The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing is a Technical Field Award that is given by the

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. This award is presented for contributions in the field of

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. The award is named after

Joseph Fourier Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre, Burgundy and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analys ...

, a French

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and

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who is noted for the representation of periodic signals as linear superpositions of sine-wave basis functions known as the

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, and applications of the Fourier Series to the analysis of

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and

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. The

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, which is widely used throughout

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and in particular

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, and

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, is also named in his honor. The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing may be presented to an individual or team of up to three people. Recipients of the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. The Fourier Award is presented annually at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in the Spring.

Recipients

Source: * 2015: Georgios B. Giannakis * 2016: Bede Liu * 2017: Russell Mersereau * 2018:

Peter Stoica Peter (Petre) Stoica (born 23 July 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University ...

* 2019: Alan Conrad Bovik * 2020: Alfred O. Hero III * 2021: K. J. Ray Liu * 2022: Ali H. Sayed * 2023: Rabab Ward * 2024: Stéphane Mallat * 2025:

Björn Ottersten Björn Ottersten (born 1961) is a Swedish educator, researcher, and electrical engineer who is the co-inventor of Space/Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) technology. He has made contributions in array signal processing and wireless commu ...

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External links

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing web pageList of Recipients of IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing
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Recipients

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