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COMMUNICATION THEORY SYMPOSIUM
Symposium Co-Chairs
Mérouane Debbah, SUPELEC (Merouane.debbah@supelec.fr)
Elza Erkip, Polytechnic Institute of NYU (elza@poly.edu)
Syed Ali Jafar, University of California, Irvine (syed@uci.edu)
Lars K. Rasmussen, University of South Australia (Lars.Rasmussen@ieee.org)
ق | Mजrouane Debbah was born in Madrid, Spain. He entered the Ecole Normale Suprieure de Cachan (France) in 1996 where he receivedقhis M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees respectively in 1999 and 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Motorola Labs on Wireless Local Area Networks and prospective fourth generation systems. From 2002 until 2003, he was appointed Senior Researcher at the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (FTW) (Vienna, Austria) working on MIMO wireless channel modeling issues. From 2003 until 2007, he joined the Mobile Communications de-partment of the Institut Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis, France) as an Assistant Professor. He is presently a Professor at Supelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), holder of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. His research interests are in information theory, signal process-ing and wireless communications. Mजrouane Debbah is the recipient of the 2007 General SymposiumقIEEE GLOBECOMقbest paper award as well as the Valuetools 2007 best student pa-per award.
| ق | Elza Erkip receivedقher Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She joined Polytechnic University in Spring 2000, where she is now an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She spent 2007-2008 academic year at Princeton University. Her research interests include wireless communications, multiuser information theory and communication theory.
Dr. Erkip received the NSF CAREER award in 2001, the Communications Society Rice Paper Award in 2004 and the IEEE ICC Communication Theory Symposium Best Paper Award in 2007. She co-authored a paper that won the ISIT Student Paper Award in 2007. She is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, a publications editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and a guest editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. She was the Technical Area Chair for the MIMO Communications and Signal Processing track of 41st Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, and the Technical Program Co-Chair of 2006 Communication Theory Workshop.
| ق | Syed A. Jafar receivedقhis B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian In-stitute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 1997, M.S. degree in Electrical Engineer-ing from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , Pasadena USA in 1999, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. His industry experience includes positions at Lucent Bell Labs, Qualcomm Inc. and Hughes Software Systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine, USA. His research interests include multiuser information theory and wireless communications.
Dr. Jafar received the NSF CAREER award in 2006 and the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2008. He received the UC Irvine Engineering Faculty of the Year award in 2006 for excellence in teaching. Dr. Jafar is a guest editor for 2008 JCN special issue on Cognitive Radio. He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and for the IEEE Communications Letters.
| ق | Lars K. Rasmussen was born on March 8, 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He got his M.Eng. in 1989 from the Technical University of Denmark, and his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he was a Research Fellow at the University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia). From 1995 to 1998, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff with the Centre for Wireless Communications at the National University of Singapore (Singapore). From 1999 to 2002, he was an Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden), where he maintained a part-time appointment until 2005. He has held visiting positions at University of Pretoria, South Africa (1998), Southern Poro Communications, Australia (2001), and University of Aalborg, Denmark (2003 - 2004). He currently holds a position as Research Professor at the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, where he is the leader of the Communications Signal Processing research group. He is also a co-founder of Cohda Wireless Pty Ltd, which was established in 2002 (incorporated 2003). His research interests include multiple user communications, iterative information processing, and adaptive modulation and coding for fading channels.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies and served as Chairman for the Joint ACT/SA/Vic/NSW Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society 2004-2005. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, and was a member of the organizing committees for the IEEE 2004 International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Systems and Applications held in Sydney, Australia, and the IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Information Theory held in Adelaide, Australia. He is also a member, and the Convenor, of the ARC Communications Research Network (ACoRN). |
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