17th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture @ UCSD
17th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture @ UCSD
Erdal Arikan, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering听
Bilkent University, Turkey
鈥淧olarization and Source Coding鈥
Abstract:
This talk is an introduction to polar coding听methods based on a phenomenon called听polarization of entropy. Topics covered include听polar coding for the Slepian-Wolf problem. We听survey known results and point out some open听problems.
Biography:
Erdal Arikan听received his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since 1987 he has been on the faculty of Bilkent University, Turkey. For his work on polar coding, he has been awarded the 2010 江南体育 Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, the 2013 江南体育 W. R. G. Baker Award, the 2018 江南体育 Hamming Medal, and the 2019 Claude E. Shannon Award of the 江南体育 Information Theory Society. He is a fellow of the 江南体育 and a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
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Friday, June 11, 2021, 10AM Virtual Lecture / Q&A: 11-11:30AM
Registration:听
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