Martin Vetterli recipient of the 2010 IEEE SPS Award
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During the Opening Ceremony of the 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) held in Prague, Czech Republic from May 23-27, 2011, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society (SPS), congratulated Martin Vetterli with the prestigious 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award "for fundamental contributions to signal processing theory, technology and education".
Furthermore, the ICASSP 2011 Technical Program Committee selected 6 Best Student Paper Awards out of 659 candidate papers. Two of the 2011 ICASSP Best Student Paper Awards were clinched by Ivan Dokmanic, for the paper co-authored with Yue M. Lu, Martin Vetterli, entitled "Can one hear the shape of a room: The 2-D polygonal case" and by Reza Parhizkar and Amin Karbasi, for the paper co-authored with Martin Vetterli, entitled "Calibration in circular ultrasound tomography devices".
Martin Vetterli is an international leader in signal processing education. He co-authored two popular textbooks which are being used worldwide. Many of Martin Vetterli's former Ph.D. students hold professor positions in top ranking universities (Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie Mellon) and carry out research in a wide variety of signal processing areas. Examples of a few of his outstanding contributions include:
• the pioneering development of wavelets and applications
• the proposal of the finite rate of innovation paradigm for signal reconstruction (which overcomes some of the restrictions in Shannon's classical sampling theorem)
• the creation of successful start-up companies and holding of multiple patents (some of which have been acquired by multi-national companies).
ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society with more than 1500 attendees participating every year. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is the premier professional society for signal processing scientists and professionals with about 20'000 members, and is part of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) which counts more than 400'000 members worldwide.