2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Presented in Singapore

2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Presented in Singapore - (received in 2022).

The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2022 in Singapore.

NORBERT WIENER SOCIETY AWARD

Sergios Theodoridis, “for seminal contributions to leadership, research and education in signal processing.”

CLAUDE SHANNON-HARRY NYQUIST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Pramod K. Varshney, “for outstanding contributions in the fields of distributed inference, and data fusion.”

Charles Bouman, “for fundamental contributions to X-ray​ computed tomography and computational imaging.”

CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS EDUCATION AWARD

Stephen J. Young, “for contributions to education in the speech and language processing area.”

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD

Tara N. Sainath, “for contributions to deep learning for automatic speech recognition.”

PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE EARLY CAREER TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Gonzalo Mateos, “for contributions to distributed signal processing over networks.”

Vishal M. Patel, “for contributions to image processing and machine learning for biometrics.”

LEO L. BERANEK MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

John Hansen, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.”

Shoji Makino, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.”

BEST PHD DISSERTATION AWARD

Joshua Rapp

REGIONAL DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD

Suhash Chandra Dutta Roy

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

René Vidal for “Subspace Clustering: Applications in Motion Segmentation and Face Clustering”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, March 2011.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Moshe Mishali and Yonina C. Eldar for “Wideband Spectrum Sensing at Sub-Nyquist Rates”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July 2011.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD

Chun-Lin Liu and P. P. Vaidyanathan for “Remarks on the Spatial Smoothing Step in Coarray MUSIC”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, September 2015.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD

Mike Schuster and Kuldip K. Paliwal for “Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 1997.

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

IEEE Signal Processing Society Gujarat Chapter.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Yi Luo and Nima Mesgarani for “Conv-TasNet: Surpassing Ideal Time–Frequency Magnitude Masking for Speech Separation”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, August 2019.

Yaniv Romano, John Isidoro, and Peyman Milanfar for “RAISR: Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, January 2017.

Liang Liu and Wei Yu for “Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO-Part I: Device Activity Detection and Channel Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, June 2018.

Yongzhi Li, Cheng Tao, Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Amine Mezghani, A. Lee Swindlehurst, and Liu Liu for “Channel Estimation and Performance Analysis of One-Bit Massive MIMO Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August 2017.

Tsung-Hui Chang, Mingyi Hong, and Xiangfeng Wang for “Multi-Agent Distributed Optimization via Inexact Consensus ADMM”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, January 2015.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS

Fan Liu, Longfei Zhou, and Ang Li, for the paper co-authored with Christos Masouros, Wu Luo, and Athina Petropulu, “Toward Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Optimal Waveform Design”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August 2018.

Szu-Wei Fu for the paper co-authored with Tao-Wei Wang, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu, and Hisashi Kawai, “End-to-End Waveform Utterance Enhancement for Direct Evaluation Metrics Optimization by Fully Convolutional Neural Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, September 2018.

Chengwei Zhou for the paper co-authored with Yujie Gu, Xing Fan, Zhiguo Shi, Guoqiang Mao, and Yimin D. Zhang, “Direction-of-Arrival Estimation for Coprime Array via Virtual Array Interpolation”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 2018.

Kaiming Shen for the paper co-authored with Wei Yu, “Fractional Programming for Communication Systems-Part I: Power Control and Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, May 2018.