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Dr. Meenesh Singh Receives 2015 Best Ph.D. Award from AIChE - Davidson School of Chemical Engineering - Purdue University

Dr. Meenesh Singh Receives 2015 Best Ph.D. Award from AIChE

June 23, 2015

Purdue Chemical Engineering alumnus, Dr. Meenesh Singh was selected as the recipient of the 2015 George Klinzing Best Ph.D. Award by the Particle Technology Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

The award recognizes an outstanding dissertation by an individual who has earned a doctoral degree. The dissertation can be in any discipline in physical, biomedical or engineering sciences, but must be related to particle science and engineering.

Dr. Singh received his Ph.D. from Purdue Chemical Engineering in 2013, with a dissertation titled “Towards the Control of Crystal Shape and Morphology Distributions In Crystallizers.” Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he works on artificial photosynthesis for solar fuels. While at Purdue, he was advised by Dr. Doraiswami Ramkrishna.

The Klinzing Best PhD Award is sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company and includes a plaque and $500 honorarium.

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Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples

Published on September 9, 2022 by Tegan George . Revised on July 18, 2023.

It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation . One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer’s block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.

This article collects a list of undergraduate, master’s, and PhD theses and dissertations that have won prizes for their high-quality research.

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University : University of Pennsylvania Faculty : History Author : Suchait Kahlon Award : 2021 Hilary Conroy Prize for Best Honors Thesis in World History Title : “Abolition, Africans, and Abstraction: the Influence of the “Noble Savage” on British and French Antislavery Thought, 1787-1807”

University : Columbia University Faculty : History Author : Julien Saint Reiman Award : 2018 Charles A. Beard Senior Thesis Prize Title : “A Starving Man Helping Another Starving Man”: UNRRA, India, and the Genesis of Global Relief, 1943-1947

University: University College London Faculty: Geography Author: Anna Knowles-Smith Award:  2017 Royal Geographical Society Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Title:  Refugees and theatre: an exploration of the basis of self-representation

University: University of Washington Faculty:  Computer Science & Engineering Author: Nick J. Martindell Award: 2014 Best Senior Thesis Award Title:  DCDN: Distributed content delivery for the modern web

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University:  University of Edinburgh Faculty:  Informatics Author:  Christopher Sipola Award:  2018 Social Responsibility & Sustainability Dissertation Prize Title:  Summarizing electricity usage with a neural network

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty:  Education Author:  Matthew Brillinger Award:  2017 Commission on Graduate Studies in the Humanities Prize Title:  Educational Park Planning in Berkeley, California, 1965-1968

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty: Social Sciences Author:  Heather Martin Award:  2015 Joseph De Koninck Prize Title:  An Analysis of Sexual Assault Support Services for Women who have a Developmental Disability

University : University of Ottawa Faculty : Physics Author : Guillaume Thekkadath Award : 2017 Commission on Graduate Studies in the Sciences Prize Title : Joint measurements of complementary properties of quantum systems

University:  London School of Economics Faculty: International Development Author: Lajos Kossuth Award:  2016 Winner of the Prize for Best Overall Performance Title:  Shiny Happy People: A study of the effects income relative to a reference group exerts on life satisfaction

University : Stanford University Faculty : English Author : Nathan Wainstein Award : 2021 Alden Prize Title : “Unformed Art: Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel”

University : University of Massachusetts at Amherst Faculty : Molecular and Cellular Biology Author : Nils Pilotte Award : 2021 Byron Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation Title : “Improved Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths”

University:  Utrecht University Faculty:  Linguistics Author:  Hans Rutger Bosker Award: 2014 AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize Title:  The processing and evaluation of fluency in native and non-native speech

University: California Institute of Technology Faculty: Physics Author: Michael P. Mendenhall Award: 2015 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Title: Measurement of the neutron beta decay asymmetry using ultracold neutrons

University:  Stanford University Faculty: Management Science and Engineering Author:  Shayan O. Gharan Award:  Doctoral Dissertation Award 2013 Title:   New Rounding Techniques for the Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms

University: University of Minnesota Faculty: Chemical Engineering Author: Eric A. Vandre Award:  2014 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics Title: Onset of Dynamics Wetting Failure: The Mechanics of High-speed Fluid Displacement

University: Erasmus University Rotterdam Faculty: Marketing Author: Ezgi Akpinar Award: McKinsey Marketing Dissertation Award 2014 Title: Consumer Information Sharing: Understanding Psychological Drivers of Social Transmission

University: University of Washington Faculty: Computer Science & Engineering Author: Keith N. Snavely Award:  2009 Doctoral Dissertation Award Title: Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Internet Photo Collections

University:  University of Ottawa Faculty:  Social Work Author:  Susannah Taylor Award: 2018 Joseph De Koninck Prize Title:  Effacing and Obscuring Autonomy: the Effects of Structural Violence on the Transition to Adulthood of Street Involved Youth

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Yuliang li and andrew ross honored for the quality and potential impact of their research.

Yuliang Li and Andrew Ross have received the second annual Computer Science Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Awards from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

Li's dissertation, titled "Hardware-Software Codesign for High-Performance Cloud Networks," explores the use of emerging hardware in the cloud, and jointly designs software systems with this hardware to improve performance and robustness of cloud networks. 

As Moore's law has come to an end, pure software solutions can no longer keep up with the exponentially increasing amount of data and processing required. On the other hand, hardware, although fast, is limited to only simple, special-purpose tasks. Li's research marries the high speed of hardware with the general purpose of software to significantly improve the performance and robustness of cloud networks. Li’s work was also honored with the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Data Communications Doctoral Dissertation Award.

He will join the Network Infrastructure team at Google Cloud, continuing his dissertation topic to build high-performance cloud networks by hardware-software codesign.

“Yuliang's thesis work made significant contributions to improve the performance and robustness of cloud networks,” said Li’s advisor, Minlan Yu , Associate Professor of Computer Science. “Today, the hardware layer in cloud networks is evolving quickly with more programmable switches and network interface cards (NICs) and higher speed. But we lack the software to best leverage and coordinate these emerging hardware. Yuliang takes an approach of hardware and software codesign and made architectural insights on identifying the best division of labor between programmable switches, NICs, hosts, and the controller.”

Andrew Ross

Ross’ dissertation, titled “Right for the Right Reasons: Training Neural Networks to be Interpretable, Robust, and Consistent with Expert Knowledge,” explores different ways of optimizing machine learning models to make predictions for better reasons. Usually, researchers teach machine learners by feeding them numerous examples of questions and associated answers, and then ask them to answer new questions. By contrast, when people teach human learners, they usually provide them with reasons as well as examples because teaching solely by example can produce ambiguity—there can be multiple procedures that arrive at the same answer, even if only one will work in practice.

When neural networks are faced with that kind of ambiguity, they often fail or end up being untrustworthy in real-world situations. Ross’ work focuses on ways of encoding extra information about "the right reason" into the process of training neural networks, so that what they ultimately learn is more robust to differences between conditions during learning and conditions in practice. 

Ross will pursue a postdoctoral fellowship in interpretable machine learning for climate modeling at New York University.

