Frank Kschischang
| Frank Kschischang | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 September 1962 Mettmann |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Shaping and Coding Gain Criteria in Signal Constellation Design (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | S. Pasupathy. |
Frank Kschischang (born 15 September 1962 in Mettmann, West Germany (now Germany)) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, and holds a Canada Research Chair in communication algorithms. He is a co-inventor of the factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference.
Prof. Kschischang is a Fellow of the IEEE, "for contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes." He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a recipient of the 2010 Killam Research Fellowship, and received the 2012 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research. Prof. Kschischang is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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