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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.
Events
Conferences, Workshops & Meetings
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Deadline Extension: 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25)
The deadline for paper submission to the 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25) , Shenzhen, China, has been extended to July 6, 2025 (AoE).
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Workshop on Distributed Computing, Optimization and Learning
The 2025 Workshop on Distributed Computing, Optimization and Learning takes place at the campus of the Technical University of Munich on September 3 to 5. The workshop consists of invited talks and contributed posters.
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Information Theory Workshop 2026
The 2026 ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Workshop will be held in the beautiful desert city of Tempe, Arizona, USA between November 1–4, 2026. We welcome original contributions across all areas of information theory.
Conferences
27-29 Jul, 2025
Guangzhou, China
2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications and Information Theory (AICIT2025)
The 2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications…
03-08 Aug, 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
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18-22 Aug, 2025
Los Angeles, CA, USA
International Symposium on Topics in Coding 2025
The 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding* will be held from Monday August 18th to…
Job list
Faculty Positions at RPI
Multiple Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty Positions at Rensselaer
Nov 19, 2018
Faculty Positions at UMN in Comm/Data Science
The UMN ECE department has two faculty positions open related to Communications and Data Science.
Nov 6, 2018
Faculty positions in IT at UT Austin
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has multiple faculty openings with a start date of Fall 2019, including Assistant Professor and more senior positions. We are interested in applicants who are performing innovative research in information theory, broadly defined to include core topics as well as emerging intersections between information theory and other fields.
Nov 6, 2018
Faculty position in Quantitative Methods at Purdue
The Krannert School of Management invites applicants for two tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level in the Quantitative Methods area to begin in the fall semester of 2019.
Nov 6, 2018
ECE Faculty Positions at University of Michigan
THE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE) Division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor invites applications for junior or senior faculty positions, especially from women and under- represented minorities.
Oct 11, 2018
ML/AI/Data Science Faculty Position at UW Madison
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks faculty candidates for up to three tenure-track faculty positions in the areas of basic research in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Data Science (DS).
Oct 11, 2018
Rutgers needs a new DIMACS Director
The DIMACS Center based at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ is seeking a Director. This is a five-year renewable appointment as Director as well as a tenured full professor position in an appropriate Rutgers department.
Oct 4, 2018
Position in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers
The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invites applications for faculty positions, at all ranks, with a start date of fall 2019.
Sep 16, 2018
PhD positions (2) in information theory
There is vacancy for two PhD positions in information theory at the Department of Informatics. The positions are for a fixed-term period of 4 years with 25% compulsory other work (e.g. teaching duties). The workplace is the research center Simula UiB AS.
Simula UiB is a research center owned by Simula Research Laboratory and the University of Bergen. The goal of Simula UiB is to increase the security expertise in Norway through research and education. The positions are within the Information Theory Section of Simula UiB. The successful candidates will use advanced information-theoretic and coding-theoretic tools to design new security and privacy schemes and derive fundamental performance bounds for such schemes applied to future distributed information systems. Distributed information systems include, but are not limited to distributing storage systems and distributed computing systems.
Sep 5, 2018
5 PhD Positions at the University of Vienna
Data Science @ Uni Wien is a new research platform at the University of Vienna that presents a hub on all activities in data science at the University of Vienna. We have openings for five enthusiastic PhD students to establish an interdisciplinary research environment. The PhD students will be hosted in one of the faculties of Computer Science, Mathematics, or Business, Economics and Statistics.
Each of the PhD students will be co-supervised by members of at least two different faculties and work on research problems in one of five domains, Astronomy, Digital Humanities, Finance, Industry 4.0, Medical Sciences. The focus in these areas is described on our website: http://datascience.univie.ac.at
Apr 5, 2018
Tenured Faculty Position at EURECOM's Communication Systems Department
The Communications Systems department of EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, invites applications for a full time tenured faculty position in the broad area of data-driven communication systems.
Apr 2, 2018
Multiple research positions in IT and nonlinear fiber optics at TU Eindhoven
We are hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and one fully-funded PhD student to work on the project FUN-NOTCH: Fundamentals of the Nonlinear Optical Channel. Both positions are available for four years and are in the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) group at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Feb 27, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Change Detection for Multimodal Data, Duke University
The postdoc is at the IID center under the supervision of Prof. Vahid Tarokh.
Feb 6, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Non-Commutative Information Theory and Processing, Duke University
The postdoc is at Duke University under the supervision of Prof. Vahid Tarokh.
