The 5G Standard

3GPP Awards – Roll of Honour

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The 3GPP Awards recognise an individuals’ contribution to 3GPP. The Excellence Awards are decided at the end of every year, when nominations from the Working Group Chairs are considered.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards are given by the Project Coordination Group, on an exceptional basis.

Excellence Award

The 3GPP Excellence Award recognises an individuals’ contribution to a 3GPP Working Group during the year. Nominations are submitted by the WG Chairs – for consideration at the December TSG Plenary meetings.

As soon as the 3GPP TSG leadership have deliberated and decided on a maximum of four awards for the year; the traditional totems are manufactured and sent to the Working Group Chair, for their presentation during the next WG meeting. 

 

Read the News article about the 2023 awards...here 

 

 

Excellence Awards
Year
Recipient
Working Group
2023

Yizhi Yao


Håkan Palm


Qi Caixia


Jinguo Zhu

SA WG5 - Management, Orchestration and Charging


RAN WG2 – Radio Layer 2 and Radio Layer 3 RRC


CT WG4 - Core Network Protocols


SA WG2 - System Architecture and Services

3GPP Lifetime Achievement Award (Created 2017)

The 3GPP Lifetime Achievement Award recognises an individuals’ contribution to the work of 3GPP over a period of time. The Award gives credit for consistent, profound and enduring contributions of outstanding significance to the work of 3GPP and its committees over a number of years.

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Year
Recipient
2023
Chris Pudney
2022
Robert Love
2021
Stephen Hayes
2019
Wan Lei
2019
Martin Israelsson
2018
Günther Horn
2017
Donald E. Zelmer
2017
Andrew Howell