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Biography (Short CV)

Gerhard Kramer was with the University of Southern California (USC) and is Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Head of the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technische Universität München (TUM). He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and the Dr. sc. techn. (Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften) degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was with Endora Tech AG, Basel, Switzerland, as a communications engineering consultant. From 2000 to 2008 he was with the Math Center, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff. He joined USC in 2009 and TUM in 2010.

Gerhard Kramer was awarded the Vodafone Innovations Prize in 2011 for research that has advanced mobile communications. In 2010 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society 2005 Stephen O. Rice Prize paper award, a Bell Labs President's Gold Award in 2003, and a recipient of an ETH Medal in 1998.

Gerhard Kramer is an IEEE Fellow. He is serving as 1st Vice President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2012 and has been on the Society's Board of Governors since 2009. He was Associate Editor, Guest Editor, and Publications Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2004-2008. He is a Founding Co-chair of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Annual Schools of Information Theory in 2008-2010, and was Co-chair of the Technical Program Committee of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. He was a member of the Emerging Technologies Committee of the IEEE Communications Society from 2009-2011.