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Rüdiger Urbanke
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Professor
PhD (Washington University, 1995)
web site: http://ipg.epfl.ch
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office(s):
INR116
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 37692,36572,37695
fax: +41 21 6937698
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BIOGRAPHY
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Rüdiger L. Urbanke was born on 31 December 1966 in Linz, Austria. He obtained a Dipl. Ing. degree from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria in 1990 and the M.Sc. and PhD 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, where he is the head of the Communications Theory Lab and the Director of the Doctoral Program of I&C.
He is best known for his analysis and design of iterative coding schemes, which allow reliable transmission very close to theoretical limits at low complexities. Such schemes are part of most modern communications standards, including wireless transmission, optical communication and hard disk storage. More broadly, his research focuses 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 on the board of the series "Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory."
Dr. Urbanke is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. He is a co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award and co-author of the book "Modern Coding Theory" published by Cambridge University Press. He is the co-recipient of the 2011 Koji Kobayashi Award “for developing the theory and practice of transmitting data reliably at rates approaching channel capacity.”
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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T. Richardson and R. Urbanke.
Modern Coding Theory.
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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T. Richardson and R. Urbanke.
The Capacity of Low-Density Parity Check Codes under
Message-Passing Decoding.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
47(2):599-618, 2001.
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T. Richardson, A. Shokrollahi, and R. Urbanke.
Design of capacity-approaching irregular low-density parity-check
codes.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
47(2):619-637, 2001.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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CURRENT WORK
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Many interesting problems in communications and computer science can be phrased as inference problems on sparse graphical models.
I am studying the behavior of such systems as a function of underlying parameters (phase transitions) as well as trying to find efficient algorithms to solve fundamental tasks related to such systems. Message-passing algorithms as well as methods from statistical physics play an important role in my research.
Rüdiger Urbanke's research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the NCCR/MICS (National Center of Competence in Research / Mobile Information & Communication Systems) as well as the CTI.
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| Skills |
| Coding, Communications, Information Theory |
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| Teaching |
Communication Systems
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| Phd programs |
- Computer, Communication and Information Sciences
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| Phd Students |
Aref Vahid
Giurgiu Andrei
Hassani Seyed Hamed
Karbasi Amin
Venkatesan Vinodh
Vuffray Marc
Past Phd students:
Ajdari Rad Ali
Amraoui Abdelaziz
Di Changyan
Hu Xiao-Yu
Korada Satish Babu
Kudekar Shrinivas
Measson Cyril
Neuberg Christine
Oggier Frédérique
Rathi Vishwambhar
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| CONTACT |
Secretariat
Muriel Bardet
Building INR 137
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Tel. + 41 21 693 76 95
muriel.bardet@epfl.ch
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