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Biography

Mario Blaum was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1951. He received the degree of Licenciado from the in 1977, the M. Sc. degree from the (Technion) in 1981 and the Ph. D. degree from the (Caltech) in 1984, all these degrees in Mathematics. From January to June, 1985, he was a Research Fellow at the . In August, 1985, he joined the IBM Research Division at the . In January, 2003, his division was transferred to , where he was a Research Staff Member until February, 2009. He was a Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department at in 2008 and 2009, where he  taught the Error-Correcting Codes course. At present, he is a Consulting Researcher of the Group GASS at , Spain. In August 2009, he rejoined the IBM Almaden Research Center. Form 2009 to 2012, he was an Associate Editor in Coding of Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory.

Dr. Blaum’s research interests include Storage Technology, comprising all aspects of coding and synchronization. He is a Fellow of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV since 2000.

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Grupo de Análisis, Seguridad y Sistemas (GASS)
Facultad de Informática, Despacho 431
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
C/ Profesor José García Santesmases s/n
Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain

IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95125, USA