Erdal Arıkan
Erdal Arıkan | |
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| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Nationality | Turkish |
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| Known for | Polar codes |
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| Thesis | Sequential decoding for multiple access channels(1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert G. Gallager |
Erdal Arıkan(born 1958) is a Turkish professor inElectrical and Electronics EngineeringDepartment atBilkent University,Ankara,Turkey.He is known for his invention ofpolar coding.
Early life and education
[edit]The son of a doctor and a homemaker, Erdal Arikan was born in 1958 and grew up in Turkey. He attended theMiddle East Technical Universityto studyelectrical engineering,but transferred toCalifornia Institute of Technologyin the middle of his freshman year as a result ofpolitical violence in Turkey.He started graduate studies atMassachusetts Institute of Technologyin 1981 where he was advised byRobert G. Gallagerand obtained his PhD in 1986.[1]
Career
[edit]Academic background
[edit]Arıkan briefly served as a tenure-track assistant professor at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He joinedBilkent Universityas a faculty member in 1987.[2]
Arıkan developedpolar codes,a system of coding that provides a mathematical basis for the solution ofShannon's channel capacity problem.[3]He presented a three-session lecture on the polar codes atSimons Institute's Information Theory Boot Camp at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[4][5][6]The lecture is also featured on the Simons Institute webpage, which includes the slides used by Arıkan in his presentation.[7]
Arıkan is an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2012), and was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2014–2015.[8]
Awards
[edit]Arıkan received theIEEE Information Theory Society Paper Awardin 2010, and theSedat Simavi Science Awardfor the construction of new channel coding schemes.[9]Arıkan became the recipient of theKadir Has Achievement Awardin 2011 for the same accomplishment. He was named an IEEE fellow in 2012.[10]
Arıkan received theIEEE Richard W. Hamming Awardin 2018 "for contributions to information and communications theory, especially the discovery of polar codes and polarization techniques."[11]The same year, it was announced that he would be honored with the 2019Claude E. Shannon Award.
The Chinese telecommunications companyHuaweirecognized his "outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology in 2018."[12]
References
[edit]- ^Levy, Steven(16 November 2020)."Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise".Wired.ISSN1059-1028.Archived fromthe originalon 6 December 2020.
- ^"ERDAL ARIKAN"(PDF).Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.2010.[non-primary source needed]
- ^Kalai, Gil (25 November 2010)."Emmanuel Abbe: Erdal Arıkan's Polar Codes".Combinatorics and more.Retrieved26 January2017.
- ^Simons Institute (20 January 2015),Polar Codes I,retrieved26 January2017
- ^Simons Institute (20 January 2015),Polar Codes II,retrieved26 January2017
- ^Simons Institute (20 January 2015),Polar Codes III,retrieved26 January2017
- ^"Polar Codes I | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing".simons.berkeley.edu.Retrieved26 January2017.
- ^"Erdal Arıkan | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing".simons.berkeley.edu.Retrieved26 January2017.
- ^"Prof. Erdal Arıkan Receives Kadir Has Achievement Award".bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr.Retrieved26 January2017.
- ^"IEEE Fellows — Information Theory Society".www.itsoc.org.Archived fromthe originalon 20 January 2010.Retrieved29 April2018.
- ^"Erdal Arıkan Awarded 2018 IEEE Hamming Medal".bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr.Retrieved29 April2018.
- ^"Huawei Recognizes Dr. Erdal Arikan, the Father of Polar Codes, for his Dedication to Basic Research and Exploration".Huawei.26 July 2018.
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