Frank Kschischang Explained

Frank R. Kschischang (born 15 September 1962 in Mettmann, West Germany) is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto,^[1] and holds a Canada Research Chair in communication algorithms.^[2] He is a co-inventor of the factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference.

Kschischang is a Fellow of the IEEE, "for contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes."^{[3] [4]} He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada,^[5] and is a recipient of the 2010 Killam Research Fellowship.^[6] He received the 2023 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal,^[7] the 2012 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research,^[8] and the 2016 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.^[9] From 2014 to 2016, Kschischang served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.^[10]

External links

• Prof. Kschischang's home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frank R. Kschischang . Biographical data . Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering . University of Toronto . 2 January 2010 . 13 November 2012.
2. Web site: Frank Kschischang . Chairholders . Canada Research Chairs. 13 November 2012.
3. Web site: Fellows of the Toronto Section . IEEE Toronto Section . IEEE . https://archive.today/20130415042906/http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/fellows/index.html . dead . 15 April 2013 . 13 November 2012.
4. Web site: IEEE Fellows 2006 | IEEE Communications Society.
5. Web site: EIC Fellows . The Engineering Institute of Canada . 13 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706175951/http://www.eic-ici.ca/fellows.html . 6 July 2011 .
6. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2010/gq129131412525046602.htm The Canada Council for the Arts – Eight Canadian scientists and scholars garner over $1 million in Killam Research Fellowships
7. Web site: Frank Kschischang Awarded 2023 IEEE Hamming Medal . IEEE Information Theory Society . 9 December 2022 . 14 December 2022.
8. Web site: Frank Kschischang wins Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research . Electrical & Computer Engineering . University of Toronto . 5 July 2012 . 13 November 2012.
9. Web site: Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award . IEEE Information Theory Society . 2 August 2018.
10. Web site: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory . IEEE . 2 August 2018.