Frank R. Kschischang (born 15 September 1962 in Mettmann, West Germany) is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto,[1] and holds a Canada Research Chair in communication algorithms.[2] He is a co-inventor of the factor graph, a kind of graphical model used in Bayesian inference.[3][third-party source needed]
Frank R. Kschischang | |
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| Born | 15 September 1962 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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| Fields | Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Shaping and Coding Gain Criteria in Signal Constellation Design (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | S. Pasupathy. |
Prof. Kschischang is a Fellow of the IEEE, "for contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes."[4][5] He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada,[6] and is a recipient of the 2010 Killam Research Fellowship.[7] He received the 2023 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal,[8] the 2012 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research,[9] and the 2016 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.[10] From 2014 to 2016, Prof. Kschischang served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[11]