About the Speaker

Rüdiger L. Urbanke received the Diplomingenieur degree from the Vienna Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Washington University, 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 of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Urbanke is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. From 2000-2004 he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and he is currently on the board of the series "Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory." He is a co-recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society 2002 Best Paper Award and the co-author (jointly with Tom Richardson) on an upcoming book entitled "Modern Coding Theory."