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Awards

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.

Events

Conferences, Workshops & Meetings
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International Symposium on Topics in Coding 2025

The 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding* will be held from Monday August 18th to Friday August 22, 2025, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, USA.

International Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning within ACM ASIA CCS

Workshop on Secure and Efficient Federated Learning will be held in parallel with 20th ACM AsiaCCS on August 26, 2025 in Vietnam. Accepted full length papers will appear in ACM digital library. Submission Deadline: 25 April 2025


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Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

CSCIT 2025 will bring together PhD students and post-doctoral scholars from across Asia to learn and discuss cutting-edge research with world-renowned professors in information theory and computer science.

Date: 3 August - 8 August 2025

Location: C. W. Chu College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Conferences

14-16 May, 2025
University of Cambridge
London Symposium on Information Theory 2025

The Eighth London Symposium on Information Theory 2025 will be held at St. John’s College in the…

May 19, 2025
London, UK
8th Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI) Workshop

We are pleased to announce the 8th Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI) Workshop, which will be…

16-19 Jun, 2025
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
Summer School in the Mathematical Foundations of AI

A 4-day school at the Uni of Bristol, 16-19 June on the Foundations of AI. Courses by Peter Kairouz…

Job list

ECE Faculty Positions at University of Michigan
THE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE) Division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor invites applications for junior or senior faculty positions, especially from women and under- represented minorities.
Oct 11, 2018
ML/AI/Data Science Faculty Position at UW Madison
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks faculty candidates for up to three tenure-track faculty positions in the areas of basic research in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Data Science (DS).
Oct 11, 2018
Rutgers needs a new DIMACS Director
The DIMACS Center based at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ is seeking a Director. This is a five-year renewable appointment as Director as well as a tenured full professor position in an appropriate Rutgers department.
Oct 4, 2018
Position in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers
The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invites applications for faculty positions, at all ranks, with a start date of fall 2019.
Sep 16, 2018
PhD positions (2) in information theory
There is vacancy for two PhD positions in information theory at the Department of Informatics. The positions are for a fixed-term period of 4 years with 25% compulsory other work (e.g. teaching duties). The workplace is the research center Simula UiB AS. Simula UiB is a research center owned by Simula Research Laboratory and the University of Bergen. The goal of Simula UiB is to increase the security expertise in Norway through research and education. The positions are within the Information Theory Section of Simula UiB. The successful candidates will use advanced information-theoretic and coding-theoretic tools to design new security and privacy schemes and derive fundamental performance bounds for such schemes applied to future distributed information systems. Distributed information systems include, but are not limited to distributing storage systems and distributed computing systems.
Sep 5, 2018
5 PhD Positions at the University of Vienna
Data Science @ Uni Wien is a new research platform at the University of Vienna that presents a hub on all activities in data science at the University of Vienna. We have openings for five enthusiastic PhD students to establish an interdisciplinary research environment. The PhD students will be hosted in one of the faculties of Computer Science, Mathematics, or Business, Economics and Statistics. Each of the PhD students will be co-supervised by members of at least two different faculties and work on research problems in one of five domains, Astronomy, Digital Humanities, Finance, Industry 4.0, Medical Sciences. The focus in these areas is described on our website: http://datascience.univie.ac.at
Apr 5, 2018
Tenured Faculty Position at EURECOM's Communication Systems Department
The Communications Systems department of EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, invites applications for a full time tenured faculty position in the broad area of data-driven communication systems.
Apr 2, 2018
Multiple research positions in IT and nonlinear fiber optics at TU Eindhoven
We are hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and one fully-funded PhD student to work on the project FUN-NOTCH: Fundamentals of the Nonlinear Optical Channel. Both positions are available for four years and are in the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) group at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Feb 27, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Change Detection for Multimodal Data, Duke University
The postdoc is at the IID center under the supervision of Prof. Vahid Tarokh.
Feb 6, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Non-Commutative Information Theory and Processing, Duke University
The postdoc is at Duke University under the supervision of Prof. Vahid Tarokh.
Feb 6, 2018
Faculty position at Telecom ParisTech in Information Processing and Communications
Telecom ParisTech is seeking applicants for a faculty position in the Digital Communications Group, Department of Communications and Electronics.
Dec 19, 2017
Tenure-Track Faculty Position open at Princeton University
The Department of Electrical Engineering seeks applications in all areas of Electrical Engineering for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position.
Dec 18, 2017
Tenured Faculty Position open at Princeton University
The Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University seeks outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, effective as early as September 1, 2018.
Dec 18, 2017
Postdoc Openings at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has several postdoc openings with a flexible start date.
Nov 5, 2017
Multiple Positions in Fiber Optical Communications at TU Eindhoven
One Postdoctoral Researcher (for up to 3 years) and one PhD student position (fully funded for 4 years) are available at the the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) Group, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands.
Aug 21, 2017
Channel Coding Researcher Position at InterDigital London
InterDigital (IDCC) Europe currently has a research engineer position in its London office. The researcher will work on the design and development of next generation channel codes, including polar codes, particularly for beyond 5G applications. The successful candidate will be an IDCC team member of the recently EU funded beyond-5G project called EPIC (Sept 2017-Sept 2020) and will constantly interact and work with project partners including Polaran (Prof. Erdal Arikan), Telecom Bretagne (Prof. Catherine Douillard), Un. Kaiserslautern (Prof. Norbert Wehn), Ericsson, and IMEC.
Jul 14, 2017
Postdoctoral Position at University of Southern California
There is currently a postdoctoral scholar position available in Prof. Avestimehr’s research group at University of Southern California (USC), at the cross section of information theory, distributed computing, and data analytics. The project, which is funded by DARPA, will focus on development of various “coded computing†frameworks that combine coding with distributed computing to alleviate several bottlenecks in large-scale data analytics. Interested applicants should send their CV, along with the names of two references, to Prof. Avestimehr via email ([email protected]).
May 23, 2017
Postdoctoral Opening at Purdue University
We are actively looking for Electrical Engineering/Computer Science/Applied Math background scholars with interests in modeling and analysis of computer networking systems.
Apr 5, 2017

