Frank R. Kschischang

Affiliation:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Home Page:

http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~frank

Research Interests:

• Coding Techniques

Awards Received:

• ComSoc & IT Joint Paper Award (2010) for Coding for Errors and Erasures in Random Network Coding

Participation & Positions:

Distinguished Lecturers (Lecturer, 01/01/12 until 12/31/13)
Constitution and Bylaws Subcommittee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2012)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2012)
Board of Governors (Senior Past President, 2012)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2011)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (Ex-Officio, 2011)
Constitution and Bylaws Subcommittee (Ex-Officio, 2011)
Board of Governors (Junior Past President, 2011)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio and Chair, 2010)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio and Chair, 2010)
Board of Governors (President, 2010)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2009)
Conference Committee (Ex-Officio, 01/01/09 until 12/31/10)
Online Committee (Ex-officio, 01/01/09 until 12/31/10)
Board of Governors (First Vice President, 2009)
Membership and Chapters Committee (Ex-Officio, 2009)
Awards Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2009)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 01/01/08 until 12/31/09)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Member, 2008)
Awards Committee (Ex-Officio, 2008)
Board of Governors (Second Vice President, 2008)
Membership and Chapters Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2008)
Online Committee (03/14/07 until 12/31/08)
Board of Governors (01/01/06 until 12/31/08)
Publications Committee (Associate Editor for Coding Theory, 09/01/97 until 09/01/00)

Advisor to:

• C. Senger , "Generalized Minimum Distance Decoding with Arbitrary Error/Erasure Tradeoff", Ph.D. Thesis, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Dec. 2011
• D. Silva , "Error Control for Network Coding", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, Jul. 2009

Author of:

• R. Koetter (1963-2009), F.R. Kschischang , "Coding for Errors and Erasures in Random Network Coding", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Aug. 2008