July 5 2022
After nomination and voting, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 6th IETI Annual Scientific Award.
Prof. Dr. Alfonso Farina, IETI, Italy
Farina is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow since 2000 and International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2005, the latter with the citation "Distinguished for outstanding and continuous innovative in the development of radar signal and data processing techniques and application of these findings in practical systems". He received the award from the hands of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. From 1997 he is Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology . Since 2010 he is also Fellow of EURASIP. He won the following awards: Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, 1987, with the motivation Foreign development of radar data processing techniques. Honour of Maestro del Lavoro with decoration of "Stella al Merito del Lavoro" presented to him by the President of Italian Republic in recognition of his outstanding professional career, 2003. First Prize Award for Innovation Technology of Finmeccanica Group, 2004, team leader of the winner team presented by the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Scientific Research. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, 2010, with the motivation Foreign continuous, innovative, theoretical and practical contributions to radar systems and adaptive signal processing techniques. The Institution of Engineering and Technology Achievement Medals, 2014, with the motivation Foreign outstanding contributions to radar system design, signal, data and image processing and data fusion.
Prof. Dr. Richard Davis, Columbia University, USA
Richard Davis the Howard Levene Professor of Statistics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego in 1979 and has held academic positions at MIT, Colorado State University, and visiting appointments at numerous other universities. He was Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich ( 2009-12), Villum Kan Rasmussen Visiting Professor (2011-13) at the University of Copenhagen, and Chalmers Jubilee Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Davis is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He was president of IMS in 2015-16 and Editor-in-Chief of Bernoulli Journal 2010-12. He is co-author (with Peter Brockwell) of the bestselling books, Time Series: Theory and Methods, Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting, and the time series analysis computer software package, ITSM2000. Together with Torben Andersen, Jens-Peter Kreiss, and Thomas Mikosch, he co-edited the Handbook in Financial Time Series and with Holan, Lund, and Ravishanker) the book, Handbook of Discrete-Valued Time Series. In 1998, he won (with collaborator W.T.M Dunsmuir) the Koopmans Prize for Econometric Theory. He has advised/co-advised 34 PhD students and has delivered numerous short courses on time series and heavy-tailed modeling. His research interests include time series, applied probability, extreme value theory, heavy-tailed modeling with applications to network models, and spatial-temporal modeling.
Prof. Dr. Shigeyuki Hamori, Kobe University, Japan
Dr. Shigeyuki Hamori is a professor of Economics at Kobe University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University. He is the President of the International Research Institute for Economics and Management, the Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (DFIETI), and the Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DFIDSAI). He is the Co-Editor of the Singapore Economic Review, the Associate Editor of the International Review of Financial Analysis, and the Associated Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review. He served as the Guest Editor of special issues of the Frontiers in Environmental Science, Energies, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, and Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He has published about 250 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 20 books from Springer, Routledge, World Scientific, etc.