Each year, the Awards Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, recommends a select group of recipients to receive IEEE’s most prestigious honors. These are the men and women whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession.

Calyampudi Radhakrishna (C.R.) Rao was recently awarded honorary membership in the IEEE. Rao was honored, “For contributions to fundamental statistical theories and their applications to engineering and science, particularly in signal processing and communications.”

The IEEE’s Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal was awarded to David L. Donoho, “For groundbreaking contributions to sparse signal recovery and compressed sensing.”

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. 

For more about their annual awards, please visit https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/recipients/current-recipients/.