The paper "Robust spherical microphone array beamforming with multi-beam-multi-null steering, and sidelobe control" by Haohai Sun (IET), Prof. Shefeng Yan (formerly at IET, now at Institute of acoustics, Chinese academy of science, Beijing, China), and Prof. U. Peter Svensson (IET) was selected as the best paper at the biennial IEEE WASPAA conference at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, USA, 18-21 October 2009 (http://www.waspaa2009.com/). There were 181 paper submissions, 89 of which were selected for the conference after a peer-review process.