http://algo.epfl.ch/ 2012-05-16T22:52:46+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/ http://algo.epfl.ch/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-06-04T17:48:13+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/alexander?rev=1244130493&do=diff [Alexander Vardy] Alexander is a professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at UCSD. He visited ALGO during June 2005 to February 2006. During his visit, we discussed in depth new algorithms for algrebraic list-decoding of Reed-Solomon and related codes. He also began rerearch on network coding in collaboration with Christina Fragouli, and gave several seminars. text/html 2009-04-01T10:09:11+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/amin?rev=1238573351&do=diff [Portrait of Amin] Amin received his German Diplom in Mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe in 1988, his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bonn in 1991, and his Habilitation in Basic Sciences, also at the University of Bonn, in 1997. Since January 2003 he holds a full professor position jointly at the School of Informatics and Computer Science (I&C) and the Faculty of Basic Sciences (FSB) of EPFL, holding the chair of algorithms at I&C, and the chair of algorithmic mathema… text/html 2011-07-12T08:58:36+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/anant?rev=1310453916&do=diff [Portrait of Giovanni] Anant joined ALGO in Oct 2010 to work on implementation of power efficient signaling methods for chip to chip communication. Prior to joining ALGO, Anant was a Product Design Manager at Innovative Silicon's R&D offices at Lausanne where he led the development of micro-architecture and design of Z-RAM IP (1T cell, floating body) based memory solutions for L3 cache in AMD's lead microprocessors and Hynix's DDR3 based DRAM products. text/html 2009-04-02T11:38:56+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/andrew?rev=1238665136&do=diff Andrew finished his PhD at LMA in June 2007. His thesis deals with the interplay between graphs and codes. He left LMA in August 2007 and has joined McKenzie Consulting. text/html 2011-09-06T11:45:27+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/armin?rev=1315302327&do=diff [Portrait of Armin] Armin has received his Ph.D.E.E. from EPFL, Lausanne in 2010, and since then he has joined EPFL ALGO as a post-doc. He is currently working on advanced techniques for designing high-speed serial data transceivers for chip-to-chip communications. Before joining EPFL, he was with Emad Semiconductor as a Senior analog/RF design engineer for seven years. text/html 2010-09-13T13:41:16+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/bertrand?rev=1284378076&do=diff [Portrait of Bertrand] text/html 2009-04-02T11:42:23+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/christina?rev=1238665343&do=diff [Christina] Christina joined ALGO as a postdoc in September 2003, working on research topics related to network coding. Since April 2006 she joined EPFL as an FNS assistant professor. See here for more details on her research interests and work. text/html 2011-09-06T11:49:11+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/cronie?rev=1315302551&do=diff [Portrait of Harm] Harm Cronie received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente in August 2003. His major was on Embedded Systems and his minor on theoretical physics (general relativity, quantum mechanics and astrophysics). Harm received his PhD from the University of Twente in 2008 for which he worked on modulation and coding for non-binary channels based on binary codes. text/html 2009-04-02T11:48:37+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/emina?rev=1238665717&do=diff text/html 2011-08-09T14:11:41+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/etesami?rev=1312891901&do=diff [Portrait of Etesami] Omid Etesami received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2004. Omid received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 2010. During his studies, Omid has worked on topics in theoretical computer science and communication theory. text/html 2009-09-03T10:52:18+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/frederic?rev=1251967938&do=diff [Portrait of Frederic] Frederic Didier, former student from ENS paris, completed his thesis at the INRIA Rocquencourt under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Tillich and obtained his PhD in computer science in December 2007. He joined the ALGO/LMA as a postdoc in January 2008. His main research interests are somewhere between symmetric cryptography and coding theory. For more information, visit his home page. text/html 2009-04-02T14:06:48+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/frederique?rev=1238674008&do=diff Frederique joined ALGO and LMA for a 6 months posdoc after receiving her PhD in mathematics at EPFL. Her research interests are in applied algebra mainly for both single and multiple antennas systems. She left AlGO for joining Caltech as a postdoctoral visitor. text/html 2009-04-02T13:52:02+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/gerard?rev=1238673122&do=diff After receiving his PhD degree from the University of Notre Dame, Gerard joined ALGO and LMA. His research and teaching interests are in discrete mathematics, public key cryptography, and coding. He left ALGO on October 2004 after one year of intense research activity. text/html 2010-09-16T13:58:14+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/ghid?rev=1284638294&do=diff [Portrait of Ghid] Ghid obtained her bachelor degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2006. She obtained her Master's degree in Communication Systems from EPFL in 2008, with a Master thesis on “Recursions for the LT Decoder” that she completed in ALGO. She joined ALGO in September 2008 as a PhD student. text/html 2011-04-26T16:11:42+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/giovanni?rev=1303827102&do=diff [Portrait of Giovanni] Giovanni was born in Trento (Italy) a long time ago. He graduated in physics at the University of Trieste (Italy), with a thesis on the electronic structure of semiconductor heterojunctions under the direction of Prof. Baldereschi and Prof. Peressi. text/html 2010-10-03T22:08:39+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/hesam?rev=1286136519&do=diff Hesam is a PhD student at EPFL and joined the lab in September 2009. He received his BSc and MSc on communication systems and science from Sharif University of Technology in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He is currently working on the applications of coding in biological systems. More specifically, there are mechanisms in biological systems which are responsible for error