The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is one of Southern California's major research institutions. Our department has eleven different research areas that collectively contain over SEVENTY research centers and labs. In this section you can learn more about the areas we work in, read about the transformative research being done, and find faculty members and labs associated with each area.

Research Areas

Computer Engineering deals with the design, development, testing, and evaluation of components, systems, and networks. Research in Computer Engineering strives to achieve higher performance in the systems and components that are built as well as in the design process. At USC, research is focused in three main areas: Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, Design and Analysis of Computer Networks and their Protocols, and VLSI Design and Computer Aided Design and Verification of VLSI. Learn More

Integrated Circuits and Systems deals with integrated realization of complex functions on small chips. Current research in this area includes integrated circuits for biomedical implantable systems; biological-inspired integrated circuits; integrated circuits for computation, communication, sensing, and actuation; radio-frequency, microwave, and millimeter-wave integrated systems for wireless communication; analog, digital, and mixed-signal integrated circuits; integrated circuits using new devices and technologies; and hybrid integrated systems with electrical, optical, acoustic, chemical, and mechanical features and functions. Learn More.

Design, analysis, and evaluation of algorithms and protocols for scalable network communications between all kinds of devices, from personal and computer communications to the internet of things. Our faculty have particular expertise in next-generation wireless networks, including low power wireless embedded sensor networks, cognitive radio networks, vehicular networks, green cellular, and robotic wireless networks. Learn More

Best Paper Awards

"Brain network identification in asynchronous task fMRI data using robust and scalable tensor decomposition"
- By Jian Li, Jessica L. Wisnowski, Anand A. Joshi, and Richard M. Leahy
- Student Paper Award, Runner-up, of SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, 2019
"Low-Latency Realization of Neural Networks through Boolean Logic Minimization"
- 2019 ASP-DAC Conference
- Nazemi, G. Pasandi, and M. Pedram

“Fusing Annotations with Majority Vote Triplet Embeddings.”
- By Brandon Booth, Karel Mundnich, and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop
"Automatic speaker age and gender recognition using acoustic and prosodic level information fusion"
- By Shrikanth Narayanan, Ming Li, and Kyu J. Han
- International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Best Paper Award

“Ultrawideband synthesis for high range resolution software defined radar"
- By Sam Prager and Mahta Moghaddam
- IEEE Radar Conference, 1st Place Student Paper Prize

FASTCF: FPGA-based Accelerator for Stochastic-Gradient-Descent-based Collaborative Filtering
- By Shijie Zhou, Rajgopal Kannan, Min Yu and Viktor K. Prasanna
- Best Paper of ACM/SIGDA International Sumposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

A Framework for Generating High Throughput CNN Implementations on FPGAs
- By Hanqing Zeng, Ren Chen, Chi Zhang and Viktor K. Prasanna
- Best Paper Nominee of ACM/SIGDA International Sumposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, February 2018

“Understanding convolutional neural networks with a mathematical model,” the Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation"
- By C.C. Jay Kuo
- The 2018 Best Paper Award for the Journal of Visual Communications and Image

“Semantic image segmentation using encoder-decoder architecture assisted by global and local attention models (EDA-GLAM)"
- By Hao Xu, Siyang Li and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Best Student Paper Award in the Conference on Autonomous Vehicles and Machines of IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, California, USA

"Morse Code Datasets for Machine Learning"
- By Sourya Dey, Keith M. Chugg and Peter A. Beerel
- Awarded Best Paper at 9th Int. Conf. on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)

"Nanosecond electric pulses cause mitochondrial membrane permeabilization in Jurkat cells”
- By Tina Batista Napotnik, Yu‐Hsuan Wu, Martin A. Gundersen, Damijan Miklavčič, and P. Thomas Vernier
- The 2012-2016 most Influential Bioelectromagnetics (BEM) Paper award

"Integrated waveguide assisted electron emission device"
- By Fatemeh Rezaeifar and Rehan Kapadia
- 1st Place IVEC 2018 Best Student paper award

"A Game Theoretic Approach to Newsvendor Problems with Censored Markovian Demand"
- Best Track Paper Award in Operations Research of 2nd IEOM European Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

"Using Noise to Speed Up Video Classification with
Recurrent Backpropagation"
- By Olaoluwa Adigun and Bart Kosko
- IJCNN 2017 Best Paper Award

"Phantom Validation of Diffusion-Relaxation Correlation Spectroscopic Imaging (DR-CSI)."
- By Daeun Kim, Eamon K. Doyle, Jessica L. Wisnowski and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 609.
- 1st Place Award for best abstract presentation from the ISMRM Quantitative MR Study Group

