Seminars of Prof. Christian Schlegel at DISI:
Christian Schlegel (Fellow, IEEE) held the iCORE Chair for Digital
Communications at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, from
2002 to 2012. Prior to that, he held academic appointments at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa (visiting), Honolulu, HI, USA, at the
University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia, at the
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA, and from 1996
to 2002 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. From 2004 to
2008, he also served as a Chief Technology Officer (part-time) of
Aquantia Corporation, Milpitas, CA, USA, a start-up company building 10
Gbit/s Ethernet transceivers. He is the author of Trellis Coding (IEEE
Press, 1997), Trellis and Turbo Coding (Wiley, 2004, 2015), as
well as Coordinated Multiple User Communications (Springer,
2006). He is currently an NSERC Industrial Research Chair at Dalhousie
University, Halifax, NS, Canada. His research interests include reliable
digital communications for complex transmission environments. He was an
Associate Editor for coding theory and techniques of the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS from 1999 to 2007, a Guest Editor for the
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, and currently serves on the Editorial Board of
Hindawi Publishing. He received a U.S. National Science Foundation
Career Award in 1997 and a Canada Research Chair in 2001. He served as a
Technical Program Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2001,
the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2005, the
Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications 2016, and as the
General Chair of the 2005 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop and the
2013 IEEE Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services.
He was named the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2007 and 2011.
1st seminar: July 12, 2018 h. 10.00 GARDA ROOM
2nd seminar: July 17, 2018 h. 10.00 GARDA ROOM