Patrick Flandrin - Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a member of the Academy of Sciences - is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (formerly known as the Achievement Award).
The Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field. Patrick Flandrin will be presented with this price in Canada by next April.

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We should mention that Patrick Flandrin is the first French researcher to obtain The Achievement Award since its creation in 1954. Cocorico!