2021 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients Announced

The IEEE Board of Directors has approved the 2021 IEEE Technical Field Awards. The complete list of recipients and their citations is online at www.ieee.org/awards. Please feel free to send your notes of congratulations and to publicize the recipients within your IEEE and professional affiliations.

The following list reflects signal processing related and/or SPS Member award recipients:

The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award, recognizing outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing, was awarded to David Nahamoo "for contributions to and leadership in research and deployment of spoken-language technologies."

The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, recognizing an outstanding contribution to the advancement of signal processing, other than in the areas of speech and audio processing, was awarded to K.J. Ray Liu "for outstanding leadership in and pioneering contributions to signal processing for wireless sensing and communications.”

The IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering, was awarded to Michel Defrise "for key developments in image reconstruction for positron emission tomography and x-ray computed tomography."

The IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, recognizing significant technological achievements and contributions to the establishment, development, and proliferation of innovative societal infrastructure systems through the application of information technology with an emphasis on distributed computing systems, was awarded to Elisa Bertino "for advancing the security and privacy of new-generation cellular networks."

The IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to communications technology, was awarded to En-Hui Yang “for contributions to the theory and practice of source coding."

The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, recognizing outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications, was awarded to Zhu Han "for contributions to game theory and distributed management of autonomous communication networks.”