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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
Two-year Postdoctoral Researcher Position at Rutgers University
A two-year position in signal processing and machine learning for scientific applications is available in the ECE Department at Rutgers University under Prof. Waheed Bajwa.
Sep 2, 2019
PhD Student/Postdoc Position in Information Theory at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
A PhD student/Postdoc position is available in information theory at the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Zaidel
Aug 6, 2019
Postdoctoral position at Tufts University
A postdoctoral position is available in the area of machine learning and data analytics for human performance understanding and prediction.
Aug 5, 2019
Technical University of Munich Seeks Doctoral student; Postdoctoral Student
Technical University of Munich seeks Doctoral student; Postdoctoral student: Information and Communication Theory for Post Shannon Communication Systems
Jul 18, 2019
PhD Positions in Coding Theory/Communication Theory in Karlsruhe, Germany
We have open vacancies for PhD students at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany in coding theory, communication theory and the application of machine learning in communications. Potential applications include optical fiber communications, wireless communications and data storage. Candidates seeking Postdoc positions are encouraged to apply as well.
Jul 16, 2019
Postdoc and PhD Positions in Coding Theory for Distributed Systems at Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
A postdoctoral position and a PhD position are open in the coding group in the faculty of engineering at Bar-Ilan University, hosted by Dr. Ran Gelles.
Jul 16, 2019
Post-doc position at the intersection of hardware security, machine learning, information theory and statistics.
Post-doc position at the intersection of hardware security, machine learning, information theory and statistics.
Jun 22, 2019
Ph.D. Position in Information Theory at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
There is an open Ph.D. position in the area of information theory in the Signal Processing Group of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. The position is in relation to the ERC Starting Grant “Information Theory for Low-Latency Wireless Communications (LOLITA).” The duration of the position is for 3 years, renewable for another year.
Jun 7, 2019
Postdoc in large-scale statistical learning at Texas A
A postdoctoral position is available at Texas A&M; in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department and Institute of Data Science.
Jun 6, 2019
CONEX-Plus Postdoctoral Fellowships at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
CONEX-Plus is a training and incoming mobility program funded by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the European Commission’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Action, and Banco Santander. It offers 30 fellowships to experienced researchers with up to 6 years of postdoctoral research experience. The research fellows will undertake a three-year project freely chosen by them and carried out at UC3M and a non-academic secondary organization.
Jun 6, 2019
Postdoc Position at TU Delft
A postdoctoral position is available to work at QuTech in TU Delft on the classical postprocessing of quantum key distribution.
May 10, 2019
Postdoc opening at Technical University of Denmark
1 Postdoc position is open at DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark in the area of channel coding for optical communications. The focus on on error-correcting coding.
Apr 30, 2019
PhD positions in information theory/coding theory in Munich
There is vacancy for three PhD positions in information theory/coding theory at the Institute for Communications Engineering (Prof. Gerhard Kramer) starting on June 1, 2019. The positions are for a fixed period of 3 years as part of the BMBF-Project „Coding theory and coding methods for new communication models”. The project leader is Dr. Christian Deppe. The location is the Technical University of Munich, Theresienstr 90, 80333 Munich.
Apr 29, 2019
Title: Postdoc and PhD student openings at Chalmers, Sweden
1 Postdoc and 1 PhD student position are open at Chalmers University of Technology Sweden, where information-theoretic methods will be used to advance fiber-optic communications.
Apr 4, 2019
Postdoctoral Position at Arizona State University on Privacy and Fairness
The privacy research group of Prof. Lalitha Sankar at Arizona State University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on the topics of privacy and fairness.
Mar 28, 2019
Assistant Professor in Information Theory, Machine Learning, or Their Intersection
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the area of information theory, machine learning, or their intersection.
Mar 13, 2019
Prof. Namrata Vaswani is looking for new Ph.D. students / postdoc
Prof. Namrata Vaswani of Iowa State University is looking for Ph.D. students, and or a postdoc, to work on interesting Statistical Machine Learning problems motivated by real applications (often in computer vision or imaging). If interested, please email her at namrata AT iastate DOT edu (along with your recent transcripts and CV/resume).
