Sergio Verdu
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Sergio Verdú is a Professor of Electrical Engineering [1] at Princeton University [2] 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[3].
A native of Barcelona, Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia[4], Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois [5] at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory[6] of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection.
Sergio Verdú was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1992 and member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering[7] in 2007. He received the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award[8] from the American Society for Engineering Education, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal[9] in 2000. In 2005, he received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is the recipient of the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award.
In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection[10]. His papers have received several awards: the 1992 IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award[11], the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award, a IEEE Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award, the 2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award in the field of Communications Systems and the 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[12].
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Telefónica I+D[13].
