Professor Ezio Biglieri is Selected for the 2012 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award

IEEE Information Theory Society honors Adjunct Professor Ezio Biglieri with the 2012 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.  The Information Theory Society has singled out Professor Biglieri for his outstanding leadership and proven long-standing exceptional service to the Information Theory community.

 

Professor Biglieri was elected three times to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society and served as its President in 1999.  He also served the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the Journal of Communications and Networks as Editor-in-Chief.  Professor Biglieri has had a well rounded experience in the world of academe holding faculty and visiting positions at various universities and laboratories across the world.  Other accolades to his name are: IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE Communications Society Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award, and Best Paper Awards from Journal of Communication Networks and the Donald G. Fink Prize.