IEEE Prize Paper Awards
The IEEE Awards Board encourages you to submit nominations for outstanding candidates. To read summaries of the awards, and to obtain the nomination forms, criteria for judging the prize paper, and a list of past recipients, visit the links below.
Nomination Deadline: 1 July
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award
Sponsored By: IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Communications, IEEE Control Systems, IEEE Information Theory, IEEE Power & Energy, IEEE Signal Processing and IEEE Vehicular Technology Societies
Scope: This is presented annually for the most outstanding paper reporting original work published in any IEEE archival publications (such as Transactions, Journals and Letters), Magazines or Proceedings.
Presentation: Certificate and a cash honorarium.
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IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Paper Award
Scope: Most outstanding paper in any IEEE publication issued between 1 January and 31 December of the preceding year by an author or joint authors under thirty years of age at the time the original manuscript was submitted.
Discontinued after the 1997 presentation and replaced by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award.
IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
Sponsored by: IEEE Life Members Committee
Scope: Outstanding survey, review or tutorial paper in any of the IEEE Transactions, Proceedings of the IEEE, journals or magazines issued during the previous calendar year.
Presentation: Certificate and a cash honorarium.
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award
Scope: This is presented annually for the most outstanding paper in any IEEE publication by an author or joint authors under 30 years of age.
Presentation: Certificate and a cash honorarium.
Presentation of this award has been suspended.
