Sergio Verdú

Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
Sergio Verdú

Name: Sergio Verdú

Born: August 15, 1958, in Barcelona, Spain

Computer-related contributions

  • Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.
  • Teaches and conducts research on information theory.
  • Research interests are in information theory, data compression, and transmission.

Significant publications

  • Universal Estimation of Information Measures for Analog Sources (2009).
  • Multiantenna Channels: Capacity Coding and Signal Processing (2003).
  • Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (1999).
  • Multiuser Detection (1998).

Honors and awards

  • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2008).
  • Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society (2007).
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2007).
  • Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2005).
  • IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).
  • Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (2000).
  • IEEE Fellow (1993).

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