Biography
Alexei Ashikhmin received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the Institute of
Information Transmission Problems,
Russian Academy of
Science, Moscow, Russia, in 1994.
His Ph.D. thesis was devoted to fast decoding algorithms of block and
convolutional codes and their applications in communications
systems.
From September 1995 to September 1996, he was with
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. His research
interests at this time were primarily focused on algebraic and combinatorial problems of error
correcting codes, matroid theory, and secret sharing schemes.
From
January 1997 to July 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at
Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group of
Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, NM. During this time
his research was mostly concentrated at that time recently
emerged area of quantum error correcting codes and quantum information theory.
Since 1999, he has been with the Mathematics
of Communications Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. His current research interests include
communication theory,
classical and quantum information theory, classical and quantum error
correcting codes.
Honors
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S. O. Rice Prize Paper Award
& for the best paper in IEEE Transactions on Communications
in 2004; the paper is devoted to
design of LDPC codes for information transmission with multiple
antennas
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2002 Bell Laboratories President's Gold Award
for breakthrough research resulting in the ability to deliver
unprecedented wireless bit-rates
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1997-1999 Director's Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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1995-1996 Fellowship, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
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1994 Young Investigators Award,
Institute for Information Transmission Problems,
Russian Academy of Sciences
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1993 Young Investigators Award,
Institute for Information Transmission Problems,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Professional Activities
- An Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory, 2003-2006
- Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, New York, NY, 2005-present
- Session organizer at International Workshop on Information
Theory, 2006
- Member of Technical Program Committee: ISIT 2005, ISIT 2006,
ISIT 2007, ISIT 2008 (Area Leader in 2005 and 2007)
- Member of Technical Program Committee: RWS 2006, RWS 2007, RWS 2008
- Member of Technical Program Committee: 2007, XI
International Symposium on Problems of Redundancy in Information and
Control Systems
- Member of Technical Program Committee: International Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing
Conference, 2006
- Co-organizer of Workshop on Algebraic Coding Theory
and Information Theory,
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, 2003
- Member of Dissertation Thesis Committee, Electrical Engineering
Department, Columbia University, 2006
- Ph.D. Thesis Reviewer, Department of Electrical
Engineering-Systems, Tel-Aviv University, 2006
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Supervising Bell Labs Intern Students, 2000--2007