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Robert Calderbank

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Nationality
  
American

Doctoral advisor
  
Marshall Hall

Fields
  
Applied mathematics

Role
  
Electrical engineer

Name
  
Robert Calderbank


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Institutions
  
Duke University Princeton University

Alma mater
  
University of Warwick University of Oxford Caltech

Doctoral students
  
Vaneet Aggarwal Dustin Mixon

Notable awards
  
IEEE Hamming Medal (2013) IEEE Shannon Award (2015)

Education
  
University of Oxford, University of Warwick, California Institute of Technology

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Robert Calderbank (born 1954) is a professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a PhD from Caltech, 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.

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His contributions to coding and information theory won the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 1995 and 1999. While at Bell Labs, he co-discovered space–time coding. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005, became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and won the 2013 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award.

He is married to Ingrid Daubechies.

Robert calderbank february fourier talks 2015 discrimination on the grassmann manifold


References

Robert Calderbank Wikipedia