The IEEE 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. We would like to congratulate Professor Bhaskar Rao for his fundamental contributions to array processing and sparsity-based signal processing. 

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