Yury Polyanskiy wins the 2020 James L. Massey Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community. The award is named in honor of James L. Massey, who was an internationally acclaimed pioneer in digital communications and a revered teacher and mentor to an entire generation of communications engineers. He was one of the outstanding researchers and leaders of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society over a period of 50 years.
Jun 9, 2020
Yury Polyanskiy (S'08-M'10-SM'14) is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of IDSS and LIDS at MIT.
Yury received M.S. degree in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia in 2005 and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ in 2010. His research interests span information theory, statistical learning, error-correcting codes, wireless communication and fault tolerance.Â
Dr. Polyanskiy won the 2013 NSF CAREER award and 2011 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Paper Award.