Pramod K. Varshney, distinguished professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will be honored with the 2021 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Pioneer Award.
Given annually since 1949, the award is one of the most notable awards in the electronics and aerospace systems field, recognizing contributions significant to bringing into being systems that are still in existence today. The contributions for which the award is bestowed are to have been made at least 20 years prior to the year of the award.
Professor Pramod Varshney.
The 2021 award will recognize Varshney’s contributions to signal processing and information fusion enabling advanced aerospace and electronic systems. Varshney will receive the award at 2022 IEEE Radar Conference March 21-25 in New York City.
“Professor Varshney has been a trailblazer in the field of complex information processing who has made innumerable contributions over the course of his career. The Pioneer Award fittingly recognizes that some of his inventions paved the way for today’s rapidly evolving technologies,” says Ramesh Raina, interim vice president for research.
Varshney was also selected to receive the prestigious 2021 Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for outstanding contributions in the fields of distributed inference and data fusion.
“Within a few months, Dr. Varshney won two prestigious awards from two different IEEE societies. Such an achievement is completely unheard of. He won the 2021 Shannon-Nyquist Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the 2021 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Pioneer Award. The EECS department is incredibly proud of the achievements and recognitions that he truly deserves,” says Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department Chair Jae C. Oh.