“Andrew's thesis looks at interpretability in machine learning from such a variety of angles. His work on jointly optimizing for interpretability and accuracy, and connections between interpretability and robustness, has catalyzed numerous recent extensions,” said Ross’ advisor, Finale Doshi-Velez , the John L. Loeb Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “I'm often hearing from colleagues how much they love the work. He's also worked on the human side, designing ways to measure the interpretability—or understandability—of generative models. That work received an honorable mention at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) this year.”

The Computer Science Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award at SEAS was launched in 2020 to recognize the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertations of the year. A committee of faculty chose the winners from a group of students who were nominated based on input from all graduating students’ Ph.D. committees. The award evaluates each dissertation as a cohesive body of work, and looks at research quality, potential impact, and quality of presentation.

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Announcement of SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award 2015

ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) is pleased to present the 2015 SIGMM Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award to Dr. Ting Yao and Honorable Mention recognition to Dr. Britta Meixner.

The award committee considers Dr. Yao’s dissertation entitled “Multimedia Search by Self, External, and Crowdsourcing Knowledge” worthy of the recognition as the thesis proposes an innovative knowledge transfer framework for multimedia search which is expected to have significant impact, especially in boosting the search performance for big multimedia data.

Dr. Yao’s thesis proposes the knowledge transfer methodology in three multimedia search scenarios:

(1)   Seeking consensus among multiple modalities in the context of search re-ranking,

(2)   Leveraging external knowledge as a prior to be transferred to a problem that belongs to a domain different from the external knowledge, and

(3)   >Exploring the large user click-through data as crowdsourced human intelligence for annotation and search.

The effectiveness of the proposed framework has been successfully justified by thorough experiments.  The proposed framework has substantial contributions in principled integration of multimodal data which is indispensable in multimedia search.  The publications related to the thesis clearly demonstrate the major impact of this work in many research disciplines including multimedia, web, and information retrieval. The fact that parts of the proposed techniques have been and are being transferred to the commercial search service Bing further attest to the practical contributions of this thesis.  Overall, the committee recognizes the significant impact and contributions presented in the thesis to the multimedia community.

Bio of Awardee

Dr. Ting Yao is an associate researcher in the Multimedia Search and Mining group at Microsoft Research, Beijing, China. His research interests are in multimedia search and computing. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong in 2014. He received the B.Sc. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics (2004), B.Eng. double degree in electronic information engineering (2004), and M.Eng. degree in signal and information processing (2008) all from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. The system designed by him achieved the second place in the THUMOS action recognition challenge at CVPR 2015. He was also the principal designer of the image retrieval systems that achieved the third and fifth performance in the MSR-Bing image retrieval challenge at ACM MM 2014 and 2013, respectively. He received the Best Paper Award of ACM ICIMCS (2013).

Honorable Mention:

The award committee is pleased to present the Honorable Mention to Dr. Britta Meixner for the thesis entitled: “Annotated Interactive Non-linear Video - Software Suite, Download and Cache Management.”

The thesis presents a fully functional software suite for authoring non-linear interactive videos with downloading and cache management mechanisms for effective video playback.  The committee is significantly impressed by the thorough study presented in the thesis with extensive analysis of the properties of the software suite.  The implementation which has been made available as open source software along with the thesis undoubtedly has very high potential impact to the multimedia community.

Dr. Britta Meixner received her Master’s degree (German Diplom) in Computer Science from the University of Passau, Germany, in 2008. Furthermore, she received the First State Examination for Lectureship at Secondary Schools for the subjects Computer Science and Mathematics from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture in 2008. She received her Ph.D. degree  from the University of Passau, Germany, in 2014. The title of her thesis is “Annotated Interactive Non-linear Video - Software Suite, Download and Cache Management.”  She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Passau, Germany, and will be a postdoctoral research fellow at FXPAL, Palo Alto, CA, USA, starting October 2015. Her research interest is mainly in hypermedia. She is an award winner of the 2015 Award “Women + Media Technology,” granted by Germany’s public broadcasters ARD and ZDF (ARD/ZDF Förderpreis “Frauen + Medientechnologie” 2015). She was a Reviewer for Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) Journal, an Organizer of the “International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption (WSICC)” at ACM TVX in 2014 and 2015, and Associate Chair at ACM TVX2015.

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The ASA Dissertation Award honors the best PhD dissertation from among those submitted by advisers and mentors in the discipline. Dissertations from PhD recipients with degrees awarded in the current year will be eligible for consideration for the following year’s award (e.g. PhD recipients with degrees awarded in the 2024 calendar year will be eligible for consideration for the 2025 ASA Dissertation Award .)

To be eligible for the ASA Dissertation Award, nominees’ dissertations must be completed in satisfaction of the PhD requirements at the institution where the nominee’s doctoral work was completed.

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Nominations must be received from the student’s adviser or the scholar most familiar with the student’s research. Nominations should explain the precise nature and merits of the work. Nominations should include a digital copy of the dissertation (acceptable forms of digital copy, DOC, DOCX and PDF) attached in an email.

If a dissertation is selected for the ASA Dissertation Award, the author will have the opportunity to archive the dissertation on the ASA website. This can be done immediately following the receipt of the award or at any point in the future (e.g., following the publication of manuscripts derived from the dissertation).

In addition to the nomination materials described above, complete and submit the required nomination form .

All awardees must be current ASA members at the time of the award ceremony at the Annual Meeting.  One need not be a member to be nominated for an award. All nominators must be current members.  Please also be aware of ASA’s ethics disclosure and award revocation policies.

Submit nominations for the 2025 award to [email protected] by January 1, 2025 .

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Past Recipients

2024     Luis Flores , Harvard University, for the dissertation titled “The Regulatory Politics of Home-Based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage,” completed at University of Michigan

Honorable Mention: Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University, for the dissertation titled “Policing the Black Metropolis: Race, Surveillance, and Resistance,” completed at Northwestern University

2023    Lara Garbes , University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for the dissertation titled “Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in the American Public Radio Industry,” completed at Brown University

2023     David Showalter , Harvard University, for the dissertation titled “Going Nowhere: The Social Life of Opioids in Backcountry California,” completed at University of California, Berkeley

2022    Ricarda Hammer , University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, for “Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule Across the Black Atlantic,” completed at Brown University

2022    Lacee A. Satcher , Boston College, for “(Un) Just Deserts: Examining the Consequences of Economic, Social, and Environmental Disinvestment in the Urban South,” completed at Vanderbilt University

2021     Gözde Güran,  Harvard University, for “Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria” completed at Princeton University

2021    Elizabeth McKenna , SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, for “The Revolution Will be Organized: Power and Protest in Brazil’s New Republic (1988-2018)” completed at University of California-Berkeley

2020     Christina Cross , University of Michigan, for “The Color, Class, and Context of Family Structure and Its Association with Children’s Educational Performance”

Honorable Mention: Christof Brandtner, “Cities in Action: City Climate Action, Civil Society, and the Organization of Cities”

2019     Anjuli N. Fahlberg,  Tufts University, for  “Activism Under Fire: Violence, Poverty, and Collective Action in Rio de Janeiro”

Honorable Mention: Josh Seim, “Working on the Poor: Ambulance Labor in the Polarized City.”