Feb 6, 2018
Faculty position at Telecom ParisTech in Information Processing and Communications
Telecom ParisTech is seeking applicants for a faculty position in the Digital Communications Group, Department of Communications and Electronics.
Dec 19, 2017
Tenure-Track Faculty Position open at Princeton University
The Department of Electrical Engineering seeks applications in all areas of Electrical Engineering for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position.
Dec 18, 2017
Tenured Faculty Position open at Princeton University
The Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University seeks outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, effective as early as September 1, 2018.
Dec 18, 2017
Jobs Board
Postdoctoral Positions in the Information Theory, Probability and Statistics Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
We seek two strong candidates with a PhD in IT or Mathematics to work at the intersection of…
Jun 24, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Machine Learning
Simula UiB
We are seeking a candidate with a PhD degree to work in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of…
Jun 19, 2025
Postdoc Positions in Communication, Quantum, Security, & ML
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are looking for…
May 29, 2025
News
Shannon Award for 2026
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Frans Willems is the recipient of…
Jun 26, 2025
Recipients of the 2025 ÌÇÐÄlogo Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award: Yifeng Xiong, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Weijie Yuan, Tony Xiao Han, and Giuseppe Caire
The Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications…
Jun 26, 2025
2025 Information Theory Society Paper Award Recipients Named
The winners of the 2025 ITSoc Paper Award were announced at the ISIT 2025 awards session.
Jun 26, 2025
2025 ITSoc Chapter of the Year Announced!
The Benelux Section Chapter has been named the 2025 Chapter of the Year.
Jun 24, 2025
News
Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Transactions on Information Theory
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Transactions on Information Theory, starting July 1, 2021.
Apr 12, 2021
Call for Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit contributions for the upcoming newsletter by April 30.
Apr 7, 2021
Yuejie Chi named the ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society 2021 Goldsmith Lecturer
Yuejie Chi announced as the 2021 Goldsmith Lecturer
Apr 4, 2021
Muriel Médard named the ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society 2021 Padovani Lecturer
Muriel Médard announced as the 2021 Padovani Lecturer
Apr 4, 2021
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society names 2021-22 Distinguished Lecturers
2021-22 Distinguished Lecturers announced
Apr 4, 2021
CFP: ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAC Special Issue on Private Information Retrieval, Private Coded Computing over Distributed Servers, and Privacy in Distributed Learning
This special issue is dedicated to communication theory, coding theory, information theory, signal processing, and networking aspects of privacy in information retrieval, privacy in coded computing over distributed servers, and privacy in distributed learning.
Mar 29, 2021
Reminder: Information Theory Society Call for 2021 Award Nominations
There is still time for all members to submit nominations for the following Information Theory Society awards.
Feb 23, 2021
Registrations for ITW 2020
Registrations for ITW 2020 are now open.
Workshop dates: April 11-15, 2021.
Detailed information at http://itw2020.it
Feb 19, 2021
Meir Feder Wins Academy Award
IT Society Life Fellow Meir Feder is a co-recipient of the Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on wireless video transmission.
Feb 17, 2021
Postdoctoral Position, University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral position at the boundary of information theory, Network Sciences, and Learning.
Feb 14, 2021
JSAIT Updates
Deadline extension for 6th special issue, CFP for 7th special issue, call for proposals
Feb 12, 2021
Invitation to attend the PIPP: Pandemic Readiness for Emerging Pathogens workshop (February 16, 17, 2021)
Interdisciplinary workshop on predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention; seeking participation from Engineering (ENG), Biological Sciences (BIO), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). February 16, 17, 2021
Jan 31, 2021
ERC-Funded Positions in Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication
A variety of PhD student, Postdoc Fellow and 5-year Researcher Positions are available at the Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, France.
Jan 22, 2021
Contributions for society newsletter
Jan 19, 2021
Call for 2021 Information Theory Society Award Nominations
We look forward to receiving nominations from all members for the following Information Theory Society awards. Please note the deadlines to nominate.
Jan 13, 2021
Jacob Ziv Awarded ÌÇÐÄlogo Medal of Honor
Jacob Ziv has received the most prestigious award of the ÌÇÐÄlogo, the ÌÇÐÄlogo Medal of Honor.
Jan 6, 2021
"How Claude Shannon Invented the Future" in Quanta Magazine
David Tse writes about not only Claude Shannon's impact on communications, but also on how his work illustrates the importance of top-rate science. Read David's article in Quanta Magazine.
