Ezio Biglieri - Biography

       EZIO BIGLIERI was born in Aosta (Italy). He received his formal training in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy),where he received his Dr. Engr. degree in 1967. He is presently an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and an honorary professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Previously he was a Professor at the University of Napoli (Italy), at Politecnico di Torino, and at UCLA.

      He has held visiting positions with the Department of System Science, UCLA, the Mathematical Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, the Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, the Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, the Telecommunication Department of The Ecole Nationale Sup´erieure des T´el´ecommunications, Paris, France, the University of Sydney, Australia, the Yokohama National University, Japan, the Electrical Engineering Department of Princeton University, the University of South Australia, Adelaide, the University ofMelbourne, Australia, the Institute for Communications Engineering, Munich Institute of Technology, Germany, the Institute for Infocomm Research, National University of Singapore, the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China, the University of Cambridge, U.K., and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was elected three times to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and he served as its President in 1999. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and of the Journal of Communications and Netowrks. Among other honors, in 2000 he received the IEEE Third-Millennium Medal and the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, in 2001 the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award and a Best Paper Award from WPMC’01, Aalborg, Denmark, and in 2004 the Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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