Prof. Atlas Wang and former Ph.D. students Yifan Jiang and Xinyu Gong received the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper for their work titled "EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement Without Paired Supervision."

This award each year goes to a classical paper published in IEEE SPS journals in last five years, who has since demonstrated lasting impact, and whose main authors were below age 30 when published.

Streaming video pioneer Al Bovik has been awarded the John Fritz Medal, one of the most storied and esteemed honors in engineering.

Bovik, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized for “foundational contributions to the theoretical and engineering aspects of perceptual picture and video quality prediction, leading to systems that ensure optimized visual quality for hundreds of millions of viewers daily.”