IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
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About Award
The IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1995.
It is named in honor of Eric E. Sumner, 1991 IEEE President, who retired as Vice President, Operations Planning, AT&T Bell Laboratories after a long and distinguished career.
Recipient selection is administered by the Awards Board through its Technical Field Awards Council.
Award Recipients
- Jean-Pierre Coudreuse, 1997
- Donald L. Duttweiler, 1998
- Debasis Mitra, 1998
- Man Mohan Sondhi, 1998
- Howard Frank, 1999
- Ivan T. Frisch, 1999
- No Award, 2000
- No Award, 2001
- John E. Midwinter, 2002
- Tsuneo Nakahara, 2002
- Werner Bux, 2003
- Hans R. Mueller, 2003
- Gerard J. Foschini, 2004
- Krishan Sabnani, 2005
- Robert A. Scholtz, 2006
- Moe Z. Win, 2006
- Michael G. Luby, 2007
- Amin Shokrollahi, 2007
- Thomas L. Koch, 2008
- Roberto Padovani, 2009
- Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, 2010
- H. Vincent Poor, 2011
- Jack H. Winters and Andreas F. Molisch, 2012
- Siavash Alamouti, Hamid Jafarkhani, and Vahid Tarokh, 2013
- Alan Eli Willner, 2014
- Sanjoy Mitter, 2015
- Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Raymond W. Yeung, Ning Cai, 2016
- William C. Lindsey, 2017
- Peter W. Shor, 2018
- Andrea Goldsmith, 2019
- Theodore S. Rappaport, 2020
- En-hui Yang, 2021
- Lajos Hanzo, 2022
- Radia Perlman, 2023
- Stephen Weinstein, Leonard J. Cimini, Jr., and Geoffrey Ye Li, 2024
- Thomas Louis Marzetta, 2025
