Frank Kschischang

Frank Kschischang
Born (1962-09-15) September 15, 1962 (age 62)
Mettmann, West Germany[1]
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of British Columbia
University of Toronto[2]
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
ThesisShaping and Coding Gain Criteria in Signal Constellation Design (1991)
Doctoral advisorSubbarayan Pasupathy
Websitewww.comm.utoronto.ca/~frank/

Frank Robert Kschischang[3] (born 15 September 1962) is a German-born Canadian electrical engineer and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto,[4] and holds a Canada Research Chair in communication algorithms.[5]

Education and career

Kschischang was born in Mettmann of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany[1] and moved to Canada for his university education. He studied at the University of British Columbia, where he received his B.A.Sc. in 1985 and then at the University of Toronto, where he received his PhD in electrical engineering under the supervision of Subbarayan Pasupathy in 1991.[2] From the late 1990s till early 2000s, Kschischang and Brendan Frey co-invented factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference.[6][7]

Kschischang became a Fellow of the IEEE for his "contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes."[8][9] He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada,[10] and is a recipient of the 2010 Killam Research Fellowship.[11] He received the 2023 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal,[12] the 2012 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research,[13] and the 2016 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.[14] From 2014 to 2016, Kschischang served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b Kschischang, F.R.; de Buda, P.G.; Pasupathy, S. (1989). "Block coset codes for M-ary phase shift keying". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 7 (6): 900–913. doi:10.1109/49.29613.
  2. ^ a b "Kschischang, Frank R." www.ias.tum.de (in German). 11 December 2024.
  3. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (1 September 2022). "Shaping and coding gain criteria in signal constellation design". library-archives.canada.ca.
  4. ^ Frank R. Kschischang (2 January 2010). "Biographical data". Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Toronto. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Frank Kschischang". Chairholders. Canada Research Chairs. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  6. ^ Kschischang, F.R.; Frey, B.J.; Loeliger, H.-A. (2001). "Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 47 (2): 498–519. doi:10.1109/18.910572.
  7. ^ Loeliger, H. (2004). "An Introduction to factor graphs". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 21 (1): 28–41. doi:10.1109/MSP.2004.1267047. ISSN 1053-5888.
  8. ^ "Fellows of the Toronto Section". IEEE Toronto Section. IEEE. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  9. ^ "IEEE Fellows 2006 | IEEE Communications Society".
  10. ^ "EIC Fellows". The Engineering Institute of Canada. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  11. ^ Canada, Employment and Social Development (15 March 2010). "Eight Canadian scientists and scholars garner over $1 million in Killam Research Fellowships". www.canada.ca.
  12. ^ "Frank Kschischang Awarded 2023 IEEE Hamming Medal". IEEE Information Theory Society. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  13. ^ "Frank Kschischang wins Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research". Electrical & Computer Engineering. University of Toronto. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  14. ^ "Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  15. ^ "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory". IEEE. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
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