Alexander Vardy

Alexander Vardy is a Russian-born and Israeli-educated electrical engineer known for his expertise in coding theory.[1] He holds the Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.[2] The Parvaresh–Vardy codes are named after him.[3]

Vardy was born in Moscow in 1963.[1][4] He graduated from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1985,[4] and completed his Ph.D. in 1991 at Tel Aviv University.[1][5] During his graduate studies, he also worked on electronic countermeasures as a technician fifth grade for the Israeli Air Force.[4] He became a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center for two years, then became a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign before moving to UCSD in 1996.[1][4] He served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1998 to 2001.[1][6]

In 2004 a paper by Ralf Koetter and Vardy on decoding Reed–Solomon codes was listed by the IEEE Information Theory Society as the best paper in information theory of the previous two years; the resulting decoding algorithm has become known as the Koetter–Vardy algorithm.[1] Vardy was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1999.[2][7] He became the Jack Wolf Professor in 2013.[2] He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.[8]

References
  1. UC San Diego Scientist Wins Award from IEEE Information Theory Society for Breakthrough in Coding Theory, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, November 9, 2004.
  2. Alex Vardy Named First Jack Keil Wolf Chair in Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, May 15, 2013.
  3. Guruswami, Venkatesan; Umans, Christopher; Vadhan, Salil (2009), "Unbalanced expanders and randomness extractors from Parvaresh-Vardy codes" (PDF), Journal of the ACM, 56 (4): Art. 20, 34, doi:10.1145/1538902.1538904, MR 2590822, S2CID 220974105.
  4. IEEE Information Theory Society member profile, retrieved 2015-08-09.
  5. Alexander Vardy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Past editors of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, archived from the original on 2015-09-23, retrieved 2015-08-09.
  7. IEEE Fellows Directory, retrieved 2015-08-09.
  8. ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
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