Allen E. Puckett Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering- CalTech
Bio:
Robert J. McEliece ( M'70-SM'81-F'84) was born in Washington DC, in
1942. He received the B.S and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1964 and 1967,
respectively, and attended Trinity College, Cambridge university,
U.K, during 1964-1965.
From 1963 to 1978, he was employed by the California Institute of
Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was Supervisor of
the Information's Processing Group from 1971 to 1978. From 1978 to
1982, he was a Professor of Mathematics and Research Professor at the
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. Since 1982, he has been on the faculty at Caltech,
where he is now the Allen E.Puckett Professor of Electrical
Engineering. since 1990, he has also served as Executive Officer for
Electrical Engineering at Caltech. He has been a regular consultant
in the Communications Research Section of Caltech's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory since 1978. His research interests include deep-space
communications, communication networks, coding theory and discrete
mathematics.
McEliece's group does research related to the reliable storage and
transmission of information. The general goals are to develop
theoretical performance analyses of existing and proposed
storage/transmission systems, and to design new higher-performance
systems. The tools needed to do this research are highly
mathematical, and include probability, algebra, combinatorics, and
information theory.
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Robert J. McEliece