17th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture @ UCSD
17th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture @ UCSD
Erdal Arikan, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bilkent University, Turkey
“Polarization and Source Coding”
Abstract:
This talk is an introduction to polar codingmethods based on a phenomenon calledpolarization of entropy. Topics covered includepolar coding for the Slepian-Wolf problem. Wesurvey known results and point out some openproblems.
Biography:
Erdal Arikanreceived his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since 1987 he has been on the faculty of Bilkent University, Turkey. For his work on polar coding, he has been awarded the 2010 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, the 2013 鶹ýAV W. R. G. Baker Award, the 2018 鶹ýAV Hamming Medal, and the 2019 Claude E. Shannon Award of the 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society. He is a fellow of the 鶹ýAV and a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
Friday, June 11, 2021, 10AM Virtual Lecture / Q&A: 11-11:30AM
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