Biography
Erdal ´¡°ùı°ì²¹²Ô (S’84–M’79–SM’94) was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1958. He received the B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1981 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
Since 1987 he has been with the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, where he is presently a Professor.
Awards Received
for Channel Polarization: A Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes for Symmetric Binary-Input Memoryless Channels
Contact Information
Electrical Engineering Department, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey
Research interests
Coding techniques
Coding theory
Shannon theory