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Biography

Michael Gastpar is a (full) Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2003 to 2011, he was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, earning his tenure in 2008. Ìý

He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1997 and his MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 1999. He defended his doctoral thesis at EPFL on Santa Claus day, 2002. He was also a (full) Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. ÌýHe also spent time as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.

His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience. Ìý

He is a Fellow of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV. He is the co-recipient of the 2013 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He was an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2011). He won an ERC Starting Grant in 2010, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award. He has served as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory (2008-11), and as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX.

Awards Received
for Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference Through Structured Codes
Participation & Position
Contact Information

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL)
EPFL-IC-ISC-LINX, BC 106, Station 14, CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 6937523, +41 21 6936459

Research interests
Coding theory
Communication networks
Detection and estimation
Shannon theory
Source coding