Professor Dr. Arya Mazumdar
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Biography
Arya Mazumdar obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2011, specializing in information theory. Following this, Arya served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2011 to 2012, and as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota from 2013 to 2015. Arya then transitioned to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he held positions as both an assistant and associate professor from 2015 to 2021. His accolades include the Distinguished Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. thesis in 2011, the NSF CAREER award in 2015, the EURASIP JSAP Paper Award in 2020, and the IEEE ISIT Jack K. Wolf Student Paper Award in 2010. Currently, Arya serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and is actively involved in the Trends in Communication Information Theory series published by the Foundation. His research interests encompass coding theory, particularly error-correcting codes related to combinatorics, information theory, statistical learning, and distributed optimization.
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Specialization Notes
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).