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June 2025 Issue

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ INFORMATION THEORY SOCIETY

NEWSLETTER

Editor: Lalitha Vadlamani

From the Editor

Awards

Congratulations to the members of our community who have recently received prestigious awards and honors!

Claude E. Shannon Award
Frans M.J. Willems

The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
John B Anderson

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars

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.

Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
Neha Sangwan

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award 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.

Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
Matthieu Bloch Onur Günlü Aylin Yener F. Oggier H Vincent Poor Lalitha Sankar Rafael F. Schaefer

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society publication.

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Galen Reeves Henry D Pfister

The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.

Information Theory Society Paper Award
Emmanuel Abbe Colin Sandon

The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.

Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
Yifeng Xiong Fan Liu Yuanhao Cui Weijie Yuan Tony Xiao Han Giuseppe Caire

The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Taha Ameen Bruce Hajek

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Qinghua Ding Venkat Anantharam

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.

Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Salman Beigi Hami Mehrabi

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.

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Upcoming Conferences & Workshops

Conference Date Deadline Description
October 20 - October 23
Shenzhen, China
June 14
 CFP - 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory
September 22
 Call for Papers: XIÐ¥ International Symposium Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems (REDUNDANCY 2025)
November 24
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
 The 10th van der Meulen Seminar
December 7 - December 11
Melbourne, Australia
July 15
 2025 11th International Workshop on Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications (IWSDA)
December 7 - December 11
The University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
July 31
 The 11th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications(IWSDA'25)
December 8 - December 12
Taipei, Taiwan
July 15
 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Globecom 2025 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers
November 10 - November 13
Tempe, Arizona, USA
May 1
 Information Theory Workshop 2026

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