2012 IEEE Medals and 2012 IEEE Fellows
Several members of the Information Theory community have been awarded IEEE Medals and promoted to IEEE Fellows.
Jul 11, 2012
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Michael G. Luby and Amin Shokrollahi
, for the conception, development, and analysis of practical rateless codes.
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
Leonard Kleinrock
, for pioneering contributions to modeling, analysis, and design of packet-switching networks.
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
Clifford Carter
, for contributions to the fundamentals of coherence and time-delay estimation and to underwater acoustics signal processing.
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award
Jean Walrand
, for contributions to the theory and algorithms for high-speed switching and network resource allocation.
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
Jack H. Winters and
Andreas Molisch
, for contributions to the theory and application of multiple-antenna systems in wireless communications.
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
Mung Chiang
, for demonstrating the practicability of a new theoretical foundation for the analysis and design of communication networks.
IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award
Pramod K. Varshney
, for contributions to and leadership in
the theory and practice of multisensor data fusion for aerospace and bioengineering applications.
the theory and practice of multisensor data fusion for aerospace and bioengineering applications.
IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
Kannan Krishnan
, for “Biomedical Nanomagnetics: A Spin Through Possibilities in Imaging, Diagnostics and Therapy”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 2010, pp. 2523-2558
2012 IEEE Fellows
- Erdal Arikan, for contributions to coding theory.
- Martin Bossert, for contributions to reliable data transmission including code constructions and soft decision decoding.
- Roger Cheng, for contributions to multiuser communications in wireless systems.
- Stefano Galli, for contributions to theory, practice, and standardization of power line communication networks.
- Ryuji Kohno, for contributions to spread spectrum and ultra wideband technologies and applications.
- Adam Krzysak, for contributions to nonparametric algorithms and classification systems for machine learning.
- Soung Chang Lieu, for contributions to wireless communications and networking.
- Ranjan Mallik, for contributions to channel characterization in wireless communication systems.
- Eric Miller, for contributions to inverse problems and physics-based signal and image processing.
- Eytan Modiano, for contributions to cross-layer resource allocation algorithms for wireless, satellite, and optical networks.
- Jong-Seon No, for contributions to sequences and cyclic difference sets for communications algorithms.
- Jean-Christophe Pesquet, for contributions to statistical methods for signal recovery.
- Konstantinos Plataniotis, for contributions to the theory and application of statistical adaptive learning.
- Wonjong Rhee, for leadership in dynamic spectrum management systems.
- Akbar Sayeed, for contributions to statistical signal modeling for wireless communication and sensor networks.
- Ljubisa Stankovic, for contributions to time-frequency signal analysis.
- Emre Telatar, for contributions to information theory and coding.
- Bane Vasic, for contributions to coding theory and its applications in data storage systems and optical communications.
- Jiangtao Wen, for contributions to multimedia communication technology and standards.
- Guu-Chang Yang, for contributions to optical code division multiple access.
- Junshan Zhang, for contributions to cross-layer optimization of wireless networks.