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Punya Thitimajshima (9 November 1955 – 9 May 2006), aThai professor in the department oftelecommunications engineering atKing Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, was the co-inventor withClaude Berrou andAlain Glavieux of a groundbreaking coding scheme calledturbo codes.
Thitimajshima was educated atKing Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, where he earned his bachelor's degree incontrol engineering and master's degree inelectrical engineering. Later he went toÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne and Universite de Bretagne Occidentale inFrance, where he studiedtelecommunications engineering and received a doctoral degree in 1993 for a dissertation titled "Systematic recursiveconvolutional codes and their application to parallel concatenation." Thitimajshima joined the faculty ofKMITL in 1995 as a lecturer, and became associate professor.
He was the recipient of the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from theIEEE Information Theory Society together with Berrou and Glavieux.[1] In 2003 he received the Outstanding Technologist Award presented by the Foundation for Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand. He died on 9 May 2006 at the age of 51 from illness.
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