Leonard G. Abraham Award
Ralf R. Müller was born in Schwabach, Germany,
1970. He received the Dipl. Ing. and Dr.-Ing degree with distinction
from University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany, in January
1996 and March 1999, respectively.
He was
a Visiting Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical
Engineering, Princeton University, NJ from April 1999 to April
2000. Since May 2000, he has been a Senior Researcher with
Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (FTW), Austria.
He received a postdoctoral fellowship from German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) in 1999. He has also served as an
expert for both the former German Ministry for Post and Telecommunications
as well as the European Patent Court.
Dr. Muller's
dissertation, "Power and Bandwidth Efficiency of Multi-user
systems with Random Spreading," received awards from
both the Mannesmann Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications
and the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the Association
of German Electrical Engineers (VDE) in May 2000 and September
2000, respectively.
Sergio Verdù is Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Princeton University. He is active in the fields of information
theory and multi-user communications. In the 1980s he pioneered
thetechnology of multi-user detection, which exploits the
structure of multi-access interference in order to increase
the capacity of multiuser communication systems. Cambridge
University Press published his textbook Multiuser Detection,
in 1998.
He is
a recipient of several paper awards: the IEEE Donald Fink
Paper Award, a Golden Jubilee Paper Award and the 1998 Outstanding
Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, and
the 2000 Paper Award from the Telecommunications Advancement
Foundation of Japan. He also received a Millennium Medal from
the IEEE and the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American
Society for Engineering Education.
He served
as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory. of the IEEE Transactions
on Information Theory. He served on the Board of Governors
of the Information Theory Society.
In 1989-1999, and was President of the Society in 1997. He
was Co-chair of the Program Committee of the 1998 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, and Co-chair of the 2000
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
He served
as Editor of the Special 1948-1998 Commemorative Issue of
the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, reprinted by
IEEE Press in 1999 as Information Theory: Fifty Years of Discovery.
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