David J. Love, Nick Trbovich Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David J. Love, the Nick Trbovich Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Recognition Award, a prestigious honor that highlights his influential contributions to modern wireless communication systems.

The award, presented by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) SPCC technical committee, recognizes outstanding contributions to signal processing for communications, the technologies that make today’s wireless networks faster, more reliable and more efficient. The honor is given to researchers whose work has significantly advanced how information is transmitted and processed across communication networks.

Love is internationally known for his research at the intersection of signal processing, wireless communications, and computing. His work has helped enable the performance leaps seen in advanced communication technologies, including the foundation for next-generation wireless systems such as 5G, 6G and beyond.

Signal processing, the mathematical engine behind how phones, devices and sensors send and receive information, plays a critical role in ensuring that wireless networks can keep up with society’s increasing demands. Love’s contributions help make wireless system adaptable to their operating conditions, even in challenging or fast-changing environments, which them more capable of handling the massive amounts of data used today.

Love is honored to receive recognition from his peers in the communications community.

“This award means a great deal to me because signal processing for communications has been at the heart of my research career,” he said. “It has been exciting to contribute to technologies that shape the wireless systems we rely on every day.”

The SPCC Technical Recognition Award is part of ComSoc’s effort to highlight innovations that impact both academia and industry. Past recipients include leaders whose work has influenced global communication standards, emerging technology design and large-scale wireless infrastructure.

At Purdue ECE, Love continues to lead research efforts in next-generation wireless technologies, training students and collaborating with industry partners to design communication systems that will power future devices, vehicles, and networks.