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Photos from ISIT 2022 Awards Ceremony
Photos from ISIT 2022 Awards Ceremony

Rüdiger Urbanke: 2023 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.

Alon Orlitsky: 2022 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT 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.

Mary Wootters: 2022 James L. Massey 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.

Qian Yu: 2022 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.

2022 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.

2022 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
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:

  • , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “A Tighter Approximation Guarantee for Greedy Minimum Entropy Coupling.”
  • , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Capacity of Noisy Permutation Channels,” co-authored with Yury Polyanskiy.
  • Neha Sangwan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, “Byzantine Consensus Over Broadcast Channels,” co-authored with , and Vinod M. Prabhakaran.

2022 Chapter of the Year Award: UK and Ireland Section Chapter
The Chapter of the Year Award recognizes a chapter that has pro­vided their membership with the best overall set of programs and activities.