Jack K. Wolf


Office: 305 Center for Magnetic Recording Research

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: jwolf@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-6218
Fax: (858) 534-2720

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1960

Signal Processing
Prior to joining UC San Diego, Jack Wolf held full-time faculty appointments at New York University, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His industrial experience includes working at RCA Laboratories, Bell Laboratories and Qualcomm, Inc. At Qualcomm, Inc., he is concerned with the design and development of wireless communication systems.

Research Interests

Signal processing for recording, information theory, coding theory, communications.

Current Research

Application of modern signal processing to high-density storage systems


Honors and Distinctions
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Guggenheim Fellow
  • Fellow of the IEEE
  • President of the IEEE Information Theory SocietyRecipient of the E. H. Armstrong Award of the IEEE Communication Society
  • L. G. Abraham Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society (co-recipient)
  • NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow

    Selected Publications

    J. K. Wolf and R. E. Swanson, "A New Class of Two-Dimensional RLL Recording Codes," IEEE Trans. Magn., MAG -28 (6), 3407-3416, 1992

    J.K. Wolf, S. A. Raghavan, L. B. Milstein, and C. Barbosa "Nonuniformly Spaced Tapped-Delay-Line Equalizers," IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-41 (9), 1290-1295, 1993.

    J.K. Wolf and D. Chun, "The Single Burst Error Detection Performance of Binary Cyclic Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-42 (2),11-13,1994.

    Last Updated: 5/3/97