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D-Index
61
Citations
18094
World Ranking
3028
National Ranking
1482

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting codes and their study in complexity theory
  • 1999 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of channel coding.

Overview

Alexander Vardy is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's published work covers several main topics including DNA and Biological Computing, Error Correcting Code Techniques, Coding theory and cryptography, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques, and Cellular Automata and Applications.

Alexander Vardy has contributed to a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • Advances in Mathematics of Communications

Some recent papers associated with the scientist's area of expertise are:

  • Private Information Retrieval Without Storage Overhead: Coding Instead of Replication, 2023, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
  • A Deterministic Algorithm for Computing the Weight Distribution of Polar Code, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Polar Codes for the Deletion Channel: Weak and Strong Polarization, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Locally-Constrained de Bruijn Codes: Properties, Enumeration, Code Constructions, and Applications, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Polar Coding for Channels With Deletions, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexander Vardy include:

  • Han Mao Kiah
  • Yeow Meng Chee
  • Eitan Yaakobi
  • Hanwen Yao
  • Arman Fazeli

The scientist has received recognition in the form of fellowships awarded for contributions to coding theory and channel coding:

  • ACM Fellow, 2017, for contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting codes and their study in complexity theory
  • IEEE Fellow, 1999, for contributions to the theory and practice of channel coding

Best Publications

  • List Decoding of Polar Codes

    Ido Tal;Alexander Vardy

  • Closest point search in lattices

    E. Agrell;T. Eriksson;A. Vardy;K. Zeger

  • Algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes

    R. Koetter;A. Vardy

  • How to Construct Polar Codes

    Ido Tal;Alexander Vardy

  • Achieving the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Using Polar Codes

    H. Mahdavifar;A. Vardy

  • The intractability of computing the minimum distance of a code

    A. Vardy

  • Fast Polar Decoders: Algorithm and Implementation

    Gabi Sarkis;Pascal Giard;Alexander Vardy;Claude Thibeault

  • Error-Correcting Codes in Projective Space

    T Etzion;A Vardy

  • MDS array codes with independent parity symbols

    M. Blaum;J. Bruck;A. Vardy

  • Hardware architectures for successive cancellation decoding of polar codes

    Camille Leroux;Ido Tal;Alexander Vardy;Warren J. Gross

  • Minimal tail-biting trellises: the Golay code and more

    A.B. Calderbank;G.D. Forney;A. Vardy

  • Fast List Decoders for Polar Codes

    Gabi Sarkis;Pascal Giard;Alexander Vardy;Claude Thibeault

  • Correcting errors beyond the Guruswami-Sudan radius in polynomial time

    F. Parvaresh;A. Vardy

  • Semantic Security for the Wiretap Channel

    Mihir Bellare;Stefano Tessaro;Alexander Vardy

  • Which codes have cycle-free Tanner graphs?

    T. Etzion;A. Trachtenberg;A. Vardy

  • Upper bounds for constant-weight codes

    E. Agrell;A. Vardy;K. Zeger

  • On the stopping distance and the stopping redundancy of codes

    M. Schwartz;A. Vardy

  • Maximum-likelihood soft decision decoding of BCH codes

    A. Vardy;Y. Be'ery

  • Algorithmic complexity in coding theory and the minimum distance problem

    Alexander Vardy

  • Perfect binary codes: constructions, properties, and enumeration

    T. Etzion;A. Vardy

Frequent Co-Authors

Eitan Yaakobi
Eitan Yaakobi Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tuvi Etzion
Tuvi Etzion Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Paul H. Siegel
Paul H. Siegel University of California, San Diego
Jack K. Wolf
Jack K. Wolf University of California, San Diego
Warren J. Gross
Warren J. Gross McGill University
Simon Litsyn
Simon Litsyn Tel Aviv University
Ralf Koetter
Ralf Koetter Technical University of Munich
Kenneth Zeger
Kenneth Zeger University of California, San Diego
Jehoshua Bruck
Jehoshua Bruck California Institute of Technology
Zhongfeng Wang
Zhongfeng Wang Nanjing University

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