Prof. Jeff Andrews, along with Texas ECE alumnus Sarabjot Singh, and recent PhD recipient Mandar Kulkarni, along with their Nokia Bell Labs co-author Amitava Ghosh were awarded the 2018 Leonard G. Abraham Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. This award recognizes the best paper over the previous 3 years in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication. Jeff and his co-authors were recognized for their paper: "Tractable Model for Rate in Self-Backhauled Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, October 2015.

The award will be be presented during the Award Luncheon at ICC 2018, May 21, in Kansas City.

This is the second time that Jeff Andrews has received this award in the past 5 years.

Sarabot Singh received his PhD from Texas ECE in December 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Andrews.

Mandar Kulkarni received his MS from Texas ECE in 2015 and his PhD from Texas ECE in May 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Andrews.