During 2013, Birkhäuser (Springer) instituted three Best Paper Awards for papers published in Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (see the announcement in the October 2013 issue of CSSP). A call for nominations for these awards was sent out to all the Associate Editors inviting them to nominate those papers published in 2020 or 2021 in CSSP, which should be considered for these awards. This call was also posted on the CSSP Website inviting nominations from CSSP readers. A total of six papers were nominated. A Selection Committee consisting of Dr. Raj Senani, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, Dr. Byung-Gyu Kim, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea. and Dr. S.M. Mahbubur Rahman, Bangladesh University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, was set up to select the best paper in each category for the year 2021. The recipients for the Armen H. Zemanian Best Paper Award, given for the best paper published in 2021 in the areas of Circuits and Systems, are Gongzhi Liu, Shuhang Shen, Peipei Jin, Guangyi Wang and Yan Liang for their paper “Design of Memristor-Based Combinational Logic Circuits” published in the December issue, pp. 5825–5846. The recipients for the Sydney R. Parker Best Paper Award, given for the best paper published in 2021 in the area of Signal Processing, are Akshita Abrol, Nisha Kapoor and Parveen Kumar Lehana for their paper “Fractal-Based Analysis for Emotional Content Estimation”, published in the November 2021 issue, pp. 5632–5653. The latter paper was also chosen for the M. N. S. Swamy Best Paper Award, which is given for the best paper published in 2020 or 2021 irrespective of the subject area. Each of these awardees will receive a certificate and a cash prize. I would like to congratulate the recipients of the three awards. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominators and especially, the members of the Selection Committee for their time and effort in selecting the winners for the various awards.