Professor Asoke Nandi
A member of staff from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics has been selected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society award winner.
Professor Asoke Nandi, who holds the David Jardine Chair of Signal Processing and a former PhD student of his, Dr Shafayat Abrar (PhD 2010), received the 2012 Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter.
The award is given to an outstanding manuscript published in a journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society during the past three calendar years which opens new lines of research, envisions bold approaches to communication, formulates new problems to solve, and essentially enlarges the field of communications engineering.
The citation for the paper ‘Adaptive Minimum Entropy Equalization Algorithm IEEE Communications Letters, Vol 14 No 10, October 2010 pp 966-96’, said the paper had ‘quality, exposition, novelty and impact’ was written by Dr Abrar in the final year of his PhD under the supervision of Professor Nandi.