Sergio Verdu

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Sergio Verdu (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Verdu received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection.

[edit] Awards and Honors

Fellow, IEEE (1992),
Member, National Academy of Engineering (2007),
Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (2000),
IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000),
Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia,
Claude E. Shannon Award (2007).

His papers have received several awards:

1992 IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award,
1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award,
IEEE Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award,
2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications Advancement Foundation,
2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award in the field of Communications Systems,
2007 IEEE Joint Communications/Information Theory Paper Award.

He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Telefónica I+D.