Michelle Effros
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
InstitutionsCaltech
Doctoral advisorRobert M. Gray

Michelle Effros is the George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She has made significant contributions to data compression.

Early life and education

Effros earned her bachelor's degree at Stanford University in 1989.[1] She was awarded the Stanford University Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award for excellence in engineering.[1] She remained there for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1990 and a PhD in 1994.[1][2] She worked under the supervision of Robert M. Gray.[2] She spent 1988 and 1989 at Hughes Aircraft Company, studying modulation schemes and future space technology.[1] Her graduate studies were supported by the Hughes Aircraft Company, National Science Foundation and AT&T.[1] She worked on lossy and lossless compression and source coding.[3]

Research

She moved to California Institute of Technology in 1994 as an assistant professor. Here she founded the Caltech Data Compression Lab, where she continued her work in source coding and point-to-point networks.[3] In the Data Compression Lab, Effros investigates network source coding.[4] Her work was initially supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.[5] She established ways to calculate the capacity of large communication networks, building computational tools to bound them.[6][7] She has written about the rise of wireless networks and their independence of fix infrastructure.[8] Working with Qian Zhao, Effros developed a new technique to compress data using a multiple access source code.[9] In 2001 Effros was selected as one of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Top Innovators Under 35.[10] She introduced an approach that used random linear network coding to transmit and compress information.[11] They went on to show the benefits of this technique over routing-based approaches.[12]

Effros was awarded the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2009 for her work on linear network coding.[13] In 2015 she served as President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society.[14] She delivered a talk at the Claude Shannon Centennial Symposium, discussing communication theory and reliability.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Michelle Effros (Caltech) : Biography". effros.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  2. ^ a b magazine, STANFORD (September 2004). "Welcoming Women". stanfordmag.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  3. ^ a b "Michelle Effros (Caltech) : Research". effros.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  4. ^ "Reflections on the Gaussian Broadcast Channel: Progress and Challenges - IEEE Conference Publication". doi:10.1109/ISIT.2007.4557071. S2CID 39030298. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#9501977 - Code Clustering for Universal Image Coding and Other Implications". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  6. ^ Koetter, Ralf; Effros, Michelle; Médard, Muriel (December 2010). "A Theory of Network Equivalence, Parts I and II". resolver.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  7. ^ "Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science | News | Calculating the Capacity of a Network". eas.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  8. ^ Effros, Michelle; Goldsmith, Andrea; Médard, Muriel (2010). "The Rise of Instant Wireless Networks". Scientific American. 302 (4): 72–77. Bibcode:2010SciAm.302d..72E. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0410-72. PMID 20349579. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  9. ^ Zhao, Qian; Effros, Michelle (2001). "Optimal Code Design for Lossless and Near Lossless Source Coding in Multiple Access Networks". Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference. DCC '01. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society: 263–.
  10. ^ "Innovator Under 35: Michelle Effros, 33". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  11. ^ Ho, Tracey; Médard, Muriel; Koetter, Ralf; Karger, David R.; Effros, Michelle; Shi, Jun; Leong, Ben (October 2006). "A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to Multicast - IEEE Journals & Magazine". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 52 (10): 4413–4430. doi:10.1109/TIT.2006.881746. S2CID 1324170.
  12. ^ Ho, T.; Koetter, R.; Medard, M.; Karger, D.R.; Effros, M. (2003). "The benefits of coding over routing in a randomized setting". IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE. p. 442. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.112.4536. doi:10.1109/isit.2003.1228459. ISBN 978-0780377288. S2CID 1903754.
  13. ^ "Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award — Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  14. ^ "Michelle Effros — Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  15. ^ Michigan Engineering, Michelle Effros | Shannon's Channel and Capacity, retrieved 2019-01-14
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