IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication

Mustafa Riza Akdeniz, Yuanpeng Liu, Mathew K. Samimi, Shu Sun, Sundeep Rangan, Theodore S. Rappaport, and Elza Erkip
“Millimeter Wave Channel Modeling and Cellular Capacity Evaluation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1164-1179, June 2014.

IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award

Ian F. Akyildiz, Chong Han, Zhifeng Hu, Shuai Nie, and Josep Miquel Jornet
“Terahertz Band Communication: An Old Problem Revisited and Research Directions for the Next Decade,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 4250-4285, June 2022. 

IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award

Mohamed A. ElMossallamy, Hongliang Zhang, Lingyang Song, Karim G. Seddik, Zhu Han, and Geoffrey Ye Li
“Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communications: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 990-1002, September 2020.

The IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award for Best Optical Communications & Networking Paper

Khouloud Abdelli, Joo Yeon Cho, Florian Azendorf, Helmut Griesser, Carsten Tropschug, and Stephan Pachnicke
“Machine-learning-based Anomaly Detection in Optical Fiber Monitoring,” Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 365-375, May 2022.

IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize

Chenshu Wu, Beibei Wang, Oscar C. Au, and K.J. Ray Liu
“Wi-Fi Can Do More: Toward Ubiquitous Wireless Sensing,” in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 42-49, June 2022.

IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter

Kangda Zhi, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Kok Keong Chai, and Maged Elkashlan
“Active RIS Versus Passive RIS: Which is Superior With the Same Power Budget?,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1150-1154, May 2022.

IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize

Xiaodan Shao, Changsheng You, Wenyan Ma, Xiaoming Chen, and Rui Zhang
“Target Sensing with Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Architecture and Performance,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 2070-2084, July 2022.

IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award

Belal Korany and Yasamin Mostofi
“Nocturnal Seizure Detection Using Off-the-Shelf WiFi,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 6996-7008, 1 May 2022.

IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize

Mingyao Cui and Linglong Dai
“Channel Estimation for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO: Far-Field or Near-Field?,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 2663-2677, April 2022.

IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize

Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher, Yin Sun, and I-Hong Hou
“Timely Communications for Remote Inference,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 3824-3839, October 2024.

IEEE Communications Society Katherine Johnson Young Author Best Paper Award

Jiawei Shao, Yuyi Mao, and Jun Zhang
“Learning Task-Oriented Communication for Edge Inference: An Information Bottleneck Approach,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 197-211, January 2022.

The IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award

Yifeng Xiong, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Weijie Yuan, Tony Xiao Han, and Giuseppe Caire 
"On the Fundamental Tradeoff of Integrated Sensing and Communications Under Gaussian Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5723-5751, September 2023.

IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications

Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Francesco Guidi, Davide Dardari, Mohammadreza F. Imani, and Yonina C. Eldar
“Beam Focusing for Near-Field Multiuser MIMO Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 7476-7490, September 2022.