Honors and Awards

Honor Societies:
Included in Who’s Who in the World
Best Paper Award, European Assoc. for Signal Proc. (1986)
Invited to be Series Editor for New York University Press (1987)
Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, University of Massachusetts (1987)
Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in Communication Theory, IEEE Communications Society (1988)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1991)
Invited Guest Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (1991)
Invited Organizer of Workshop on Cyclostationary Signals sponsored by NSF, ARO, NRO, AFOSR (1992)
Invited to be Editor-in-Chief of CRC Press Handbook on Communication Theory
International DuPont 2005 Award for Innovation in Food Packaging Technology (for MetaCork™/IC3™)
Frost & Sullivan 2005 Consumer-Product-Design Excellence-in Technology-of-the-Year Award (for MetaCork™/IC3™)
As Principal Investigator, Research Awards totaling nearly $25M since 1980
Biography in Wikipedia — wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A_Gardner (2020)

The overview paper by W. A. Gardner, A. Napolitano, and L. Paura, “Cyclostationarity: Half a Century of Research,” Signal Processing, April 2006, received from the Publisher (Elsevier) the “Most Cited Paper Award” in 2008; and, each year since its first appearance online up through 2011, it was the most cited paper among those published in Signal Processing in the previous five years, and among the top 10 most downloaded papers from Signal Processing. As shown at https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=9PAPNfgAAAAJ&hl=en , as of mid-2020, this paper had been cited just under 1000 times.

Interestingly, the most frequently cited paper on cyclostationarity is an IEEE Signal Processing Magazine article with over 1,300 citations, and the next three most cited publications are books, with citations nearing 1000 each.