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Biography

Deniz Gunduz  received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from METU, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from  New York University  Polytechnic School of Engineering , Brooklyn, NY in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Information Processing in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of  Imperial College London. Previously he was a Research Associate at  CTTC , Barcelona, Spain, a Consulting Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering,  Stanford University , and a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. He is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, and has held visiting positions at University of Padova (2018-2020) and Princeton University (2009-2012).

Dr. Gündüz is a Fellow of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV, and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society (2020-22). He serves as an Area Editor for the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Information Theory, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Communications, and the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Special Series on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks. Dr. Gunduz is also an editor of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Transactions on Wireless Communications. He served as a co-chair of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Student Committee from 2012 until 2015. He served as the general co-chair of the 2016 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop, and was a co-chair of the 2012 European School of Information Theory (ESIT). 

He is the recipient of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Communications Society - Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Early Achievement Award in 2017, Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) , the  2014 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region, and several best paper awards including the 2007 Â鶹´«Ã½AV International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Best Student Paper Award.

His research interests lie in the areas of communications and information theory, machine learning, and privacy.

Awards Received
for Minimum Expected Distortion in Gaussian Layered Broadcast Coding with Successive Refinement
Participation & Position
Contact Information
Imperial College London
Department Electrical and Electronic Engineering
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2BT London, UK
 

Voice: +44  207 5946218

Research interests
Communication networks
Communications
Shannon theory
Source coding