Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Richard Gitlin
The 2025 for exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences, often considered the 鈥淣obel Prize鈥� for communications technology, has been awarded to Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Richard D. Gitlin, a professor in USF鈥檚 Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation and retired Senior Vice President for Communications and Networking Research at Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.
Dr. Gitlin will receive the award at the IEEE Summit in Tokyo in April in recognition of his high-impact foundational contributions to the development of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. His groundbreaking work at Bell Labs during the 1980s and 1990s played a pivotal role in shaping these transformative technologies, which are now cornerstones of modern telecommunications.
At Bell Labs, where he worked for 32 years, Dr. Gitlin co-invented innovative methods for wideband digital signal transmission over telephone lines, forming the foundation