Te Sun Han (born 1941,
Kiryū) is a
Korean Japanese information theorist
Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley, in the 1920s, and Claude Shannon in the 1940s. T ...
and winner of the 2010
Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following ...
. He has made significant contributions concerning the interference channel and information spectrum methods.
[Te Sun Han, Information-Spectrum Method in Information Theory . Springer, 2003] In 1990, he was elected an
IEEE Fellow
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for contributions to the theory of multiuser information systems and distributed
signal detection
Detection theory or signal detection theory is a means to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (called Stimulus (psychology), stimulus in living organisms, Signal (electronics), signal in machines) and random pa ...
systems.
References
External links
Te Sun Han's Webpage Citation for Shannon Award
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Living people
1941 births
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Japanese information theorists