Prof Matthew McKay, Electronic and Computer Engineering, and his PhD student Liang Sun were awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for their paper on “Analytical Performance of MIMO Multichannel Beamforming in the Presence of Unequal Power Cochannel Interference and Noise” co-authored with Dr Shi Jin of Southeast University in Nanjing.

The award honors the authors of an especially meritorious paper dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and appearing in one of the Society’s solely owned Transactions and who is less than 30 years of age. Their paper is one of the six which received the award this year. The prize will be presented on the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing held in Prague in May.

Prof Mckay’s research interests include MIMO signal processing for wireless systems, random matrix theory, as well as cooperative signaling for ad-hoc and sensor networks. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Sydney in 2006. Liang’s research interests include information theory, signal processing and random matrix theory. He received his Bachelor and Master’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2004 and 2007 respectively.

Established in 1948, the Signal Processing Society is the first society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and focuses on the theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices of techniques.