correction and detection. One particular example is the associative memory in brain which is in charge of pattern matching a… text/html 2009-04-02T13:54:32+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/isabelle?rev=1238673272&do=diff [Isabelle Ravot] Isabelle obtained her diploma in 2004 at ALGO with a thesis on the Evaluation of data coding techniques for multicast services over 3G mobile networks done in collaboration with Ericsson Eurolabs and Digital Fountain. text/html 2011-01-20T13:13:50+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/klaas?rev=1295525630&do=diff [Portrait of Klaas] Klaas received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universty of Twente in 2002. Prior to joining ALGO, he was a System Architect at Recore Systems, where he designed and implemented the Xentium, a high-performance Digital Signal Processor. text/html 2009-04-02T13:57:16+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/lorenz?rev=1238673436&do=diff [Lorenz] Lorenz studied mathematics at EPFL, and obtained his diploma in March 2003, which was directed by Prof. Bayer. Lorenz finished his PhD at LMA in July 2007. His work centered around attacks on various public-key crycptosystems based on error-correcting codes. He will be joining the faculty of Computer Science of UC Berkeley as a Post-Doc funded by the Swiss National Fund in February 2008. text/html 2010-10-03T22:03:04+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/mahdi?rev=1286136184&do=diff [Portrait of Mahdi] Mahdi got his bachelor degrees in Software Engineering and Computer Hardware Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2004. He joined ALGO/LMA in October 2004 as a Masters student of Computer Science and then as a PhD student. He left ALGO/LMA in September 2010. text/html 2009-04-02T13:58:45+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/martin?rev=1238673525&do=diff text/html 2010-09-16T14:00:00+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/masoud?rev=1284638400&do=diff Masoud Alipour EPFL profile ALGO page Contact info text/html 2009-04-02T14:01:21+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/mehdi?rev=1238673681&do=diff Mehdi finished his PhD at ALGO in July 2007. His thesis deals with subtree based bounds on the partition function and simulation methods for approximating the partition function. Mehdi left ALGO in August 2007 text/html 2011-09-06T11:47:36+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/meyer?rev=1315302456&do=diff Bertrand graduated from ENS Cachan and obtained his doctorat (PhD) in November 2008 at Université de Bordeaux under the supervision of Renaud Coulangeon. His background is pure mathematics : lattices and number theory in particular. After a visit in the group of Alexander Schrijver and Monique Laurent at CWI Amsterdam, he joined ALGO/LMA as a postdoc in September 09. text/html 2011-01-27T11:45:21+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/natascha?rev=1296125121&do=diff [natascha] Natascha is the administrative assistant of the group and is part of Algo since the very beginning. After her studies, she spent seven years in London working as secretary and underwriter for Andrea Merzario LTD, and Through Transport Mutual Services LTD). She gained a large administrative experience and a perfect british accent. text/html 2011-07-06T10:54:30+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/ola?rev=1309942470&do=diff [Portrait of Ola] Ola Svensson received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Uppsala in May 2005. His major was on theoretical aspects of computer science and in particular algorithms. Ola received his PhD from IDSIA affiliated to the University of Lugano in 2009 for which he worked on approximation algorithms and inapproximability results for combinatorial optimization problems. text/html 2009-04-02T14:04:09+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/payam?rev=1238673849&do=diff [Payam] Payam was a postdoc at ALGO from August 2004 until April 2006. His research concentrated mostly on the design and analysis of Raptor codes on memoryless binary symmetric channels. He designed and implemented new density evolution methods geared towards this class of codes, and studied the asymptotic and finite length behavior of Raptor codes. text/html 2011-09-06T11:46:52+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/raj?rev=1315302412&do=diff [Portrait of Raj] Raj received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA, in 2009, working under the guidance of Prof. Giuseppe Caire. Prior to this, he obtained the B.E. degree from the University of Madras, India, in 2003, and the M.Sc.(Eng.) degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2005. He works on the broad areas of Information Theory and Code Design for wireless communication systems. text/html 2010-09-13T13:44:29+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/shahram?rev=1284378269&do=diff [A picture of Prof. Shahram Yousefi] text/html 2009-04-02T14:06:19+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/thibaud?rev=1238673979&do=diff Thibaud left Algo at the end of year 2008 for joining Zeno's startup project. text/html 2011-12-19T10:32:04+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/yuval?rev=1324287124&do=diff [Portrait of Yuval] personal home page Yuval was a post-doc at ALGO between 09/10-08/11. He worked on efficient graph codes for storage applications, as well as other constructive and algorithmic frameworks for data storage. From ALGO he continued to a faculty position at the EE Department of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In addition to great research collaborations and friendly lab mates, the Swiss views and Lausanne atmosphere make his future visits to the group highly likely… text/html 2009-05-28T15:49:38+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/zeno?rev=1243518578&do=diff Zeno worked at Algo as developer. During his stay at Algo he developed XCast a raptor-enabled podcast client, an early version of our liveTV streaming system, and the didactic image demo for explaining the advantages of FEC. He left Algo in March 2007 for starting his own company. text/html 2011-01-27T11:49:32+02:00 http://algo.epfl.ch/en/group/members/zhang?rev=1296125372&do=diff [Portrait of Luoming] Luoming received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009, where he also received his B. Eng degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003. During his PhD study, his work mainly focused on the design and implementation of wireless broadband communication system. As a key team player, he participated in several research projects, including the standardization of China's digital teresstrial television broadcasting, demo design of China's be…