Ericsson/CWC Communications and Networking Seminar Series

The "Ericsson/CWC Communications and Networking Seminar Series" is run by graduate students at the ECE department at UCSD in part supported by the Center for Wireless Communications, Ericsson and UCSD Calit2.

At each talk we will give a questionnaire to the students in order to get their feedback, and at the end of the year the questionnaires will be entered in a CWC valuable prize drawing!

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Upcoming Seminars

November 16th 11:00 AM

Speaker: Dr. Michael Luby

Qualcomm Technology

Title: Raptor coding technology

Host: Eitan Yaakobi

Venue: Booker Conference room, 2512 EBU1

Abstract: Over the past 10+ years Digital Fountain (now part of Qualcomm) has invented, developed, standardized and deployed fountain coding technologies.  Raptor codes, for example as specified in IETF RFC 5053, are the most well-known and used of these technologies, as they are the foundation of a number of data transport paradigms used to support higher level services such as broadcast file delivery and video streaming.  In this talk I will overview many of the theoretical and practical ideas that have been integrated into the design of Raptor codes over the years, including the newest and most advanced generation of Raptor codes, RaptorG codes, which have been recently made public.

Bio: Michael Luby has made breakthrough research contributions in the areas of coding theory, randomized algorithm design and analysis, communication technologies and cryptography.  He is the inventor of LT codes, which is the first practical realization of a fountain code. Michael received the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Society Information Theory Paper Award for leading the design and analysis of the first irregular LDPC error-correcting codes, the 2003 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize for seminal research in cryptography, the 2007 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Communications Theory Award for outstanding contributions to communications technology, and the 2009 ACM SIGCOMM Test of TIme award for introducing the original concept of a digital fountain.

Michael earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Michael is currently a VP of Technology at Qualcomm Incorporated. He has held the positions of Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley, Leader of the Theory Group at the International Computer Science Institute, and CTO and Co-founder of Digital Fountain Incorporated.

Michael is an IEEE Fellow.

December 8th 11:00 AM

Speaker: Dr. Eric Wang

Ericsson

Title: TBA

Host: Abhijeet Bhorkar

Venue:   TBA