A.J. Han Vinck

He earned a PhD at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands (Syndrome Decoding of Convolutional Codes, supervisor: J.P.M. Schalkwijk).[1]

• Visiting scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (1986)
• Full professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Institute for Experimental Mathematics) (1990-2014)
• Director of the Post-Graduate School on Networking, "CINEMA" (1997-1999)
• Chairman of the Benelux Information and Communication Society (WIC) (1998-2001)
• Chairman for the communication division of the Institute for Critical Infrastructures, CRIS (2000-2004)
• Adjunct professor at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2003)
• Visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2010-2012)
• Consultant professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2011)
• Director of the Institute for Experimental Mathematics in Essen
• Adjunct professor at the National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan (2014 -2015)
• Honorary professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2014 -2015)
• President of the Leibniz foundation. This foundation supports research and education in the field of Information theory, Neurosciences and Biology. (2014-)

• In 1990 Vinck organized the IEEE Information Theory workshop in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
• He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 1997-2006.
• Vinck is the founding Chairman (1995-1998) of the IEEE German Information theory chapter.
• In 1997 Vinck acted as Co-chairman for the 1997 IEEE Information Theory symposium in Ulm, Germany.
• In 2003 Vinck was elected president of the IEEE Information theory Society.
• 2008, Vinck was a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society.

Founded conferences

• Japan-Benelux workshops on Information theory (now Asia-Europe workshop on "Concepts in Information Theory") (1990)
• International Winterschool on Coding, Cryptography and Information theory in Europe (Essen, 1991 and 1993).
• IEEE conferences on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC. (1997)

• IEEE *ISPLC2006 Achievement award in Orlando (FL, USA) for his contributions to Power Line Communications and for facilitating the transition of ISPLC to a fully financially and technically sponsored IEEE Communications Society conference. (2006)
• IEEE fellow for his "Contributions to Coding Techniques" (2006)[3]

• SA-IEE annual award for the best paper published in the SA-IEE Africa Research Journal. (2008)
• Best paper award at Chinacom). 2013)
• Aaron Wyner distinguished service award from the IEEE Information theory society.[4] (2015)

• "Coding Concepts and Reed-Solomon Codes" (PDF). 2015-02-05. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
• "Home | Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
• "Han Vinck". www.uni-due.de. Retrieved 2021-11-02.

• IEEE ICCT 2011 speakers