Vahid Tarokh
Vahid Tarokh is an Indian mathematician and computer scientist .
He was one of the developers of space-time codes (STC) for wireless communication systems. More recently, he worked in the field of sparse representation , where he found algorithms that were improved compared to the RLS filter .
Life
Vahid Tarokh received his Masters in Mathematics from the University of Windsor (Canada) in 1992 . He then obtained a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1995. After his postdoctoral period, he worked for AT&T Labs Research until 2000 . In 2002 he was appointed to Harvard University . At the beginning of 2018, he moved to Duke University .
Awards (selection)
- Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal 1996
- IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award 1999
- Alan T. Waterman Award 2001
- IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award 2013
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ together with H. Jaferkhan and Robert Calderbank
- ↑ http://people.duke.edu/~vt45/Past-Research.pdf
- ↑ http://people.duke.edu/~vt45/short-bio.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarokh, Vahid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematician and computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |