Deniz Gunduz

Deniz Gunduz received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY in 2004 and 2007, respectively.

 

He is currently a Research Associate at CTTC in Barcelona, Spain. He is also holding a visiting research collaborator position at Princeton University. Previously he was a consulting Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University and a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. In 2004, he was a summer researcher in the laboratory of information theory (LTHI) at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

He is the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hessel Award of Polytechnic Institute of New York University given to the best PhD Dissertation, and a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).

 

His research interests lie in the areas of communication theory and information theory with special emphasis on joint source-channel coding, cooperative communications and cross-layer design.