Speakers

Amin Shokrollahi

Place of Birth : Iran
Born : 1964
Position : 2017 Mustafa Prize Laureate & Professor at EPFL, Switzerland
Field of study : Design and analysis of coding systems, Development and implementation of fast coding algorithms, Computational number theory, Computational algebra, Algebra
H. Index : 68

Prof. M. Amin Shokrollahi was born in Iran in 1964. He received his German Diploma and his M.Sc in Mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe in 1988. Then, he obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Bonn, Germany, in 1991. Since January 2003 he holds a full professor position jointly at the School of Informatics and Communication Sciences (I&C) and the Faculty of Basic Sciences (FSB) of EPFL.

Prof. Shokrollahi is the co-inventor of Tornado codes, and the inventor of Raptor Codes. The world's most advanced forward error correction (FEC) code for data networks, Raptor codes invented by Shokrollahi in 2001, provide protection against packet loss by sending additional repair data used to reconstruct "erased" or "lost" data.

Prof. Shokrollahi was the founder of First Summer School on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science in Tehran back in 2000 and served as tutorial on Raptor codes for mobile communication at the University of Tehran in 2010. He has also mentored numerous Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellowship from Islamic Countries.

Over a period of 10 years, Prof. Shokrollahi designed and implemented various versions of his Raptor codes for many different information distribution applications including video streaming and delivery of data to mobile devices.

For his work on the design and development of Raptor and Fountain Codes he was awarded the 2007 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award which recognizes outstanding contributions to Communications, and the 2012 Hamming Medal which is among the most prestigious awards of the IEEE. Also, the 2017 Mustafa Prize in Information Theory was awarded to Prof. M. Amin Shokrollahi in recognition of his outstanding work on Communications: Raptor Codes.

• Founder and CEO, Kandou Bus, Lausanne Area, Switzerland, (2011 – Present)

• Full Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, EPFL, (2003 – Present)

• Chief Scientist, Digital Fountain, (2000-2008)