Invited Speakers
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Jean-Claude Belfiore, Huawei, France
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Joseph Boutros, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
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Dan Costello, University of Notre Dame, USA
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David Declercq, ETIS Lab, ENSEA/University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Prof. David Declercq received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998 from the University of Cergy-Pontoise (France). He has been successively assistant, associate and now full Professor at the ENSEA, in Cergy-Pontoise. He was the recipient of the Junior position at the institut universitaire de France, from 2009 to 2014, and received 3 times the national grant award PEDR for excellence in research and student advising. He is currently the head of the research department at the ENSEA, adjunct head of the ETIS laboratory and secretary of the GRETSI association. He is also senior member of the IEEE, and serves as associate editor for the IEEE transactions on Communications. His main research areas include LDPC codes and decoders in high order Galois fields GF(q), with q>>2, and low complexity iterative decoders with performance vs. implementation tradeoffs. David Declercq published more than 40 papers in major journals (IEEE-Trans. Commun., IEEE-Trans. Inf. Theo., Commun. Letters, etc.), and more than 110 papers in major conferences in Information and Communication Technologies. |
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Lara Dolecek, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Gerhard Kramer, Technische Universität München, Germany
Gerhard Kramer is Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Head of the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technische Universität München (TUM). He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and the Dr. sc. techn. (Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften) degree from the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was with Endora Tech AG, Basel, Switzerland, as a communications engineering consultant. From 2000 to 2008 he was with the Math Center, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff. He joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. He joined TUM in 2010. Gerhard Kramer’s research interests are primarily in information theory and communications theory, with applications to wireless, copper, and optical fiber networks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE since 2010. In 2008, he was the founding co-chair of the Annual Schools of Information Theory that today run in Australia, East Asia, Europe, India, and North America. He served as technical program co-chair of the 2008 and 2014 IEEE International Symposia of Information Theory (ISIT) and he is general co-chair of ISIT 2017. Gerhard Kramer served as the 2013 President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was elected a Full Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2015. |
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Yingbin Liang, Syracuse University, USA
Dr. Liang was a Vodafone Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 2003-2005, and received the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Fellows Initiative Research Merit Award in 2005. She also received the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award from the ECE department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2005. In 2009, she received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the State of Hawaii Governor Innovation Award. More recently, her paper titled “compound wiretap channels” received the 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. She served as an Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory during 2013-2015. |
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Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Li Ping, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Li Ping received his BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees at NUPT, SJTU and Glasgow University in 1982, 1984, and 1990 respectively. He lectured at Department of Electronic Engineering, Melbourne University, from 1990 to 1992, and worked as a research staff at Telecom Australia Research Laboratories from 1993 to 1995. Since January 1996, he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, where he is now a professor of information engineering. He received the IEE J J Thomson premium in 1993, the Croucher Foundation Award in 2005 and a British Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in 2010. He served as a member of the Board of Governors for IEEE Information Theory Society from 2010 to 2012 and he is a fellow of IEEE. |
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Shlomo Shamai, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
During 1975-1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs, in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now a Technion Distinguished Professor, and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications. His research interests encompasses a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications. Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering. He has been awarded the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI), and is a co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2003, and the 2004 joint IT/COM societies paper award, the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2009 and 2015 European Commission FP7, Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications (NEWCOM++, NEWCOM#) Best Paper Awards, the 2010 Thomson Reuters Award for International Excellence in Scientific Research, the 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award (for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking), and the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. He is also the recipient of 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research. He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and has also served twice on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society. He has served on the Executive Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. |
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Simon Thorpe
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Rüdiger Urbanke, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Norbert Wehn, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Norbert holds the chair for Microelectronic System Design in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Kaiserslautern. He received the Diploma and PhD from TH Darmstadt in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He held several research and management positions at Siemens AG/Munich before he was appointed full professor at University of Kaiserslautern in 1997. He has more than 300 publications in various fields of microelectronic system design and holds several patents. Two start-ups spinout of his research group. He is Vice-President of the University Kaiserslautern, associate editor of various journals and member of several scientific advisory boards. In 2003 he served as program chair for DATE 2003 and as general chair for DATE 2005 respectively. In 2014 he was general Co-Chair of FPL 2015. His special research interests are VLSI-architectures for mobile communication, forward error correction techniques, low-power techniques, advanced SoC architectures, 3D integration, reliability issues in SoC and hardware accelerators for financial mathematics and big data applications. |
