Rüdiger Urbanke
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Rüdiger Leo Urbanke (born 1966) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).


Life

Urbanke studied at the
Technical University of Vienna TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...
with the diploma as an electrical engineer in 1988 and at the Washington University in St. Louis with the master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate in 1995. He then worked at
Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mul ...
.


Career

From 2000 to 2004 he was an Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Information Theory Society. It covers information theory and the mathematics of communications. It was established in 1953 as ''IRE Tra ...
. From 2009 till 2012 he was the head of the I&C Doctoral School and in 2013 he served as a Dean of I&C.


Distinctions

Urbanke is a co-recipient of the 2002 and the 2013
IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
, a recipient of the 2011 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, the 2014 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2023 Claude E. Shannon Award. He was selected as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer by the Information theory society for 2013-2014 and received a STOC Best Paper Award in 2016.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Urbanke, Rüdiger Austrian computer scientists Washington University in St. Louis alumni 1966 births Living people