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]

References

  1. ^ "Calderbank to Direct Interdisciplinary 'Big Data' Effort at Duke". 8 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Duke Names Princeton Professor Dean of Natural Sciences". June 2010.
  3. ^ "Information Theory Society Paper Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  4. ^ "NAE Members Directory - Dr. A. Robert Calderbank". United States National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
  6. ^ "Calderbank Awarded IEEE Hamming Medal". Duke University. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  7. ^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2021 Fellows". 31 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Ingrid Daubechies' Personal Biography". Princeton University. Retrieved 13 October 2014.

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