Scholar
Thomas Courtade
Google Scholar ID: xRmmtzIAAAAJ
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,604
H-index
23
i10-index
44
Publications
20
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0
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Academic Achievements
- His research is supported by multiple grants, including NSF, a NSF CAREER award, a Hellman Fellowship, and the Fonds France-Berkeley fund.
Research Experience
- He is the faculty coordinator of the BLISS Seminar Series. His research is supported by NSF, a NSF CAREER award, a Hellman Fellowship, and the Fonds France-Berkeley fund.
Education
- Received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2012. Before joining Berkeley in January 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the NSF Center for Science of Information and spent much of that time at Stanford University.
Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. His research interests are broadly defined within information theory, including core Shannon theory (e.g., capacity and rate-distortion theorems), computational biology (e.g., algorithms for DNA assembly and compression of sequencing data), and connections between information measures, functional analysis, and probability theory (e.g., information inequalities and statistical limit theorems).
Miscellany
- Contact: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 265 Cory Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1770; Tel: 510-643-0359; Email: courtade@berkeley.edu. Due to the large volume of email he receives, he generally does not respond to unsolicited inquiries about student or postdoc openings.
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