2018     Juliette Galonnier “Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States”

2017     Karida Brown “Before they were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky’s Coal Camp Blacks”

Honorable Mention: Maude Pugliese,  “Socio-Economic Disparities in Portfolio Composition: Historical Causes and Consequences for Inequality in America”

2016     Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz “Temporal Politics of the Future: National Latino Civil Rights Advocacy, Demographic Statistics, and the ‘Browning’ of America”

2015     Christopher Michael Muller “Historical Origins of Racial Inequality in Incarceration in the United States”

2014     Ya-Wen Lei “Uncovering the Roots of the Nationwide Counter-public Sphere in China”

2014     Yan Long  “Constructing Transnational Actorhood: The Emergence and Transformation of the AIDS Movement in China, 1989-2012”

2013     Larissa Buchholz “The Global Rules of Art”

2013     Daniel Menchik “The Practices of Medicine”

2012     Kimberly Kay Hoang “New Economies of Sex and Intimacy in Vietnam”

2011     Alice Goffman, “On the Run”

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Honorable Mention: Joanna Robinson, “Contested Water: Anti-Water Privatization Movements in Canada and the United States”

2010    G. Cristina Mora, “De Muchos, Uno: The Institutionalization of Latino Panethnicity, 1960-1990”

Honorable Mention: Sophia Krzys Acord, “Beyond the Code: Unpacking Tacit Knowledge and Embodied Cognition in the Practical Action of Curating Contemporary Art”

2009    Claire Laurier Decoteau , “The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa.”

2008    Helen Beckler Marrow , “Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South.”

2007    Wendy Roth , “Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility”

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Two winners when Physics awards the year's best doctoral theses

Mathias Hoppe and Christopher Linderälv are winners of the Department of Physics' annual prize for the best doctoral thesis. The focus of their theses is the obstacles that stand in the way of large-scale fusion energy, respectively how materials can be modified for, for example, applications in quantum technology.

The Department of Physics' Best Thesis Award for the academic year 2022 goes to Dr. Mathias Hoppe , for his thesis entitled "Runaway-electron model development and validation in tokamaks" (supervisor Tünde Fülöp ), and to Christopher Linderälv , for his thesis entitled "Optical properties of point defects in insulators and of transition metal dichalcogenides” (supervisor Paul Erhart ).

The award committee's motivation for the awards is:

“The award committee decided to award this year’s Best PhD Award to two laureates: Dr. Mathias Hoppe and Dr. Christopher Linderälv. Their PhD theses report excellent scientific work in a way that makes science understandable to an audience outside their own research communities.

Dr. Hoppe is awarded for his solid scientific contributions to magnetic confinement fusion and for the pedagogical qualities of his thesis; the committee appreciated how Dr. Hoppe puts his work into the context of his field and introduces the reader to the world of thermonuclear devices in a thesis that is easy to read.

Dr. Linderälv wrote an excellent thesis documenting his prolific work applying first-principle calculations to understand materials properties, yet close to experiments; the committee enjoyed reading his thesis with its impressive visual quality.”

Below, the winners tell us more about the research in their theses, the writing process, and what they are doing now!

Three questions for ... Mathias Hoppe, about his winning doctoral thesis.

What are you investigating in your thesis?

"My thesis revolves around one of the major remaining obstacles that stand in the way of large-scale fusion energy: so-called runaway electrons. These electrons can, among other things, occur if the fusion fuel suddenly cools down sharply and the fusion reactions slow down. The runaway electrons are often difficult to control and if they happen to hit the wall of the fusion reactor, they risk causing major damage to the machine. My contribution to the research has primarily been to develop mathematical models and simulation codes that make it possible to partly predict how the runaway electrons arise, and partly to compare experimental measurements with simulations. The fusion reactors of the future will both have to be much larger than today's fusion experiments and use technologies that have not been tested in reality yet, and since the risks connected to runaway electrons are exponentially much worse in large fusion machines, there is basically no margin to try them out in the machines of the future. Therefore, it is extremely important to have access to well-founded and experimentally validated  mathematical models that can be used to test various safety systems in advance, before the machines are built. That is exactly what my research aimed at."

What was easy and what was difficult during the process of writing the thesis?

"One of the most difficult parts of the thesis has concerned the connection between theory and experiment, namely how sufficiently simple models that simultaneously describe reality can be well formulated. Fusion and plasma physics is a very practical science where the goal is to produce as much energy as possible, and then experiments often lead to advanced technical solutions that can be extremely difficult to describe mathematically. In order to be able to reason theoretically about how the experiments can be improved, it is therefore required that just the right simplifications of the mathematics are made so that the effects of the most relevant physics show up most clearly. Fortunately, there are many very smart people working on fusion, and most are more than happy to share their ideas and experiences. So even though the questions I was faced with were often very clever, there were other researchers around, both in Sweden and the rest of the world, who were open to discussion and made it possible for me to piece by piece put together the puzzle that eventually became my thesis."

What are you doing now?

"My first stop after the defense was as a postdoc at one of Europe's largest fusion laboratories, namely the Swiss Plasma Center at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Here I am able to apply the knowledge I have gathered during my doctoral studies and the tools I have developed to study the lab's own fusion experiments in detail. Mainly, I work with interpreting experimental results using computer simulations, and try to be as good a discussion partner as possible to other researchers who also work with runaway electrons. From April 1, however, I will return to Sweden, but this time to Stockholm and KTH in the role of Assistant Professor in fusion plasma physics. My research will likely continue on roughly the same track as before, but now I also get the chance to take greater responsibility for students in the role of teacher and supervisor. Because if there is something that really brightened my time as a doctoral student, it has been the interaction with all the fantastic bachelor's and master's students that I had the privilege of supervising!"

Read Mathias Hoppe's thesis: Runaway-electron model development and validation in tokamaks

Three questions for ... Christopher Linderälv, about his winning doctoral thesis.

"My thesis is about material physics on an atomic scale, where I have carried out theoretical studies on electrons, atoms and their interaction. I have studied a variety of materials but what has been a common denominator is how to modify these materials to obtain desired properties. One of the main tracks in my research has been how defects, i.e. irregularities in a crystal, affect the optical properties of different materials. Some defects have applications in, among other things, quantum technology. While some defects are well researched, the vast majority are not and here I think my research has been able to clear up some question marks."

"The most difficult thing for me in writing the thesis was to put together a coherent story from so many years of research. It wasn't until the last few years that I started to see how it all came together. I put a lot of effort into the introduction to clarify the question and to explain how the parts of the thesis hold together."

"I am now at the University of Oslo, where I am researching similar things as during my doctoral studies at Chalmers, but with slightly different approaches and methods."

Read Christopher Linderälv's thesis: Optical properties of point defects in insulators and of transition metal dichalcogenides

About the Best Thesis Award

• The Best Thesis Award was founded in 2013, as one among several initiatives at the Department of Physics, to maintain and improve the research quality, as well as to show appreciation for the PhD students' hard work. The management of the department also hopes that this award can help doctoral students receive an extra boost in their careers after the defence. These particular theses can serve as good examples for doctoral students in the early stages of their own thesis writing. Besides the honour, the award consists of a diploma and a monetary prize of SEK 10.000.
• Members of the Best PhD Thesis Award Committee: Dinko Chakarov , Hana Jungová , Philippe Tassin (chair), Paolo Vinai and Julia Wiktor .

