Robert Calderbank

Arthur Robert Calderbank ( born December 28, 1954) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.

Calderbank studied at the University of Warwick ( BA 1975) and at the University of Oxford ( master's degree in 1976 ) and in 1980 at Caltech in Marshall Hall in mathematics doctorate ( Algebraic coding theory ). After that, he was at Bell Laboratories, where he was most recently Vice President for Research. In 2003 he became a professor of electrical engineering and mathematics at Princeton University and director of the Program for Applied and Computer-based mathematics and 2010 Professor and Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke University.

He was one of the developers of Space-Time Codes ( STC) for wireless communication systems .. With Andrew Steane and Peter Shor, he developed the CSS code for quantum error correction.

In 2013 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal. He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2005.

He is married to the mathematician Ingrid Daubechies and gave me her two children.