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SUMMARY:Facets of Information Theory - Young-Han Kim\, University of Calif
 ornia
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CONTACT:Louise Segar
DESCRIPTION:Information theory aims to establish fundamental limits on inf
 ormation processing and to develop optimal schemes that achieve those limi
 ts. This talk focuses on three canonical problems in network information f
 low\, communication engineering\, and data science\, and presents the stat
 e-of-the-art solutions to these problems from basic principles of informat
 ion theory. In each problem area\, we discuss a general approach -- or a p
 aradigm -- that is beyond these specific case studies and applicable to a 
 broad range of problems. Shannon's bandwagon still offers an exciting (and
  sound) ride.\n\n-------\n\nYoung-Han Kim received his B.S. degree in Elec
 trical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1996 and his Ph.D. de
 gree in Electrical Engineering (M.S. degrees in Statistics and in Electric
 al Engineering) from Stanford University in 2006. Since then he has been a
  faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering a
 t the University of California\, San Diego\, where he is currently an Asso
 ciate Professor.\n\nProfessor Kim is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (
 2008)\, the US-Israel BSF Bergmann Memorial Award (2009)\, the IEEE Inform
 ation Theory Paper Award (2012)\, and the first IEEE James L. Massey Resea
 rch and Teaching Award (2015). He is an IEEE Fellow. His research interest
 s include information theory\, communication engineering\, and data scienc
 e. He has coauthored "Network Information Theory" (Cambridge University Pr
 ess\, 2011)\, which has been used widely as a textbook on the topic.
LOCATION:Department of Engineering - LR3A
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