Outstanding Contribution Award: Marty Cooper

In recognition of his seminal contributions to the conception, practice and adoption of portable telephony.

Distinguished Service Award: Eyal de Lara

For his outstanding leadership in creating GetMobile.

RockStar Award: Nic Lane

In recognition of his contributions to the understanding of how resource-constrained mobile devices can robustly understand, reason and react to complex user behaviors and environments through new paradigms in learning algorithms and system design.

Dissertation Award: Wenguang Mao

For his thesis titled "Acoustic Sensing on Smart Devices".

Runners Up: Yasaman Ghasempour (Rice) for the dissertation entitled "Next-Generation Wireless Systems for Joint Communication and Sensing in Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Spectrum"

Elahe Soltanaghaei (Virginia) for the dissertation entitled "Sensing the Physical World Using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure"