2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awardees

2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards presented in Barcelona, Spain - received in 2020.

The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society’s prestigious awards during ICASSP 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.

NORBERT WIENER SOCIETY AWARD

Georgios B. Giannakis, “for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing, especially for networking and communications, and for outstanding mentoring of young researchers."

CLAUDE SHANNON-HARRY NYQUIST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

C.-C. Jay Kuo "for significant contributions to visual signal processing technologies and their applications."

LEO L. BERANEK MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Helen Meng “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas “for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS EDUCATION AWARD

Peter Stoica, “for lifetime contributions to education and mentoring in statistical signal processing.”

INDUSTRIAL LEADER AWARD

Li Deng "for leadership in pioneering research and development on large-scale deep learning that disrupted worldwide speech recognition industry and for leadership in natural language processing and finance engineering."

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD

Gene Alan Frantz "for contributions to the development of signal processing systems."

MERITORIOUS REGIONAL/CHAPTER SERVICE AWARD

Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi "for exemplary leadership and strong commitment towards the growth of SPS Chapter in Malaysia."

Syed Abd Rahman Abu-Bakar "for outstanding service to the Signal Processing Society Malaysian Chapter and Region 10."

EARLY CAREER TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Yuejie Chi "for contributions to high-dimensional structured signal processing."

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Emmanuel J. Candès and Michael B. Wakin for "An Introduction To Compressive Sampling: A sensing/sampling paradigm that goes against the common knowledge in data acquisition (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4472240)", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 25, No. 2, March 2008.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Emil Björnson, Mats Bengtsson, and Björn Ottersten for "Optimal Multiuser Transmit Beamforming: A Difficult Problem with a Simple Solution Structure (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6832894)", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume. 31, No. 4, July 2014.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD

Stelios Timotheou and Ioannis Krikidis, for "Fairness for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Systems (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7069272)", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 22, No. 10, October 2015.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD

Hamid Krim and Mats Viberg, for "Two Decades of Array Signal Processing Research: The Parametric Approach (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=526899)", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 13, No. 4, July 1996.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Martin Sundermeyer, Hermann Ney, and Ralf Schlüter, for "From Feedforward to Recurrent LSTM Neural Networks for Language Modeling (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7050391)", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 23, No. 3, March 2015.

Dongeek Shin, Ahmed Kirmani, Vivek K Goyal, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro, for "Photon-Efficient Computational 3-D and Reflectivity Imaging With Single-Photon Detectors (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7150537)", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imagaging, Volume 1, No. 2, June 2015.

Kyong Hwan Jin, Michael T. McCann, Emmanuel Froustey, and Michael Unser, for "Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7949028)", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 26, No. 9, September 2017.

Yuxuan Wang, Arun Narayanan, and DeLiang Wang, for "On Training Targets for Supervised Speech Separation (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6887314)", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 22, No. 12, December 2014.

Praneeth Netrapalli, Prateek Jain, and Sujay Sanghavi, for "Phase Retrieval Using Alternating Minimization (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7130654)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 63, No. 18, September 2015.

Chanwoo Kim and Richard M. Stern, for “Power-Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (PNCC) for Robust Speech Recognition (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7439789)”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 24, No. 7, July 2016.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS

Daichi Kitamura, for the paper co-authored with Nobutaka Ono, Hiroshi Sawada, Hirokazu Kameoka, and Hiroshi Saruwatari, for "Determined Blind Source Separation Unifying Independent Vector Analysis and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7486081)", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 24, No. 9, September 2016.

Sebastian Dörner and Sebastian Cammerer, for the paper co-authored with Jakob Hoydis and Stephan ten Brink, for "Deep Learning Based Communication Over the Air (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8214233)", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 12, No. 1, February 2018.

Mianzhi Wang, for the paper co-authored with Arye Nehorai, for "Coarrays, MUSIC, and the Cramer–Rao Bound (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7738579)", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 65, No. 4, February 2017.