"Navigator-free EPI ghost correction using low-rank matrix modeling: Theoretical insights and practical improvements"
- By Rodrigo A. Lobos, Tae Hyung Kim, W. Scott Hoge and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 449
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude

"Faster Diffusion-Relaxation Correlation Spectroscopic Imaging (DR-CSI) using Optimized Experiment Design"
- By Daeun Kim and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 176
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude

"Wave-LORAKS for faster Wave-CAIPI MRI"
- By Tae Hyung Kim, Berkin Bilgic, Daniel Polak, Kawin Setsompop and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 1037
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude

"The Exact Rate-Memory Tradeoff for Caching with Uncoded Prefetching"
- By Qian Yu and Salman Avestimehr
- IEEE Jack Keil Wolf Student Paper Award
- 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

"Measure and prediction of HEVC perceptually lossy/lossless boundary QP values"
- By Qin Huang, Haiqiang Wang, Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Capocelli Prize in 2017 Data Compression Conference (DCC)
- Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 4-7, 2017

"Measure and prediction of HEVC perceptually lossy/lossless boundary QP values"
- By Qin Huang, Haiqiang Wang, Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Capocelli Prize in 2017 Data Compression Conference (DCC)
- Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 4-7, 2017
“Understanding CNN via deep features analysis”
- By Hao Xu, Yueru Chen, Ruiyuan Lin and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Best Paper Award in the 2017 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference (ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
“Age/Gender Classification with Whole-Component Convolutional Neural Networks”
- By Chun-Ting Huang, Yueru Chen, Ruiyuan Lin and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- The Springer Poster Book Prize in the 2017 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference (ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

"A Robust and Tree-Free Hybrid Clocking Technique for RSFQ Circuits – CSR Application"
- By Ramy N. Tadros and Peter A. Beerel
- ElectronicsConference(ISEC), Sorrento, Italy, May 2017
- Award: Runners Up of the SNF Contest for Best Contributed ISEC 2017 Presentations

"Pre-demosaic Light Field Image Compression using Graph Lifting Transform"
- By Yung-Hsuan Chao, Gene Cheung and Antonio Ortega
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, September 2017
- Award: ICIP 2017 Best Student Paper Award

"Using Noise to Speed up Video Classification with Recurrent BackProbation"
- By Oliver (Olaoluwa) Adigun and Bart Kosko
- Best Paper Award of the IJCNN-2017 Conference

"The emerging field of signal processing on graphs: Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains"
- By David I Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard, Antonio Ortega, and Pierre
  Vandergheynst
- 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award

"Pre-demosaic Light Field Image Compression using Graph Lifting Transform"
- By Yung-Hsuan Chao, Gene Cheung, and Antonio Ortega
- ICIP 2017 Best Student Paper

"The Emerging Field of Signal Processing on Graphs [Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains."
- By P. Frossard, S. Narang, A. Ortega, D. Shuman, and P. Vandergheynst
- IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards, 2016

"Real-time multi-slice MRI during CPAP reveals dynamic changes in upper airway in response to pressure change."
- By W Chen, Z Wu, SL Davison Ward, MCK Khoo, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude.
- Proc. ISMRM 24th Scientific Sessions, Singapore, May 2016, p698.

“JS-RAKE: Judiciously trained Selective RAKE receiver for UWB systems”
- By V. Ratnam, A. F. Molisch, N. Rabeah, F. Alawwad, and H. Behairy
- Best Student Paper Award
- IEEE International Conference on Ultra-WideBand (ICUWB), 2016.

"Strategic and Transitory Models of Queueing Systems."
- By Harsha Honnappa
- Lajos Takacs Thesis Award in Queueing Theory
- Doctoral Dissertation

"Submodularity of Energy Storage Placement in Power Networks"
- By Junjie Qin, Insoon Yang, Ram Rajagopal
- Best Student Paper Award Finalist
- Proc. 55th IEEE Conferences on Decision and Control, 2016.

"Evaluation of upper airway collapsibility using real-time MRI."
- ByZ Wu, W Chen, MCK Khoo, SL Davidson Ward, KS Nayak
- W.S. Moore Young Investigator Award at ISMRM 2016
- Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 44: 158-167. June 2016.

"Iron overload quantification using UTE Imaging at 3T."
- By EK Doyle, J Chia, JC Wood
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 24th Scientific Sessions, Singapore, May 2016, p359.

