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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.
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
PhD Scholarships (The University of Newcastle)
The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is offering multiple full PhD scholarships to both domestic and international applicants.
Jul 5, 2013
Post-Doctoral Position in Physical Layer Security at the University of Padova, Italy
A Post-Doc Position in Physical Layer Security is available at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy
May 23, 2013
Post-doctoral positions in information and communication theory
The School of Electrical Engineering and the ACCESS Linnaeus Center at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, are pleased to announce post-doctoral positions in information and communication theory.
Mar 15, 2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Center for Science of Information (CSoI)
The Center for Science of Information (CSoI) invites nominations and applications for its CSoI Research Fellows program.
Feb 15, 2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hamilton Institute
Applications are invited for a senior postdoctoral position within the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Feb 15, 2013
Simons Foundation Postdoc at UT Austin
The ECE department at The University of Texas at Austin seeks highly qualified candidates for postdoctoral fellowship positions, lasting up to two years, in the information sciences, broadly defined. Applicants should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in ECE, CS, Math, Statistics or related fields.
Jan 16, 2013
Postdoctoral research fellowship in network coding
Postdoctoral position available, Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dec 13, 2012
Postdoc Position in Wireless Communications at Northwestern University
One Postdoctoral Fellow position in the area of wireless communications is available in the Communications and Networking Laboratory at Northwestern University. Applicants are welcome to apply by emailing a CV, names of references and one or two selected publications to Prof. Dongning Guo at [email protected]. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.
Dec 6, 2012
Northwestern University Faculty Position for Assistant Professor in Communications, Networking or Control (Including Robotics)
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to start fall 2013 in the areas of communications, networking and control (including robotics) especially those that broaden the department in emerging areas or that strengthen existing areas. Exceptional candidates in related areas will also receive serious consideration.
Dec 6, 2012
Research Associate position in Physical-Layer Security at Imperial College, London, UK
A Research Associate position in physical layer security is available at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.
Dec 2, 2012
Ph.D. position in information theory at Chalmers (Sweden)
The division of Communication Systems and Information Theory at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) has an open Ph.D. position in the area of information theory.
Nov 28, 2012
Cyber-Physical Systems Faculty Position at Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Electrical Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of signals and systems including but not limited to subareas of control, information theory, machine learning and signal processing.
Nov 27, 2012
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne, Australia
A 1-year position is available in the Dept. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia, to investigate information theory for feedback control systems.
Nov 16, 2012
Post Doctoral Fellow Position at University of New South Wales, Australia
The School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, offers a three year position for a post doctoral fellow in Wireless Communications.
Nov 7, 2012
Research fellow position in physical-layer security at University of South Australia
The Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, offers a three year position for a research fellow in the area of physical-layer security.
Oct 31, 2012
Post-doc positions at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Several post-doc positions available in the general area of network information theory at Institute of Communication Systems, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Jul 7, 2012
ICREA Research Professorships
20 Research Professorships in all areas
Mar 13, 2012
Open position: Postdoc Fellow in Physical Layer Security for Wireless Communications
One postdoctoral position is available at The Wireless Communications Lab, University of New South Wales, Sydney. The research project is in collaboration with The Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia.
Jan 16, 2012
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
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor at UC Irvine in Theory and Applications of Data-Driven Systems
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate/Full Professor (tenured) position.
Nov 14, 2019
Postdocs at EURECOM in Coded Caching and Distributed Computing
We are looking for postdocs at EURECOM who have worked on coded caching and/or distributed computing. Planned research includes coded caching, distributed computing, data shuffling, as well as a variety of other applications in the area of communications and computing. The duration can be 1.5, or up to 3-4 years.
Nov 12, 2019
Jørn Justesen Has Passed Away
Jørn Justesen, a well-known expert in coding theory, communications, and data compression, passed away on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC, USA at the age of 75. His notable results include the construction of low-complexity, asymptotically good error-correcting codes (1972), a discovery of fast decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon and algebraic-geometric codes, as well as research into construction and properties of convolutional codes.
Oct 31, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp Has Passed Away
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
Oct 31, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp Has Passed Away
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
Oct 31, 2019
Call for Nominations: NVMW Persistent Impact Prize
The NVMW Persistent Impact Prize is awarded annually to a paper published at least five years prior that has had exceptional impact on the fields of study related to non-volatile memories, including coding and information theory. The award includes a cash prize.
Oct 30, 2019
The Bit Player Screens November 3 at MIT in Cambridge
Join us for the latest screening of the The Bit Player, the first feature film about Claude Shannon. The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society has helped to produce this film, which combines interviews with leading scientists, archival film, inventive animation and compelling commentary from Shannon himself to tell the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity. Mark Levinson, director of the award-winning film Particle Fever, wrote, produced and directed The Bit Player.
Oct 29, 2019
Associate or Full Professor at UC Irvine in Theory and Applications of Data-Driven Systems
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a Tenured Position (Associate or Full Professor). Areas include, but are not limited to, theoretical foundations and algorithms dealing with various aspects of big data broadly interpreted to include networked communication systems, distributed computing, high dimensional statistics, signal processing, scaling laws, data mining, and machine learning for high-performance and scalable computing and communication; applications include, but are not limited to, Internet-of-Things, augmented intelligence, social science, smart cities and other domains.
Oct 28, 2019
New IT Soc Video on Secret Sharing
A new video presenting the concepts behind secret sharing and Shamir's seminal paper is now on YouTube. This is the latest video in the Society's Great Papers: Information Theory series.
Oct 22, 2019
Levenshtein Special Issue of IT Trans — Deadline Extended
The deadline for paper submissions to the special issue of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Transactions on Information Theory dedicated to the memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein has been extended to November 15th, 2019.
Oct 16, 2019
Postdoc at AI Now Institute at NYU
The AI Now Institute at New York University is hiring 1-2 postdoctoral researchers interested in joining an interdisciplinary and dynamic team of collaborative researchers. This two-year position is designed for scholars who want to engage with the social implications of AI and related technologies, and we welcome applications from all disciplines.
Oct 15, 2019
Professor of Data Sciences and Operations (Open Rank) at USC
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Tenure-Track Statistics Positions
Oct 10, 2019
Contribution for newsletter
Oct 3, 2019
Deadline extension to Oct. 15: JSAIT Deep Learning Special Issue
The deadline for JSAIT's first special issue on Deep Learning: Mathematical Foundations and Applications to Information Science has been extended to October 15. This is a hard deadline.
Sep 29, 2019
SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS 2020)
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is proud to introduce the first SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS 2020), which will take place on May 5–7, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A
Sep 19, 2019
Call-for-Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers
ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2020 Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers.
Sep 19, 2019
The Bit Player - San Francisco premiere
Sep 9, 2019
New conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC)
We are happy to announce the birth of a new conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC). The first ITC conference will take place in Boston on June 17-19, 2020.
Aug 31, 2019
Postdoc Position at USC
Aug 30, 2019
Call-for-Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers
ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2020 Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers.
Aug 29, 2019
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.