Professor Geoffrey Ye Li

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Chair in Wireless Systems

804Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

Awards and Recognitions

Major Recognitions:

2024 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for fundamental contributions to frequency domain communications including orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).
2019 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to wireless signal transmission and processing.
IEEE Fellow (since 2006) for contribution in Signal Processing for Wireless Communications.
IET Fellow since October 2021.
World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind, also known as Highly Cited Researcher, by Web of Science in 2001, 2014, 2016 – 2023.
Over 67,000 citations with an H-index 118 based on the Google Scholar.

Selected Awards:

2010 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society in the field of Communication Theory.
2013 James E. Avant Garde Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for advancing the state-of-art in OFDM-aided wireless communications.
2014 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
2015 Distinguished ECE Faculty Achievement Award from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
2017 Award for Advances in Communication from the IEEE Communications Society for an outstanding paper that opens the new line of work in any IEEE ComSoc publication in the previous 15 years.
2017 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award for a journal article that has had substantial impact over several years on a subject within the technical scope of the SP Society.
2022 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society.
2023 IEEE SPS Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Best Conference Paper Awards:

Technical Recognitions:

2013 Wireless Communications Recognition Award from the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee for outstanding technical contributions in the field and service to the scientific and engineering communities.
2017 Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award from the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) for outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networks.
2017 SPEC Technical Recognition Award from the IEEE Communications Society Signal Processing and Communications Electronics (SPCE) Technical Committee for outstanding contributions to the technological advancement of signal processing for communications.
2019 TCCN Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to cooperative signal processing in cognitive radio from the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN).