Martin Vetterli awarded the IEEE Jack S.Kilby Signal Processing Medal
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Professor Martin Vetterli received the prestigious distinction that rewards outstanding achievements in signal processing.
“For fundamental contributions to advanced sampling, signal representations, and multirate and multiresolution signal processing.” The IEEE Award Board honored Martin Vetterli, professor at Audiovisual Communications Laboratory and EPFL’s next president, with the prestigious IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal 2017.
The Medal was established in 1995 in honor of Jack S. Kilby, the engineer and Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the integrated circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer. The Medal is given for outstanding achievements in signal processing. The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or commercial.
The IEEE Honors Ceremony will take place on 25 May 2017 in San Francisco in conjunction with the 1st annual IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit. The ceremony gathers together the laureates of the IEEE’s highest-level awards given for exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions that have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and engineering.