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Computer Science

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99
Citations
57231
World Ranking
383
National Ranking
211

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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91
Citations
53665
World Ranking
282
National Ranking
137

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2008 - IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal “For fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection.”
  • 2007 - IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to multiuser communications and information theory.

Overview

Sergio Verdú is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed to fields spanning Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. Their research extensively covers subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics and Probability, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics addressed in Verdú's work encompass Wireless Communication Security Techniques, Error Correcting Code Techniques, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods, Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, as well as Statistical Mechanics and Entropy.

Among Verdú's recent publications are:

  • "Error Exponents and α-Mutual Information," 2021, Entropy
  • "Second-order converses via reverse hypercontractivity," 2020, Mathematical Statistics and Learning
  • "The Cauchy Distribution in Information Theory," 2023, Entropy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Verdú include:

  • Jingbo Liu
  • Ramon van Handel

Sergio Verdú has published most frequently in the venues Entropy and Mathematical Statistics and Learning.

Throughout their career, Verdú has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
  • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2008) for fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection
  • IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award (2007)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2007) for contributions to multiuser communications and information theory

Best Publications

  • Multiuser Detection

    Sergio Verdu

  • Channel Coding Rate in the Finite Blocklength Regime

    Yury Polyanskiy;H Vincent Poor;Sergio Verdu

  • Minimum probability of error for asynchronous Gaussian multiple-access channels

    S. Verdu

  • Random Matrix Theory and Wireless Communications

    Antonio M. Tulino;Sergio Verdú

  • Linear multiuser detectors for synchronous code-division multiple-access channels

    R. Lupas;S. Verdu

  • Blind adaptive multiuser detection

    M. Honig;U. Madhow;S. Verdu

  • Near-far resistance of multiuser detectors in asynchronous channels

    R. Lupas;S. Verdu

  • Spectral efficiency in the wideband regime

    S. Verdu

  • Mutual information and minimum mean-square error in Gaussian channels

    Dongning Guo;S. Shamai;S. Verdu

  • Spectral efficiency of CDMA with random spreading

    S. Verdu;S. Shamai

  • Probability of error in MMSE multiuser detection

    H.V. Poor;S. Verdu

  • Approximation theory of output statistics

    Te Sun Han;S. Verdu

  • A general formula for channel capacity

    S. Verdu;Te Sun Han

  • Stability properties of slotted Aloha with multipacket reception capability

    S. Ghez;S. Verdu;S.C. Schwartz

  • On channel capacity per unit cost

    S. Verdu

  • Optimum Multiuser Asymptotic Efficiency

    S. Verdu

  • Optimum power allocation for parallel Gaussian channels with arbitrary input distributions

    A. Lozano;A.M. Tulino;S. Verdu

  • Gaussian multiaccess channels with ISI: capacity region and multiuser water-filling

    R.S. Cheng;S. Verdu

  • Impact of antenna correlation on the capacity of multiantenna channels

    A.M. Tulino;A. Lozano;S. Verdu

  • Computational complexity of optimum multiuser detection

    Sergio Verdú

Frequent Co-Authors

Shlomo Shamai
Shlomo Shamai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Antonia M. Tulino
Antonia M. Tulino University of Naples Federico II
Sanjeev R. Kulkarni
Sanjeev R. Kulkarni Princeton University
Dongning Guo
Dongning Guo Northwestern University
Angel Lozano
Angel Lozano Pompeu Fabra University
H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor Princeton University
Giuseppe Caire
Giuseppe Caire Technical University of Berlin
Yihong Wu
Yihong Wu Yale University
Igal Sason
Igal Sason Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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