Biography:Vahid Tarokh

Vahid Tarokh is the Rhodes family professor of electrical and computer engineering, a professor of mathematics (secondary), and a professor of computer science (secondary) at Duke University.

Life

He received the M.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1992, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995. Following half a year of postdoctoral fellowship at UIUC, he worked at AT&T Labs-Research until 2000, and at MIT (as an associate professor) until 2002. He joined Harvard University as a Hammond Vinton Hayes Senior Fellow of Electrical Engineering and Perkins Professor of Applied Mathematics. He joined Duke University in January 2018.

Tarokh has received a number of awards including the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal 1996, the IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award 1999, The Alan T. Waterman Award 2001 and was selected as one of the Top 100 Inventors of Years (1999–2002) by Technology Review magazine. In 2002, the IEEE Communications Society recognized him as the co-author of one of the 57 most important papers in all society's transactions during the past 50 years. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Applied Mathematics for his contributions to the theory of pseudo-random matrices. He holds four honorary degrees.

His current research interests are in representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data, and the design of organic machines.

Honors

• Moore Distinguished Scholar (2017).
• 2016 Honorary Dr. Tech. H.C. (South Denmark University)
• Sciencewatch World's Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014).
• 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (Based only on published papers between 2002-2012).
• 2014 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications
• Honorary D. Sc., Concordia University, 2013
• 2013 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
• 2012 IEEE TCCN (Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks) Publication Award
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011
• IEEE Fellow, 2009
• Top 10 Most Cited Researchers in Computer Science (According to the ISI Web of Science), 2002-2008 (every quarter)
• Honorary D.Sc., The University of Windsor, 2003
• IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Recognition (Named by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the most important 57 papers published in society's transactions in the past 50 years), 2002
• TR100 Award (Selected as one of the top 100 inventors of the year by the Technology Review Magazine), 2002
• Alan T. Waterman Award 2001
• IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award, 1999
• Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal, 1996

External links

• Vahid Tarokh's Home page
• Pratt School of Engineering Press Release
• NSF Press Release
• Top 10 Most Cited Researchers in Computer Science

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