|
Sergio Benedetto is a Full Professor of
Digital Communications at Politecnico di Torino, Italy since 1981. He has
been a Visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is an Adjoint Professor at
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications in Paris. He has
co-authored two books on probability and signal theory (in italian), the
book "Digital Transmission Theory" (Prentice-Hall, 1987), "Optical Fiber
Communications" (Artech House, 1996), and "Principles of Digital
Communications with Wireless Applications" (Plenum-Kluwer, 1999), and over
250 papers in leading journals and conferences. He has taught several
continuing education courses on the subject of channel coding for the UCLA
Extension Program and for the CEI organisation. He has organized numerous
sessions in international conferences, and has been the Chairman of the
Communications Theory Symposium of ICC 2001. Professor Benedetto is a Fellow
of the IEEE, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications
Society. He is also the Chairman of the Communications Theory Committee of
the IEEE Communications Society. In 1998 he received the Italgas Prize for
Leadership in Scientific Research and Innovation in Europe. |
