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Distinguished Lecturer Program

The Information Theory Society established the Distinguished Lecturers Program to promote interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events. The Society aims to maintain ten Distinguished Lecturers each serving for two year terms. For lectures sponsored by our chapters, the Society typically provides Distinguished Lecturers with funding for airfare and travel; in addition, we pay for accommodations and local costs at the discretion of the Membership Committee chair. When traveling to a different continent, visits to two locations are required. All distinguished lectures should be freely accessible to the public.

Criteria and Eligibility

The selection criteria are: (a) the quality of the candidates’ contributions to research in information theory and related areas, and (b) the ability of the candidates to deliver an excellent lecture to a broad audience. The candidates may be from any geographic region and any organization, e.g., academia, industry, or government. Nominations that promote diversity are encouraged. The Distinguished Lecturers are typically members of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society.

See the list ofÌýcurrent Distinguished Lecturers.

All nominations for Distinguished Lecturers should be submitted using theÌýonline form.

Current (bold) and Past Distinguished Lectures

Lecturers Presentations
Alex Sprintson (2025-2026) Ìý
Venu Veeravalli (2025-2026) Ìý
Mohammad Maddah-Ali (2025-2026) Ìý
Ali Tajer (2025-2026) Ìý
Hye Won Chung (2025-2026)

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Aditya Ramamoorthy (2024-2025) Ìý
Anand Sarwate (2024-2025)

Differential privacy can also enable scientific collaboration
, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, April 15, 2024

Learning with Structured Tensor Decompositions
, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Campus Madrid-Quintana, Madrid, Spain, July 2, 2024
, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, July 4, 2024
, American University of Beirut, July 18, 2024
, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, Mumbai, India, January 8, 2025
, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India, January 20, 2025

Anelia Somekh-Baruch (2024-2025) Ìý
Si-Hyeon Lee (2024-2025)

Privacy-Preserving Data Utilization with Differential Privacy
, Sweden, MarchÌý11, 2025
, Sweden, MarchÌý13, 2025
Sponsoring chapter: Â鶹´«Ã½AV Sweden VT/COM/IT Joint Chapter

Communication-Efficient Private Distribution Estimation via Combinatorial Designs
European School of Information Theory, The Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology, July 2, 2024
, Germany, July 5, 2024
Sponsoring chapter: Benelux Information TheoryÌýChapter

Vinod Prabhakaran (2024-2025) Ìý
Ashish Khisti (2023-2024) Ìý
Oliver Kosut (2023-2024) Ìý
Arya Mazumdar (2023-2024) Ìý
Chao Tian (2023-2024) Ìý
Shun Watanabe (2023-2024)

Information-theoretic Cryptography
School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, December 11, 2023

Information-theoretic Cryptography
Institute for Communications Technology, Technical University of Braunschweig, February 28, 2024

Pulkit GroverÌý(2022-2023) Ìý
Hamed HassaniÌý(2022-2023) Ìý
Parastoo Sadeghi (2022-2023)