A. Robert Calderbank is the dean of Natural Sciences and professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics at Duke University, and a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He received a BSc degree from University of Warwick in 1975, an MSc degree from University of Oxford in 1976, England, and a PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology, all in mathematics. He became a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in 1980. Over the next 23 years, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming vice president for research and Internet and network systems at AT&T Labs. In 2003, he retired from his AT&T Labs position to join Princeton University.
He has made numerous contributions to the fields of coding and information theory, and he is a two-time winner of the IEEE Information Theory Prize Paper award. While at Bell Labs, he was part of a team which discovered space–time coding. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
He is married to Ingrid Daubechies.