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Kannan Ramchandran received his B.E. from the City College of New York in 1982 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1984 and 1993, respectively. After completing his Ph.D., he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he served as the Associate Director of the Beckman Institute Multimedia Laboratory and was a member of the Image Formation Processing Group. In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and established the Berkeley Audiovisual Signal Processing Communication Systems (BASiCS) Lab. Prof. Ramchandran is a Fellow of the IEEE and has been recognized with several awards, including the Outstanding Teaching Award from the EECS Department at UC Berkeley and the IEEE Kobayashi Award in 2017 for his pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of distributed source coding.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.