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Aaron B. Wagner is a Professor and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He has been awarded several prestigious honors for his research and teaching contributions, including the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars by the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2017, the Michael Tien ’72 College of Engineering Teaching Award at Cornell in 2009, the NSF CAREER award in 2007, the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize from the U.C. Berkeley EECS Department in 2006, and the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics from the U.C. Berkeley Department of Mathematics in 2005. His research primarily focuses on information theory, particularly in the area of data compression. He has also been involved in undergraduate and graduate education, guiding students who have earned accolades such as the Information Theory Society Student Paper Award in 2010. Previously, he completed a postdoctoral research associate position at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served as a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University after earning his graduate degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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