"The Physiological Noise Contribution to Temporal Signal-to-Noise Increases with Decreasing Resolution and Acceleration in Quantitative CMR."
- By T Jao, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude.
- Proc. ISMRM 24th Scientific Sessions, Singapore, May 2016, p414.

“Optimal Dynamic Cloud Network Control”
- By H. Feng, J. Llorca, A. Tulino, and A. F. Molisch
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2016.

"Characterizing Vocal Tract Dynamics Across Speakers Using Real-Time MRI"
- By Tanner Sorensen, Asterios Toutios, Louis Goldsteinand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2016.

"LIGHTLY-SUPERVISED UTTERANCE-LEVEL EMOTION IDENTIFICATION USING LATENT TOPIC MODELING OF MULTIMODAL WORDS"
- By Zhaojun Yangand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016.

"Tweester: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter using Semantic-Affective Model Adaptation"
- By Elisavet Palogiannidi, Athanasia Kolovou, Fenia Christopoulou, Filippos Kokkinos, Iosif Elias, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Harris Papageorgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayananand Alexandros Potamianos
- Challenge Winner
- International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation(SemEval'16), NAACL-HLT, 2016.

“SENSE-LORAKS: Phase-Constrained Parallel MRI without Phase Calibration.”
- By T. H. Kim, K. Setsompop, J. P. Haldar
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 24thScientific Sessions, Singapore, May 2016, p1089

"Optoelectronic Devices based on Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides"
- By H. Tian, M. L. Chin, S. Najmaei, Q. Guo, F. Xia, H. Wang, M. Dubey, and Han Wang
- Citations: Nano Research, 9 (6), 1543-1560, 2016
- Award: Top paper award in the journal Nano Research

"Highly Accelerated Brain DCE MRI with Direct Estimation of Pharmacokinetic Parameter Maps."
- ByY Guo, Y Zhu, SG Lingala, RM Lebel, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 23rd Scientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p573.

"Simultaneous Multi-slice Airway Compliance Measurement using Sparse Golden-angle Radial CAIPIRINHA."
- ByZ Wu, MCK Khoo, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 23rd Scientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p242.

"Accelerated DCE MRI Using Constrained Reconstruction Based On Pharmaco-kinetic Model Dictionaries."
- BySG Lingala, Y Guo, Y Zhu, S Barnes, RM Lebel, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 23rd Scientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p196.

"Accelerated Cardiac Cine Using Locally Low Rank and Total Variation Constraints."
- ByX Miao, SG Lingala, Y Guo, T Jao, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc.ISMRM 23rd Scientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p571.

"High spatio-temporal resolution multi-slice real time MRI of speech using golden angle spiral imaging with constrained reconstruction, parallel imaging, and a novel upper airway coil."
- By SG Lingala, Y Zhu, YC Kim, A Toutios, S Narayanan, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 23rd Scientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p689.

"A Framework for Identification of Brain Network Dynamics Using A Novel Binary Noise Modulated Electrical Stimulation Pattern"
- By Yuxiao Yang
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015.

"Automated Evaluation of Non-Native English Pronunciation Quality: Combining Knowledge- and Data-Driven Features"
- By Matthew P. Black, Daniel Bone, Zisis Skordilis, Rahul Gupta, Wei Xia, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Bo Xiao, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Jangwon Kim, Panayiotis Georgiouand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Challenge Award; Interspeech Computational Paralinguistics Nativeness Subchallenge
- Proc. Interspeech, 2015.

"Decentralized Stochastic Control with Partial History Sharing: A Common Information Approach"
- By Dr. Ashutosh Nayyar
- IEEE Control Systems Society's George S. Axelby Outstanding paper Award
- Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015

“Simultaneous Multi-slice MRI Reconstruction using LORAKS.”
- By T. H. Kim, J. P. Haldar
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude.
- Proc. ISMRM 23rdScientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p78

"A 3.9 mW, 35-44/41-59.5 GHz distributed injection locked frequency divider"
- By Alireza Imaniand Hossein Hashemi
- IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
- Best Student Paper Award, 1st Place

"Interlayer Interactions in Anisotropic Atomically-thin Rhenium Diselenide"

- By H. Zhao, J. Wu, H. Zhong, Q. Guo, X. Wang, F. Xia, L. Yang, P.-H. Tan, and Han Wang
- Citations: Nano Research, 8, 11, pp. 3651-3661, 2015.
- Award: Top paper award in the journal Nano Research

"Coherence in large-scale networks: dimension dependent limitations of local feedback"
- By B. Bamieh, M. R. Jovanovic, P. Mitra, and S. Patterson
- George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 9, pp.2235 - 2249, Sept. 2012

