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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.
Conferences
Job list
Four PhD student positions in fiber-optical communication theory
Four PhD student positions at University College London and Chalmers University of Technology
Nov 20, 2015
Faculty Position at Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Communications. As a premier undergraduate general engineering program, the Department of Engineering seeks candidates with experience and knowledge in applications of communications who can support a broadly based curriculum focused on design, systems engineering, and engineering science. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in electrical engineering or a related field, and a demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence. Industrial or other practical experience in the field is valued but not required. The anticipated appointment is at the assistant professor level.
Nov 9, 2015
PhD Scholarships at Huawei Research Labs Paris
Huawei Technologies’ Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab in Paris offers 11 PhD scholarships. Application deadline is 10 October 2015.
Sep 24, 2015
Tenure track faculty positions at University of Pennsylvania
The Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering is engaged in an aggressive, multi-year hiring effort for multiple tenure-track positions at all levels.
Sep 23, 2015
Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has an open Tenure-Track Faculty Position at the Assistant Professor level in the areas of mathematics, statistics, mathematics and engineering
Sep 17, 2015
Tenure-track faculty position at Princeton
The Department of Electrical Engineering seeks applications in all areas of Electrical Engineering for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position. Specific areas of interest are, but are not limited to, Information Science and Systems, Power Electronics, Biological and Biomedical Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy, Applied Physics with Applications in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. Candidates should have a commitment to teaching and a demonstrated ability to pursue a high impact research program. A start date of September 1, 2016 is preferred.
Sep 9, 2015
Job opening at TU Dresden in Communication Systems
There is a position open at TU Dresden in Communication Systems with a focus on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Please note that this job posting is in German.
Sep 4, 2015
Postdoctoral and graduate student openings in Prof. Namrata Vaswani's group
Research at the intersection of machine learning for high dimensional problems and signal or information processing. Details also at
http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~namrata/research/Looking_for_Postdoc_GradStudent.html
Jun 24, 2015
Faculty position in the field of Mobile Edge Computing and networking at EURECOM
The Mobile Communications Department of EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France, invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level (Maitre de Conference), in the general area of mobile networking,
May 18, 2015
Postdoctoral position in information and coding theory at the University of Toronto
Postdoctoral fellowship in information and coding theory at the University of Toronto with Professor Stark Draper
May 11, 2015
PhD Scholarship in Network Information Theory and Index Coding
The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is offering a full PhD scholarship, in the areas of network information theory and index coding, to both domestic and international applicants. Applications close 30 November 2015
Apr 27, 2015
Postdoctoral fellowships in information theory and interactive communications at Tel Aviv University, Israel
Two postdoctoral research positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications. Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Apr 14, 2015
Faculty position in continuous optimization and applications
Telecom ParisTech is seeking applicants for a faculty position in continuous optimization and applications.
Particular interest is in candidates with a multidisciplinary research orientation broadly related to the area of convex optimization with applications to heterogeneous big data.
Feb 11, 2015
Ph.D. and post-doc positions in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Neuchâtel
We invite applications for a funded Ph.D. position and a funded post-doctoral position in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Neuchâtel on the topic of distributed storage systems, starting in Winter 2015.
Jan 26, 2015
Postdoctoral position at the Delft Center for Systems and Control
The Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands has a vacancy for a one-year postdoctoral position Applied Nonlinear Fourier Analysis
Jan 6, 2015
Faculty positions at Arizona State University
The Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU invite applications for tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in the broadly defined field in networks, control, communication, and signal processing, with emphasis on data analytics and decision making, sensing and learning, energy-efficient computing, security and privacy in engineering systems and scalable hardware and software systems.
Oct 26, 2014
Faculty Positions at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at the Assistant Professor level are open in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Oct 9, 2014
Faculty Position: UC Irvine
This search for a tenure-track assistant professor position is currently open. This is the continuation of the search that began January 2014.
Oct 9, 2014
Technical staff position in information sciences at Bell Labs-Research
The Mathematics of Networks and Systems at Bell Labs-Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, invites applications for a regular member of the technical staff position in information sciences.
Sep 24, 2014
Postdoc Position in Network Information Theory and Big Data Analytics at USC
Postdoc Position in Network Information Theory and Big Data Analytics available in Salman Avestimehr's research group at USC.
