2018 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients Announced

The IEEE Board of Directors has approved the 2018 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 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 Mari Ostendorf “for contributions to statistical and computational models for analysis, interpretation, and synthesis in speech and language processing.”

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 Peter Stoica “for broad contributions to research and education in statistical signal processing and its applications.”

The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award recognizes outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications was awarded to Nicholas Laneman “for contributions to wireless network communication theory, algorithms, and architectures.”