2017 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients Announced

The IEEE Board of Directors has approved the 2017 IEEE Technical Field Awards. The complete list of recipients and their citations is online at www.ieee.org/awards. Please feel free to send your notes of congratulations and to publicize the recipients within your other IEEE and professional affiliations.

The following list reflects signal processing related and/or SPS Member award recipients:

The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award recognizes outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing was awarded to Mark Yoffe Liberman “for pioneering contributions to and continued leadership in robust, replicable, and data-driven speech and language science and engineering.”

The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing recognizes an outstanding contribution to the advancement of signal processing, other than in the areas of speech and audio processing was awarded to Russ Mersereau “for sustained technical contributions to multidimensional digital signal processing.”

The IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement recognizes outstanding contributions in electrical measurements was awarded to Jerome John Blair “for contributions to test procedures for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters and to enhanced-accuracy gamma-ray spectrometry.”

The IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award recognizes inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest was awarded to C.-C. Jay Kuo “for inspirational guidance of graduate students and curriculum development in the area of multimedia signal processing.”

The IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits was awarded to Takao Nishitani and John S. Thompson “for pioneering real-time programmable digital signal processor architectures.”