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Ruediger L. Urbanke received his Dipl. Ing. degree from Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1990 and followed this with an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1999, he served in the Mathematics Communications Department at Bell Labs and then joined the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C) at EPFL, being part of the Information Processing Group. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2000 to 2004 and served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2017. Currently, he is the Dean of I&C at EPFL. Dr. Urbanke is also a co-author of 'Modern Coding Theory' published by Cambridge University Press. His research interests span design and analysis of error-correcting codes, classical and quantum communication, as well as the theoretical foundations of modern machine learning. He has received numerous awards, including the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2023, the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award in 2023, the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2021, and the IEEE Hamming Medal in 2014.
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