2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awardees

2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Presented in Brighton, UK

(Received in 2019)

The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2019 in Brighton, UK.

NORBERT WIENER SOCIETY AWARD

John R. Treichler, “for contributions and leadership in the practical use of adaptive digital signal processing and for sustained service to the Society."

CLAUDE SHANNON-HARRY NYQUIST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Michael Elad "for contributions to sparsity-based signal processing." 

LEO L. BERANEK MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Abdelhak M. Zoubir, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.” 

CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS EDUCATION AWARD

Stéphane Mallat, “for contributions to education in wavelet- and sparsity-based methods and their mathematical foundations.”

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD

Takao Nishitani "for contributions to the ADPCM Standard and its dedicated programmable DSP device." 

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Andrzej Cichocki, Danilo P. Mandic, Anh Huy Phan, Cesar F. Caiafa, Guoxu Zhou, Qibin Zhao, and Lieven De Lathauwer for "Tensor Decompositions for Signal Processing Applications:  From two-way to multiway component analysis (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7038247/)", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, March 2015.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Sangwoo Park, Erchin Serpedin, and Khalid Qaraqe for "Gaussian Assumption: The Least Favorable but the Most Useful (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6494684)", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 30, no. 3, May 2013.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD

Zhiguo Ding, Zheng Yang, Pingzhi Fan, and H. Vincent Poor, for "On the Performance of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Systems with Randomly Deployed Users (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6868214/)", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 12, December 2014.

DONALD G. FINK OVERVIEW PAPER AWARD

M. Sanjeev Arulampalam, Simon Maskell, Neil Gordon, and Tim Clapp, for "A Tutorial on Particle Filters for Online Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Bayesian Tracking (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/978374/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 2, February 2002.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD

Michal Aharon, Michael Elad, and Alfred Bruckstein, for "K-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation (ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1710377/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 11, November 2006.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Ron Rubinstein, Tomer Peleg, and Michael Elad, for "Analysis K-SVD: A Dictionary-Learning Algorithm for the Analysis Sparse Model (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6339105/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 3, February 2013.

Yong Xu, Jun Du, Li-Rong Dai, and Chin-Hui Lee, for "A Regression Approach to Speech Enhancement Based on Deep Neural Networks (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6932438/)", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 23, no. 1, January 2015.

Aliaksei Sandryhaila and José M. F. Moura, for "Discrete Signal Processing on Graphs: Frequency Analysis (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6808520/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 12, June 2014.

Seok-Hwan Park, Osvaldo Simeone, Onur Sahin, and Shlomo Shamai, for "Joint Precoding and Multivariate Backhaul Compression for the Downlink of Cloud Radio Access Networks (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6588350/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 22, November 2013.

Kun-Yu Wang, Anthony Man-Cho So, Tsung-Hui Chang, Wing-Kin Ma, and Chong-Yung Chi, for "Outage Constrained Robust Transmit Optimization for Multiuser MISO Downlinks: Tractable Approximations by Conic Optimization (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6891348/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 21, November 2014.

Hamid Palangi, Li Deng, Yelong Shen, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Jianshu Chen, Xinying Song, and Rabab Ward, for “Deep Sentence Embedding Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks: Analysis and Application to Information Retrieval (https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2016.2520371)”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 24, no. 4, April 2016.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS

Zhijin Qin, for the paper co-authored with Yue Gao, Mark D. Plumbley, and Clive G. Parini, for "Wideband Spectrum Sensing on Real-Time Signals at Sub-Nyquist Sampling Rates in Single and Cooperative Multiple Nodes (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7366613/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 64, no. 12, June 2016.

Suhas Sreehari, for the paper co-authored with S. V. Venkatakrishnan, Brendt Wohlberg, Gregery T. Buzzard, Lawrence F. Drummy, Jeffrey P. Simmons, and Charles A. Bouman, for "Plug-and-Play Priors for Bright Field Electron Tomography and Sparse Interpolation (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7542195)", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 2, no. 4, December 2016.

Eric C. Hall, for the paper co-authored with Rebecca M. Willett, for "Online Convex Optimization in Dynamic Environments (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7044563/)", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 9, no. 4, June 2015.

Xianghao Yu, for the paper co-authored with Juei-Chin Shen, Jun Zhang, and Khaled B. Letaief, for "Alternating Minimization Algorithms for Hybrid Precoding in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7397861/)", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 10, no. 3, April 2016.

Siheng Chen and Rohan Varma, for the paper co-authored with Aliaksei Sandryhaila and Jelena Kovačević, for "Discrete Signal Processing on Graphs: Sampling Theory (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7208894/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 24, December 2015.

Si Qin, for the paper co-authored with Yimin D. Zhang and Moeness G. Amin, for "Generalized Coprime Array Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7012090/)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 6, March 2015.