Frank Kschischang

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Frank R. Kschischang
Born(1962-09-15)15 September 1962
Mettmann, West Germany
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Thesis Shaping and Coding Gain Criteria in Signal Constellation Design  (1991)
Doctoral advisorS. Pasupathy.

Frank R. Kschischang (born 15 September 1962 in Mettmann, West Germany) is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto,[1] and holds a Canada Research Chair in communication algorithms.[2] He is a co-inventor of the factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference.[3][third-party source needed]

Prof. Kschischang is a Fellow of the IEEE, "for contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes."[4][5] He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada,[6] and is a recipient of the 2010 Killam Research Fellowship.[7] He received the 2023 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal,[8] the 2012 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research,[9] and the 2016 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.[10] From 2014 to 2016, Prof. Kschischang served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[11]

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  1. ^ Frank R. Kschischang (2 January 2010). "Biographical data". Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Toronto. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Frank Kschischang". Chairholders. Canada Research Chairs. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  3. ^ Kschischang, Frank R.; Frey, Brendan J.; Loeliger, Hans-Andrea (2001), "Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 47 (2): 498–519, doi:10.1109/18.910572.
  4. ^ "Fellows of the Toronto Section". IEEE Toronto Section. IEEE. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  5. ^ "IEEE Fellows 2006 | IEEE Communications Society".
  6. ^ "EIC Fellows". The Engineering Institute of Canada. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  7. ^ The Canada Council for the Arts – Eight Canadian scientists and scholars garner over $1 million in Killam Research Fellowships
  8. ^ "Frank Kschischang Awarded 2023 IEEE Hamming Medal". IEEE Information Theory Society. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Frank Kschischang wins Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research". Electrical & Computer Engineering. University of Toronto. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  10. ^ "Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  11. ^ "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory". IEEE. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

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