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Entropy | Research by the Shannon Award Winners

13 November 2025

It is our pleasure to invite you to explore a selected collection of papers by recipients of the Shannon Award, published in Entropy (ISSN: 1099-4300). The distinguished awardees include Frans M.J. Willems (2026), Peter Shor (2025), Raymond Wai-Ho Yeung (2022), and Erdal Rikan (2019), in addition to Alexander S. Holevo (2016), Shlomo Shamai (2011) and Te Sun Han (2010). The selected publications are listed below:

“Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation Based on the Discrete Zak Transform”
by Franz Lampel, Hamdi Joudeh, Alex Alvarado and Frans M. J. Willems
Entropy 2022, 24(12), 1704; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24121704
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/12/1704

“Maximizing Free Energy Gain”
by Artemy Kolchinsky, Iman Marvian, Can Gokler, Zi-Wen Liu, Peter Shor, Oles Shtanko, Kevin Thompson, David Wolpert and Seth Lloyd
Entropy 2025, 27(1), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/e27010091
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/1/91 

“Multiple Linear-Combination Security Network Coding”
by Yang Bai, Xuan Guang and Raymond W. Yeung
Entropy 2023, 25(8), 1135; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25081135
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/8/1135

“Systematic Encoding and Shortening of PAC Codes”
by Erdal Arıkan
Entropy 2020, 22(11), 1301; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22111301
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/11/1301

“On the Classical Capacity of General Quantum Gaussian Measurement”
by Alexander Holevo
Entropy 2021, 23(3), 377; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23030377
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/3/377

“Broadcast Channel Cooperative Gain: An Operational Interpretation of Partial Information Decomposition”
by Chao Tian and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
Entropy 2025, 27(3), 310; https://doi.org/10.3390/e27030310
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/3/310

“An Information-Theoretic View of Mixed-Delay Traffic in 5G and 6G”
by Homa Nikbakht, Michèle Wigger, Malcolm Egan, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Jean-Marie Gorce and H. Vincent Poor
Entropy 2022, 24(5), 637; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050637
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/637

“Variable-Length Resolvability for General Sources and Channels”
by Hideki Yagi and Te Sun Han
Entropy 2023, 25(10), 1466; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25101466
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/10/1466