The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing is a Technical Field Award that is given by the

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. This award is presented for contributions in the field of signal processing. The award is named after

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, a

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mathematician and physicist who is noted for the representation of periodic signals as linear superpositions of sine-wave basis functions known as the

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, and applications of the Fourier Series to the analysis of vibration and heat transfer. The

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, which is widely used throughout

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and in particular signal processing,

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, and

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, is also named in his honor. The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing may be presented to an individual or team of up to three people. Recipients of the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. The Fourier Award is presented annually at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in the Spring.

Recipients

* 2023:

Rabab Ward Rabab Kreidieh Ward is a Lebanese-Canadian electrical engineer specializing in signal processing. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia. Education and career Despite finishin ...

* 2022:

Ali H. Sayed Ali H. Sayed (born Sao Paulo, Brazil, to parents of Lebanese people, Lebanese descent) is the dean of engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he teaches and conducts resea ...

* 2021: K.J. Ray Liu * 2020:

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* 2019: Alan Conrad Bovik * 2018:

Peter Stoica Peter (Petre) Stoica (born 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University in Sweden, ...

* 2017: Russell Mersereau * 2016:

Bede Liu Bede Liu (; born 1934) is a professor emeritus at Princeton University. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1934. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at National Taiwan University. He earned his master's degree and doctorate ...

* 2015:

Georgios B. Giannakis Georgios B. Giannakis (born 27 February 1958) is a Greek-American Computer Scientist, engineer and inventor. He has been an Endowed Chair Professor of Wireless Telecommunications, he was Director of the Digital Technology Center, and at present h ...

References

External links

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing web pageList of Recipients of IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing
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