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Frank Kschischang: 2023 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Richard W. Hamming Medal

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Richard W. Hamming Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology. It is awarded to FRANK KSCISCHANG (FÂ鶹´«Ã½AV)—Professor, University of Toronto, Canada, for contributions to the theory and practice of error correcting codes and optical communications.

Rüdiger Urbanke:

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Graduate Teaching Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and renamed in honor of Leon K. Kirchmayer in 2002. Dr. Kirchmayer was well known and revered throughout the world for his commitment to students and education. It is awarded to RÃœDIGER URBANKE (FÂ鶹´«Ã½AV)—Professor, EPFL, Switzerland,Ìýfor contributions to graduate education, empowering students and mentorship that advanced the world of wireless and engineering communication.

2022 Information Theory Society Paper Award

The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is toÌýrecognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulateÌýinterest in and encourage contributions to fields of interestÌýof the Society.

Aylin Yener: Â鶹´«Ã½AV Division IX Director

Our Past President Aylin Yener has been elected to the next Â鶹´«Ã½AV Division IX Director in the recently concluded 2022 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Elections. Division IX includes the following Societies: Â鶹´«Ã½AV Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Oceanic Engineering Society, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Signal Processing Society and Â鶹´«Ã½AV Vehicular Technology Society.

Charles H. Bennett:

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors – Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Anne Wojcicki –announced the 2023 Breakthrough Prize laureates, recognized for their game-changing discoveries in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. The Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to CHARLES H. BENNETT (FÂ鶹´«Ã½AV)—IBM Fellow, USA,Ìý for his foundational work in quantum information.ÌýIt is jointed awarded with Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch and Peter Shor.

Rashimi K. Vinayak:

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the names of the 125 early-career researchers across seven fields who have been selected to receive a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. A fellowship in Computer Science is awarded to RASHIMI K. VINAYAK—Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

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2023 Newly Elevated Â鶹´«Ã½AV Fellows:

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Joao Barros

for contributions to physical-layer security and vehicular networking

Constantine Caramanis

for contributions to robust statistics and optimization in high dimensions

Yuejie Chi

for contributions to statistical signal processing with lowdimensional structures

for contributions to multiple access signal processing systems

Natasha Devroye

for fundamental contributions to the theoretical understanding of cognitive, two-way, and relay networks

Marios Kountouris

for contributions to optimization and multi-antenna techniques in heterogeneous wireless networks

Mohammad Maddah-ali

for contributions to information theory for interference management, coded caching and computing

Gerald Matz

for contributions to signal processing for communications in nonstationary environments

for contributions to the design and analysis of large multiantenna and multiple-access systems

for contributions to Bayesian sparse signal recovery and energy harvesting communications

for contributions to power and spectral efficient wireless communication

Miguel Raul Rodrigues

for contributions to multimodal data processing and foundations of reliable and secure communications

Laurent Schmalen

for contributions to the design of error correction and modulation techniques for optical networks

for contributions to optimization in signal processing and communications

Changho Suh

for contributions to interference management and distributed storage codes

for contributions in the theory and practice of wireless communications technology and standards

Mark Wilde

for contributions to the relative-entropy framework and theorems for quantum communications

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