Alon Orlitsky

Participation & Positions:

Publications Committee (Vice-President of Publications, 2018)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2018)
Constitution and Bylaws Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2018)
Board of Governors (Senior Past President, 2018)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (Ex-Officio, 2017)
Constitution and Bylaws Committee (Ex-Officio, 2017)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2017)
Board of Governors (Junior Past President, 2017)
Publications Committee (Ex-officio, 2016)
Online Committee (Ex-officio, 2016)
External Nominations Committee (Ex-officio, 2016)
Conference Committee (Ex-Officio, 2016)
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio and Chair, 2016)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio and Chair, 2016)
Board of Governors (President, 2016)
Awards Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2015)
Publications Committee (Ex-officio, 01/01/15 until 12/31/17)
Conference Committee (Ex-Officio, 2015)
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award Subcommittee (Ex-officio, 2015)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2015)
Board of Governors (First Vice President, 2015)
Awards Committee (Ex-Officio, 2014)
Student Subcommittee (Ex-officio, 2014)
Publications Committee (Ex-officio, 2014)
Membership Committee (Ex-Officio and Chair, 2014)
Outreach Subcommittee (Ex-officio, 2014)
Claude E. Shannon Award Selection Committee (Ex-officio, 2014)
Board of Governors (Second Vice President, 2014)
External Nominations Committee (Chair, 2013)
Conference Committee (Member, 01/01/13 until 12/31/14)
External Nominations Committee (Member, 01/01/12 until 12/31/13)
Board of Governors (Member, 01/01/12 until 12/31/14)
Fellows Committee (Member, 01/01/11 until 12/31/13)
ITSOC Distinguished Lecturers (Lecturer, 10/29/09 until 12/31/11)
Nominations and Appointments Committee (Member, 2008)
Online Committee (Member, 06/24/07 until 12/31/08)
Board of Governors (Member, 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

J. Acharya , H. Das , O. Milenkovic , A. Orlitsky , S. Pan , "On reconstructing a string from its substring compositions", Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX, USA, Jun. 2010