose technical contributions have resulted in significant advances using signal processing technologies within the scope of the Society. Selection will be based on major industrial accomplishments, standards, deployment of important processes or products, etc, that are of substantial benefit to the public, which use signal processing technologies and are visible beyond the company or institution where the contribution was made. The award shall be open to individuals at any level who were industry employees who played a significant role in the technical contribution at the time of the accomplishments being recognized. The prize shall be $1500 per awardee (up to a maximum of $4500 per award) and a plaque and certificate.
The Meritorious Regional/Chapter Service Award honors the outstanding contributions of any member of the Society to regional activities of the SPS. Judging is based on dedication, effort, and contributions made to activities aimed at promoting the technical and educational activities of the SPS in one specific Region/Chapter as well as its local membership participation. The award comprises a plaque and a certificate. The recipients of the Meritorious Regional/Chapter Service Award are Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, “for exemplary leadership and strong commitment towards the growth of SPS Chapter in Malaysia” and Syed Abd Rahman Abu-Bakar, “for outstanding service to the Signal Processing Society Malaysian Chapter and Region 10.”
The Early Career Technical Achievement Award honors an individual who, over a period of years in his/her early career, has made significant technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field, including but not limited to, a standard, a product, or a technology trend. Nominees shall be judged on the basis of their significant technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field, including but not limited to, a standard, a product, or a technology trend. The prize shall be $1500, a plaque and a certificate. The recipient of the Early Career Technical Achievement Award is Yuejie Chi, “for contributions to high-dimensional structured signal processing.”
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of an article of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in the Society’s magazine. The prize comprises US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize shall be divided equally among all authors and each shall receive a certificate. This year, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award recipients are Emmanuel J. Candès and Michael B. Wakin for their article ” An Introduction To Compressive Sampling: A sensing/sampling paradigm that goes against the common knowledge in data acquisition “, published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 25, no. 2, March 2008.
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award honors the author(s) of a column of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in the Society’s magazine. The prize shall consist of US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize shall be divided equally among all authors and each shall receive a certificate. This year, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award recipients are Emil Björnson, Mats Bengtsson,and Björn Ottersten for their article ” Optimal Multiuser Transmit Beamforming: A Difficult Problem with a Simple Solution Structure “, published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 31, no. 4, July 2014.
The IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of a letter article of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. The prize shall consist of $500 per author (up to a maximum of $1500 per award) and a certificate. To be eligible for consideration, an article must have appeared in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters in an issue predating the Spring Awards Board meeting by five years (typically held in conjunction with ICASSP). Judging shall be on the basis of the technical novelty, the research significance of the work, quality and effectiveness in presenting subjects in an area of high impact to the Society’s members. The recipients of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award are: Stelios Timotheou and Ioannis Krikidis, for “Fairness for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Systems “, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 10, October 2015.
The Sustained Impact Paper Award shall honor the author(s) of a journal article of broad interest that has had sustained impact over many years on a subject related to the Society’s technical scope. The prize shall consist of $500 per author (up to a maximum of $1500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize shall be divided equally among all authors and each shall receive a certificate. To be eligible for consideration, an article must have appeared in one of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Transactions or the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, in an issue predating the Spring Awards Board meeting by at least 10 years (typically held in conjunction with ICASSP). This year, the Sustained Impact Paper Award recipients are Hamid Krim and Mats Viberg, ” Two Decades of Array Signal Processing Research: The Parametric Approach “, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 13, No. 4, July 1996.
Six Best Paper Awards were awarded, honoring the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in one of the Society’s transactions, irrespective of the author’s age. The prize is US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. Eligibility is based on a five-year window preceding the year of election, and judging is based on general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. Up to six Best Paper Awards may be presented each year. This year, the awardees are:
Martin Sundermeyer, Hermann Ney, and Ralf Schlüter, for “From Feedforward to Recurrent LSTM Neural Networks for Language Modeling “, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 23, No. 3, March 2015.
Dongeek Shin, Ahmed Kirmani, Vivek K Goyal, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro, for “Photon-Efficient Computational 3-D and Reflectivity Imaging With Single-Photon Detectors”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, Volume 1, No. 2, June 2015.
Kyong Hwan Jin, Michael T. McCann, Emmanuel Froustey, and Michael Unser, “Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 26, No. 9, September 2017.
Yuxuan Wang, Arun Narayanan, and DeLiang Wang, “On Training Targets for Supervised Speech Separation”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 22, No. 12, December 2014.
Praneeth Netrapalli, Prateek Jain, and Sujay Sanghavi, “Phase Retrieval Using Alternating Minimization”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 63, No. 18, September 2015.
Chanwoo Kim and Richard M. Stern, “Power-Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (PNCC) for Robust Speech Recognition”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 24, No. 7, July 2016.
The Young Author Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of an especially meritorious paper dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in one of the Society’s transactions and who, upon date of submission of the paper, is less than 30 years of age. The prize is US$500 per author (up to a maximum of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. Eligibility is based on a three-year window preceding the year of election, and judging is based on general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. Three Young Author Best Paper Awards are being presented this year:
Daichi Kitamura, for the paper co-authored with Nobutaka Ono, Hiroshi Sawada, Hirokazu Kameoka, and Hiroshi Saruwatari, “Determined Blind Source Separation Unifying Independent Vector Analysis and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 24, No. 9, September 2016.
Sebastian Dörner and Sebastian Cammerer, for the paper co-authored with Jakob Hoydis and Stephan ten Brink, “Deep Learning Based Communication Over the Air”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 12, No. 1, February 2018.
Mianzhi Wang,for the paper co-authored with Arye Nehorai, “Coarrays, MUSIC, and the Cramer–Rao Bound”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 65, No. 4, February 2017.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society Hyderabad Chapter has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Chapter of the Year Award, which will be presented at the ICASSP 2020 Awards Ceremony in Barcelona, Spain. The award is presented annually to a Chapter that has provided their membership with the highest quality of programs, activities and services. The SPS Hyderabad Chapter will receive a plaque and a check in the amount of $1,000 to support local chapter activities. The Chapter will publish an article in a future issue of the IEEE Inside Signal Processing eNewsletter.
SPS MEMBERS RECEIVE 2020 IEEE AWARDS
The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award will be presented to Hynek Hermansky “for contributions to speech processing and feature extraction for robust speech
recognition.”
The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing will be presented to Alfred O. Hero, III “for contributions to the foundations of statistical signal processing with applications to distributed sensing and performance benchmarking.”
The IEEE Electronics Packaging Technology Award will be presented to Mitsumasa Koyanagi “for pioneering contributions leading to the commercialization of 3D wafer and die level stacking packaging.”
IEEE has announced the recipients of the 2020 IEEE medals. IEEE medals are the highest honor of awards presented by IEEE. The medals will be presented at the 2020 IEEE Honors Ceremony. Three Signal Processing Society members have been awarded with IEEE medals for 2020:
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal awarded for outstanding achievements in signal processing, will be presented to Ramalingam Chellappa “for contributions to image and video processing, especially applications to face recognition.”
The IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal awarded for a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest of IEEE, will be presented to Leah Jamieson “for contributions to the promotion, innovation, and inclusivity of engineering education.”
The IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications awarded for outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar technologies and their applications, will be presented to Joseph R. Guerci “for contributions to advanced, fully adaptive radar systems and real-time knowledge-aided, and cognitive radar processing architectures.”