Professor Sayed has been awarded the 2012 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for his “fundamental contributions to adaptive and statistical signal processing”. IEEE’s first society and one of the largest, the Signal Processing Society is the world’s premier professional society for signal processing scientists and professionals since 1948. The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field.