Rüdiger Leo Urbanke (born 1966) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Like its sister institution E ...
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Life
Urbanke studied at the
Technical University of Vienna with the diploma as an electrical engineer in 1988 and at the
Washington University in St. Louis
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with the master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate in 1995 under the supervision of Bixio E. Rimoldi. He then worked at
Bell Laboratories
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Career
From 2000 to 2004 he was an Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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. From 2009 till 2012 he was the head of the I&C Doctoral School and in 2013 he served as a Dean of I&C.
Distinctions
Urbanke is a co-recipient of the 2002
and the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, a recipient of the 2011
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, the 2014
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2023
Claude E. Shannon Award.
He was selected as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer by the Information theory society for 2013-2014
and received a STOC Best Paper Award in 2016.
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Austrian computer scientists
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
1966 births
Living people
TU Wien alumni
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Scientists at Bell Labs