| Gerhard Wunder
Dr. Wunder is coordinator and principal investigator both in the FP7 Call 8 project 5GNOW (www.5gnow.eu) supported by the European Commission and PROPHYLAXE (www.ict-prophylaxe.de) the largest IoT physical layer security project supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research, as well as part of project management team of FANTASTIC-5G (www.fantastic5g.eu). Dr. Wunder is a recipient of research fellowships from the German national research foundation (DFG). He also receives currently funding in the DFG priority programs 1397 COIN (Communications in Interference Limited Networks), the SPP 1798 CoSIP (Compressed Sensing in Information Processing), and the upcoming CPN 1914 (“Cyber-Physical-Networking”). In 2000 and 2005, he was a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Prof. Jayant) in Atlanta (USA, GA), and the Stanford University (Prof. Paulraj) in Palo Alto/USA (CA). In 2009 he was a consultant at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (USA, NJ), both in Murray Hill (Prof. S. Stolyar) and Crawford Hill (Dr. R. Valenzuela). In 2011 Dr. Wunder received the 2011 award for outstanding scientific publication in the field of communication engineering by the German communication engineering society (ITG Award 2011), and the Heisenberg Fellowship in 2014. He is the author of three recent articles in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, on the PAPR problem (Dec. 2013), the IEEE Communication Magazine, 5G Special Issue (Feb. 2014), and in IEEE ACCESS on Compressed Sensing for 5G (Dec. 2015). |
Jean-Claude Belfiore is Head of the Communication Science Department at the Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab and professor at Telecom ParisTech. He received his MSc from Supelec and his PhD from ENST. In 1989, he was enrolled at ENST (now Telecom ParisTech), where he became full Professor in the Communications & Electronics department, in charge of research activities in the areas of digital communications, information theory and coding. Jean-Claude Belfiore has made pioneering contributions on modulation and coding for wireless systems (especially space-time coding) by using tools of number theory. He is also one of the co-inventors of the celebrated Golden Code. He is now working on wireless network coding, coding for physical security, coding for interference channels and more generally on lattice coding problems for multiterminal communications. He is author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers and communications and he has served as advisor for more than 30 Ph.D. students. Prof. Belfiore has been the recipient of the 2007 Blondel Medal. He has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for Coding Theory.
Joseph J. Boutros received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in 1996, both from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST, Telecom ParisTech), Paris, France. From 1996 to 2006, he was with the Communications and Electronics Department at ENST as an Associate Professor. Also, Dr Boutros was a member of the research unit UMR-5141 of the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in Paris. In July 2007, Doctor Boutros joined Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) as a full Professor in the electrical engineering program. Doctor Boutros teaches courses in signal processing, communication theory, information theory, and wireless communications. His mathematical approach for teaching communication theory is combined with a strong practical computing component. Doctor Boutros has been a scientific consultant for Alcatel Space, Philips Research, and Motorola Semiconductors, and member of the Digital Signal Processing team at Juniper Networks Cable. His fields of research are codes on graphs, lattice sphere packing, iterative decoding, joint source-channel coding, compressive sensing, space-time coding, physical-layer security, and physical-layer network coding. Doctor Boutros’ citations score is more than 5000 according to Google Scholar. His research is mainly performed under grants and tight collaboration with private companies and public institutions such as Mitsubishi Electric Europe, Ooredoo (Qatar Telecom), and the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Joseph Boutros is a senior member of the IEEE society. He is active in technical and organization committees of numerous IEEE events, such as the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), the Information Theory Workshop (ITW), the International Symposium on Turbo Codes and related topics. Doctor Boutros is co-inventor of 13 industrial patents including algorithms and techniques in channel coding and digital communications.
Daniel J. Costello, Jr. received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 1969. Since 1985, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, and from 1989 to 1998, served as the Chair of the Department. In 2000, he was named the Leonard Bettex Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include digital communications, with emphasis on error control coding and coded modulation. He has numerous technical publications in his field, and in 1983, he coauthored a textbook entitled Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications (2nd edition was published in 2004). He was elected Fellow in 1985. He was the recipient of the Third-Millennium Medal from the IEEE Information Theory Society, in 2000. He was the co-recipient of the 2009 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award and the 2012 ComSoc & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He was also the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award and the 2015 IEEE Leon J. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.
Lara Dolecek is an Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She holds a B.S. (with honors), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, as well as an M.A. degree in Statistics, all from the University of California, Berkeley. She received the 2007 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for the most outstanding doctoral research in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UCLA, she was a postdoctoral researcher with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received several research and teaching awards including IEEE Globecom Best Paper Award (2015), IBM Faculty Award (2014), Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award (2013), Intel Early Career Faculty Award (2013), University of California Faculty Development Award (2013), Okawa Research Grant (2013), NSF CAREER Award (2012), and Hellman Fellowship Award (2011). She is an Associate Editor for Coding Theory for IEEE Transactions on Communications. Her current research is in coding theory, inference, and computational methods, and especially in discovering new mathematical tools that will enable future data storage and processing technologies.
