During ICTOPEN 2022, the KHMW Kees Schouhamer Immink Prize 2022 was awarded to Dr. Taco Cohen. This prize is intended to encourage original research in the field of technical computing and telecommunications in a broad sense. The prize involves a cash prize of €10,000.
The Kees Schouhamer Immink Prize 2022 was presented on April 7 at ICT.OPEN by Prof. Dr. Louise Gunning-Schepers, chairman of KHMW, together with Prof. dr. hc. Kees Schouhamer Immink to Dr. Taco Cohen for his research into ‘equivariant convolutional networks’. Cohen received his PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in June 2021 and currently works as a Research Scientist/Principal Engineer at Qualcomm Research Netherlands. The presentation of the KHMW Kees Schouhamer Immink Prize is organised in collaboration with IPN.