"Scalable preparation of porous silicon nanoparticles and their application for lithium-ion battery anodes."
- By Mingyuan Ge, Jiepeng Rong, Xin Fang, Anyi Zhang, Yunhao Lu, Chongwu Zhou
- Top Paper Award
- Nano Research, 2013, 6(3):174-181

“An 800 MSPS quadrature DDFS and integrated nonlinear DAC-filter with less than 15 ns instantaneous frequency hopping time"
- By S. Subramanian and H. Hashemi
- 2nd Prize, Best Student Paper Award
- IEEE International Microwave Symposium, 2013

“A 0.5 – 3 GHz software-defined radio receiver using sample domain signal processing in 65nm LP CMOS”
- By R. Chen and H. Hashemi
- 3rd Prize, Best Student Paper Award
- IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium, 2013

"Real-Time MRI Can Differentiate Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Children."
- By Y-CKim, S Loloyan, Z Wu, W Tran, R Kato, SLD Ward, MCK Khoo, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 21st Scientific Sessions, Salt Lake City, April 2013, p251.

"A two-step technique for MRI audio enhancement using dictionary learning and wavelet packet analysis"
- By Colin Vaz, Vikram Ramanarayananand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2013

"Speech paralinguistic event detection using probabilistic time-series smoothing and masking"
- By Rahul Gupta, Kartik Audhkhasi, Sungbok Leeand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Paralinguistics Challenge Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2013

“Accelerating Data Acquisition for Reversed-Gradient Distortion Correction in Diffusion MRI: A Constrained Reconstruction Approach.”
- By C. Bhushan, A. A. Joshi,R. M. Leahy, J. P. Haldar
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 21stScientific Sessions, Salt Lake City, April 2013, p55.

"Wireless Network Information Flow: A Deterministic Approach"
- By S. Avestimehr , S. Diggavi , D. Tse
- Joint Paper Award; Communications Society and Information Theory Society, 2013
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Apr. 2011.

"Automatic off-resonance correction with piecewise linear autofocus"
- By TB Smith, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p218

"Noise Can Speed Convergence in Markov Chains"
- By Brandon Franzke and Bart Kosko
- Best Paper Award
- Physical Review E, vol. 84, 041112-1 - 041112-14, 10 October 2011.

"Accelerated Liver Fat Quantitation Using Parallel Imaging and Compressed Sensing"
- By SD Sharma, HH Hu, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p400.

"Towards Dynamic 3D MRI of Speech"
- By YZhu, YC Kim, MI Proctor, SS Narayanan, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p294.

"Measurement of upper airway compliance using dynamic MRI"
- By YCKim, X Wang, W Tran, MCK Khoo, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p3688.

"Channel Identification: Secret Sharing Using Reciprocity in Ultrawideband Channels"
- By Robert Wilson, R. A. Scholtz, and David Tse
- 2012 Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 2, No. 3, September 2007.

"Intelligibility classification of pathological speech using fusion of multiple high level descriptors"
- By Jangwon Kim, Naveen Kumar, Andreas Tsiartas, Ming Liand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Speaker Trait Challenge Award
- Proc. InterSpeech, 2012

“Kinetic Parameter Estimation in Dynamic PET with a Sparsity-Regularized Mixture Model.”
- By Y. Lin, J. P. Haldar, Q. Li,R. M. Leahy
- 1stPlace Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Anaheim, 2012.

“Target Estimation Using UWB TOA Measurements”
- ByJ. Shen and A. F. Molisch
- Best Student Paper Award
- IEEE International Conference on Ultra-WideBand (ICUWB), 2011.

"Intoxicated Speech Detection by Fusion of Speaker Normalized Hierarchical Features and GMM Supervectors."
- By Daniel Bone, Matthew P. Black, Ming Li, Angeliki Metallinou, Sungbok Leeand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Speaker State Challenge Award Winner
- Proc. Interspeech, 2011

"Morphological variation in the adult vocal tract: A study using rtMRI."
- By Adam Lammert, Michael Proctor and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Northern Digital Inc. Excellence Award
- Proc. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 2011.

"A Carbon Nanotube Spiking Cortical Neuron with Tunable Refractory Period and Spiking Duration"
- By Jonathan Joshi, Alice C. Parker, and Chih-Chieh Hsu
- Third Best Paper Award
- LASCAS Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Feb., 2010, Iguazu Falls, Brazil.