Mar 6, 2019
Postdoctoral Position in Information Theory, Coding Theory, and Machine Learning
Telecom ParisTech and CentraleSupelec have a joint postdoctoral position at the interface between information theory, coding theory and machine learning under Professors Aslan Tchamkerten and Sheng Yang. This position is intended for a curious and daring young researcher with a strong mathematical background. The appointment will be for one year with the possibility of renewal. Applicants should have (or be close to obtaining) a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related areas. Applications must be emailed to [email protected] and should include CV, statement of research, and contact information for three references.
Mar 5, 2019
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Nov 30, 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Information Theory and Codings
Bilkent University New
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
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Nov 30, 2023
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Mar 27, 2023
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
News
Meir Feder Wins Academy Award
IT Society Life Fellow Meir Feder is a co-recipient of the Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on wireless video transmission.
Feb 17, 2021
Postdoctoral Position, University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral position at the boundary of information theory, Network Sciences, and Learning.
Feb 14, 2021
JSAIT Updates
Deadline extension for 6th special issue, CFP for 7th special issue, call for proposals
Feb 12, 2021
Invitation to attend the PIPP: Pandemic Readiness for Emerging Pathogens workshop (February 16, 17, 2021)
Interdisciplinary workshop on predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention; seeking participation from Engineering (ENG), Biological Sciences (BIO), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). February 16, 17, 2021
Jan 31, 2021
ERC-Funded Positions in Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication
A variety of PhD student, Postdoc Fellow and 5-year Researcher Positions are available at the Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, France.
Jan 22, 2021
Contributions for society newsletter
Jan 19, 2021
Call for 2021 Information Theory Society Award Nominations
We look forward to receiving nominations from all members for the following Information Theory Society awards. Please note the deadlines to nominate.
Jan 13, 2021
Jacob Ziv Awarded IEEE Medal of Honor
Jacob Ziv has received the most prestigious award of the IEEE, the IEEE Medal of Honor.
Jan 6, 2021
"How Claude Shannon Invented the Future" in Quanta Magazine
David Tse writes about not only Claude Shannon's impact on communications, but also on how his work illustrates the importance of top-rate science. Read David's article in Quanta Magazine.
Dec 24, 2020
Call for 2021 Information Theory Society Award Nominations
We look forward to receiving nominations from all members for the following Information Theory Society awards. Please note the deadlines to nominate.
Dec 22, 2020
Good News! IEEE Student Membership Dues Are Now 50% Off
Attention Students! IEEE now offers a discounted dues option for all student and graduate student members. Simply enter promotion code FUTURE50 when you join or renew to receive 50% off your student membership!
Dec 22, 2020
CFP: JSAIT Special Issue on Coded Computing (Feb 15 deadline)
The intersection of information theory and computing has been a fertile ground for novel, relevant intellectual problems. Recently, coding-theoretic techniques have been designed to improve performance metrics in distributed computing systems. This has generated a significant amount of research that has produced novel fundamental limits, code designs, and practical implementations. The set of ideas leveraged by this new line of research is collectively referred to as coded computing. This special issue will focus on coded computing, including aspects such as tradeoffs between reliability, latency, privacy, and security. Specific topics of interest include:
Dec 10, 2020
Bridge to the Faculty Postdoc Position at ECE, University of Illinois Chicago
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) will be recruiting a Bridge to the Faculty (B2F) Scholar with start date on August 16, 2021.
Dec 9, 2020
JSAIT Sixth Call for papers: Special Issue on Coded Computing
JSAIT Sixth Call for papers: Special Issue on Coded Computing. Papers due Feb. 15, 2021.
Nov 27, 2020
Now Running: European School of Information Theory
The 2020 IEEE European School of Information Theory (based in Stuttgart, Germany) is currently running as a virtual event. It is still accepting registrations and registration is free for members of the Information Theory Society.
Nov 26, 2020
Call for Nominations for Executive Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) invites nominations for the position of Executive Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for an 18-month term, starting on July 1, 2021. It is expected that the Executive Editor (EE) will subsequently transition to Editor-in-Chief (EiC) on January 1, 2023, for an additional 18-month term, ending on June 30, 2024.
Nov 18, 2020
Submit to Information-Theoretic Cryptography
Submit papers to the conference on Information-Theoretical Cryptography (ITC). Deadline Feb 1, 2021.
Nov 1, 2020
Call for Nominations for the 2021 Padovani, Goldsmith and Distinguished Lecturers
The submission deadline is (extended to) November 15, 2020.
