Sergio Verdú

Sergio Verdú ( born August 15, 1958 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish information theorist.

Verdú in 1980 he received a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and in 1984 received his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign in electrical engineering at Harold Poor (Optimal multiuser signal detection). He is at Princeton University since 1984 Assistant Professor and since 1993 professor.

He is best known for contributions to the multi-user detection (Multi User Detection), to distinguish the signals of multiple users in communication channels ( mobile, digital TV, Satelllitenkommunikation, data transfer, etc.).

In 1989 he was a visiting professor at the Australian National University and from 2002 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ( MSRI ). He is since 1990 co-editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In 1997, he was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, the Golden Jubilee Award he received in 1998. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering ( 2007).

Sergio Verdú is a Fellow of the IEEE (1993 ), 1997, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 2000 he received the Frederick Emmons Terman Award, the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award and 2008 Richard W. Hamming Medal. He was made an honorary doctor of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2005.

Writings

• Multiuser Detection. Cambridge University Press, 1998