IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients

2009 -
DANIEL J. COSTELLO
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA

and

G. DAVID FORNEY, JR.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

for their paper entitled: “Channel Coding: The Road to Channel Capacity”, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, No. 6, June 2007, pp. 1150-1177
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.895188

2008
YANN FRAUEL
Instituto de Investigaciones en Matematicas Aplicadas y en Sistemas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
D.F., Mexico

and

THOMAS J. NAUGHTON
Department of Computer Science
National University of Ireland
Maynooth, Ireland

and

OSAMU MATOBA
Department of Computer and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Kobe University
Kobe, Japan

and

ENRIQUE TAJAHUERCE
Dept. de Ciencies Experimentals
Universitat Jaume I
Castello, Spain

and

BAHRAM JAVIDI
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA

For their paper entitled, “Three-Dimensional Imaging and Processing Using Computational Holographic Imaging," Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 94, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 636-653

2007
MICHAEL SHUR
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA

and

ARTURAS ZUKAUSKAS
Vilnius University
Vilnius, Lithuania

For their paper entitled, “Solid-State Lighting: Towards Superior Illumination,” Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 93, no. 10, October 2005, pp. 1691-1703

2006
SUHAS N. DIGGAVI
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland

and

NAOFAL AL-DHAHIR
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA

and

ANASTASIOS STAMOULIS
QUALCOMM
San Diego, CA, USA

and

ROBERT CALDERBANK
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA

For their paper entitled, “Great Expectations: The Value of Spatial Diversity in Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 92, Issue 2, February 2004, pp. 219–270

2005
OLIVER BRAND
Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA

and

CHRISTOPH HAGLEITNER
Researcher, IBM
Ruschlikon, Switzerland

and

ANDREAS HIERLEMANN
Professor, Physical Electronics Laboratory
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

and

HENRY BALTES
Professor of Physical Electronics
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

For their paper entitled, 'Microfabrication Techniques for Chemical/Biosensors' Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 91, No. 6, June 2003."

2004 - ALAN WILLSKY
Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

"Multiresolution Markov Models for Signal and Image Processing,"Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 90, No. 8, August 2002. Pages 1396-1458.

2003
SUNIL R. DAS, MANSOUR H. ASSAF, EMIL M. PETRIU
School of Information Technology and Engineering
Univ of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

and

C.V. RAMAMOORTHY
Dept of Electrical Engineering & Comp Science
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA

and

WEN-BEN JONE
Dept of Elecrtrical Engrg & Computer Science
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, USA

“Fault Tolerance in Systems Design in VLSI Using Data Compression Under Constraints of Failure Probabilities,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 50, Number 6, December 2001, pp 1725-1747.

2002
TED PAINTER
Intel Corporation, Hudson MA, USA

AND

ANDREAS SPANIAS
Arizona State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tempe, AZ, USA

'Perceptual Coding of Digital Audio,' Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 88, No. 4, April 2000, pp. 451 - 513

2001 - XIN YAO
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom

'Evolving Artificial Neural Networks,' Proceedings of IEEE, Vol. 87, No. 9 September 1999, pp.1423-1447

2000
EZIO BIGLIERI
Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy

JOHN PROAKIS
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, USA

AND

SHLOMO SHAMAI
Technion-Israel Intitute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

'Fading Channels: Information-Theoretic and Communications Aspects', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 44, No. 6, October 1998, pp. 2619-2692.

1999 - RICHARD P. WILDES
Member of Technical Staff, Sarnoff Corporation
Princeton, NJ, USA

'Iris Recognition: An Emerging Biometric Technology', PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, Vol. 85, No. 9, September 1997, pp. 1348-1363

1998
FRANCIS T. S. YU
The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA, USA

and

DON A. GREGORY
University of Alabama - Huntsville, AL, USA

'Optical Pattern Recognition: Architectures and Techniques', PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, Vol. 84, No. 5, May 1996, pp. 33-752.

1997 - ASAD A. ABIDI
University of California - Los Angeles, CA, USA

'Low-Power Radio-Frequency IC's for Portable Communications, ' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, Vol. 83, No 4, April 1995, pp. 544-569

1996
ALI H. SAYED
University of California - Santa Barbara, CA, USA

and

THOMAS KAILATH
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA

'A State-Space Approach to Adaptive RLS Filtering,' IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE, Vol. 11, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 18-60.

1995
NIKOL JAYANT,

JAMES D. JOHNSTON

and

ROBERT J. SAFRANEK
AT&T Bell Labs. - Murray Hill, NJ, USA

'Signal Compression Based on Models of Human Perception,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, Vol. 81, No. 10, October 1993, pp. 1383-1422.

1994 - ANDREW P. SAGE
Fairfax, VA, USA

'Systems Engineering and Information Technology: Catalysts for Total Quality in Industry and Education,' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 22, No. 5, September/October 1992, pp. 833-864.

1993
PRAVAS R. MAHAPATRA
Bangalore, India,

and

DUSAN S. ZRNI
Norman, OK, USA

'Sensors and Systems to Enhance Aviation Safety Against Weather Hazards,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, Vol. 79, No. 9, September 1991, pp. 1234-1267

1992
ANTHONY EPHREMIDES
College Park, MD, USA

and

SERGIO VERDU
Princeton, NJ, USA

'Control and Optimization Methods in Communication Network Problems, 'IEEE TRANSACTIONS on Automatic Control, Vol. 34, No. 9 September 1989, pp. 93-942

1991 - TADAO MURATA
Chicago, IL, USA

'Petri Nets: Properties, Analysis and Applications,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, April 1989

1990 - G. DAVID FORNEY, JR.
Mansfield, MA, USA

'Coset Codes - Part I: Introduction and Geometrical Classification,' and CosetCodes - Part II: Binary Lattices and Related Codes,' IEEE TRANSACTIONS on Information Theory, September 1988

1989 - KARL JOHAN ASTROM
Lund, Sweden,

'Adaptive Feedback Control,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, February 1987

1988 - RAYMOND L. MURRAY
Raleigh, NC, USA

'Radioactive Waste Storage and Disposal,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, April 1986

1987 - SHAHID U.H. QURESHI
Mansfield, MA, USA

'Adaptive Equalization,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, September 1985

1986 - THOMAS H. JOHNSON
West Point, NY, USA

'Inertial Confinement Fusion: Review and Perspective,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, May 1984

1985 - ARNOLD REISMAN
Raleigh, NC, USA

'Device, Circuit, and Technology Scaling to Micron and Submicron Dimensions,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, May 1983

1984 - ROBERT A. SCHOLTZ
Los Angeles, CA, USA

'The Origins of Spread-Spectrum Communications,' IEEE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, May 1982

1984 - ENDERS A. ROBINSON
Ithaca, NY 'A Historical Perspective of Spectrum Estimation,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, September 1982

1983 - ANIL K. JAIN
Davis, CA, USA

'Image Data Compression: A Review,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, March 1981

1982 - ARUN N. NETRAVALI
Holmdel, NJ, USA

and

JOHN O. LIMB
Murray Hill, NJ, USA

'Picture Coding: A Review,' PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, March 1980

1981 - WHITFIELD DIFFIE

and

MARTIN E. HELLMAN
Stanford, CA, USA

"Privacy and Authentication: An Introduction to Cryptography," PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, March 1979