Sep 8, 2014
Jobs Board
Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Information Theory and Coding
Bilkent University
Immediate openings for postdocs on insertion/deletion channels and DNA storage at Bilkent…
Mar 3, 2023
Postdoc Positions in Wireless Communications
University of Hawaii
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Hawaii is looking for two…
Feb 22, 2023
Postdoctoral Position in Econometrics and Statistics
University of Vienna-Department of Statistics and Operations Research
The University of Vienna invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the field of…
Feb 10, 2023
News
Robert Calderbank - USC Viterbi Lecture, Thursday March 2, 2023
Robert Calderbank of Duke University will give the 2023 USC Viterbi Lecture on Thursday, March 2,…
Feb 28, 2023
Submission Deadline Approaching: JSAIT Issue on Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on the Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures in the Transmission…
Feb 17, 2023
IEEE Information Theory Society Call for 2023 Award Nominations
Nominations are now open for paper awards as well as annual awards and recognition from the IEEE…
Jan 9, 2023
Aylin Yener Has Been Elected To Be the Next IEEE Division IX Director
The IT Society congratulates our Past President Aylin Yener for being elected to be the next IEEE…
Dec 22, 2022
News
David Tse named the ITSoc 2020 Padovani Lecturer
David Tse named the IEEE Information Theory Society 2020 Padovani Lecturer
Jan 2, 2020
Post-Doctoral Vacancies at ITCSC, CUHK, Hong Kong
Post-doctoral vacancies at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dec 21, 2019
Submission open for ISIT 2020
The paper submission portal is now open for ISIT 2020: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Papers.asp
Dec 20, 2019
JSAIT Updates
Updates on ITSoc's new journal JSAIT
Dec 18, 2019
Report on the 8th Van der Meulen Seminar
The 8th Van der Meulen Seminar was held on December 13, 2019
Dec 18, 2019
Katalin Marton Has Passed Away
Katalin Marton was a giant of our field. She also made remarkable contributions to measure concentration with applications to probability theory and ergodic theory. She received the Shannon Award and was the only woman to do so.
Dec 18, 2019
PhD and Postdocs Positions in Communication Theory at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
We have open vacancies for PhD students and Postdocs in communication theory and the application of machine learning in reliable communications at the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL, Prof. Laurent Schmalen) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.
Dec 17, 2019
NVMW 2020 Call for Presentations
The 11th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2020) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories, including devices, error coding, architectures, systems, and applications. Submissions to the workshops are 2-page extended abstracts. They are due December 11th, 2019.
Dec 4, 2019
Postdoc in Privacy and Fairness at Arizona State University
Lalitha Sankar and Oliver Kosut at Arizona State University are looking for a postdoc to work on privacy and fairness in the context of learning.
Dec 2, 2019
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor at UC Irvine in Theory and Applications of Data-Driven Systems
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate/Full Professor (tenured) position.
Nov 14, 2019
Postdocs at EURECOM in Coded Caching and Distributed Computing
We are looking for postdocs at EURECOM who have worked on coded caching and/or distributed computing. Planned research includes coded caching, distributed computing, data shuffling, as well as a variety of other applications in the area of communications and computing. The duration can be 1.5, or up to 3-4 years.
Nov 12, 2019
Jørn Justesen Has Passed Away
Jørn Justesen, a well-known expert in coding theory, communications, and data compression, passed away on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC, USA at the age of 75. His notable results include the construction of low-complexity, asymptotically good error-correcting codes (1972), a discovery of fast decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon and algebraic-geometric codes, as well as research into construction and properties of convolutional codes.
Oct 31, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp Has Passed Away
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
Oct 31, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp Has Passed Away
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
Oct 31, 2019
Call for Nominations: NVMW Persistent Impact Prize
The NVMW Persistent Impact Prize is awarded annually to a paper published at least five years prior that has had exceptional impact on the fields of study related to non-volatile memories, including coding and information theory. The award includes a cash prize.
Oct 30, 2019
The Bit Player Screens November 3 at MIT in Cambridge
Join us for the latest screening of the The Bit Player, the first feature film about Claude Shannon. The IEEE Information Theory Society has helped to produce this film, which combines interviews with leading scientists, archival film, inventive animation and compelling commentary from Shannon himself to tell the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity. Mark Levinson, director of the award-winning film Particle Fever, wrote, produced and directed The Bit Player.
Oct 29, 2019
Associate or Full Professor at UC Irvine in Theory and Applications of Data-Driven Systems
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a Tenured Position (Associate or Full Professor). Areas include, but are not limited to, theoretical foundations and algorithms dealing with various aspects of big data broadly interpreted to include networked communication systems, distributed computing, high dimensional statistics, signal processing, scaling laws, data mining, and machine learning for high-performance and scalable computing and communication; applications include, but are not limited to, Internet-of-Things, augmented intelligence, social science, smart cities and other domains.
Oct 28, 2019
New IT Soc Video on Secret Sharing
A new video presenting the concepts behind secret sharing and Shamir's seminal paper is now on YouTube. This is the latest video in the Society's Great Papers: Information Theory series.
Oct 22, 2019
Levenshtein Special Issue of IT Trans — Deadline Extended
The deadline for paper submissions to the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory dedicated to the memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein has been extended to November 15th, 2019.