Jobs Board

PhD Position in Information Theory/Machine Learning
Simula UiB

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the intersection of machine learning and information theory…

Apr 25, 2025
Postdoctoral Research Position at King's College London in Quantum Privacy
King's College London

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position to work on quantum privacy for…

Apr 12, 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher Positions at Bilkent University
Bilkent University

Postdoctoral researcher positions in coding and information theory are available at Bilkent…

Apr 9, 2025

News

Help Shape a Queer Affinity Group within the Information Theory Society

We are exploring the formation of a queer affinity group within the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society…

Apr 28, 2025
NASIT 2025: Registration is now open!

The registration for NASIT 2025 is now open! The registration deadlines are May 10th, 2025 (regular…

Apr 17, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline Extended – Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV ITW 2025

The paper submission deadline for Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2025 has been extended to…

Apr 13, 2025
New page limits for the IT Transactions

From May 1, 2025 onwards, papers will be restricted to 50 pages (single column format, submitted…

Mar 21, 2025

News

"How Claude Shannon Invented the Future" in Quanta Magazine
David Tse writes about not only Claude Shannon's impact on communications, but also on how his work illustrates the importance of top-rate science. Read David's article in Quanta Magazine.
Dec 24, 2020
Call for 2021 Information Theory Society Award Nominations
We look forward to receiving nominations from all members for the following Information Theory Society awards. Please note the deadlines to nominate.
Dec 22, 2020
Good News! Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Student Membership Dues Are Now 50% Off
Attention Students! Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV now offers a discounted dues option for all student and graduate student members. Simply enter promotion code FUTURE50 when you join or renew to receive 50% off your student membership!
Dec 22, 2020
CFP: JSAIT Special Issue on Coded Computing (Feb 15 deadline)
The intersection of information theory and computing has been a fertile ground for novel, relevant intellectual problems. Recently, coding-theoretic techniques have been designed to improve performance metrics in distributed computing systems. This has generated a significant amount of research that has produced novel fundamental limits, code designs, and practical implementations. The set of ideas leveraged by this new line of research is collectively referred to as coded computing. This special issue will focus on coded computing, including aspects such as tradeoffs between reliability, latency, privacy, and security. Specific topics of interest include:
Dec 10, 2020
Bridge to the Faculty Postdoc Position at ECE, University of Illinois Chicago
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) will be recruiting a Bridge to the Faculty (B2F) Scholar with start date on August 16, 2021.
Dec 9, 2020
JSAIT Sixth Call for papers: Special Issue on Coded Computing
JSAIT Sixth Call for papers: Special Issue on Coded Computing. Papers due Feb. 15, 2021.
Nov 27, 2020
Now Running: European School of Information Theory
The 2020 Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV European School of Information Theory (based in Stuttgart, Germany) is currently running as a virtual event. It is still accepting registrations and registration is free for members of the Information Theory Society.
Nov 26, 2020
Call for Nominations for Executive Editor of the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society (ITSoc) invites nominations for the position of Executive Editor of the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory for an 18-month term, starting on July 1, 2021. It is expected that the Executive Editor (EE) will subsequently transition to Editor-in-Chief (EiC) on January 1, 2023, for an additional 18-month term, ending on June 30, 2024.
