Nominate a Colleague for a 2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award

2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award Nominations

SPS honors its members’ contributions and accomplishments in the various signal processing disciplines and Society activities through its robust awards program. We welcome and encourage the SPS community to nominate their colleagues for an SPS-level award.

The following awards are now open for nomination. Please submit yours by 1 September 2025. For more information about SPS awards, nomination procedures, and 2025 Award Program updates, please visit our website.

SPS Major Society Awards

Norbert Wiener Society Award

Honors outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the Signal Processing Society and outstanding leadership within that field.

Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award

Honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field.

Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award

Honors educators who have made pioneering and significant contributions to signal processing education.

Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award

Honors contributions to the Signal Processing Society.

Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award

Recognizes an industry business or technical leader whose leadership has resulted in major and outstanding advances or new directions using signal processing technologies within the scope of the Society.

Society Career Awards

Industrial Innovation Award

Recognizes an individual or team up to five people at any level who were industry employees whose technical contributions have resulted in significant advances using signal processing technologies within the scope of the Society.

Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award

Honors an SPS member who, over a period of years in the individual's early career, has made significant technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field, including but not limited to, a standard, a product, or a technology trend.

Industry Young Professional Leadership Award

Recognizes meritorious service and leadership of IEEE Signal Processing Society Industry members who are young professionals and whose volunteer efforts have significantly benefited the signal processing community and the profession.

Regional Distinguished Teacher Award

Recognizes individuals who have excelled in the teaching of Signal Processing.  

Society Recognitions

Meritorious Regional/Chapter Service Award

Honors the outstanding contributions of any member of the Society to regional activities of the Signal Processing Society.

Best PhD Dissertation Award

Recognizes PhD-relevant work in signal processing while stimulating research in the field.

Society Paper Awards

• Best Paper Awards
• Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award
• Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award
• Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award
• Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award
• Sustained Impact Paper Award
• Young Author Best Paper Awards

Submit a Nomination Now.

If you have any questions regarding the process,please do not hesitate to contact Debbie Blazek (d.blazek@ieee.org).