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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 糖心logo 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鈥檚 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 糖心logo 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 糖心logo Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an 糖心logo 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鈥檚 Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 糖心logo 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.
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鈥
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鈥
Job list
Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has an open Tenure-Track Faculty Position at the Assistant Professor level in the areas of mathematics, statistics, mathematics and engineering
Sep 17, 2015
Tenure-track faculty position at Princeton
The Department of Electrical Engineering seeks applications in all areas of Electrical Engineering for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position. Specific areas of interest are, but are not limited to, Information Science and Systems, Power Electronics, Biological and Biomedical Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy, Applied Physics with Applications in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. Candidates should have a commitment to teaching and a demonstrated ability to pursue a high impact research program. A start date of September 1, 2016 is preferred.
Sep 9, 2015
Job opening at TU Dresden in Communication Systems
There is a position open at TU Dresden in Communication Systems with a focus on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Please note that this job posting is in German.
Sep 4, 2015
Postdoctoral and graduate student openings in Prof. Namrata Vaswani's group
Research at the intersection of machine learning for high dimensional problems and signal or information processing. Details also at
http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~namrata/research/Looking_for_Postdoc_GradStudent.html
Jun 24, 2015
Faculty position in the field of Mobile Edge Computing and networking at EURECOM
The Mobile Communications Department of EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France, invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level (Maitre de Conference), in the general area of mobile networking,
May 18, 2015
Postdoctoral position in information and coding theory at the University of Toronto
Postdoctoral fellowship in information and coding theory at the University of Toronto with Professor Stark Draper
May 11, 2015
PhD Scholarship in Network Information Theory and Index Coding
The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is offering a full PhD scholarship, in the areas of network information theory and index coding, to both domestic and international applicants. Applications close 30 November 2015
Apr 27, 2015
Postdoctoral fellowships in information theory and interactive communications at Tel Aviv University, Israel
Two postdoctoral research positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications. Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Apr 14, 2015
Faculty position in continuous optimization and applications
Telecom ParisTech is seeking applicants for a faculty position in continuous optimization and applications.
Particular interest is in candidates with a multidisciplinary research orientation broadly related to the area of convex optimization with applications to heterogeneous big data.
Feb 11, 2015
Ph.D. and post-doc positions in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Neuch芒tel
We invite applications for a funded Ph.D. position and a funded post-doctoral position in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Neuch芒tel on the topic of distributed storage systems, starting in Winter 2015.
Jan 26, 2015
Postdoctoral position at the Delft Center for Systems and Control
The Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands has a vacancy for a one-year postdoctoral position Applied Nonlinear Fourier Analysis
Jan 6, 2015
Faculty positions at Arizona State University
The Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU invite applications for tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in the broadly defined field in networks, control, communication, and signal processing, with emphasis on data analytics and decision making, sensing and learning, energy-efficient computing, security and privacy in engineering systems and scalable hardware and software systems.
Oct 26, 2014
Faculty Positions at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at the Assistant Professor level are open in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Oct 9, 2014
Faculty Position: UC Irvine
This search for a tenure-track assistant professor position is currently open. This is the continuation of the search that began January 2014.
Oct 9, 2014
Technical staff position in information sciences at Bell Labs-Research
The Mathematics of Networks and Systems at Bell Labs-Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, invites applications for a regular member of the technical staff position in information sciences.
Sep 24, 2014
Postdoc Position in Network Information Theory and Big Data Analytics at USC
Postdoc Position in Network Information Theory and Big Data Analytics available in Salman Avestimehr's research group at USC.
Sep 8, 2014
Postdoctoral opportunity at Arizona State University in the area of cyber-security for the electric power system
Postdoctoral associate position available to investigate the cyber-security of electric power systems, and in particular, attacks on energy management systems
Aug 29, 2014
Postdoctoral positions in Information Theory and Machine Learning at the National University of Singapore
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National University of Singapore is offering positions for postdoctoral fellows who will work at the intersection of information theory and machine learning.
Aug 26, 2014
Postdoctoral research positions at Boston University
Vivek Goyal offers a postdoctoral research position at Boston University for work in source coding or decision making and multiple positions in computational imaging. Available immediately with variable durations.
