Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos
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Paper Awards and Distinctions

  1. IEEE Signal Processing Society 2001 Best Paper Award, for the paper "Parallel Factor Analysis in Sensor Array Processing", by N. D. Sidiropoulos, R. Bro, and G. Giannakis, published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August 2000.
  2. IEEE Signal Processing Society 2007 Best Paper Award, for the paper "On Downlink Beamforming with Greedy User Selection: Performance Analysis and a Simple New Algorithm", by G. Dimic, and N. D. Sidiropoulos, published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, October 2005.
  3. IEEE Signal Processing Society 2011 Best Paper Award, for the paper "Transmit Beamforming for Physical Layer Multicasting", by N. D. Sidiropoulos, T. N. Davidson, and Z.-Q. Luo, published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, June 2006.
  4. IEEE SPAWC 2012 Best Student Paper Award to Omar Mehanna, for the paper "Multicast beamforming with antenna selection", co-authored with N. D. Sidiropoulos and G. Giannakis.
  5. IEEE ICASSP 2014 Best Student Paper Award (third prize) to Xiao Fu and John Tranter, for the paper "Blind Spectra Separation and Direction Finding for Cognitive Radio Using Temporal Correlation-domain ESPRIT", co-authored with N. D. Sidiropoulos and W.-K. Ma.
  6. IEEE CAMSAP 2015 Best Student Paper Award (second prize) to Bo Yang for the paper "Joint Factor Analysis and Latent Clustering", co-authored with Xiao Fu and N. D. Sidiropoulos.
  7. IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW) 2019 Best Student Paper Award to Magda Amiridi and Nikos Kargas for the paper "Statistical Learning Using Hierarchical Modeling of Probability Tensors", co-authored with N. D. Sidiropoulos.
  8. In 2017, Google Scholar released its Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time. Our paper "Transmit Beamforming for Physical Layer Multicasting" published in 2006 is one of those classic papers, in the top-10 in the Signal Processing category.
  9. In March 2019, the IEEE Communications Society has compiled and published a list of Best Readings in Machine Learning in Communications. "Learning to Optimize: Training Deep Neural Networks for Interference Management" (by H. Sun, X. Chen, Q. Shi, M. Hong, X. Fu, and N. D. Sidiropoulos, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 20, pp. 5438-5453, October 2018) is included in the list. It was one of the earliest to consider power control and resource allocation and optimization problems using deep learning.
  10. Our paper "Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning", published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2017, is #1 in Google Scholar metrics for TSP for 2017-2022. It also tops the charts of most popular / most frequently accessed TSP papers in IEEExplore.
  11. IEEE Signal Processing Society 2022 Best Paper Award, for the paper "Learning to Optimize: Training Deep Neural Networks for Interference Management", by Haoran Sun, Xiangyi Chen, Qingjiang Shi, Mingyi Hong, Xiao Fu, and Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, October 2018.
  12. IEEE Signal Processing Society 2022 Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, for the paper "Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning", by Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos, Lieven De Lathauwer, Xiao Fu, Kejun Huang, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Christos Faloutsos, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, July 2017.
  13. IEEE CAMSAP 2023 Best Student Paper Award (first prize) to Paris A. Karakasis for the paper "Clustering on the Stiefel Manifold with Symmetric Block Term Decomposition", co-authored with N. D. Sidiropoulos.

Career Awards and Distinctions

  1. NSF/CAREER Award, 1998.
  2. Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2008-2009).
  3. Fellow, IEEE for contributions to Signal Processing for Communications, Nov. 2008.
  4. IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2010), "for dedicated service and leadership in the field of signal processing for communications and networking" (presented at the ICASSP Conference, Prague, May 2011).
  5. 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park.
  6. Fellow, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), for contributions to tensor decomposition and signal processing for communications, 2014.
  7. Appointed ADC Chair in Digital Technology, Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2019.
  8. Appointed Louis T. Rader Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering, Aug. 25, 2018.
  9. Technical Achievement Award of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) for contributions to tensor decomposition, beamforming, and spectral analysis, Feb. 2022.
  10. IEEE SPS Claude Shannon - Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award for exemplary contributions to tensor decomposition, beamforming, and spectral analysis, Dec. 2022.