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The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is a global prize, established in 2013, aimed at rewarding scientists at an early stage of their careers.

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The four winners of the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists will have their essays published by the journal Science .

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2019 ieee signal processing society awardees, (received in 2020).

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The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who received the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2019 in Brighton, UK.

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The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2018 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

SOCIETY AWARD

Alejandro (Alex) Acero , "for contributions to speech technology and leadership in the signal processing community."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Patrick Flandrin , "for contributions to the theory and application of nonstationary signal analysis." Ahmed H. Tewfik , "for contributions to digital watermarking, multimedia, and wavelets."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Mari Ostendorf , "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society." John H. Cozzens , "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

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C.-C. Jay Kuo , "for contributions to signal, image and multimedia education."

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Alfonso Farina , "for contributions to radar array processing and industrial leadership."

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Richard F. Lyon , "for contributions in integrated circuits, cameras, and audio processing."

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Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Visa Koivunen, Yacine Chakhchoukh and Michael Muma , for " Robust Estimation in Signal Processing: A tutorial-style treatment of fundamental concepts ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 29, No. 4, July 2012.

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Ramsey Faragher, for " Understanding the Basis of the Kalman Filter Via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 29, No. 5, September 2012.

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Anish Mittal, Rajiv Soundararajan and Alan C. Bovik , for " Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer ", IEEE Signal Processing Letters , Volume 20, No. 3, March 2013.

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Lu Lu, Geoffrey Ye Li, A. Lee Swindlehurst, Alexei Ashikhmin and Rui Zhang , for " An Overview of Massive MIMO: Benefits and Challenges ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 8, No. 5, October 2014.

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Richard Roy and Thomas Kailath , for " ESPRIT-Estimation of Signal Parameters Via Rotational Invariance Techniques ", IEEE Transactions on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing , Volume 37, No. 7, July 1989.

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Aliaksei Sandryhaila and José M. F. Moura , for " Discrete Signal Processing on Graphs ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 61, No. 7, April 2013.

Stamatios Lefkimmiatis, Aurélien Bourquard and Michael Unser , for " Hessian-Based Norm Regularization for Image Restoration With Biomedical Applications ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 21, No. 3, March 2012.

Vincent Christlein, Christian Riess, Johannes Jordan, Corinna Riess and Elli Angelopoulou , for " An Evaluation of Popular Copy-Move Forgery Detection Approaches ", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , Volume 7, No. 6, December 2012.

Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Vivek K Goyal and Sundeep Rangan , for " Message-Passing De-Quantization With Applications to Compressed Sensing ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 60, No. 12, December 2012.

Foad Sohrabi and Wei Yu , for " Hybrid Digital and Analog Beamforming Design for Large-Scale Antenna Arrays ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 10, No. 3, April 2016.

Nasser Mohammadiha, Paris Smaragdis and Arne Leijon , for " Supervised and Unsupervised Speech Enhancement Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing , Volume 21, No. 10, October 2013.

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Jie Xu and Liang Liu , for the paper co-authored with Rui Zhang, for " Multiuser MISO Beamforming for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 62, No. 18, September 2014.

Konstantin Dragomiretskiy , for the paper co-authored with Dominique Zosso, for " Variational Mode Decomposition ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 62, No. 3, February 2014.

Wei Shi and Kun Yuan for the paper co-authored with Qing Ling, Gang Wu and Wotao Yin, for " On the Linear Convergence of the ADMM in Decentralized Consensus Optimization ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 62, No. 7, April 2014.

Morteza Mardani , for the paper co-authored with Gonzalo Mateos, and Georgios B. Giannakis, for " Subspace Learning and Imputation for Streaming Big Data Matrices and Tensors ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 63, No. 10, May 2015.

Mojtaba Soltanalian , for the paper co-authored with Petre Stoica, for " Designing Unimodular Codes Via Quadratic Optimization ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 62, No. 5, March 2014.

Roee Enbar , for the paper co-authored with Eran Eidinger, and Tal Hassner, for " Age and Gender Estimation of Unfiltered Faces ", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , Volume 9, No. 12, December 2014.

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P. P. Vaidyanathan , "for pioneering contributions to signal processing theory and education."

Jelena Kovacevic , "for contributions to the theory and practice of signal representations." Bhaskar D. Rao , "for fundamental contributions to array processing and sparsity-based signal processing."

K. J. Ray Liu , "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

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David I. Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard, Antonio Ortega and Pierre Vandergheynst , for " The Emerging Field of Signal Processing on Graphs [Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains] ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 30, No. 3, May 2013.

Ronald W. Schafer, for " What Is a Savitzky-Golay Filter? ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 28, No. 4, July 2011.

Ye Yang, Qiang Li, Wing-Kin Ma, Jianhua Ge and P. C. Ching , for " Cooperative Secure Beamforming for AF Relay Networks With Multiple Eavesdroppers ", IEEE Signal Processing Letters , Volume 20, No. 1, January 2013.

Marco F. Duarte and Yonina C. Eldar , for " Structured Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Applications ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 59, No. 9, September 2011.

Zhou Wang, Alan Conrad Bovik, Hamid Rahim Sheikh and Eero P. Simoncelli , for " Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 13, No. 4, April 2004.

Jun Yu, Yong Rui and Dacheng Tao , for " Click Prediction for Web Image Reranking Using Multimodal Sparse Coding ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 23, No. 5, May 2014.

Chin Keong Ho and Rui Zhang , for " Optimal Energy Allocation for Wireless Communications With Energy Harvesting Constraints ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 60, No. 9, September 2012.

Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Hui Jiang, Li Deng, Gerald Penn and Dong Yu , for " Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Recognition ", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , Volume 22, No. 10, October 2014.

Cees H. Taal, Richard C. Hendriks, Richard Heusdens and Jesper Jensen , for " An Algorithm for Intelligibility Prediction of Time–Frequency Weighted Noisy Speech ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , Volume 19, No. 7, September 2011.

Jason T. Parker, Philip Schniter and Volkan Cevher , for two " Bilinear Generalized Approximate Message Passing - Part I: Derivation "; " Part II: Applications ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 62, No. 22, November 2014.

Ahmed Alkhateeb and Omar El Ayach , for the paper co-authored with Geert Leus and Robert W. Heath, Jr., for " Channel Estimation and Hybrid Precoding for Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 8, No. 5, October 2014.

Saiprasad Ravishankar , for the paper co-authored with Yoram Bresler, for " Learning Sparsifying Transforms ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 61, No. 5, March 2013.

Jack Ho, for the paper co-authored with Wee Peng Tay, Tony Q. S. Quek and Edwin K. P. Chong, for " Robust Decentralized Detection and Social Learning in Tandem Networks ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 63, No. 19, October 2015.

Yuanming Shi and Brendan O’Donoghue , for the paper co-authored with Jun Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief, for " Large-Scale Convex Optimization for Dense Wireless Cooperative Networks ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 63, No. 18, September 2015.

2015 Awardees

2015 ieee signal processing society awardees.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2016 in Shanghai, China.

