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Biography

Michael Gastpar is a (full) Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2003 to 2011, he was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, earning his tenure in 2008.

He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1997 and his MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 1999. He defended his doctoral thesis at EPFL on Santa Claus day, 2002. He was also a (full) Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He also spent time as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.

His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the co-recipient of the 2013 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He was an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2011). He won an ERC Starting Grant in 2010, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award. He has served as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2008-11), and as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX.

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Employment (3)

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Lausanne, CH

2011-05 to present | Professor (School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC))
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University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, California, US

2003-01 to 2011-06 | Professor (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences)
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Delft University of Technology: Delft, Zuid-Holland, NL

2009 to 2011 | Professor (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science)
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Education and qualifications (3)

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Lausanne, CH

1999 to 2002 | Dr. ès sc. (Department of Communication Systems)
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Urbana, IL, US

1997-08 to 1999-02 | MS (Electrical Engineering)
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich: Zurich, CH

1992 to 1997 | Dipl. El.-Ing. (Electrical Engineering)
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