Dec 24, 2020
Call for 2021 Information Theory Society Award Nominations
We look forward to receiving nominations from all members for the following Information Theory Society awards. Please note the deadlines to nominate.
Dec 22, 2020
Good News! ÌÇÐÄlogo Student Membership Dues Are Now 50% Off
Attention Students! ÌÇÐÄlogo now offers a discounted dues option for all student and graduate student members. Simply enter promotion code FUTURE50 when you join or renew to receive 50% off your student membership!
Dec 22, 2020
Past meeting
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2025, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ University of Toronto
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on Zoom.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BoG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BoG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - June 2021
The second BoG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
BoG meeting July 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.
Research In Information Theory
Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
CSS-T codes are a class of stabilizer codes introduced by Rengaswamy et al with desired properties for quantum fault-tolerance. In this work, we comprehensively study non-degenerate CSS-T codes built from Reed-Muller codes. These classical codes allow for constructing optimal CSS-T code families with nonvanishing asymptotic rates up to 12 and possibly diverging minimum distance when non-degenerate.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
We propose a new systematic construction of CSS-T codes from any given CSS code using a map Ï•. When Ï• is the identity map I, we retrieve the construction of hu2021mitigating and use it to prove the existence of asymptotically good binary CSS-T codes, resolving a previously open problem in the literature, and of asymptotically good quantum LDPC CSS-T codes.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
In this paper, we introduce the Union-Intersection Union-Find (UIUF) algorithm for decoding depolarizing errors in topological codes, combining the strengths of iterative and standard Union-Find (UF) decoding. While iterative UF improves performance at moderate error rates, it lacks an error correction guarantee. To address this, we develop UIUF, which maintains the enhanced performance of iterative UF while ensuring error correction up to half the code distance.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
We introduce a new erasure decoder that applies to arbitrary quantum LDPC codes. Dubbed the cluster decoder, it generalizes the decomposition idea of Vertical-Horizontal (VH) decoding introduced by Connolly et al. in 2022. Like the VH decoder, the idea is to first run the peeling decoder and then post-process the resulting stopping set. The cluster decoder breaks the stopping set into a tree of clusters, which can be solved sequentially via Gaussian Elimination.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Antenna efficiency is a key parameter in the design of large-scale dense arrays, and influences the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of wireless communications. Low embedded element efficiency (EEE) has been verified to be the bottleneck of dense array MIMO systems. Using ideas from the Floquet series, we propose a new framework to evaluate the mutual coupling for infinite arrays with a regular grid, including two new methods to calculate the EEE.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Kitaev’s toric code is one of the most prominent models for fault-tolerant quantum computation, currently regarded as the leading solution for connectivity constrained quantum technologies. Significant effort has been recently devoted to improving the error correction performance of the toric code under message-passing decoding, a class of low-complexity, iterative decoding algorithms that play a central role in both theory and practice of classical low-density parity-check codes.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for holographic multiantenna communication, a paradigm that integrates both wide apertures and closely spaced antennas relative to the wavelength. The presented framework is physically grounded, enabling information-theoretic analyses that inherently incorporate correlation and mutual coupling among the antennas. This establishes the combined effects of correlation and coupling on the information-theoretic performance limits across SNR levels.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
The non-local interactions in several quantum device architectures allow for the realization of more compact quantum encodings while retaining the same degree of protection against noise. Anticipating that short to medium-length codes will soon be realizable, it is important to construct stabilizer codes that, for a given code distance, admit fault-tolerant implementations of logical gates with the fewest number of physical qubits. To this aim, we construct three kinds of codes encoding a single logical qubit for distances up to 31.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
In a recently introduced coset guessing game, Alice plays against Bob and Charlie, aiming to meet a joint winning condition. Bob and Charlie can only communicate before the game starts to devise a joint strategy. The game we consider begins with Alice preparing a 2m-qubit quantum state based on a random selection of three parameters. She sends the first m qubits to Bob and the rest to Charlie, and then reveals to them her choice for one of the parameters.
ÌÇÐÄlogo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) with locality parameter r can recover any erased code symbol by accessing r other code symbols. This local recovery property is of great interest in large-scale distributed classical data storage systems as it leads to efficient repair of failed nodes. A well-known class of optimal (classical) LRCs are subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes constructed using a special type of polynomials called good polynomials.
Upcoming Events
The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools
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Hong Kong
[applications can now be submitted] 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
CSCIT 2025 will bring together PhD students and post-doctoral scholars from across Asia to learn and discuss cutting-edge research with world-…
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Sydney, Australia
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2025 ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Otc. 3, 2025.