Oct 16, 2019
Postdoc at AI Now Institute at NYU
The AI Now Institute at New York University is hiring 1-2 postdoctoral researchers interested in joining an interdisciplinary and dynamic team of collaborative researchers. This two-year position is designed for scholars who want to engage with the social implications of AI and related technologies, and we welcome applications from all disciplines.
Oct 15, 2019
Past meeting
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BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BOG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BOG Meeting - March 2023
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - June 2021
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
BoG meeting July 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.
Research In Information Theory
Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Throughput and Latency Analysis for Line Networks With Outage Links
Wireless communication links suffer from outage events caused by fading and interference. To facilitate a tractable analysis of network communication throughput and latency, we propose an outage link model to represent a communication link in the slow fading phenomenon. For a line-topology network with outage links, we study three types of intermediate network node schemes: random linear network coding, store-and-forward, and hop-by-hop retransmission. We provide the analytical formulas for the maximum throughputs and the end-to-end latency for each scheme.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Addressing GAN Training Instabilities via Tunable Classification Losses
Generative adversarial networks (GANs), modeled as a zero-sum game between a generator (G) and a discriminator (D), allow generating synthetic data with formal guarantees. Noting that D is a classifier, we begin by reformulating the GAN value function using class probability estimation (CPE) losses. We prove a two-way correspondence between CPE loss GANs and f-GANs which minimize f-divergences. We also show that all symmetric f-divergences are equivalent in convergence.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Information Velocity of Cascaded Gaussian Channels With Feedback
We consider a line network of nodes, connected by additive white noise channels, equipped with local feedback. We study the velocity at which information spreads over this network. For transmission of a data packet, we give an explicit positive lower bound on the velocity, for any packet size. Furthermore, we consider streaming, that is, transmission of data packets generated at a given average arrival rate. We show that a positive velocity exists as long as the arrival rate is below the individual Gaussian channel capacity, and provide an explicit lower bound.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Long-Term Fairness in Sequential Multi-Agent Selection with Positive Reinforcement
While much of the rapidly growing literature on fair decision-making focuses on metrics for one-shot decisions, recent work has raised the intriguing possibility of designing sequential decision-making to positively impact long-term social fairness. In selection processes such as college admissions or hiring, biasing slightly towards applicants from under-represented groups is hypothesized to provide positive feedback that increases the pool of under-represented applicants in future selection rounds, thus enhancing fairness in the long term.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Controlled privacy leakage propagation throughout overlapping grouped learning
Federated Learning (FL) is the standard protocol for collaborative learning. In FL, multiple workers jointly train a shared model. They exchange model updates calculated on their data, while keeping the raw data itself local. Since workers naturally form groups based on common interests and privacy policies, we are motivated to extend standard FL to reflect a setting with multiple, potentially overlapping groups.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Neural Distributed Source Coding
We consider the Distributed Source Coding (DSC) problem concerning the task of encoding an input in the absence of correlated side information that is only available to the decoder. Remarkably, Slepian and Wolf showed in 1973 that an encoder without access to the side information can asymptotically achieve the same compression rate as when the side information is available to it. This seminal result was later extended to lossy compression of distributed sources by Wyner, Ziv, Berger, and Tung.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
rTop-k: A Statistical Estimation Approach to Distributed SGD
The large communication cost for exchanging gradients between different nodes significantly limits the scalability of distributed training for large-scale learning models. Motivated by this observation, there has been significant recent interest in techniques that reduce the communication cost of distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), with gradient sparsification techniques such as top-k and random-k shown to be particularly effective.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
A Unified Approach to Translate Classical Bandit Algorithms to the Structured Bandit Setting
We consider a finite-armed structured bandit problem in which mean rewards of different arms are known functions of a common hidden parameter 8*. Since we do not place any restrictions on these functions, the problem setting subsumes several previously studied frameworks that assume linear or invertible reward functions. We propose a novel approach to gradually estimate the hidden 8* and use the estimate together with the mean reward functions to substantially reduce exploration of sub-optimal arms.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Minimax Estimation of Divergences Between Discrete Distributions
We study the minimax estimation of α-divergences between discrete distributions for integer α ≥ 1, which include the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the χ2-divergences as special examples. Dropping the usual theoretical tricks to acquire independence, we construct the first minimax rate-optimal estimator which does not require any Poissonization, sample splitting, or explicit construction of approximating polynomials.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Convex Parameter Recovery for Interacting Marked Processes
We introduce a new general modeling approach for multivariate discrete event data with categorical interacting marks, which we refer to as marked Bernoulli processes. In the proposed model, the probability of an event of a specific category to occur in a location may be influenced by past events at this and other locations. We do not restrict interactions to be positive or decaying over time as it is commonly adopted, allowing us to capture an arbitrary shape of influence from historical events, locations, and events of different categories.
Videos on Information Theory
Find tutorials, lectures, keynotes and technical presentations on information theory
