Sergio Verdu
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1984
M.Sc., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1982
Room: B308 Engineering Quadrangle
Phone: 609-258-5315
Email: verdu@princeton.edu
Research Areas and Interests
- Communications, Info Theory, Networking, Networked Systems
- Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Optimization
My current research is in the field of information theory, exploring the fundamental limits of data transmission and compression systems. My contributions to information theory include:
- Non-asymptotic information theory
- The interface between information theory and estimation theory
- The information spectrum method
- Communication in the wideband regime
- Random matrices and information theory
- Information theory of compressed sensing
- Capacity of code division multiple access and other multiple-access channels
- Multiuser detection and its fundamental limits
- Timing channels and the capacity of the single-server queues
- Harnessing feedback in communication
- Data compression with error-correcting codes
- Generation of random bits from stochastic processes
- Rate-distortion function of Poisson processes and other continuous-time Markov processes
- The maximum randomness required to simulate the input to a random system
- General formulas for minimum compression rate, channel capacity, and rate-distortion
- Discrete denoising
- Joint source-channel coding and the validity of the separation principle
- The empirical distribution of capacity-achieving codes
- Universal compression and universal estimation of information measures
- Compression and transmission with missing information
- Multi-antenna capacity
Honors and Awards
- Information Theory Paper Award, IEEE Information Theory Society (1998, 2011)
- Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory, IEEE Communications Society (2009)
- Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking Best Paper Award, The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) (2004-2007)
- IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2008)
- Member, National Academy of Engineering (elected 2007)
- Claude E. Shannon Award, IEEE Information Theory Society (2007)
- Joint Paper Award, IEEE Communications/Information Theory Societies (2006)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (2005)
- Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award, IEEE Communications Society (2002)
- Frederick Emmons Terman Award, American Society of Engineering Education (2000)
- IEEE Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award (1998)
Concurrent University Appointments
- Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (Core Faculty Member)
- Department of Mathematics (Associated Faculty)
