Frans Willems: 2026 Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
John B. Anderson: 2025 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the Information Theory Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Peter Kairouz: 2025 James L. Massey Research and Teaching Award
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Neha Sangwan: 2025 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
2025 Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The award serves to recognize publications that expose subjects in information theory to a broad audience and stimulate interest and engagement in them. 2025 will be the first year that the Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is awarded.
- M. Bloch, O. Günlü, A. Yener, F. Oggier, H. V. Poor, L. Sankar, and R. Schaefer, “," 鶹ýӳ J. Sel. Areas Inf. Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 5-22, March 2021.
2025 Information Theory Society Paper Award
The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.
- Galen Reeves and Henry D. Pfister, “”, in 鶹ýӳ Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 70, no. 2, Feb. 2024.
- Emmanuel Abbe and Colin Sandon, “”, in Proceedings of the 2023 鶹ýӳ 64th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS).
2025 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The purpose of the Communications Society & Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize the authors of outstanding papers appearing in any publication of the 鶹ýӳ Communications Society or the 鶹ýӳ Information Theory Society in the previous three calendar years.
- Yifeng Xiong, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Weijie Yuan, Tony Xiao Han, and Giuseppe Caire, ",” 鶹ýӳ Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 69, no. 9, Sep. 2023.
The 鶹ýӳ Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to three outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. The award is based on the paper’s technical contribution as well as the quality of its presentation. The prize was awarded to three papers this year:
- Taha Ameen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois, USA), "Exact Random Graph Matching With Multiple Graphs"
- Qinghua Ding (University of California at Berkeley, USA); Venkatachalam Anantharam (Berkeley, USA), "On Statistical Estimation of Edge-Reinforced Random Walks"
- Hami Mehrabi (Cornell University, USA); Salman Beigi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran), "Monotonicity of the Von Neumann Entropy Under Quantum Convolution"
2025 ITSoc Chapter of the Year Award
The recipient of the 2025 Chapter of the Year Award is the . The Chapter of the Year Award annually recognizes a chapter that provides their membership with outstanding programs and activities.
