Frank R. Kschischang awarded the 2016 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Jul 14, 2016

According to his official biography at the University of Toronto, "Frank R. Kschischang received the B.A.Sc. degree (with honours) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1985 and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, all in electrical engineering.  He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 1991.  During 1997-98, he was a visiting scientist at MIT, Cambridge, MA; in 2005 he was a visiting professor at the ETH, Zurich, and in 2011 he was a visiting Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at the Technical University of Munich.  His research interests are focused primarily on the area of channel coding techniques, applied to wireline, wireless and optical communication systems and networks.  During 1997-2000, he served as an Associate Editor for Coding Theory for the  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory . He also served as technical program co-chair for the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, and as general co-chair for ISIT 2008, Toronto.  He served as the 2010 President of the IEEE Information Theory Society." Prof. Kschischang is currently the  Editor-in-Chief for the Transactions.