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Rüdiger Urbanke
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PhD (Washington University, 1995)
web site: http://ipg.epfl.ch

office(s): INR116
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 37692,36572,37695
fax: +41 21 6937698
BIOGRAPHY
Rüdiger L. Urbanke received the Diplomingenieur degree from the Vienna Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 1990 and the M.Sc. and PhD 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 co-author of the book "Modern Coding Theory" published by Cambridge University Press.
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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
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.

Skills
Coding, Communications, Information Theory
Teaching
Communication Systems

Phd programs
Phd Students
Ajdari Rad Ali
Ezri Jérémie
Hassani Seyed Hamed
Karbasi Amin
Neuberg Christine
Venkatesan Vinodh
Vuffray Marc

Past Phd students:
Amraoui Abdelaziz Thesis details
Di Changyan Thesis details
Hu Xiao-Yu Thesis details
Korada Satish Babu Thesis details
Kudekar Shrinivas Thesis details
Measson Cyril Thesis details
Oggier Frédérique Thesis details
Rathi Vishwambhar Thesis details
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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