Yury Polyanskiy

Affiliation:

Department of Electrical Engineering, E-Quad,

Olden St, Princeton NJ 08540

USA

email: ypolyans@princeton.edu

Biography:

Yury Polyanskiy is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, advised by Prof. H. Vincent Poor and Prof. Sergio Verdu. His main interests are information theory, channel coding and modulation.  He received B.S. (2003, with honors) and M.S. (2005, with honors) in applied mathematics and physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of General and Applied Physics. His awards include Silver Medal at IPhO (1999), Best Student Paper Award at ISIT (2008), Princeton University Dodds Honorific Fellowship (2009).

Research Interests:

• Coding Techniques
• Coding Theory
• Detection and Estimation
• Sequences
• Shannon Theory

Awards Received:

• Information Theory Paper Award (2011) for Channel coding rate in the finite blocklength regime

Author of:

• Y. Polyanskiy , H.V. Poor , S. Verdu , "Channel coding rate in the finite blocklength regime", IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, May. 2010