2016 Signal Processing Society Award Recipients

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2017 in New Orleans, USA.

SOCIETY AWARD

P. P. Vaidyanathan, "for pioneering contributions to signal processing theory and education."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Jelena Kovacevic, "for contributions to the theory and practice of signal representations." Bhaskar D. Rao, "for fundamental contributions to array processing and sparsity-based signal processing."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

K. J. Ray Liu, "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

EDUCATION AWARD

None selected.

INDUSTRIAL LEADER AWARD

None selected.

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD

None selected.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

David I. Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard, Antonio Ortega and Pierre Vandergheynst, for "The Emerging Field of Signal Processing on Graphs [Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains]", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 30, No. 3, May 2013.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Ronald W. Schafer, for "What Is a Savitzky-Golay Filter?", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 28, No. 4, July 2011.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD

Ye Yang, Qiang Li, Wing-Kin Ma, Jianhua Ge and P. C. Ching, for "Cooperative Secure Beamforming for AF Relay Networks With Multiple Eavesdroppers", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 20, No. 1, January 2013.

OVERVIEW PAPER AWARD

Marco F. Duarte and Yonina C. Eldar, for "Structured Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Applications", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 59, No. 9, September 2011.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD

Zhou Wang, Alan Conrad Bovik, Hamid Rahim Sheikh and Eero P. Simoncelli, for "Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 13, No. 4, April 2004.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Jun Yu, Yong Rui and Dacheng Tao, for "Click Prediction for Web Image Reranking Using Multimodal Sparse Coding", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 23, No. 5, May 2014. Chin Keong Ho and Rui Zhang, for "Optimal Energy Allocation for Wireless Communications With Energy Harvesting Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 60, No. 9, September 2012. Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Hui Jiang, Li Deng, Gerald Penn and Dong Yu, for "Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Recognition", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 22, No. 10, October 2014. Cees H. Taal, Richard C. Hendriks, Richard Heusdens and Jesper Jensen, for "An Algorithm for Intelligibility Prediction of Time–Frequency Weighted Noisy Speech", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 19, No. 7, September 2011. Jason T. Parker, Philip Schniter and Volkan Cevher, for two "Bilinear Generalized Approximate Message Passing - Part I: Derivation"; "Part II: Applications", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 62, No. 22, November 2014.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD

Ahmed Alkhateeb and Omar El Ayach, for the paper co-authored with Geert Leus and Robert W. Heath, Jr., for "Channel Estimation and Hybrid Precoding for Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 8, No. 5, October 2014. Saiprasad Ravishankar, for the paper co-authored with Yoram Bresler, for "Learning Sparsifying Transforms", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 61, No. 5, March 2013. Jack Ho, for the paper co-authored with Wee Peng Tay, Tony Q. S. Quek and Edwin K. P. Chong, for "Robust Decentralized Detection and Social Learning in Tandem Networks", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 63, No. 19, October 2015. Yuanming Shi and Brendan O’Donoghue, for the paper co-authored with Jun Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief, for "Large-Scale Convex Optimization for Dense Wireless Cooperative Networks", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 63, No. 18, September 2015.