Honors and Recognition
Honors Spotlight:
Alan Bovik, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
Recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
Alan Bovik will receive the 2022 Edison Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for pioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media.”
The IEEE Edison Medal is the oldest and most coveted medal in the field of electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts in the United States. UT has one previous awardee: Archie Straiton (1990). Some other winners are George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, and Vannevar Bush.
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- Nobel Prize
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Medal of Science
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- National Academy of Education
- National Academy of Inventors
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
- Members and Fellows of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
- Members of the National Academies
- American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
- Vannevar Bush Award
- Charles Stark Draper Prize
- Edison Medal
- Enrico Fermi Award
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
- Japan Prize
- Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Prix de Rome Award
- Alan T. Waterman Award
- Welch Foundation Awards
- Wolf Prize