The 2021 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
The purpose of the IEEE 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. 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. The award was given for our work on Reed-Muller Codes ("Reed–Muller Codes Achieve Capacity on Erasure Channels", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July. 2017)
The 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
The purpose of the IEEE Information Theory Society 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. The award was given for our work on Spatially Coupled Codes ("Threshold Saturation via Spatial Coupling: Why Convolutional LDPC Ensembles Perform So Well over the BEC", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Feb. 2011)
The 2016 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Best Paper Award
The purpose of the STOC best paper award is to recognize exceptional papers which introduce a strong new technique, solution of a long-standing open problem, introduction and solution of an interesting and important new problem. The award was given for our work on Reed-Muller Codes ("Reed-Muller Codes Achieve Capacity on Erasure Channels" , In Proceedings of 48th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2016)
Qualstar (Qualcomm Research Innovation Award)
This award recognizes exceptional contributions towards the mission of Qualcomm's R&D.
I received the Qualstar 2012 for design and implementation of a turbo receiver for vehicular communications. This work resulted in an auto-grade chip to be used by top car manufacturers.
In 2013, I received the Qualstar for the design and implementation of an indoor positioning system on a mobile device which fused sensory information from RF signals, inertial sensors and magnetic sensors using a bayesian inference engine.
In 2016, I received two Qualstars for design of LDPC codes (joint work with Tom Richardson) for 5G new radio standard on channel coding. Many elements of our LDPC design was accepted into the final 5G standard for channel codes for enhanced mobile broadband.