A.J. Han Vinck

Adrianus Johannes "Han" Vinck (born 15 May 1949, in Breda) is a Dutch computer scientist. He serves as senior professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, since September 2014. He is a member of the digital signal processing group at the electrical engineering Department. His interest is in Information and Communication theory, Coding and Network aspects in digital communications. He is the author of the textbook Coding Concepts and Reed-Solomon Codes.

Early life He earned a PhD at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands (Syndrome Decoding of Convolutional Codes, supervisor: J.P.M. Schalkwijk).

SA-IEE annual award for the best paper published in the SA-IEE Africa Research Journal. (2008) Best paper award at Chinacom). 2013) Aaron Wyner distinguished service award from the IEEE Information theory society. (2015)