Nokia announces its 2016 Bell Labs Prize winners
December 15 2016 - 12:32PM
Press Release
- Top innovators demonstrate 'Future X' technology ideas to
improve the human experience
- Winners to earn up to $175,000 in cash prizes and an
opportunity to collaborate with world-renowned Nokia Bell Labs
researchers
15 December 2016
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announces the winners of its third
annual Bell Labs Prize, all of whom demonstrated game-changing
ideas in the fields of science, technology, engineering or
mathematics. The first place prize, selected from over 250
innovative ideas, was awarded to the team of Sungwon
Chung, Hossein Hashemi and Hooman Abediasl. The
second place prize was awarded to Elad Hazan, and the third place
prize was awarded to the team of Apostolos Georgiadis,
Emmanouil Tentzeris and George Goussetis. In addition to
the cash prizes, all of the winners are given the opportunity to
collaborate with world-renowned Nokia Bell Labs researchers to
further develop their ideas.
This year's Prize competition attracted more than 250 proposals
from 41 countries, which described innovations in Future X network,
system, platform or device technologies that have the potential to
be an order of magnitude (10x) better than the state of the art
today.
Proposals were narrowed down to seven teams of finalists who
presented their ideas to a group of industry luminaries in the
final judging event on December 14.
The top three prize winners:
- First place prize ($100,000) was awarded to the team of Sungwon
Chung, Research Associate; Hossein Hashemi, Professor; and Hooman
Abediasl, PhD candidate; all with the Department of Electrical
Engineering, University of Southern California, for their
Large-Scale Plasmonic Optical Phased Array - an architectural
innovation for
nanodevices.
- Second place prize ($50,000) was awarded to Elad Hazan,
Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, for Linear
Learning for Deep Insight.
- Third place prize ($25,000) was awarded to the team of
Apostolos Georgiadis, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt
University, Edinburgh, Scotland; Emmanouil Tentzeris, Ken Byers
Professor at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Georgia Tech; and George Goussetis, Professor at Heriot-Watt
University, for their 3D/Inkjet Printed Millimeter Wave
Systems.
Marcus Weldon, President of Nokia Bell Labs & CTO,
said: "We are delighted to recognize this year's Prize winners
and their brilliant ideas. The winners embody the essence of Bell
Labs and the Bell Labs Prize - solving the great challenges facing
humankind in the coming 10 years, with disruptive solutions that
'think differently.' We received an impressive variety of
innovative proposals - from machine learning and computing
technologies, to breakthroughs in optics, to new kinds of
integrated circuits and component technologies, and novel wireless
networking techniques and approaches. We look forward to
collaborating with these leading innovators to help turn these
ideas into reality."
Resources:
- More about the Bell Labs Prize
- Read the book The Future X Network, A Bell Labs
Perspective
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