Michael Gastpar receives an IEEE Joint Paper Award 2013
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Prof. Michael Gastpar received an IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award 2013. Another recipient is Prof. Suhas Diggavi, a former member of the IC faculty.
The award is given annually to outstanding papers published within the previous three calendar years in any publication of the Communications Society (ComSoc) or the Information Theory Society (IT). Please read here for more details.
Prof. Michael Gastpar is a head of Laboratory for Information in Networked Systems (LINX), where research focuses on network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience.
The awarded paper, co-written with Bobak Nazer, develops a new technique called compute-and-forward. The technique allows obtaining more efficient communication protocols in wireless networks. A key novel idea underlying this approach is treating the inference - an integral feature of the wireless medium - not as an obstacle, but as a resource that can be harnessed to one's advantage.
Prof. Suhas Diggavi is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (EE.UCLA). Before this appointment, he was on the IC faculty, where he directed the Laboratory for Information and Communication Systems (LICOS).
The awarded paper, co-written with A.Salman Avestimehr and David N. C. Tse, makes progress on the fundamental question of understanding how the structure of the network determines the maximum rate of information flow achievable in that network.