Amin Shokrollahi | |
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 Shokrollahi atOberwolfach in 2007 | |
| Born | Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi 1964 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Alma mater | University of Karlsruhe |
| Known for | Raptor Codes, Tornado Codes, Chord Signaling |
| Awards | IEEE IT Best Paper Award (2002) IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2007)Communication Society and Information Theory Society Best Paper Award (2007)IEEE Hamming Medal (2012)ISSCC Jan van Vessem Award (2014) Mustafa Award (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Coding theory |
| Institutions | Professor atEPFL |
| Thesis | Beiträge zur Codierungs- und Komplexitätstheorie mittels algebraischer Funktionenkörper (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Clausen |
Amin Shokrollahi (born 1964) is a German-Iranian mathematician who has worked on a variety of topics includingcoding theory and algebraiccomplexity theory. He is best known for his work on iterative decoding of graph basedcodes for which he received the IEEE Information Theory Paper Award of 2002 (together withMichael Luby,Michael Mitzenmacher, andDaniel Spielman, as well as Tom Richardson and Ruediger Urbanke).[1] He is one of the inventors of a modern class of practicalerasure codes known astornado codes,[2]and the principal developer ofraptor codes,[3]which belong to a class of rateless erasure codes known asFountain codes. In connection with the work on these codes, he received theIEEE Eric E. Sumner Award in 2007 together with Michael Luby "for bridging mathematics, Internet design and mobile broadcasting as well as successful standardization"[4] and theIEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2012 together with Michael Luby "for the conception, development, and analysis of practical rateless codes".[5] He also received the 2007 joint Communication Society and Information Theory Society best paper award[6] as well as the 2017Mustafa Prize[7] for his work on raptor codes.
He is the principal inventor of Chordal Codes, a new class of codes specifically designed for communication on electrical wires between chips. In 2011 he founded the companyKandou Bus dedicated to commercialization of the concept of Chordal Codes. The first implementation, transmitting data on 8 correlated wires and implemented in a 40 nm process, received the Jan Van Vessem Award for best European Paper at theInternational Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2014.
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