“Variational Techniques for Cardiac Image Analysis: Algorithms and Applications”
- By Jonghye Woo
- Best Dissertation Award – Best Experimental Work
- USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 2010.

"Automatic Classification of Married Couples' Behavior using Audio Features"
- By Matthew P. Black, Athanasios Katsamanis, Chi-Chun Lee, Adam Lammert, Brian Baucom, Andrew Christensen, Panayiotis Georgiou and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2010

“Label-Free High-Resolution Imaging of Live Cells with Deconvolved Spatial Light Interference Microscopy.”
- By J. P Haldar, Z. Wang, G. Popescu, Z.-P. Liang
- 1stPlace Student Paper Award
- Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, 2010, pp. 3382-3385.

“Spatiotemporal Imaging with Partially Separable Functions: A Matrix Recovery Approach.”
- By J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, 2010, pp. 716-719.

“Robust water/fat separation in the presence of large field inhomogeneities using a graph cut algorithm.”
- By D. Hernando, P. Kellman, J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang
- I. I. Rabi Young Investigator Award; ISMRM, 2009
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine63:79-90, 2010.c

“Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses: Design Constraints Based on Visual Psychophysics”
- By Noelle R.B. Stiles, USC Third Year Undergraduate
- Student Presentation Award
- 2007 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Jose, California, September 2007.

“Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses: Optical Design”
- By Michelle C. Hauer, USC Ph.D. Candidate
- Student Presentation Award
- 2007 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Jose, California, September 2007

“A fully integrated 24GHz 4-channel phased-array transceiver in 0.13mm CMOS based on a variable phase ring oscillator and PLL architecture”
- By H. Krishnaswamy and H. Hashemi
- Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper
- IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2007.

"Analyzing the multimodal behaviors of users of a speech-to-speech translation device by using concept matching scores"
- By JongHo Shin, Panayiotis Georgiou and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2007.

“Video streaming over 3G networks with GOP-based priority scheduling"
- By Yongjin Cho, Do-Kyoung Kwon, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Renxiang Huang, Claudio Lima, Jim D. Black and James J. Pan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc.IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2006.

“Iterative equalization and decoding for unsynchronized OFDMA uplink transmissions"
- By Man-On Pun, Michele Morelli and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc.IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006-F), Montreal, Canada, September 25-28, 2006.

"An attribute-based approach to audio description applied to segmenting vocal sections in popular music songs"
- By Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2006.

"An automatic prosody recognizer using a coupled multi-stream acoustic model and a syntactic-prosodic language model"
- By Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnanand Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005.

"Creating conversational interfaces for children"
- By Shrikanth S. Narayananand Alexandros Potamianos
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2005
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 10:2(65-78).

"Evaluation of an Ultra-Wideband Propagation Channel"
- By Jean Marc Cramer, Moe Z. Win and R. A. Scholtz
- S. A. Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award; IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 2003
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, May 2002.

"Hybrid Fixed-Dwell-Time Search Techniques for Rapid Acquisition of Ultra-Wideband Signals"
- By Eric Homier and R. A. Scholtz
- Best Paper Award(from the meeting organizers for the paper)
- IWUWBS2003, Oulu, Finland, June 2003.

"The Influence of Reverberation on Multichannel Equalization: An Experimental Comparison Between Methods"
- By S. Bharitkar and C. Kyriakakis
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. 37th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA. Nov. 2003.

"Acquisition of Spread-Spectrum Signals by an Adaptive Array"
- ByDuncan Dlugos and R. A. Scholtz
- Senior Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2002
- IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, August 1989.

“Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems”
- By Nilesh N. Karnik, Jerry M. Mendel and Qilian Liang
- Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 643-658, Dec. 1999.

"ATM Based Ultrawide Bandwidth (UWB) Multiple-Access Radio Network for Multimedia PCS"
- By Z. Win, J. H. Ju, X. Qiu , R. A. Scholtz V. O. K. Li,
- Best Paper Award
- Fourth Annual Engineers Conference at NetWorld+Interop, 1997.

"Strategies for minimizing the intercept time in a mobile communication network with directive/adaptive antennas."
- By J.-H. Oh and R. A. Scholtz
- Ellersick Award for the Outstanding Unclassified Paper
- Milcom Conference, 1997.

“Identification of Non-Minimum Phase Systems Using Higher-Order Statistics”
- By Georgios B. Giannakis and Jerry M. Mendel
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1992
- IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 37, March 1989.

"Maximum-Likelihood Seismic Deconvolution"
- By John Kormylo and Jerry M. Mendel
- Best Transactions Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp. 72-82, January 1983.

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