Alfred O. Hero "for contributions to the field of statistical signal and image processing and for sustained service to the Society."

Li Deng "for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition."

Min Wu "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

Ali H. Sayed "for the writing of scholarly and influential texts in the areas of adaptive systems and statistical signal processing."

John R. Treichler "for sustained impact and leadership to the security and intelligence industry through signal processing innovations."

Gary Elko "for outstanding contributions towards industrial research and commercialization of innovative electroacoustic devices and microphone array signal processing."

Zhi-Quan Luo , Wing-Kin Ma , Anthony Man-Cho So , Yinyu Ye and Shuzhong Zhang , for " Semidefinite Relaxation of Quadratic Optimization Problems ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 27, No.3, May 2010.

Antonio Plaza , Javier Plaza , Abel Paz and Sergio Sánchez , for " Parallel Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 28, No. 3, May 2011.

Argyrios Zymnis , Stephen Boyd and Emmanuel Candès , for " Compressed Sensing With Quantized Measurements ", IEEE Signal Processing Letters , Volume 17, No.2, February 2010.

Beibei Wang and K. J. Ray Liu , for " Advances in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 5, No. 1, February 2011.

Ingemar J. Cox , Joe Kilian , F. Thomson Leighton and Talal Shamoon , for " Secure Spread Spectrum Watermarking for Multimedia ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 6, No. 12, December 1997.

Mark A. Davenport , Petros T. Boufounos , Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk , for " Signal Processing With Compressive Measurements ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 4, No. 2, April 2010.

Moshe Mishali and Yonina C. Eldar , for " From Theory to Practice: Sub-Nyquist Sampling of Sparse Wideband Analog Signals ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 4, No. 2, April 2010.

Xiaoyang Tan and Bill Triggs , " Enhanced Local Texture Feature Sets for Face Recognition Under Difficult Lighting Conditions ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 19, No. 6, June 2010.

Tomás Pevný , Patrick Bas and Jessica Fridrich , " Steganalysis by Subtractive Pixel Adjacency Matrix ", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , Volume 5, No. 2, June 2010.

Junil Choi , David J. Love and Patrick Bidigare , " Downlink Training Techniques for FDD Massive MIMO Systems: Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Training With Memory ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 8, No. 5, October 2014.

Chunming Li , Chenyang Xu , Changfeng Gui and Martin D. Fox , " Distance Regularized Level Set Evolution and Its Application to Image Segmentation ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 19, No.12, December 2010.

João F. C. Mota , for the paper co-authored with João M. F. Xavier, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, and Markus Püschel, " Distributed Basis Pursuit ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 60, No. 4, April 2012.

Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , for the paper co-authored with Alexandros G. Dimakis, " Interference Alignment as a Rank Constrained Rank Minimization ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 60, No. 8, August 2012.

Jingning Han , Ankur Saxena , Vinay Melkote for the paper co-authored with Kenneth Rose, " Jointly Optimized Spatial Prediction and Block Transform for Video and Image Coding ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 21, No. 4, April 2012.

Yuhua Xu , for the paper co-authored with Jinlong Wang, Qihui Wu, Alagan Anpalagan and Yu-Dong Yao, " Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks: Global Optimization Using Local Interaction Games ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing , Volume 6, No. 2, April 2012.

Peiran Song , for the paper co-authored with Gesualdo Scutari, Francisco Facchinei, Daniel P. Palomar and Jong-Shi Pang, " Decomposition by Partial Linearization: Parallel Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 62, No. 3, February 2014.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE 2016 IEEE AWARDS.

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award presented to Takehiro Moriya "for contributions to speech and audio coding algorithms and standardization."

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing presented to Bede Liu "for foundational contributions to the analysis, design, and implementation of digital signal processing systems."

IEEE Leon K. Krichmayer Graduate Teaching Award presented to K. J. Ray Liu "for exemplary teaching and curriculum development, inspirational mentoring of graduate students, and broad educational impact in signal processing and communications."

IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award presented to Yonina Eldar "for development of the theory and implementation of sub-Nyquist sampling with applications to radar, communications, and ultrasound."

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award presented to P.P. Vaidyanathan "for fundamental contributions to digital signal processing."

The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal presented to Louis L. Scharf "for pioneering and sustained contributions to statistical signal processing and its practice."

The IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal presented to Simon S. Haykin "for contributions to engineering education in adaptive signal processing and communication.”

The IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications presented to Nadav Levanon "for contributions to radar signal design and analysis, pulse compression, and signal processing."

2014 Awardees

2014 ieee signal processing society awardees.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2015 in Brisbane, Australia.

K. J. Ray Liu "for influential technical contributions and profound leadership impact."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Moeness G. Amin "for fundamental contributions to signal processing algorithms for communications, satellite navigations, and radar imaging."

Richard G. Baraniuk "for contributions to the theory and applications of sparsity and compressive sensing."

V. John Mathews "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

Sergios Theodoridis "for sustained contributions to education in the area of machine learning for signal processing."

Sergios Theodoridis , Konstantinos Slavakis and Isao Yamada , for " Adaptive Learning in a World of Projections: A unifying framework for linear and nonlinear classification and regression tasks ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 28, No. 1, January 2011.

Göran Bergqvist and Erik G. Larsson, for " The Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition: Theory and an Application ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume: 27, No. 3, May 2010.

Emanuël A. P. Habets , Sharon Gannot and Israel Cohen , for " Late Reverberant Spectral Variance Estimation Based on a Statistical Model ", IEEE Signal Processing Letters , Volume: 16, No. 9, September 2009.

No paper selected.

Stephane G. Mallat and Zhifeng Zhang, " Matching Pursuits With Time-Frequency Dictionaries ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 41, No. 12, December 1993.

Namrata Vaswani and Wei Lu, " Modified-CS: Modifying Compressive Sensing for Problems With Partially Known Support ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume: 58, No. 9, September 2010.

Hiroshi Sawada , Shoko Araki and Shoji Makino , " Underdetermined Convolutive Blind Source Separation via Frequency Bin-Wise Clustering and Permutation Alignment ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , Volume: 19, No. 3, March 2011.

Alexey Ozerov and Cédric Févotte , " Multichannel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Convolutive Mixtures for Audio Source Separation ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , Volume: 18, No. 3, March 2010.

Stefania Sardellitti , Massimiliano Giona and Sergio Barbarossa , " Fast Distributed Average Consensus Algorithms Based on Advection-Diffusion Processes ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume: 58, No. 2, February 2010.

Federico S. Cattivelli and Ali H. Sayed , " Diffusion LMS Strategies for Distributed Estimation ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume: 58, No. 3, March 2010.

Rony Ferzli and Lina J. Karam , " A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on the Notion of Just Noticeable Blur (JNB) ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume: 18, No. 4, April 2009.

Tomáš Filler and Jan Judas , for the paper co-authored with Jessica Fridrich, “ Minimizing Additive Distortion in Steganography Using Syndrome-Trellis Codes ", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , vol. 6, no. 3, September 2011.

Jort F. Gemmeke and Antti Hurmalainen , for the paper co-authored with Tuomas Virtanen, " Exemplar-Based Sparse Representations for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , vol. 19, no. 7, September 2011.

Daniele Giacobello , for the paper co-authored with Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Manohar N. Murthi, Søren Holdt Jensen, and Marc Moonen, “ Sparse Linear Prediction and Its Applications to Speech Processing ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , vol. 20, no. 5, July 2012.

Tiangao Gou and Chenwei Wang , for the paper co-authored with Syed A. Jafar, " Aiming Perfectly in the Dark-Blind Interference Alignment Through Staggered Antenna Switching ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , vol. 59, no. 6, June 2011.

Meisam Razaviyayn , for the paper co-authored with Gennady Lyubeznik and Zhi-Quan Luo, " On the Degrees of Freedom Achievable Through Interference Alignment in a MIMO Interference Channel ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , vol. 60, no. 2, February 2012.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE 2015 IEEE AWARDS.

The IEEE Edison Medal recognizes a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts. James Julius Spilker (AOSense, Inc., Half Moon Bay, California, USA) was honored "for contributions to the technology and implementation of civilian GPS navigation systems."

The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal , awarded for outstanding achievements in signal processing, was presented to Harry L. Van Trees (George Mason University, Standardsville, Virginia, USA) "for fundamental contributions to detections, estimation, and modulation theory; sensor array processing; and Bayesian bounds."

The IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal , distributed for a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest of IEEE, was awarded to Richard Gordon Baraniuk (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA) "for fundamental contributions to open educational resources for electrical engineering and beyond."

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award presented to Stephen John Young "for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of automatic speech recognition and statistical spoken dialogue systems."

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing presented to Georgios B. Giannakis "for contributions to the theory and practice of statistical signal processing and its applications to wireless communications."

IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits presented to Robert Whitlock Adams "for contributions to noise-shaping data converter circuits, digital signal processing, and log-domain analog filters."

2013 Awardees

2013 ieee signal processing society awardees.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2014 in Florence, Italy.

Al Bovik for "fundamental contributions to digital image processing theory, technology, leadership and education."

Alan S. Willsky for "fundamental contributions to probabilistic modeling and for pioneering work in the development and application of multi-resolution statistical methods."

Yonina Eldar for "fundamental contributions to sub-nyquist and compressed sampling, convex optimization and statistical signal processing."

Al Hero for "information-theoretic advances in statistical signal processing and machine learning."

Ali H. Sayed for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.

Rabab Ward for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.

Dimitris Manolakis for "fundamental contributions to education in signal processing and algorithms for adaptive filtering and hyperspectral target."

Zhou Wang and A.C. Bovik , " Mean Squared Error: Love it or Leave it? A New Look at Signal Fidelity Measures " IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 26, No. 1, January 2009.

None presented for 2013.

Gan Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Arogyaswami Paulraj , and Bjorn Ottersten , "Collaborative-Relay Beamforming with Perfect CSI: Optimum and Distributed Implementation", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume: 16, No. 4, April 2009.

Amir Beck , Petre Stoica and Jian Li, " Exact and Approximate Solutions of Source Localization Problems ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 56, No. 5, May 2008.

Matthew Herman and Thomas Strohmer , " High-Resolution Radar via Compressed Sensing ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 57, No. 6, June 2009.

Chunming Li , Chiu-Yen Kao , John C. Gore , and Zhaohua Ding , " Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 17, No. 10, October 2008.

Robert Heath, Jr. , Tao Wu , Young Hoon Kwon , and Anthony Soong , " Multiuser MIMO in Distributed Antenna Systems with Out-of-Cell Interference ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 59, No. 10, October 2011.

George Dahl , Dong Yu , Li Deng , and Alex Acero , " Context-Dependent Pre-Trained Deep Neural Networks for Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 20, No. 1, January 2012.

Yuejie Chi , Louis Scharf, Ali Pezeshki and A. Robert Calderbank, " Sensitivity to Basis Mismatch in Compressed Sensing " IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 59, No. 5, May 2011.

Kalpana Seshadrinathan and Alan Bovik, " Motion Tuned Spatio-Temporal Quality Assessment of Natural Videos " IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 19, No. 2, February 2010.

Lin Li , Anna Scaglione, and Jonathan Manton, " Distributed Principal Subspace Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks " IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 5, No. 4, August 2011.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE 2014 IEEE AWARDS.

Thomas P. Barnwell, III (Georgia Institute of Technology, Vinings, GA, USA) has been selected as the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal recipient "for leadership in and contributions to speech processing, filter banks and wavelets, DSP hardware and architectures, and technology-enhanced education." The medal will be presented to Dr. Barnwell at the IEEE Honors Ceremonies.

The IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal recognizes a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest of IEEE, will be presented to John G. Proakis (Northeastern University, Winchester, MA, USA) "for contributions to electrical engineering education through influential textbooks and inspiring leadership in integrating research and education."

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications recognizes outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar technologies and their applications. The 2014 recipient is Yuri Abramovich (WR Systems Ltd., Fairfax, VA, USA) "for seminal contributions to adaptive radar signal processing algorithms and Over- The- Horizon Radar."

The IEEE W. R. G. Baker Paper Award recognizing the most outstanding paper reporting original work published in any IEEE archival publications (such as Transactions, Journals, and Letters), Magazines, or Proceedings is award to Stephen J. Wright, Robert Nowak and Mário A. T. Figueiredo for their paper, "Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , vol. 57, no. 7 July 2009.

The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award will be presented to Biing-Hwang Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA) "for pioneering contributions to automatic speech recognition and speech coding". This award was founded and is sponsored by the IEEE SPS.

The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award recognizes outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications. The award is being presented to George Chrisikos (Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) "for contributions to heterogeneous network architectures with ubiquitous wireless access."

The IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award recognizing inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest will be presented to John M. Cioffi (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) "for educating a stellar array of graduate students in digital communications and for inspiring them to make a difference."

2013 Awards Presentation

2012 Awardees

2012 ieee signal processing society awardees.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2013 in Vancouver, Canada.

José M. F. Moura , "for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in signal processing."

Shih-Fu Chang , "for pioneering contributions to signal processing for multimedia content analysis and retrieval" and to Ali H. Sayed , "for fundamental contributions to adaptive and statistical signal processing."

Athina Petropulu , "for exemplary service in technical leadership capacities."

Richard G. Lyons , "for sustained success in clarifying the intricacies of signal processing, and significant contributions improving the understanding of, and promoting, practical DSP."

David Gesbert , Marios Kountouris , Robert W. Heath, Jr. , Chan-Byoung Chae , and Thomas Sälzer for the paper entitled " Shifting the MIMO Paradigm ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 24, No. 5, September 2007.

Erik G. Larsson for the paper entitled " MIMO Detection Methods: How They Work ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 26, No. 3, May 2009.

Seung-Jean Kim, Kwangmoo Koh, Michael Lustig, Stephen Boyd, and Dimitry Gorinevsky " An Interior-Point Method for Large-Scale 1 1 Regularized Least Squares ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 1, No. 4, December 2007

Tuomas Virtanen " Monaural Sound Source Separation by Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Temporal Continuity and Sparse Criteria ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 15, No. 3, March 2007.

David P. Wipf and Bhaskar D. Rao " An Empirical Bayesian Strategy for Solving the Simultaneous Sparse Approximation Problem ", IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Volume: 55, No. 7, July 2007.

