2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Announced

John Treichler
SPS Vice President–Awards and Membership

On behalf of the Awards Board and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), it is my great pleasure to congratulate the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious 2011 awards during ICASSP 2012 in Kyoto, Japan.

SOCIETY AWARD:
H. Vincent Poor, "for fundamental technical contributions to, and leadership in, statistical signal processing and its applications to wireless communications and related fields."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Bernd Girod, "for his contributions to the theory and practice of video communications, search and processing".

Björn Ottersten, "for contributions in array signal processing and wireless communications."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD:
Shi Fu Chang, "for extraordinary service contributions and outstanding leadership of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine."

Li Deng, "for extraordinary service contributions and outstanding leadership of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine."

EDUCATION AWARD:
P. P. Vaidyanathan, "for fundamental contributions to education in signal processing and multirate filter bank theory and methods."

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD:

• Jacob Mattingley and Stephen Boyd for the paper entitled, "Real-Time Convex Optimization in Signal Processing," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 27, Number 3, May 2010.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD:

• Hagit Messer, for the paper entitled, "Rainfall Monitoring Using Cellular Networks [In the Spotlight]," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 24, Number 3, May 2007.

BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• Tanya Ignatenko and Frans M. J. Willems for the paper entitled, " Biometric Systems: Privacy and Secrecy Aspects ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 4, Number 4, December 2009.
• Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Timothy N. Davidson i and Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo for the paper entitled, " Transmit Beamforming for Physical-Layer Multicasting ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number 6, June 2006.
• Stephen J. Wright , Robert D. Nowak and Mário A. T. Figueiredo for the paper entitled, " Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 57, Number 7, July 2009.
• Pengfei Xia and Georgios B. Giannakis for the paper entitled, "Design and Analysis of Transmit-Beamforming based on Limited-Rate Feedback," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number5, May 2006.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• Raj Rao Nadakuditi , for the paper co-authored with Alan Edelman entitled, " Sample Eigenvalue Based Detection of High-Dimensional Signals in White Noise Using Relatively Few Samples ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 56, Number 7, July 2008.
• Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yu-Ching Lin and Ya-Fan Su , for the paper co-authored with Homer H. Chen entitled, " A Regression Approach to Music Emotion Recognition ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 16, Number 2, February 2008.
• Sheng Yi , for the paper co-authored with Demetrio Labate, Glenn R. Easley, and Hamid Krim entitled, " A Shearlet Approach to Edge Analysis and Detection ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 18, Number 5, May 2009.