The award will be formally presented at ISIT 2018. The winners are

• Qian Yu  (University of Southern California, USA) for the paper
  
  The Exact Rate-Memory Tradeoff for Caching with Uncoded Prefetching
  Qian Yu  (University of Southern California, USA); Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, USA); Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)
  
  
• Jie Li  (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
  
  A Generic Transformation for Optimal Repair Bandwidth and Rebuilding Access in MDS Codes
  Jie Li  (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Xiaohu Tang (SWJTU, P.R. China); Chao Tian (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
  
  
• Ori Peled and Oron Sabag  (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
  
  Feedback Capacity and Coding for the (0,k)-RLL Input-Constrained BEC
  Ori Peled, Oron Sabag  and Haim H Permuter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)