Leonard G. Abraham Award
Robert J. McEliece ( M'70-SM'81-F'84) was born in Washington DC, in 1942. He received the B.S and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1964 and 1967, respectively, and attended Trinity College, Cambridge university, U.K, during 1964-1965.
From 1963 to 1978, he was employed by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was Supervisor of the Information's Processing Group from 1971 to 1978. From 1978 to 1982, he was a Professor of Mathematics and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since 1982, he has been on the faculty at Caltech, where he is now the Allen E.Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering. since 1990, he has also served as Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering at Caltech. He has been a regular consultant in the Communications Research Section of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1978. His research interests include deep-space communications, communication networks, coding theory and discrete mathematics.
David J.C. Mackay was born in Stoke on Trent, U.K., on April 22,1967. Following his education at Newcastle-under-Lyme School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he received the Ph.D. degree in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1991.
He is now a Lecturer in the Department of physics, Cambridge university and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. His interests include the construction and implementation of hierarchical Bayesian models that discover patterns in data, the development of probabilistic methods for neural networks, and the design and decoding of error correcting codes.
Jung-Fu (Thomas) Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in March 1969. He received the B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1991 and 1993, receptively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with a subject minor in social science from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1997.
Prior to Dec.1998, he was employed by a New York City firm as a Research Analyst. Since Jan.1999, he has been a Consulting Engineer of the Advance Development and Research Department of Ericsson Inc. in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, where he is involved in the research and development of WCDMA and IS-2000 technologies for third generation mobile systems. His research interests include digital communications theory, coding and decoding techniques and signal processing algorithms for wireless communications systems.
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