Nominate a Colleague for a 2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award

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 nomination submission deadline for all awards is 1 September 2025.

The leading awards are as follows:

Norbert Wiener Society Award

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Awards

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

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.

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 areas within the scope of the Society.

Leo L. Beranek practice in technical Meritorious Service Award

Honors contributions to the Signal Processing Society.

There is a category of Society Career Awards recognizing achievements members have made in the industry. The career awards are:

• Industrial Innovation Award
• Industry Young Professional Leadership Award
• Pierre-Simon LaPlace Early Career Technical Achievement Award
• Regional Distinguished Teacher Award

SPS is also proud to recognize achievements within the society with awards honoring a Regional/Chapter and best PhD Dissertation.

In addition, there is an array of Society Paper Awards to acknowledge the excellence of papers and articles submitted by SPS members. They are:

• 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

Click here to learn more about each award and the submission process, and submit your nomination today! The nomination submission deadline for all awards is 1 September 2025.