Erdal Arıkan is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at

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. He is known for his implementation of polar coding.

Career

Academic background

Arıkan briefly served as a tenure-track assistant professor at the

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. He joined

as a faculty member in 1987. In 2008 Arıkan improved the implementation of polar codes, a system of coding that provides a mathematical basis for the solution of Shannon's channel capacity problem. A three-session lecture on the matter given in January 2015 at Simons Institute's Information Theory Boot Camp at the

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is available on YouTube. The lecture is also featured on the Simons Institute webpage, which includes the slides used by Arıkan in his presentation. Arıkan is an IEEE Fellow, and was chosen as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-2015.

Awards

In 2010, Arıkan received th
IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
and the Sedat Simavi Science Award for the solution of a problem related to the construction of coding schemes that send information at a rate better suited to the capacity of communication channels. Arıkan became the recipient for the Kadir Has Achievement Award in 2011 for the same accomplishment. He was named an IEEE fellow in 2012. In 2018, Arıkan was selected to receive the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Award "for contributions to information and communications theory, especially the discovery of polar codes and polarization techniques." The same year, it was announced that he would be honored with the 2019 Claude E. Shannon Award.

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presented Arıkan with a special award in July 2018, recognizing "his outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arikan, Erdal Academic staff of Bilkent University California Institute of Technology alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people MIT School of Engineering alumni Turkish electrical engineers Turkish mathematicians Year of birth missing (living people)