Biography

Erik Ordentlich graduated with a S.B. and S.M. from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in 1990 and with a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996, all in Electrical Engineering. He has been with HP Labs since 1996, with the exception of a period in 1999-2002 when he was with iCompression, Inc., Santa Clara, CA . His work has addressed multiple topics in information theory, signal processing, and financial math.  Erik also is a co-inventor on 16 US Patents and contributed technology to the ISO/IEC JPEG 2000 image compression standard.  He was a co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Joint Communications Society and Information Theory Society Paper Award and was a 2007 Shannon Memorial Endowed Co-Lecturer at the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California, San Diego.  He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa.   He has been serving as Associate Editor for Source Coding for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory since September 2007.

Awards Received
for Universal Discrete Denoising: Known Channel
Participation & Position
Contact Information

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Page Mill Rd. MS 1181

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Research interests
Coding techniques
Coding theory
Communication networks
Communications
Detection and estimation
Shannon theory
Source coding
Statistical learning and inference