Awards: Dr. Mitra is the recipient of the 1973 F.E. Terman Award and the 1985 AT&T Foundation Award of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE); the 1989 Education Award, and the 2000 Mac Van Valkenburg Society Award of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society; the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1989; the 1996 Technical Achievement Award, the 2001 Society Award and the 2006 Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society; the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000 (presented to 3,000 IEEE members), the McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award of the IEEE Education Society in 2001; the 2002 Technical Achievement Award and the 2009 Athanasios Papoulis Award of the European Association for Signal Processing, the 2005 Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineers (SPIE); the University Medal of the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia in 2005; the 2006 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal; and the 2013 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and co-recipient of the 2001 IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award.