ECE Associate Professor Anand D. Sarwate has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society for 2024 to 2025.
The Information Theory Society established the Distinguished Lecturers Program in 2009 to promote interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events. The Society aims to maintain ten Distinguished Lecturers each serving for two year terms. Typically, the ITSoc Distinguished Lecturers program provides funding for airfare and travel, and the local chapter funds accommodation and local expenses. If traveling to a different continent, visits to two locations are required. The distinguished lectures should be freely accessible to the public.
The selection criteria are: (a) the quality of the candidates’ contributions to research in information theory and related areas, and (b) the ability of the candidates to deliver an excellent lecture to a broad audience. The candidates may be from any geographic region and any organization, e.g., academia, industry, or government. Nominations that promote diversity are encouraged. The Distinguished Lecturers are typically members of the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Current Rutgers faculty and former PhD students have also been ITSOC Distinguished Lecturers: current faculty Emina Soljanin (2015-2016) and Roy Yates (2019-2021), and former PhD students Sennur Ulukus (2018-2019), Aylin Yener (2019-2021), and Lalitha Sankar (2021-2022).
Congratulations to Anand!