Robert Calderbank | |
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 Robert Calderbank in 1986 (photo from MFO) | |
| Born | 28 December 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick University of Oxford Caltech |
| Known for | CSS code Space-time code Coding Theory |
| Awards | IEEE Hamming Medal (2013) IEEE Shannon Award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied and Computational Mathematics |
| Institutions | Duke University Princeton University |
| Thesis | Algebraic coding theory (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marshall Hall |
| Doctoral students | Vaneet Aggarwal Yuejie Chi |
Robert Calderbank (born 28 December 1954) is a professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University.[1] He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a PhD from Caltech in 1980, all in mathematics. He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems. He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences.[2]
His contributions to coding and information theory won the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 1995 and 1999.[3]
He was elected as a member into the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for leadership in communications research, from advances in algebraic coding theory to signal processing for wire-line and wireless modems.[4] He also became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.[5]
Calderbank won the 2013 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal[6] and the 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award.
He was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for deep contributions to information theory".[7]
He is married to Ingrid Daubechies.[8]
