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Erdal Arıkan

Erdal Arıkan

Turkish professor (born 1958)

Erdal Arıkan (born 1958) is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his implementation of polar coding.

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Early life and education

The son of a doctor and a homemaker, Erdal Arikan was born in 1958 and grew up in Turkey. He attended the Middle East Technical University to study electrical engineering, but transferred to California Institute of Technology in the middle of his freshman year. He started graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, and obtained his PhD degree in 1986.[1]

Career

Academic background

Arıkan briefly served as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Bilkent University as a faculty member in 1987.[2]

Arıkan improved the implementation of polar codes, a system of coding that provides a mathematical basis for the solution of Shannon's channel capacity problem.[3] He presented a three-session lecture on the polar codes at Simons Institute's Information Theory Boot Camp at the University of California, Berkeley.[4][5][6] The lecture is also featured on the Simons Institute webpage, which includes the slides used by Arıkan in his presentation.[7]

Arıkan is an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2012), and was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2014–2015.[8]

Awards

Arıkan received the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2010, and the Sedat Simavi Science Award for the construction of new channel coding schemes.[9] Arıkan became the recipient of the Kadir Has Achievement Award in 2011 for the same accomplishment. He was named an IEEE fellow in 2012.[10]

Arıkan received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Award in 2018 "for contributions to information and communications theory, especially the discovery of polar codes and polarization techniques."[11] The same year, it was announced that he would be honored with the 2019 Claude E. Shannon Award.

The Chinese telecommunications company Huawei recognized his "outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology in 2018."[12]

References

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    Levy, Steven (16 November 2020). "Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020.
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    "ERDAL ARIKAN" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2010.[non-primary source needed]
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    Kalai, Gil (25 November 2010). "Emmanuel Abbe: Erdal Arıkan's Polar Codes". Combinatorics and more. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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    Simons Institute (20 January 2015), Polar Codes I, retrieved 26 January 2017
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    Simons Institute (20 January 2015), Polar Codes II, retrieved 26 January 2017
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    Simons Institute (20 January 2015), Polar Codes III, retrieved 26 January 2017
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    "Polar Codes I | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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    "Erdal Arıkan | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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    "Prof. Erdal Arıkan Receives Kadir Has Achievement Award". bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  10. [10]
    "IEEE Fellows — Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  11. [11]
    "Erdal Arıkan Awarded 2018 IEEE Hamming Medal". bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  12. [12]
    "Huawei Recognizes Dr. Erdal Arikan, the Father of Polar Codes, for his Dedication to Basic Research and Exploration". Huawei. 26 July 2018.
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