Robert Wilson, David Tse, and Robert A. Scholtz "  Channel Identification: Secret Sharing Using Reciprocity in Ultrawideband Channels ", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 2, No. 3, September 2007.

Yagiz Sutcu, Qiming Li, and Nasir Memon "  Protecting Biometric Templates with Sketch: Theory and Practice ", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 2, No. 3, September 2007.

Zhi Quan, Shuguang Cui, and Ali H. Sayed "  Optimal Linear Cooperation for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks ", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 2, No. 1, February 2008.

Deanna Needell co-authored with Roman Vershynin"  Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements Via Regularized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit , "IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 4, No. 2, April 2010.

David Ramírez co-authored with Javier Vía, Ignacio Santamaría and Louis L. Scharf"  Detection of Spatially Correlated Gaussian Time Series ", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 58, No. 10, October 2010.

Najim Dehak co-authored with Patrick J. Kenny, Réda Dehak, Pierre Dumouchel, and Pierre Ouellet"  Front-End Factor Analysis for Speaker Verification , "IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 19, No. 4, May 2011.

Ngoc Q. K. Duong co-authored Emmanuel Vincent and Rémi Gribonval"  Under-Determined Reverberant Audio Source Separation Using a Full-Rank Spatial Covariance Model , "IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 18, No. 7, September 2010.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE 2013 IEEE AWARDS.

The IEEE Founders Medal to Leo Beranek (LFIEEE) – Founder (retired), Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Boston, MA, USA.

The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal to Arthur Robert Calderbank (FIEEE) – Dean of Natural Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal to Bishu S. Atal (LFIEEE) – Affiliate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

The IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications to Michael Wicks (FIEEE) – Senior Scientist, Sensors Signal Processing, United States Air Force Research Laboratory (retired), Rome, NY, USA.

The IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award to Leah H. Jamieson (FIEEE) – John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

The IEEE Donald Fink Award to Anna Scaglione (FIEEE) – Professor, University of California – Davis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Davis, CA, USA with co-recipients Stefano Galli and Zhifang Wang.

2012 Award Presentation

2011 Awardees

2011 ieee signal processing society awardees.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2012 in Kyoto, Japan.

H. Vincent Poor , "for fundamental technical contributions to, and leadership in, statistical signal processing and its applications to wireless communications and related fields."

Bernd Girod , "for his contributions to the theory and practice of video communications, search and processing" and to Björn Ottersten, "for contributions in array signal processing and wireless communications."

Shih-Fu Chang and Li Deng "for extraordinary service contributions and outstanding leadership of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine ."

P. P. Vaidyanathan , "for fundamental contributions to education in signal processing and multirate filter bank theory and methods."

Jacob Mattingley and Stephen Boyd for the paper entitled, " Real-Time Convex Optimization in Signal Processing ," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 27, Number 3, May 2010.

Hagit Messer , for the paper entitled, " Rainfall Monitoring Using Cellular Networks [In the Spotlight] ," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , Volume 24, Number 3, May 2007.

Tanya Ignatenko and Frans M. J. Willems for the paper entitled, " Biometric Systems: Privacy and Secrecy Aspects ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , Volume 4, Number 4, December 2009.

Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Timothy N. Davidson i and Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo for the paper entitled, " Transmit Beamforming for Physical-Layer Multicasting ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 54, Number 6, June 2006.

Stephen J. Wright , Robert D. Nowak and Mário A. T. Figueiredo for the paper entitled, " Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 57, Number 7, July 2009.

Pengfei Xia and Georgios B. Giannakis for the paper entitled, " Design and Analysis of Transmit-Beamforming based on Limited-Rate Feedback ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Volume 54, Number5, May 2006.

Raj Rao Nadakuditi , for the paper co-authored with Alan Edelman entitled, " Sample Eigenvalue Based Detection of High-Dimensional Signals in White Noise Using Relatively Few Samples ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 56, Number 7, July 2008.

Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yu-Ching Lin and Ya-Fan Su , for the paper co-authored with Homer H. Chen entitled, " A Regression Approach to Music Emotion Recognition ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , Volume 16, Number 2, February 2008.

Sheng Yi , for the paper co-authored with Demetrio Labate, Glenn R. Easley, and Hamid Krim entitled, " A Shearlet Approach to Edge Analysis and Detection ," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , Volume 18, Number 5, May 2009.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE 2012 IEEE AWARDS.

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The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing. The 2012 co-recipients are James Baker , Carnegie Mellon University and Janet Baker *, Saras Institute, "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of automatic speech recognition."

The 2012 IEEE Masasu Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is being represented to Gisle Bjontegaard, Tandberg Telecom; Gary Sullivan *, Microsoft Corporation, and Thomas Wiegand, Berlin University of Technology, "for leadership and technical contributions to the development of the globally deployed vide coding standard H.264/MPEG4-AVC." The IEEE Masasu Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of consumer electronics technology.

The IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement recognizes outstanding contributions in electrical measurements. The 2012 recipient is Rik Pintelon *, Vrijo Universiteit Brussel, "for the development of innovative system identification methods for measurement applications."

The 2012 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award is being represented to Pramod Kumar Varshney *, Syracuse University, “for contributions to and leadership in the theory and practice of multisensor data fusion for aerospace and bioengineering applications". The IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award recognizes outstanding contributions to space engineering, within the fields of interest of the IEEE.

The IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award recognizes inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest. The 2012 recipient is Anthony G. Constantinides *, Imperial College, "for educating, inspiring and mentoring generations of graduate students in digital signal processing and communications throughout the world."

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The best PhD thesis and dissertations in history

Get ready for a thrilling ride as we explore the world of PhD theses and dissertations!

We’ll uncover the secrets behind assessing these masterpieces, check out some of the most famous theses that changed history, and share some juicy insider tips on how to create an amazing PhD thesis. 

So, buckle up and let’s dive into the captivating universe of academic research that has shaped the way we see the world!

What criteria are used to assess a PhD thesis?

As a PhD researcher who has been involved in the academic world, I’ve witnessed firsthand the criteria used to assess the best PhD theses. Here, I’ll share insider details on how examiners determine which dissertations are deserving of awards and recognition.

One of the primary factors in assessing a PhD thesis is the originality and significance of the research. For example, the 2023 dissertation award, the winning thesis was in the field of astrophysics.

The candidate, under the supervision of a renowned faculty member, developed a groundbreaking framework for understanding astronomical phenomena. This kind of novel research often catches the attention of examiners, who are looking for theses that have the potential to make a significant impact in their respective fields.

Quality of writing is another crucial aspect when assessing a PhD thesis.

A well-received thesis is typically clear, concise, and well-organized. In my time covering theses in history and mathematics, I’ve noticed that the best dissertations have a coherent narrative that makes their content accessible to both specialists and non-experts. This is true for theoretical works like John Nash’s foundational research in game theory, as well as applied research like the work of physicist Richard Feynman.

The defence of the thesis plays a significant role in the evaluation process.

I’ve witnessed how candidates successfully address questions from a panel of examiners, demonstrating a deep understanding of the subject matter and its implications.

A thesis’s potential for publication or real-world application is often considered.

