2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Presented in India!

2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards to be Presented in India
(To be Received in 2025)

The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2025 in India.

Society Major Awards

NORBERT WIENER SOCIETY AWARD

Ahmed Tewfik, “for fundamental contributions to watermarking signal processing and sustained leadership in the Signal Processing Society.”

CLAUDE SHANNON-HARRY NYQUIST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Marc Moonen, “for outstanding contributions to theory and practice of statistical signal processing and optimal communication systems.”

CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS EDUCATION AWARD

Paulo Sergio Ramirez Diniz, “for sustained contributions to education and menthorship in signal processing and adaptive filtering.”

LEO L. BERANEK MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Walter L. Kellermann, “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.”

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD

Akihiko Sugiyama, “for major contributions to development, standardization, and applications of audio coding technology.”

PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE EARLY CAREER TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Ulugbek Kamilov, “for major contributions to the theory and practice in computational imaging.”

Kumar Vijay Mishra, “for major contributions in radar signal processing and the integration of sensing and communications.”

INDUSTRY YOUNG PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

Pin-Yu Chen, “for research and industry impact for machine learning robustness and AI safety.”

Society Achievement Awards

BEST PHD DISSERTATION AWARD

Gui Zhou, “Transmission Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Wireless Systems”.

Tian Tong, “Scaled Gradient Methods for Ill-conditioned Low-rank Matrix and Tensor Estimation”.

REGIONAL DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD

John R. Buck, “for contributions to innovative teaching methods, exceptional mentorship, and the development of high-quality educational materials in the field of signal processing.”

Society Paper Awards

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Neil Zeghidour, Alejandro Luebs, Ahmed Omran, Jan Skoglund, and Marco Tagliasacchi for “SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 30, 2022.

Fan Liu; Ya-Feng Liu; Ang Li; Christos Masouros; Yonina C. Eldar for “Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization for Joint Radar-Communication Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 70, 2022.

Kai Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, and Lei Zhang for “FFDNet: Toward a Fast and Flexible Solution for CNN-Based Image Denoising”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, September 2018.

Wei-Ning Hsu, Benjamin Bolte, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Kushal Lakhotia, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Abdelrahman Mohamed for “HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 29, 2021.

Hendrik Purwins, Bo Li, Tuomas Virtanen, Jan Schlüter, Shuo-Yiin Chang, Tara Sainath for “Deep Learning for Audio Signal Processing”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, May 2019.

Fernando Gama, Antonio G. Marques, Geert Leus, and Alejandro Ribeiro for “Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Signals Supported on Graphs”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, February 2019.

Sebastian Bosse, Dominique Maniry, Klaus-Robert Müller, Thomas Wiegand, and Wojciech Samek for “Deep Neural Networks for No-Reference and Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, January 2018.

DONALD G. FINK OVERVIEW PAPER AWARD

J. Andrew Zhang, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Robert W. Heath, Jr., Zhiyong Feng, , Le Zheng, and Athina Petropulu for “An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, November 2021.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD

Peilan Wang, Jun Fang, Huiping Duan, Hongbin Li for “Compressed Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Millimeter Wave Systems”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 27, 2020.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Vishal Monga, Yuelong Li, and Yonina Eldar for “Algorithm Unrolling: Interpretable, Efficient Deep Learning for Signal and Image Processing”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, March 2021.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD

Yiu-Tong Chan, K. C. (Dominic) Ho for “A Simple and Efficient Estimator for Hyperbolic Location”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August 1994.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS

Yifan Jiang, Xinyu Gong, and Zhangyang Wang for the paper co-authored with Ding Liu, Yu Cheng, Chen Fang, Xiaohui Shen, Jianchao Yang, and Pan Zhou, “EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement Without Paired Supervision”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 30, 2021.

Dongchao Yang, Jianwei Yu, Helin Wang, and Wen Wang for the paper co-authored with Chao Weng, Yuexian Zou, and Dong Yu, “Diffsound: Discrete Diffusion Model for Text-to-Sound Generation”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 31, 2023.

Zhaoxian Wu and Tianyi Chen for the paper co-authored with Qing Ling and Georgios B. Giannakis, “Federated Variance-Reduced Stochastic Gradient Descent With Robustness to Byzantine Attacks”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 68, 2020.

Xiang Liu for the paper co-authored with Tianyao Huang, Nir Shlezinger, Yimin Liu, Jie Zhou, and Yonina C.  Eldar, “Joint Transmit Beamforming for Multiuser MIMO Communications and MIMO Radar”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 68, 2020.

Society Chapter of the Year Award

CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD

IEEE Signal Processing Society Kolkata Chapter.