Steven W. McLaughlin

Affiliation:

Office of the Provost and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Coding, Communications and Information Theory (CCIT) Lab

Biography:

Steven W. McLaughlin received the B.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1985, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992, all in electrical engineering. He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech in September 1996 where is now Vice Provost for International Initiatives and Ken Byers Professor of ECE. As Vice Provost he is responsible for Georgia Tech's global engagement and is the point person for international initiatives in research, education, and economic development.

His research interests are in the general area of communications and information theory. His research group has on-going projects in the areas of turbo, LDPC, and constrained codes for magnetic and optical recording; FEC and equalization for wireless and optical networks; quantum key distribution, wireless and RFID security; and theory of error control coding. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences and holds 26 US patents. He has served as the research and thesis advisor to more than 50 students at the bachelors, masters, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.

In 2005, he was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was also previously Deputy Director of Georgia Tech - Lorraine - the European Campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology - in Metz, France from 2006-2007. He has held positions at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, AT&T Bell Labs, and Eastman Kodak. From 1992-1996 he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transaction on Information Theory. He also served as the Publications Editor for that journal from 1995-1999. He co-edited (with Sergio Verdu) Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1999). He has also served on the IEEE Publications Activities Board (1998-2001) and is a former Secretary of the IEEE Atlanta Section (2000).

Research Interests:

• Coding Techniques

Awards Received:

• ComSoc & IT Joint Paper Award (2011) for Wireless Information-Theoretic Security

Participation & Positions:

Online Committee (03/14/07 until 12/31/08)
Board of Governors (Senior Past President, 2007)
Publications Committee (Associate Editor for Coding Techniques, 07/01/06 until 11/01/07)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Member, 2006)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (01/01/06 until 12/31/07)
Board of Governors (Junior Past President, 2006)
Constitution and Bylaws Subcommittee (01/01/06 until 12/31/07)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio and Chair, 2005)
Board of Governors (President, 2005)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Member, 2004)
Awards Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2004)
Board of Governors (First Vice President, 2004)
Membership and Chapters Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2003)
Board of Governors (Second Vice President, 2003)

Author of:

• M. Bloch , J. Barros , M. Rodrigues , S.W. McLaughlin , "Wireless Information-Theoretic Security", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Jun. 2008