Prof. Dr. Wojciech Marek Szpankowski

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and overarching topics in Mathematics; collections
Keywordsanalytische Kombinatorik, Algorithmen für Worte, analytische Informationstheorie, universelle Quellenkodierung, Datenkompression

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityWest Lafayette
InstitutionPurdue University
InstituteDepartment of Computer Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ralph NeiningerFachbereich für Stochastik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2010

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Szpankowski is a leading researcher in information theory and the mathematical analysis of algorithms. He has developed methods for analytic combinatorics such as an analytic de-Poissonization theory. During his stay in Germany, he intends to combine analytic and probabilistic methods to universally characterize asymptotic distributions arising from random trees, recursive algorithms and coding theory.