Ken Zeger

Professor
Center for Wireless Communications (CWC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Co-Director of Information and Coding Laboratory
Room 6605 EBU-1, Mail Code 0407, Directions to Office
Address for FedEx deliveries
Tel: (858) 822-0440
E-mail: zeger@ucsd.edu

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Education and Academic Employment

1984 S.B. in EECS at MIT
1984 S.M. in EECS at MIT
1989 M.A. in Math at University of California, Santa Barbara
1990 Ph.D. in ECE at University of California, Santa Barbara
1990-92 University of Hawai'i, Assistant Professor of EE
1992-95 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor of ECE
1995-96 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor of ECE
1996-98 University of California, San Diego, Associate Professor of ECE
1998-present University of California, San Diego, Professor of ECE

Publications, Teaching, Consulting

Publication List
Class taught during Winter 2012:
Industrial Consulting

Awards and Honors

Fellow of IEEE (2000)
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)

Professional Service

Associate Editor At Large of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1995-1998)
Board of Governors of IEEE Information Theory Society (1998-2000, 2005-2007, and 2008-2010)
Member of IEEE Societies: Information Theory and Communications and Signal Processing.
Co-organizer of Third Workshop on Network Coding, Theory, and Applications (NetCod) (San Diego, January 2007).
Co-organizer of NSF-sponsored Workshop on Source-Channel Coding (San Diego, October 1999).
Co-organizer of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (San Diego, February 1998).
Co-organizer of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Monticello, Illinois, October 1995).
Co-organizer of IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (Ojai, California, April 1990).
Technical Program Committee of Data Compression Conference (DCC) (Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1996-2007).
Technical Program Committee of Workshop on Network Coding (NetCod) (Beijing, China July 2011).
International Advisory Committee of International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (2010 ISSTA) (Taichung, Taiwan, October 2010).
Technical Program Committee of IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod) (Toronto, Canada June 2010).
Technical Program Committee of Workshop on Network Coding (NetCod) (Lausanne, Switzerland June 2009).
Technical Program Committee of Workshop on Network Coding (NetCod) (Hong Kong, January 2008).
Technical Program Committee of Workshop on Network Coding (NetCod) (Boston, MA, April 2006).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (Toronto, Canada, September 2008).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (Adelaide, Australia, September 2005).
Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (Atlanta, Georgia, September 2006).
Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (Genova, Italy, September 2005).
Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (Singapore, October 2004).
Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (Barcelona, Spain, September 2003).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Melbourne, Australia, October 2014).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2012).
International Advisory Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Taichung, Taiwan, October 2010).
International Advisory Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Auckland, New Zealand, December 2008).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Soeul, Korea, October 2006).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Xian, China, October 2002).
Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA) (Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2000).
Plenary speaker of Nottingham Trent University Workshop on Probability, Theory and Applications (Nottingham, England, April 1998).
Plenary speaker of IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) (Destin, Florida, April 1996).
Hungarians
MIT Educational Council (1984-present)
UCSD ECE graduate school brochure
State-of-the-art San Diego / Mexico border fence
Satellite photos of San Diego fires: October 2003, October 2007

Research Interests

Information Theory, Source and Channel Coding, Data Compression, Complexity Theory, Image Coding, Fun Math Problems

Current Graduate Students

Franklin Kenter - PhD student
Eric Freiling - PhD student
Vivek Viswanathan - PhD student

Previous Graduated Students

Gopal Krishna - MS 1991, University of Hawai'i
M.S. Thesis title: "Unconstrained Block Tiling for Compression of High Resolution Bi-Level Images", pdf (616k).
Present Location: CEO, thinkIndia.com
Shawn Herman - MS 1996, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.S. Thesis title: "Variable Fanout Trimmed Tree-Structured Vector Quantization for Multirate Channels", pdf (396k).
Present Location: Numerica, Inc. (Fort Collins, CO)
Jon Hamkins - PhD 1996, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PhD Thesis title: "Design and Analysis of Spherical Codes", pdf (1.9M).
Present Location: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA)
András Méhes - PhD 1998, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PhD Thesis title: "Quantization for Noisy Channels using Structured Codes", pdf (2.0M).
Present Location: Ericsson Co. (Stockholm, Sweden)
Greg Sherwood - PhD 2000, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PhD Thesis title: "Source and Channel Coding of Images for Noisy Channels", pdf (1.4M).
Present Location: PacketVideo Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Zsigmond Nagy - PhD 2002, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Coding and Capacities for Multidimensional Constraints", pdf (1.4M).
Present Location: Bloomberg LP (New York, NY)
Tamás Frajka - PhD 2003, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Image Coding Subject to Constraints", pdf (5.8M).
Present Location: Frajka Consulting (Southhampton, United Kingdom)
Xiaodong Tian - PhD 2004, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Image and Video Transmission over Noisy Channels", pdf (868k).
Present Location: ArrayComm (San Jose, CA)
Ben Farber - PhD 2005, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Quantization over Noisy Channels and Bit Allocation", pdf (798k).
Present Location: Certona Co. (San Diego, CA)
Jillian Cannons - PhD 2008, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Topics in Network Communications", pdf (1.1M).
Present Location: Vision Robotics (San Diego, CA)
Rathinakumar Appuswamy - PhD 2011, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Network coding for function computation", pdf (800k).
Present Location: IBM (Almaden, CA)
Nikhil Karamchandani - PhD 2011, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Network Computing: Limits and Achievability", pdf (914k).
Present Location: UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)

Previous Visiting Research Scholars

Erik Agrell (Nov. 1997 - Jun. 1999) - PhD 1997, Chalmers University, Sweden
Present Location: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University (Göteborg, Sweden)
András György (Feb. 1998 - May. 1998)
Present Location: Assistant Professor, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)
Bert Hochwald (Aug. 1995 - Aug. 1996) - PhD 1995, Yale University
Present Location: Member of Technical Staff, Beceem Communications Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Akiko Kato (Apr. 1997 - Aug. 1999) - PhD 1997, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Died on Feb. 27, 2000 at age 32. ( Photo )
Rosen Kralev (Jun. 2006 - Aug. 2006) - Harvard University undergraduate
Zsolt Kukorelly (Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2001) - PhD 1999, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Selene Leleu (Jul. 1999 - Sep. 1999) - UCSD undergraduate
Tamás Linder (1991-1998, many visits) - PhD 1992, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Present Location: Associate Professor of Mathematics and Engineering, Queens University (Ontario, Canada)
Gábor Lugosi (1992-1996, many visits) - PhD 1991, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Present Location: Associate Professor of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain)
Craig Mak (summers of 1994, 1995) - SB 1999, MIT
Present Location: UCSD PhD Biology student
Julià Minguillón (Feb. 1998 - Dec. 1998)
Present Location: PhD student, Autonomous University of Barcelona, (Catalunya, Spain)
Leola Alfonso Reese (Aug. 1997 - Aug. 1998) - PhD 1996, University of California, Santa Barbara
Present Location: San Diego, CA
Thomas Stockhammer (Jan. 1, 2000 - Jun. 30, 2000)
Present Location: Germany.
Vahid Tarokh (Aug. 1995 - Aug. 1996) - PhD 1995, University of Waterloo, Canada
Present Location: Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Weiping Ye (Aug. 1, 1999 - May 30, 2000) - MS 1990, Beijing Normal University
Present Location: Associate Professor of Electronics, Beijing Normal University (China)
Ram Zamir (Aug. 1997, Mar. 1998) - PhD 1994, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Present Location: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University (Israel)

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