Sergio Verdú's contributions to the technology of multiuser detection span his pioneering work in the early 1980s to recent results included in this text. He is also well-known for his work on information theory, in which he explores the fundamental limits of data transmission and compression systems.

He was born inBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain on August 15, 1958. He received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona , Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. His doctoral research was conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois and pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University where he teaches and conducts research in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Sergio Verdú was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the National University Prize of Spain, an IBM Faculty Development Award, the Rheinstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, a Princeton Engineering Council Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the D. Fink Paper Award from the IEEE, and the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award. His paper ``Minimum Probability of Error for Asynchronous Multiple Access Channels'' received a Golden Jubilee Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Sergio Verdú has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1993 for "contributions to multiuser communications and to information theory." He has served as an elected member of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors since 1989, and was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society for 1998. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and the University of Tokyo. He is currently on leave at the University of California, Berkeley.