Alon Orlitsky

E-mail:

alon-AT-ucsd.edu

Lectures:

Alon Orlitsky - Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets

Awards Received:

Information Theory Paper Award (2006) for Universal Compression of Memoryless Sources Over Unknown Alphabets

Participation & Positions:

External Nominations Committee (2012)
Board of Governors (01/01/12 until 12/31/14)
Fellows Committee (01/01/11 until 12/31/13)
Distinguished Lecturers (Lecturer, 10/29/09 until 12/31/11)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (2008)
Online Committee (06/24/07 until 12/31/08)
Board of Governors (01/01/07 until 12/31/09)

Author of:

A. Orlitsky , N.P. Santhanam , J. Zhang , "Universal Compression of Memoryless Sources Over Unknown Alphabets", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Jul. 2004

News: Open position: Chief Scientist in Information Theory Feb 06, 2012; Video of 2011 Shannon Lecture Jan 27, 2012; Open position: Postdoc Fellow in Physical Layer Security for Wireless Communications Jan 15, 2012; Call for Nominations - 2012 ITSoc Awards Jan 03, 2012; Postdoctoral Research Fellow Positions - Center for Science of Information (CSoI) Dec 09, 2011; View All

Upcoming Events

Wed Feb 29

2012 International Zurich Seminar on Communications

Sun Mar 04

2012 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop

Tue Apr 10

Data Compression Conference

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