The EURASIP Board of Directors has selected Mário Figueiredo
as the recipient of the 2016 Individual Technical Achievement Award for "For fundamental contributions to optimization algorithms for sparsity-based and wavelet-based signal processing".

The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact in this field.

EURASIP, European Association for Signal Processing is a non-profit organization founded in 1978, committed to furthering the efforts of researchers by providing a learned and professional platform for dissemination and discussion of all aspects of signal processing.