Best Paper Awards

"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."
- By Z 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 Goldstein and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2016.
"LIGHTLY-SUPERVISED UTTERANCE-LEVEL EMOTION IDENTIFICATION USING LATENT TOPIC MODELING OF MULTIMODAL WORDS"
- By Zhaojun Yang and 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. Narayanan and 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 24th Scientific 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."
- By Z 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 Georgiou and 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 23rd Scientific Sessions, Toronto, June 2015, p78
"A 3.9 mW, 35-44/41-59.5 GHz distributed injection locked frequency divider"
- By Alireza Imani and 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

"Investigations of Upper Airway Obstruction Pattern in Sleep Apnea Benefit from Real-Time 3D MRI."
- ByY-C Kim, B Joshi, S Loloyan, R Kato, MCK Khoo, SLD Ward, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 22nd Scientific Sessions, Milan, May 2014, p4387.
“On the Continuity of Type-1 and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems"
- By Dongrui Wu
- 2014 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 19, pp, 179-192, Feb. 2011.
"Astrocyte on Neuronal Phase Synchrony in CMOS"
- By Yilda Irizarry-Valle and Alice C. Parker
- Best Paper in Track
- IEEE ISCAS, Melbourne, Australia, June, 2014.
"Towards a Sampling Theorem for Signals on Arbitrary Graphs"
- By A. Gadde, A. Anis and A. Ortega
- Best Student Paper Award
- International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Florence, Italy, May 2014.
"Classification of Cognitive Load from Speech using an i-vector Framework"
- By Maarten Van Segbroeck, Ruchir Travadi, Colin Vaz, Jangwon Kim, Matthew P. Black, Alexandros Potamianos and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Computational Paralinguistics Challenge Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2014.
"Analysis of emotion recognition using facial expressions, speech and multimodal information"
- By Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, Ulrich Neumann and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Ten Year Technical Impact Award, 2014 ICMI
- Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2004.
"Speech motor control primitives arising from a dynamical systems model of vocal tract articulation."
- By Vikram Ramanarayanan, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Northern Digital Inc. Excellence Award
- Proc. 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 2014.
"Enhanced airway-tissue boundary segmentation for real-time magnetic resonance imaging data."
- By Jangwon Kim, Naveen Kumar, Sungbok Lee and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Northern Digital Inc. Excellence Award
- Proc. 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 2014.
“A Novel Approach for Statistical Estimation of HARDI Diffusion Parameters from Rician and Non-Central Chi Magnitude Images."
- By D. Varadarajan, J. P. Haldar
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 22nd Scientific Sessions, Milan, May 2014, p801.
“P-LORAKS: Low-rank modeling of local k-space neighborhoods with parallel imaging data.:
- By J. Zhuo, J. P. Haldar
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 22nd Scientific Sessions, Milan, May 2014, p745.

"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-C Kim, 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 Ramanarayanan and 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 Lee and 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 21st Scientific 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 Y Zhu, 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 YC Kim, 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 Li and 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
- 1st Place Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Anaheim, 2012.

“Target Estimation Using UWB TOA Measurements”
- By J. 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 Lee and 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
- 1st Place 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 Medicine 63:79-90, 2010.c

"Stochastic Resonance in Continuous and Spiking Neuron Models with Levy Noise"
- By Ashok Patel and Bart Kosko
- Best Paper Award, 2009
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 12, 1993-2008, December 2008.
"Emotion recognition using a hierarchical binary decision tree approach"
- By Chi-Chun Lee, Emily Mower, Carlos Busso, Sungbok Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Emotion Challenge Award Winner
- Proc. of Interspeech, 2009.
"Toward detecting emotions in spoken dialogs"
- By Chul Min Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13:2(293-303).
"Optimal allocation of time-resources for multihypothesis activity-level detection"
- By Gautam Thatte, Viktor Rozgic, Ming Li, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Urbashi Mitra, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Murali Annavaram and Donna Spruijt-Metz
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2009.

“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 Ananthakrishnan and 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. Narayanan and Alexandros Potamianos
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2005
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 10:2(65-78).
"A cross-layer quality of service mapping architecture for video delivery in wireless networks"
- By Wuttipong Kumwilaisak, Thomas Hou, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, C.-C. Jay Kuo and Ya-Qin Zhang
- Best Paper Award in Multimedia Communications; IEEE Communication Society, 2004
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1685-1698, December 2003.

"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"
- By Duncan 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"
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