Alon Orlitsky
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Alon Orlitsky: biography
1977 - 1980    B.Sc., Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University
1977 - 1981 B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University
1981 - 1982 M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
1982 - 1986 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University



1986 - 1996 Member of Tech. Staff, Mathematical Sciences Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1996 - 1997 Quantitative Analyst, D. E. Shaw and Company
1997 - present Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
2007 - present Qualcomm Professor for Information Theory and its Applications, UCSD



1982 ITT International Fellowship
1992 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award
2005 Fellow, IEEE (for contributions to zero-error information theory)
2006 IEEE Information Theory Paper Award (with Santhanam and Zhang)
2007 Qualcomm Chair for Information Theory and its Applications
2009 Distinguished Lecturer, Information Theory Society

(Student awards for coauthored papers)

2003 Capocelli Prize to Prasad Santhanam for Performance of universal codes over infinite alphabets
2010   ISIT Student Paper Award to Jayadev Acharya for On Reconstructing a Sequence from its Subsequence Compositions