Leadership Award since 1989
| Year | Title | Name | Association | Contact |
| 2016 | What smartphone can help the public health? | Harold Szu | The Catholic University of America (USA) | |
| 2015 | Computational Intelligence from AI to NI | Paul Werbos |
NSF (USA) |
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| 2014 | (for leadership in optical engineering) | Don Driggles | NRL/OSD | ron.driggers@stjohnsopticalsystems.com |
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| 2012 | Biomedical wellness challenges and opportunities (PDF) |
John Tangney
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Office of Naval Research (USA) | |
| 2004 | Elucidating HVS iris feature identification | John Daugman | Cambridge Univ. | |
| 2002 | Unsupervised learning ICA natural gradients | Sunichi Amari | RIKEN | |
| 1989 | JPEG2000 & fingerprint compression | Tom Hoppper | FBI | |