Oct 21, 2020
Registration for ISITA 2020 Is Now Open
Register now for the International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA2020), held as a virtual symposium October 24–27. Plenary talks are held live by Zoom. Presentation videos are on-demand, and Gather is used for online chat and discussions.
Oct 20, 2020
IEEE SPS 2020 PROGRESS (PROmotinG DiveRsity in Signal ProcESSing) Workshop
The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is launching PROGRESS - an initiative aiming to motivate and support women and under-represented minorities to pursue academic careers in signal processing.
Oct 8, 2020
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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 - 2023 test
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 2022
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
Quantum Sensing and Communication via Non-Gaussian States
Quantum sensing and communication (QSC) is pivotal for developing next-generation networks with unprecedented performance. Many implementations of existing QSC systems employ Gaussian states as they can be easily realized using current technologies. However, Gaussian states lack non-classical properties necessary to unleash the full potential of QSC. This motivates the use of non-Gaussian states, which have non-classical properties beneficial for QSC. This paper establishes a theoretical foundation for QSC employing photon-varied Gaussian states (PVGSs).
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Source Coding for Markov Sources With Partial Memoryless Side Information at the Decoder
We consider the one helper source coding problem posed and investigated by Ahlswede, Körner, and Wyner for a class of information sources with memory. For this class of information sources we give explicit inner and outer bounds of the admissible rate region. We also give a certain nontrivial class of information sources where the inner and outer bounds match.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Deviation From Maximal Entanglement for Mid-Spectrum Eigenstates of Local Hamiltonians
In a spin chain governed by a local Hamiltonian, we consider a microcanonical ensemble in the middle of the energy spectrum and a contiguous subsystem whose length is a constant fraction of the system size. We prove that if the bandwidth of the ensemble is greater than a certain constant, then the average entanglement entropy (between the subsystem and the rest of the system) of eigenstates in the ensemble deviates from the maximum entropy by at least a positive constant.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Statistical Inference With Limited Memory: A Survey
The problem of statistical inference in its various forms has been the subject of decades-long extensive research. Most of the effort has been focused on characterizing the behavior as a function of the number of available samples, with far less attention given to the effect of memory limitations on performance. Recently, this latter topic has drawn much interest in the engineering and computer science literature.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Tightening Continuity Bounds for Entropies and Bounds on Quantum Capacities
Uniform continuity bounds on entropies are generally expressed in terms of a single distance measure between probability distributions or quantum states, typically, the total variation-or trace distance. However, if an additional distance measure is known, the continuity bounds can be significantly strengthened. Here, we prove a tight uniform continuity bound for the Shannon entropy in terms of both the local-and total variation distances, sharpening an inequality in I. Sason, IEEE Trans. Inf. Th., 59, 7118 (2013).
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Dynamic Group Testing to Control and Monitor Disease Progression in a Population
Proactive testing and interventions are crucial for disease containment during a pandemic until widespread vaccination is achieved. However, a key challenge remains: Can we accurately identify all new daily infections with only a fraction of tests needed compared to testing everyone, everyday?
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Shannon Bounds for Quadratic Rate-Distortion Problems
The Shannon lower bound has been the subject of several important contributions by Berger. This paper surveys Shannon bounds on rate-distortion problems under mean-squared error distortion with a particular emphasis on Berger’s techniques. Moreover, as a new result, the Gray-Wyner network is added to the canon of settings for which such bounds are known. In the Shannon bounding technique, elegant lower bounds are expressed in terms of the source entropy power.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Computation of Binary Arithmetic Sum Over an Asymmetric Diamond Network
In this paper, the problem of zero-error network function computation is considered, where in a directed acyclic network, a single sink node is required to compute with zero error a function of the source messages that are separately generated by multiple source nodes. From the information-theoretic point of view, we are interested in the fundamental computing capacity, which is defined as the average number of times that the function can be computed with zero error for one use of the network.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Low-Complexity Coding Techniques for Cloud Radio Access Networks
The problem of coding for the uplink and downlink of cloud radio access networks (C-RAN’s) with K users and L relays is considered. It is shown that low-complexity coding schemes that achieve any point in the rate-fronthaul region of joint coding and compression can be constructed starting from at most 4(K+L)-2 point-to-point codes designed for symmetric channels. This reduces the seemingly hard task of constructing good codes for C-RAN’s to the much better understood task of finding good codes for single-user channels.
IEEE JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Erratum to “LightVeriFL: A Lightweight and Verifiable Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning”
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