Pascal O. Vontobel

PhD ETH Zurich, 2003

Curriculum Vitae

» Degrees
» Professional Experience
» Research Visits
» Teaching
» Awards and Honors
» Interests

Degrees

2003
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2002
Post-Diploma in Information Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1997
Diploma in Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Professional Experience

2006 -
Research Scientist
Information Theory Research Group
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, USA

2006
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
(Prof. G. W. Wornell)

2004 - 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of ECE
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

2002 - 2004
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
(Prof. Ralf Koetter)

1997 - 2002
Research and Teaching Assistant
Laboratory for Signal and Information Processing
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
(Prof. H.-A. Loeliger)

Research Visits

November 2009
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
(Prof. A. Grant and Dr. I. Land)

July - August 2001
Notre Dame University, USA
(Prof. J. Rosenthal)

September - October 2000
Notre Dame University, USA
(Prof. J. Rosenthal)

July - September 2000
University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
(Prof. R.M. Tanner)

Teaching

November 2009
Instructor
Short course at 2009 ACoRN (Australian Research Council
Communications Research Network) Spring School
Institute for Telecommunications Research
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

January/Februay 2006
Instructor
Winter School for graduate students on
"Mathematical aspects of high performance codes"
Centro Di Ricerca Ennio De Giorgi
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Fall 2004
Instructor
Advanced Digital Signal Processing (ECE 732)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

June 2004
Senior mentor
2004 IMA Participating Institutions Summer Program
for graduate students on "Coding and Cryptography"
Notre Dame University, USA

Fall 2003
Instructor
Coding Theory (ECE 456/CS 477/MATH 476)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Awards and Honors

2009
Plenary speaker
2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Taormina, Italy, Oct. 13, 2009.

2008
Plenary speaker
5th Int. Symp. Turbo Codes and Related Topics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 4, 2008.

2007
Plenary speaker
2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, Sept. 5, 2007.

2005
"Message-Passing Algorithms -
From Practice to Theory and back to Practice"
Th. Found. CCF 05-14801, US$ 209'496
Th. Found. CCF 05-14869, US$ 195'030
Three-year NSF research grant
(jointly with Prof. R. Koetter and Prof. N. Boston)

2003
ETH Medal from ETH Zurich, Switzerland
for my Ph.D. thesis on
"Algebraic Coding for Iterative Decoding"

2001
Karolus Foundation travel grant
for a two-month-long research stay
at the University of Notre Dame, USA
Karolus Grant 098/2001-08
sFr. 2'500 (approx. US$ 1'500)

1999
Two-year research grant from ETH Zurich
(jointly with Prof. H.-A. Loeliger)
for my Ph.D. thesis on
"Algebraic Coding for Iterative Decoding"
ETH Grant TH-16./99-3
sFr. 100'000 (approx. US$ 65'000)

Interests

»Information theory in general
»Iterative decoding of codes
»Graphical models
»Algebraic coding theory
»Optimization theory
»Codith theory for memristor-based memories
»Design of fault-tolerant demultiplexers

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