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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Claude E. Shannon Award
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
Goldsmith Lecturer
Information Theory Society Paper Award
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
Padovani Lecturer
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
Events
IEEE Globecom 2024 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers
Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2024) is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 12 August 2024.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
WiOpt 2024 Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) - October 21-24, 2024, South Korea
We are pleased to invite original papers to the Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) held in conjunction with the WiOpt 2024, South Korea.
Conferences
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
ISIT Workshop: NeurIT: Information theory in neuroscience and neuroengineering CFP
Neuroscience + Neuroengineering + IT = new theory and revolutionary applications.
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ISIT 2024 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning
The ISIT 2024 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning is…
Job list
Postdoctoral Position at Purdue University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the University of Newcastle (in Index Coding)
Prof. Namrata Vaswani Looking for Multiple Ph.D. students for Spring or Fall 2016
Faculty Positions at Preston M. Green Dept. of ESE at Washington University in St. Louis
University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center Senior Faculty Search
10 PhD student positions at Graz University of Technology, Austria
Four PhD student positions in fiber-optical communication theory
Faculty Position at Harvey Mudd College
PhD Scholarships at Huawei Research Labs Paris
Tenure track faculty positions at University of Pennsylvania
Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Tenure-track faculty position at Princeton
Job opening at TU Dresden in Communication Systems
Postdoctoral and graduate student openings in Prof. Namrata Vaswani's group
Faculty position in the field of Mobile Edge Computing and networking at EURECOM
Postdoctoral position in information and coding theory at the University of Toronto
PhD Scholarship in Network Information Theory and Index Coding
Postdoctoral fellowships in information theory and interactive communications at Tel Aviv University, Israel
Faculty position in continuous optimization and applications
Ph.D. and post-doc positions in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Neuchâtel
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Jobs Board
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position on Quantum Information and Security at King's College London
Postdoctoral Researcher position at the Technical University of Munich
The TUM chair of communications engineering has an opening for a post-doc position at the…
Postdoc position in machine learning over wireless networks
Join Prof. Durisi's team at Chalmers (Gothenburg, Sweden) as a postdoc, to work on an exciting…
News
Recipients of the 2024 IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award: Justin Singh Kang and Wei Yu
The Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications…
2024 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Flavio du Pin Calmon
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…
2024 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award awarded to Sophie H. Yu
The Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award award is granted annually to the author of an outstanding…
Call for nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)
The JSAIT Steering Committee requests nominations for the next EiC with deadline June 15, 2024.
News
JSAIT Call for Papers: Estimation and Inference
Robert G. Gallager Receives 2020 Japan Prize
In Memoriam: Piet Schalkwijk
Entropy Special Issue on "Information Flow in Neural Systems"
PhD Positions at TU Berlin, Germany
ISIT2020 Deadline Extended
ISIT Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Jan 15
ISIT deadline extended to 1/15/2020 11:59pm EST
Contribution for newsletter
Paper Submissions for ISIT 2020 Due Jan 12
Class of 2020-21 Distinguished Lecturers
Ayfer Özgür named the ITSoc 2020 Goldsmith Lecturer
David Tse named the ITSoc 2020 Padovani Lecturer
Post-Doctoral Vacancies at ITCSC, CUHK, Hong Kong
Submission open for ISIT 2020
JSAIT Updates
Report on the 8th Van der Meulen Seminar
Katalin Marton Has Passed Away
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Past meeting
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
BOG Meeting -Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
BOG Meeting - October 2022
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
BOG Meeting - March 2022
BOG Meeting - November 2021
BOG Meeting - June 2021
BOG Meeting - March 2021
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Research In Information Theory
Shannon, Euler, and Mazes
One of Claude Shannon’s best remembered “toys” was his maze-solving machine, created by partitions on a rectangular grid. A mechanical mouse was started at one point in the maze with the task of finding cheese at another point. Relays under the board guided successive moves, each of which were taken in the first open counterclockwise direction from the previous move. In belated honor of Shannon’s centenary and of amnesia in the mouse at age 70, we compare this deterministic search strategy with ...
6G: The Personal Tactile Internet—And Open Questions for Information Theory
The initial vision of cellular communications was to deliver ubiquitous voice communications to anyone anywhere. In a simplified view, 1G delivered voice services for business customers, and only 2G for consumers. Next, this also initiated the appetite for cellular data, for which 3G was designed. However, Blackberry delivered business smartphones, and 4G made smartphones a consumer device. The promise of 5G is to start the Tactile Internet, to control real and virtual objects in real-time via c...
Function Load Balancing Over Networks
Using networks as a means of computing can reduce the communication flow over networks. We propose to distribute the computation load in stationary networks and formulate a flow-based delay minimization problem that jointly captures the costs of communications and computation. We exploit the distributed compression scheme of Slepian-Wolf that is applicable under any protocol information. We introduce the notion of entropic surjectivity as a measure of function’s sparsity and to understand the li...
Reed–Muller Codes: Theory and Algorithms
Reed-Muller (RM) codes are among the oldest, simplest and perhaps most ubiquitous family of codes. They are used in many areas of coding theory in both electrical engineering and computer science. Yet, many of their important properties are still under investigation. This paper covers some of the recent developments regarding the weight enumerator and the capacity-achieving properties of RM codes, as well as some of the algorithmic developments. In particular, the paper discusses the recent conn...
Deep Neural Network Approximation Theory
This paper develops fundamental limits of deep neural network learning by characterizing what is possible if no constraints are imposed on the learning algorithm and on the amount of training data. Concretely, we consider Kolmogorov-optimal approximation through deep neural networks with the guiding theme being a relation between the complexity of the function (class) to be approximated and the complexity of the approximating network in terms of connectivity and memory requirements for storing t...
Quantum Blahut-Arimoto Algorithms
We generalize alternating optimization algorithms of Blahut-Arimoto type to the quantum setting. In particular, we give iterative algorithms to compute the mutual information of quantum channels, the thermodynamic capacity of quantum channels, the coherent information of less noisy quantum channels, and the Holevo quantity of classical-quantum channels. Our convergence analysis is based on quantum entropy inequalities and leads to a priori additive eps-approximations after O(eps^(-1)*log N) iter...
A Universal Low Complexity Compression Algorithm for Sparse Marked Graphs
Many modern applications involve accessing and processing graphical data, i.e. data that is naturally indexed by graphs. Examples come from internet graphs, social networks, genomics and proteomics, and other sources. The typically large size of such data motivates seeking efficient ways for its compression and decompression. The current compression methods are usually tailored to specific models, or do not provide theoretical guarantees. In this paper, we introduce a low-complexity lossless com...
Asymptotics of MAP Inference in Deep Networks
Deep generative priors are a powerful tool for reconstruction problems with complex data such as images and text. Inverse problems using such models require solving an inference problem of estimating the input and hidden units of the multi-layer network from its output. Maximum a priori (MAP) estimation is a widely-used inference method as it is straightforward to implement, and has been successful in practice. However, rigorous analysis of MAP inference in multi-layer networks is difficult. Thi...
Channel Coding Techniques for Network Communication
Next-generation wireless networks aim to enable order-of-magnitude increases in connectivity, capacity, and speed. Such a goal can be achieved in part by utilizing larger frequency bandwidth or by deploying denser base stations. As the number of wireless devices is exploding, however, it is inevitable that multiple devices communicate over the same time and same spectrum. Consequently, improving the spectral efficiency in wireless networks with multiple senders and receivers becomes the key chal...
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