Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2014

Giuseppe Caire

Giuseppe Caire is one of the world’s leading experts on the principles of telecommunications and information theory.

  • Nominating University: Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) in conjunction with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin

Communications engineering

Giuseppe Caire's pioneering work on coded modulation and many other publications and applications have had a lasting impact on the practice and standards of modern wireless communications. They are at the bottom of many digital communication technologies such as WLAN and mobile phone transmission. By conducting top-level theoretical research at university whilst working on practical applications at the Heinrich Hertz Institute, Caire would continue to combine productive research with concrete applications and consolidate TU Berlin’s position at the international forefront of the field.

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Guiseppe Caire at TU Berlin

Brief bio

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Caire was born in 1965. Italian by birth, he worked as a research assistant at the European Space Agency ESTEC in The Netherlands after completing his doctorate at the Politecnico di Torino in 1994, returning to Turin as an assistant professor in 1995. From 1997 to 1998, he was an associate professor at the University of Parma, receiving a research fellowship to Princeton University, USA, in 1997. He was a full professor at the Eurecom Institute, Antipolis, France, from 1998 to 2005, and spent several months at the University of Sydney in 2000. Subsequently he was a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. He has received numerous honours, particularly from IEEE for whom he worked as president of the Information Theory Society, ITS. As a Humboldt Professor he became head of the group "Communications and Information Theory" at TU Berlin in April 2014.
(no longer receiving sponsorship)

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