American mathematician
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] 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] American Mathematical Society in 2012.[ 5]
Calderbank won the 2013 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal [ 6] 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]
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