Biography

Giuseppe Durisi received the Laurea degree summa cum laude and the Doctor degree both from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2002 to 2006, he was with Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy. From 2006 to 2010 he was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. In 2010, he joined Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, where he is now full professor with the Communication Systems Group. At Chalmers, he served as co-director of the Information and Communication Technology Area of Advance, and of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center. He is currently director of the master program in information and communication technologies.

Dr. Durisi is a senior member of the IEEE. He is the recipient of the 2013 IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region, and is co-author of a paper that won a “student paper award” at the 2012 International Symposium on Information Theory, and of a paper that won the 2013 IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT joint chapter best student conference paper award. From 2011 to 2014, he served as publications editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. From 2015 to 2021, he served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is currently associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research interests are in the areas of communication and information theory and machine learning.

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