Thomas J. Richardson

Thomas Joseph Richardson (* 1961 ) is an American computer scientist.

Richardson holds a PhD and is a Qualcomm vice president of engineering .

He is an expert in iterative coding processes and, together with Rüdiger Urbanke, was largely responsible for the renaissance of low-density parity check codes (LDPC), which can operate close to the capacity limit of communication channels (Shannon limit). With Urbanke he wrote a textbook on coding theory.

In 2002 he received the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award with Urbanke and in 2014 both received the Richard W. Hamming Medal . He is a fellow of the IEEE . In 2011 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering .

Fonts

with Rüdiger Urbanke: Modern Coding Theory, Cambridge University Press 2008
with Urbanke: The Capacity of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Under Message-Passing Decoding, IEEE transactions on information theory, Volume 47, 2001, pp. 599–618
with Urbanke, Amin Shokrollahi : Design of capacity-approaching irregular low-density parity-check codes, IEEE transactions on information theory, Volume 47, 2001, pp. 619-637
with Urbanke: Efficient encoding of low density parity check codes, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, Volume 47, 2001, pp. 638-656
with SY Chung, GD Forney, Urbanke: On the design of low-density parity-check codes within 0.0045 dB of the Shannon limit, IEEE Communications letters, Volume 5, 2001, pp. 58-60
with S. Kudekar, R. Urbanke: Threshold Saturation via Spatial Coupling: Why Convolutional LDPC Ensembles Perform So Well over the BEC, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, February 2011

Individual evidence

↑ Entry at the National Academy of Engineering with photo |

personal data
SURNAME	Richardson, Thomas J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Richardson, Thomas Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1961

[1] Entry at the National Academy of Engineering with photo |