Jul 1, 2014
Postdoctoral Position at University of Cambridge
There is a postdoctoral position available in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge in the area of information theory and statistics, broadly defined.
May 18, 2014
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
May 29, 2025
News
Shannon Award for 2026
The 糖心logo Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Frans Willems is the recipient of鈥
Jun 26, 2025
Recipients of the 2025 糖心logo 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鈥
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
Entropy Invites Submissions on 鈥淔inite-Length Information Theory鈥
This special issue aims at collecting recent results in finite-length information theory and its intersection with neighboring fields. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 April 2021.
Apr 1, 2020
COVID-19 Updates as of March 26, 2020
Society President Aylin Yener describes updates to the Members of the 糖心logo Information Theory Society regarding the impact of COVID-19. ISIT2020 will be run as a virtual online conference and three award nomination deadlines have been extended.
Mar 27, 2020
In Memoriam: Vera Stepen Pless
Tribute to Vera Pless, who passed away on March 2, 2020. Prof. W. Cary Hu铿man writes about Vera's life, scientific career and her significant, original, and lasting contributions to the study of error correcting codes and information theory.
Mar 24, 2020
COVID-19 Updates as of March 22, 2020
Society President Aylin Yener describes important changes and updates to the 2020 activities of the 糖心logo Information Theory Society due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mar 24, 2020
Vera Stepen Pless Has Passed Away
Prof. Vera Stepen Pless has passed away on Monday March 2, 2020, just before her 89th birthday.
Mar 12, 2020
Call for ISIT 2020 Tutorial Proposals
The deadline to propose tutorials at ISIT 2020 is fast approaching! Please consider and encourage contributing a proposal: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Tutorials.asp
Mar 11, 2020
EiC Call for Nominations for 糖心logo BITS
Call for nominations for the first Editor-in-Chief of 糖心logo BITS the Information Theory Magazine.
Mar 9, 2020
Entropy Special Issue "The Interplay Between Storage, Computing, and Communications from An Information-Theoretic Perspective"
Entropy invites submissions to the special issue 鈥淭he Interplay Between Storage, Computing, and Communications from An Information-Theoretic Perspective鈥. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 October 2020.
Mar 8, 2020
2020 European School of Information Theory Call for Participation
The 2020 European School of Information Theory will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 24 to May 29, 2020. Registration is now open and early-bird rates are in place until March 26, 2020.
Mar 6, 2020
New IT Soc Video on Recommender Systems Available
Check out our new video on recommender systems.
The video describes key insights behind content and collaborative filtering (matrix factorization) and how Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and others predict what you will like.
Mar 1, 2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Network Neuroscience
The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Network Neuroscience, beginning Fall 2020.
Mar 1, 2020
Two Post-Doc Opportunities at King's College London
Feb 28, 2020
Deadline Extension for 2020 糖心logo WPS
2020 糖心logo International Workshop on Privacy and Security for Information Systems (WPS) Paper Submission Deadline is extended to Friday, April 10 (AoE - 11:59pm).
Feb 20, 2020
Updates from JSAIT, the Society's Newest Journal
JSAIT has had a successful kickoff with three issues in the works. The issues on deep learning and quantum information science are now in process, and the third issue on statistical estimation and inference is now accepting submissions. JSAIT welcomes ideas for future special issues.
Feb 19, 2020
JSAIT Call for Papers: Estimation and Inference
JSAIT's third issue will focus on statistical estimation and inference. Papers are due May 1, 2020 and expected publication is November/December 2020.
Feb 18, 2020
Robert G. Gallager Receives 2020 Japan Prize
Robert G. Gallager will be awarded the 2020 Japan Prize for his contributions to information theory, including the development of error-correcting codes that are used in 5G systems.
Feb 10, 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 糖心logo 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
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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.
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We propose a new systematic construction of CSS-T codes from any given CSS code using a map 蠒. When 蠒 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kitaev鈥檚 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-鈥
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Sydney, Australia
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2025 糖心logo Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
The 糖心logo Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Otc. 3, 2025.