IEEE communications award

A member of staff from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics has been selected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Society award winner. Asoke Nandi, who holds the David Jardine Chair of Signal Processing and a former PhD student of his, Shafayat Abrar (PhD 2010), received the 2012 Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Letter. The award is given to an outstanding manuscript published in a journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the 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 engineering. The citation for the paper 'Adaptive Minimum Entropy Equalization Algorithm IEEE Letters, Vol 14 No 10, October 2010 pp 966-96' , said the paper had 'quality, exposition, novelty and impact' was written by Abrar in the final year of his PhD under the supervision of Nandi.