Alon Orlitsky: biography

Biography


1977 - 1980    B.Sc., Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University
1977 - 1981 B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University
1981 - 1982 M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
1982 - 1986 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University



1986 - 1996 Member of Tech. Staff, Mathematical Sciences Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1996 - 1997 Quantitative Analyst, D. E. Shaw and Company
1997 - present Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
2007 - present Qualcomm Professor for Information Theory and its Applications, UCSD


1982 ITT International Fellowship
1992 IEEE W.R.G. Baker best paper award
2005 Fellow, IEEE (for contributions to zero-error information theory)
2006 IEEE Information Theory Paper Award (with Santhanam and Zhang)