Some of the most memorable theses I’ve encountered, like Albert Einstein’s work on Brownian motion or Claude Shannon’s development of information theory, have had far-reaching implications for their respective fields and beyond.

Criteria used to assess a PhD thesis include originality and significance, quality of writing, defence performance, and potential for publication or real-world application. These factors together contribute to identifying the best PhD theses that stand out among the rest.

Best Famous PhD Theses in History

These theses represent a small sample of the many influential works in history. They have shaped our understanding of various fields and left lasting impacts on scientific and societal progress.

How to write the best PhD thesis possible

As a PhD candidate who has gone through the ups and downs of crafting the perfect thesis, I’ve learned a thing or two about making it the best it can be.

I’m here to share with you some insider tips and juicy details that I’ve discovered on my journey to create an award-winning PhD thesis. 

Key takeaways

• Develop a clear understanding of the literature in your field.
• Ensure the logic in your thesis is flawless.
• Discuss your work with colleagues for feedback and insights.
• Focus on clear writing and organization in your thesis.
• Use formatting tools like bullet points and breakout boxes to highlight key points.
• Proofread your work and consider using tools like Grammarly or hiring a professional proofreader.
• Pay attention to first impressions and follow university printing guidelines for a professional-looking document.
• Keep in mind the importance of small details for winning prizes or earning recognition.

First and foremost, it’s essential to have a clear and concise understanding of the literature in your field. This sets the stage for your dissertation, allowing you to identify gaps and new ideas that your research will address. One critical component is ensuring that the logic in your thesis is flawless. I’ve found that discussing your work with colleagues both inside and outside your field can help you identify any leaps of faith or logical gaps that need to be addressed.

Now, let’s talk about the presentation. I cannot stress enough the importance of clear writing and organization in a PhD thesis.

In my own work, I’ve used formatting tools like bullet points and breakout boxes to highlight key points and make the text easier to follow.

This not only helped me communicate my ideas effectively but also impressed the examiners who reviewed my work.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the importance of proofreading and avoiding grammatical errors.

In my experience, using tools like Grammarly or even hiring a professional proofreader can elevate your dissertation to new heights. These seemingly small details can make all the difference when it comes to winning a prize or earning recognition for your work.

Finally, don’t underestimate the power of first impressions. When I submitted my thesis in 2021, I made sure it met my university’s printing guidelines, resulting in a substantial and professional-looking document. This attention to detail can set the stage for a successful PhD thesis that leaves a lasting impact on the world of science.

Wrapping up

And there you have it, folks! We’ve taken a wild ride through the world of PhD theses and dissertations, exploring the assessment criteria, admiring some of the most famous theses in history, and even sharing some insider tips to help you create the best PhD thesis possible.

These incredible works of research have shaped our understanding of the world and inspired countless innovations, discoveries, and breakthroughs.

Whether you’re an aspiring PhD candidate or just a curious soul, we hope this blog has given you a glimpse into the fascinating realm of academic research.

Remember, the journey to creating an exceptional PhD thesis is challenging but rewarding, and the impact of your work could be felt for generations to come. So, keep your eyes on the prize, and who knows – maybe one day, your own thesis will be featured on a list like this!

Dr Andrew Stapleton has a Masters and PhD in Chemistry from the UK and Australia. He has many years of research experience and has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate at a number of Universities. Although having secured funding for his own research, he left academia to help others with his YouTube channel all about the inner workings of academia and how to make it work for you.

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Ieee nanotechnology council best phd thesis award in nanotechnology.

(established in 2022)

All nomination materials must reach the Education Awards Committee by March 1 st each year.

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Description: This annual award recognizes a PhD thesis in nanotechnology with remarkable technology innovation or excellence which should have led to publications in NTC venues including journals and conferences. Any member with no conflict of interest (i.e. advisor-advisee relationship) with any member of the NTC ExCom, NTC Education Committee , or NTC Technical Committees can submit a nomination to the Award Committee for this award. Self-nominations are not allowed. The awardee will be selected by a committee composed of the Chair and 3 members. The Chair is appointed by the NTC President with recommendation from the VP of Educational Activities. The Chair appoints the committee members with approval by the NTC President.

Prize: Total honorarium of $500 and a certificate. Only one allowable recipient selected annually

Eligibility: The author of a nominated thesis must be an IEEE member and NTC participant for at least one year. Only materials from the thesis published in NTC sponsored publications (journals/magazines and NTC financially sponsored conferences) will be considered.

The author of the best PhD thesis in nanotechnology must have graduated within the past 3 years , and not be advised by a voting member of the NTC Executive Committee (ExCom) or a member of the Best PhD Awards Evaluation Committee.

A thesis can be nominated for this award only once. Unsuccessful nominations cannot be carried over or re-submitted over the following years.

There are no other requirements.

Basis for Judging : Each member of the Committee, evaluates each nomination on several aspects, including but not limited to: impact, quality of writing and presentation, relevance of the topic, its influence in nanotechnology based communities.

The range of the score by each member of the committee is from 0-5. The Chair will generate for each nomination a scoring table (with averages) to be distributed to voting members of the Committee. The Committee will rank a final pool of up to 3 nominated papers and recommend the winner. The nominations and recommendations will be presented in a report to the NTC ExCom for voting in its May meeting. The Committee Chair will not vote except to break ties.

Presentation: The award will be presented at the annual IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO) banquet. Attendance is mandatory to receive the award, but no travel allowance is provided.

• Submission of nominations: Email by March 1 st to the Education Awards Chair, Yu Sun Professor of Mechanical Engineering Canada Research Chair Micro & Nano Engineering Systems Robotics Institute Director University of Toronto, M5S 3G8, Canada Email: sun@mie.utoronto.ca
• Committee’s award recommendation(s): April 1 st
• Notification to awardee(s): May 15 th

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ODRA supports the global research community through an award programme that recognises exceptional doctoral research that addresses United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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The award is run in partnership with Emerald Publishing, a leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference. It champions fresh thinking and supports the work of doctoral students whose research on responsible management can create positive impact on a local and global scale.

Judging based on four key criteria

• Originality and innovation
• Appropriateness and application of the methodology
• Quality of data/research
• Significance/implications for theory and practice

The winner receives a  cash prize of £1,000 , a certificate and an interview opportunity on the Emerald website . In addition, the winner can work directly with our partners Editage to create a bespoke engaging research summary. The two award runners-up receive a certificate and a published interview on the Emerald website.

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Best PhD Thesis Award

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Agriculture is inviting applications for the Agriculture 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by the evaluation committee, which will be led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Les Copeland.

Eligibility and Requirements:

– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential; – The PhD thesis must be their original work; – The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents:

– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words; – A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award; – The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis; – An electronic copy of the PhD thesis; – A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:

– Quality of resume and publications; – Relevance of the candidate and research description; – Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis; – Strength of the recommendation letter; – Anticipated academic potential; – Originality and impact of the research.

– Bonus (CHF 800); – Certificate; – Offer to publish one paper free of charge in Agriculture after peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 31 March 2024. The winner will be announced on the Agriculture website by the end of May 2024.

Kind regards, Agriculture Editorial Office

Award Committee

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