Wojciech Szpankowski (born February 18, 1952 in

Wapno Wapno is a village in Wągrowiec County, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, close to the border with Żnin County. ''Wapno'' is Polish for Lime (material), lime and reflects the large gypsum deposits in the area, which can be processed to produce ...

) is the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science at

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

. He is known for his work in

analytic combinatorics In combinatorics, the symbolic method is a technique for counting combinatorial objects. It uses the internal structure of the objects to derive formulas for their generating functions. The method is mostly associated with Philippe Flajolet an ...

, analysis of algorithms and analytic information theory. He is the director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information.

Biography

Szpankowski received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University of Gdańsk in 1970 and 1980 respectively.

Awards and honors

* Fellow of IEEE * The Erskine Fellow *

Flajolet Lecture Prize The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize is awarded to for contributions to analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms, in the fields of theoretical computer science. This prize is named in memory of Philippe Flajolet. History The Flajolet Le ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Szpankowski, Wojciech Living people Polish computer scientists Polish mathematicians Theoretical computer scientists Information theorists Combinatorialists Gdańsk University of Technology alumni Purdue University faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE 1952 births