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
Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
(Jerusalem, Israel, April 26 - May 1, 2015).
Technical Program Committee of
Data Compression Conference (DCC)
(Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1996-2007).
Technical Program Committee of
IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod)
(Sydney, Australia June 2015).
Technical Program Committee of
IEEE International Symposium 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, Theory, and Applications (NetCod)
(Lausanne, Switzerland June 2009).
Technical Program Committee of
Workshop on Network Coding, Theory, and Applications (NetCod)
(Hong Kong, January 2008).
Technical Program Committee of
Workshop on Network Coding, Theory, and Applications (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)
(Monterey, California, October 2016).
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).
Information Theory, Source and Channel Coding, Data Compression, Complexity Theory, Image Coding,
Fun Math Problems
Current Graduate Students
Spencer Congero - 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 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 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 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 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 Present Location:
The Climate Corporation
Zsigmond Nagy
- PhD 2002, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Coding and Capacities for Multidimensional Constraints",
pdf 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 Present Location:
Acquisio (Quebec, Canada)
Xiaodong Tian
- PhD 2004, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Image and Video Transmission over Noisy Channels",
pdf 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 Present Location:
DB Networks (San Diego, CA)
Jillian Cannons
- PhD 2008, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Topics in Network Communications",
pdf Present Location:
Cal Poly (Pomona, CA)
Rathinakumar Appuswamy
- PhD 2011, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Network coding for function computation",
pdf Present Location:
IBM (Almaden, CA)
Nikhil Karamchandani
- PhD 2011, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Network Computing: Limits and Achievability",
pdf Present Location:
Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay)
Eric Freiling
- PhD 2014, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Characteristic Dependent Linear Rank Inequalities and Applications to Network Coding",
pdf Present Location:
(San Diego, CA)
Joseph Connelly
- PhD 2018, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Linear Network Coding over Ring Alphabets",
pdf Present Location:
Kirtland Air Force Base (Albuquerque, NM)
Spencer Congero
- PhD 2023, University of California, San Diego
PhD Thesis title: "Topics in Lossless Source and Channel Coding",
pdf Present Location:
(San Diego, 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:
Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London (London U.K.)
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 Present Location:
Systematic Investor, Archanan (New York, NY)
Zsolt Kukorelly
(Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2001)
- PhD 1999, ETH Zürich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) Present Location:
Actuary, Swiss Life (Zürich, Switzerland)
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:
Director of Strategy, Arbor Biotechnologies (Cambridge, MA)
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
Vahid Tarokh
(Aug. 1995 - Aug. 1996)
- PhD 1995, University of Waterloo, Canada Present Location:
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University (Durham, NC)
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:
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
