Ruediger L. Urbanke received his Dipl. Ing. degree from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1990, followed by an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1999, he served in the Mathematics of Communications Department at Bell Labs, after which he joined the School of Computer & Communication Sciences (I&C) at EPFL, where he is part of the Information Processing Group.
He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2000 to 2004, served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2017, and is currently the Dean of I&C. Dr. Urbanke is co-author of Modern Coding Theory (Cambridge University Press).
His research spans the design and analysis of error-correcting codes for both classical and quantum communication, as well as the theoretical foundations of modern machine learning.

Awards:
2023 Claude E. Shannon Award
2023 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
2021 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
2016 STOC Best Paper Award
2014 La Polysphere Teaching Award
2014 IEEE Hamming Medal
2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
2011 MASCOT Best Paper Award
2011 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award
2009 La Polysphere Teaching Award
2002 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
Fulbright Scholarship

My students have won the following awards:
M. Mondelli, 2021 IEEE Information Theory Paper Award
M. Mondelli, EPFL Doctorate Award 2018
M. Mondelli, Patrick Denantes Award, 2017
M. Mondelli, IEEE IT Society Student Paper Award at ISIT, 2015
M. Mondelli, Dan David Prize Scholarship, 2015
H. Hassani, Inaugural Thomas Cover Dissertation Award, 2014
S. Kudekar, 2013 & 2021 IEEE Information Theory Paper Award
A. Karbasi, Patrick Denantes Award, 2013
V. Venkatesan, Best Paper Award at MASCOTS, 2011
A. Karbasi, Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP, 2011 (with R. Parhizkar)
A. Karbasi, Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS, 2010 (with S. Oh)
S. Korada, ABB Dissertation Award, 2010
S. Korada, IEEE IT Society Student Paper Award at ISIT, 2009 (with E. Sasoglu)
S. Korada, IEEE IT Society Student Paper Award at ISIT, 2008