Kschischang F

Biography

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. 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.

Research Interest

Communications