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Peter Shor: 2025 Claude E. Shannon Award


The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of informa­tion theory.

Urbashi Mitra: 2024 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award


The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Soci­ety has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

Flavio P Calmon: 2024 James L. Massey Award


The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.

Sophie H. Yu: 2024 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award


The 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the math­ematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.

  • Sophie H. Yu, “Matching in Networks: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms.” Ph.D. Thesis, Duke University, May 2023.

2024 Information Theory Society Paper Award


The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recog­nize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.

2024 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award

The purpose of the Communications Society & Information Theo­ry Paper Award is to recognize the authors of outstanding papers appearing in any publication of the 鶹ýAV Communications Soci­ety or the 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society in the previous three calendar years.

2024 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

The 鶹ýAV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to three outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. The award is based on the paper’s technical con­tribution as well as the quality of its presentation. The prize was awarded to three papers this year: