Erdal Arıkan

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.

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

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 of 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.
  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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