Nov 18, 2020
Submit to Information-Theoretic Cryptography
Submit papers to the conference on Information-Theoretical Cryptography (ITC). Deadline Feb 1, 2021.
Nov 1, 2020
Call for Nominations for the 2021 Padovani, Goldsmith and Distinguished Lecturers
The submission deadline is (extended to) November 15, 2020.
Oct 21, 2020
Registration for ISITA 2020 Is Now Open
Register now for the International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA2020), held as a virtual symposium October 24–27. Plenary talks are held live by Zoom. Presentation videos are on-demand, and Gather is used for online chat and discussions.
Oct 20, 2020
Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV SPS 2020 PROGRESS (PROmotinG DiveRsity in Signal ProcESSing) Workshop
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Signal Processing Society (SPS) is launching PROGRESS - an initiative aiming to motivate and support women and under-represented minorities to pursue academic careers in signal processing.
Oct 8, 2020
Joy Thomas Has Passed Away
Joy Thomas, co-author of the seminal textbook "Elements of Information Theory" passed away on September 28, 2020 at the age of 57. Joy's career has included stints at IBM T J Watson Research Center and Google, and co-founding of two successful Silicon Valley companies.
Oct 6, 2020
Extension of Deadline for JSAIT Special Issue
The deadline for submission of papers for JSAIT's fifth issue (on Sequential, Active, and Reinforcement Learning) has been extended to Oct 15, 2020.
Sep 28, 2020
ITW 2020 - Deadline Extended to Oct. 20
In response to a number of requests, the submission deadline for ITW 2020 has been extended to Oct. 20, 2020. Notifications are postponed to Dec. 20. Virtual participation to the conference will be guaranteed for safety reasons related to the COVID pandemic.
Sep 25, 2020
Call for Papers: Entropy Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Aspects of Non-Orthogonal and Massive Access for Future Wireless Networks
The open-access journal Entropy is arranging a special issue on “Information-Theoretic Aspects of Non-Orthogonal and Massive Access for Future Wireless Networks.†The submission deadline is April 1, 2021. For more information on the scope and publication process, please see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/massive_access
Sep 23, 2020
IT Society Is Now on LinkedIn
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society now has a LinkedIn page. Follow our page to get the latest news and events from the IT Society in your LinkedIn feed.
Sep 8, 2020
ITW 2020: Upcoming Paper Submission Deadline
The 2020 Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Riva del Garda from 11–15, April 2021. Plenary speakers include Andrea Montanari, Andreas Krause, Emina Soljanin, Gabor Lugosi, Giuseppe Caire and Nina Balcan. Paper submission is currently open and the submission deadline is September 30. Virtual participation to the conference will be guaranteed for safety reasons related to the COVID pandemic.
Sep 7, 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow †Science of Information
The Center for Science of Information (CSoI) invites applications for its CSoI Postdoctoral Research Fellows program to work with Wojtek Szpankowski, CSoI Director. CSoI seeks a postdoctoral researcher to work on broad intersections of information theory, machine learning, combinatorics, and design and analysis of algorithms.
Aug 14, 2020

Past meeting

BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2025, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ University of Toronto
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on Zoom.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting -Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BOG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BOG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - June 2021
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.

Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences

Upcoming Events

The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools