Gerhard Kramer

Affiliation:

Institute for Communications Engineering
Technische Universität München
D-80290 München

Home Page:

http://www.lnt.ei.tum.de

Biography:

Gerhard Kramer is Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Head of the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technische Universität München (TUM). He received the Dr. sc. techn. (Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften) degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was with Endora Tech AG, Basel, Switzerland, as a communications engineering consultant. From 2000 to 2008 he was with the Math Center, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff. He joined USC in 2009 and TUM in 2010.

Gerhard Kramer is an IEEE Fellow. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2010 and the Vodafone Innovations Prize in 2011. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society 2005 Stephen O. Rice Prize paper award, a Bell Labs President's Gold Award in 2003, and a recipient of an ETH Medal in 1998.

Research Interests:

• Shannon Theory

Participation & Positions:

Awards Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2012)
Publications Committee (Ex-officio, 2012)
Conference Committee (Ex-Officio, 2012)
Board of Governors (First Vice President, 2012)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2012)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2011)
Student Committee (Ex-officio, 2011)
Awards Committee (Ex-Officio, 2011)
Membership and Chapters Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2011)
Outreach Committee (Ex-officio, 2011)
Board of Governors (Second Vice President, 2011)
Board of Governors (01/01/09 until 12/31/11)
School of IT Organizing Committee (General Chair, 2009)
Membership and Chapters Committee (Member, 01/01/09 until 12/31/10)
Publications Committee (Associate Editor for Shannon Theory, 01/01/06 until 01/01/09)
Publications Committee (Publication Editor, 2005)