Rüdiger Urbanke
Austrian computer scientist
About Rüdiger Urbanke
Born 1966. Rüdiger Urbanke is an Austrian university teacher, computer scientist and electrical engineer.
Rüdiger Leo Urbanke (born 1966) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Life
Urbanke studied at the Technical University of Vienna with the diploma as an electrical engineer in 1988 and at the Washington University in St. Louis with the master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate in 1995 under the supervision of Bixio E. Rimoldi. He then worked at Bell Laboratories.
Career
From 2000 to 2004 he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. From 2009 till 2012 he was the head of the I&C Doctoral School and in 2013 he served as a Dean of I&C. and received a STOC Best Paper Award in 2016.
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Who is Rüdiger Urbanke?
Austrian computer scientist
When was Rüdiger Urbanke born?
Rüdiger Urbanke was born in 1966.
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Rüdiger Urbanke is a university teacher, computer scientist and electrical engineer.
What nationality is Rüdiger Urbanke?
Rüdiger Urbanke is Austrian.
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