Recent Awards and Honors
Join us in congratulating ITSoc Members for their achievements
Jun 18, 2014
- Tamer Basar , awarded the 2014 Control Systems Award ,for seminal contributions to dynamic games, stochastic and risk-sensitive control, control of networks, and hierarchical decision making.
- John Mathew Cioffi , awarded the2014 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award , f or educating a stellar array of graduate students in digital communications and for inspiring them to make a difference.
- Dariush Divsalar , awarded the 2014 ۿ۴ý Graham Bell Medal , for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering
- Narayan B. Mandayam, together with Dipankar Raychaudhuri, awarded the 2014 Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award , for their paper titled, “Frontiers of Wireless and Mobile Communica پDzԲ,” Proceedings of the ۿ۴ý , Vol. 100, Issue 10, April 2012, pp. 824–840.
- Robert Nowak , together with Stephen Wright and Mario Figueiredo, awarded the 2014 ۿ۴ý W. R. Baker Paper Award , f ortheir paper “Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation,” ۿ۴ý Transactions on Signal Processing , Vol. 57, Issue 7, July 2009, pp. 2479–2493
- A.J. Paulraj , awarded the 2014 Marconi Prize for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas
- Balaji Prabhakar , awarded the2014 ۿ۴ý Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, for significant technological achievements and contributions to the establishment, development, and proliferation of innovative societal infrastructure systems through the application of information technology with an emphasis on distributed computing systems
- John Proakis , awarded the 2014 ۿ۴ý James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal , f or a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest of ۿ۴ý,
- Thomas Richardson and Rüdiger Urbanke , awarded the 2014 ۿ۴ý Richard W. Hamming Medal , f or fundamental contributions to coding theory, iterative information processing, and applications.
- Sergio Verdú , elected to the National Academy of Science
- Bin Yu , elected to the National Academy of Science