Sergio Verdú

Sergio Verdú (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Verdu received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of multiuser detection. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection.

Awards and honors

His papers have received several awards:


He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.

References

  1. ↑ "Fellow Class of 1993". IEEE. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Past Frederick Emmons Terman Award Winners". American Society for Engineering Education. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Sergio Verdu". NAE. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ . NAS http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-29-2014-NAS-Election.html. Retrieved April 29, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  6. ↑ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  7. ↑ "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Information Theory Paper Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Golden Jubilee Paper Awards". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  10. ↑ "The Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ "ComSoc & IT Joint Paper Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Best Papers : EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking". European Association for Signal Processing. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  13. ↑ "The Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Information Theory Paper Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved January 5, 2011.

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