Vahid Tarokh

Vahid Tarokh is the Rhodes family professor of electrical and computer engineering, Bass Connections Professor, a professor of mathematics (secondary), and computer science (secondary) at Duke University. He is also a Microsoft Data Science Investigator at Microsoft Innovation Hub at Duke University.

Life

He received the M.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1992, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995. He worked at AT&T Labs-Research until 2000, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (as an associate professor). In 2002, he joined Harvard University as a Hammond Vinton Hayes Senior Fellow of Electrical Engineering and Perkins Professor of Applied Mathematics.[1] He joined Duke University in January 2018.

His current research interests are in representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data.

Honors[1]
  • Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2019).
  • Gordon Moore's Distinguished Scholar (2018).
  • 2016 Honorary Dr. Tech. H.C. University of Southern Denmark
  • Sciencewatch World's Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014).
  • 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (Based only on published papers between 2002-2012).
  • 2014 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications
  • Honorary D. Sc., Concordia University, 2013
  • 2013 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
  • 2012 IEEE TCCN (Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks) Publication Award (for the modeling and information theoretic development of the cognitive radio channel)
  • 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Applied Mathematics (for contributions to the spectral theory of pseudo-random matrices)
  • IEEE Fellow, 2009
  • Honorary D.Sc., The University of Windsor, 2003
  • IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Recognition (Named by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the most important 57 papers published in society's transactions in the past 50 years), 2002
  • TR100 Award (Selected as one of the top 100 inventors of the year by the Technology Review Magazine), 2002
  • Alan T. Waterman Award 2001
  • IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award, 1999

References
  1. "Vahid Tarokh". Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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