Dr. Yingbin Liang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. In 2005-2007, she was working as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 2008-2009, she was an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii. Since December 2009, she has been on the faculty at Syracuse University, where she is an associate professor. Dr. Liang's research interests include information theory, wireless communications and networks, and statistical machine learning.
Muriel Médard is the Cecil H. Green Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT and leads the Network Coding and Reliably Communications Group at the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT. She has co-founded two companies to commercialize network coding, CodeOn and Steinwurf. She has served as editor for many publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), of which she was elected Fellow, and she is currently Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications She was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2012, and served on its board of governors for eleven years. She has served as technical program committee co-chair of many of the major conferences in information theory, communications and networking. She received the 2009 IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2009 William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking, the 2002 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award and several conference paper awards. She was co-winner of the MIT 2004 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. In 2007 she was named a Gilbreth Lecturer by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.
Simon Thorpe is the Director of the CerCo (Brain and Cognition Research Centre) in Toulouse, and also director of the Toulouse Mind & Brain Institute). He was born in 1956 near London and studied Psychology and Physiology at the University of Oxford, where his obtained his doctorate with Prof. Edmund Rolls in 1981. After a year as a postdoc with Max Cynader in Canada, he moved to France where he joined Michel Imbert's laboratory in Orsay before moving to Paris. Recruited as a CNRS researcher in 1983, he was one of the founding members of the Brain and Cognition Research Centre (CerCo) that was created in Toulouse in 1993. His research has covered a wide range of subjects, ranging from the neurophysiology of the frontal cortex, and the visual system of both monkeys and cats. But more recently, he has become particularly well known for his work on the mechanisms of ultra-rapid categorisation in both man and monkey. He is also well known for his theoretical work on neural coding, and more specifically the potential of temporal coding schemes based on waves of spikes. This work led to the creation of a high tech start-up company in 1999. SpikeNet Technology currently employs 14 staff and develops bio-inspired software and hardware systems for image processing and object recognition.
Antonia M. Tulino received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Seconda Universita ́ degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, in 1999. She held research positions at Princeton University, at the Center for Wireless Communications, Oulu, Finland and at Universita ́ degli Studi del Sannio, Benevento, Italy. In 2002 she joined the Faculty of the Universita ́ degli Studi di Napoli ”Federico II”, and in 2009 she joined Bell Labs. From 2011, Dr. Tulino is Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and in 2013, she was elevated to IEEE Fellow. She has received several paper awards and among the others the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory for the best paper published in the IEEE TRANSACTION ON COMMUNICATION in 2008. She has been principal investigator of several research projects sponsored by the European Union and the Italian National Council, and was selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the Frontiers of Engineering program in 2013. Her research interests lay in the area of communication systems approached with the complementary tools provided by signal processing, information theory and random matrix theory.
Ruediger L. Urbanke obtained a Dipl. Ing. degree from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria in 1990 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1999, he held a position at the Mathematics of Communications Department at Bell Labs. Since November 1999, he has been a faculty member at the School of Computer & Communication Sciences (I&C) of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. His research focuses on the analysis and design of iterative coding schemes, and more broadly on the analysis of graphical models and the application of methods from statistical physics to problems in communications. From 2000–2004 he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and he is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the Information Theory Society. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, and a co-recipient of the 2002 and 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2011 Koji Kobayashi Award as well as the 2014 IEEE Hamming Medal. He is also a co-author of the book Modern Coding Theory published by Cambridge University Press.
Gerhard Wunder (IEEE Senior Member, Editor IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.) studied electrical engineering at the University of Hannover, Germany, and the Technical University (TU) Berlin, Germany, and received his graduate degree in electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) with highest honors in 1999. In 2004 he received the PhD degree (Dr.-Ing.) in communication engineering on the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem in OFDM with distinction (summa cum laude) in 2003 from TU Berlin and became a research group leader at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in Berlin. In 2008, he also received the habilitation degree (venia legendi) and became a Privatdozent (Associate Professor) at the TU Berlin in the field of detection/estimation theory, stochastic processes and information theory. Very recently, he has become Heisenberg Fellow, granted for the first time to a communication engineer, and heads now the Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory Group at the FU Berlin.