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Erdal Arıkan
NationalityTurkish
Alma mater
Known forPolar Codes
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
  • Information theory and coding
  • Communication systems
Institutions
Doctoral advisorRobert G. Gallager

Erdal Arıkan is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his implementation of polar coding.

Career

Academic background

Arıkan briefly served as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Bilkent University as a faculty member in 1987.[1]

In 2008 Arıkan improved the implementation of polar codes, a system of coding that provides a mathematical basis for the solution of Shannon's channel capacity problem.[2] A three-session lecture on the matter given in January 2015 at Simons Institute's Information Theory Boot Camp at the University of California, Berkeley is available on YouTube.[3][4][5] The lecture is also featured on the Simons Institute webpage, which includes the slides used by Arıkan in his presentation.[6]

Arıkan is an IEEE Fellow, and was chosen as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-2015.[7]

Awards

In 2010, Arıkan received the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award and the Sedat Simavi Science Award for the solution of a problem related to the construction of coding schemes that send information at a rate better suited to the capacity of communication channels.[8] Arıkan became the recipient for the Kadir Has Achievement Award in 2011 for the same accomplishment. He was named an IEEE fellow in 2012.[9]

In 2018, Arıkan was selected to receive the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Award "for contributions to information and communications theory, especially the discovery of polar codes and polarization techniques."[10] The same year, it was announced that he would be honored with the 2019 Claude E. Shannon Award.

Huawei presented Arıkan with a special award in July 2018, recognizing "his outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology."[11]

References

  1. ^ "ERDAL ARIKAN" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2010.[non-primary source needed]
  2. ^ Kalai, Gil (25 November 2010). "Emmanuel Abbe: Erdal Arıkan's Polar Codes". Combinatorics and more. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. ^ Simons Institute (20 January 2015), Polar Codes I, retrieved 26 January 2017
  4. ^ Simons Institute (20 January 2015), Polar Codes II, retrieved 26 January 2017
  5. ^ Simons Institute (20 January 2015), Polar Codes III, retrieved 26 January 2017
  6. ^ "Polar Codes I | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Erdal Arıkan | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Prof. Erdal Arıkan Receives Kadir Has Achievement Award". bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  9. ^ "IEEE Fellows — Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Erdal Arıkan Awarded 2018 IEEE Hamming Medal". bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  11. ^ "Huawei Recognizes Dr. Erdal Arikan, the Father of Polar Codes, for his Dedication to Basic Research and Exploration". Huawei. 26 July 2018.
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