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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
Phd and Postdoctoral Positions in Information Theory at INRIA
PhD and Postdoc positions at INRIA in the mathematics of behavioural influence.
May 13, 2020
Postdoc Position in Wireless Networks at Northwestern University
The Communication and Networking Laboratory at Northwestern University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on wireless massive access and/or machine learning for wireless networks.
Apr 23, 2020
Postdoctoral Position in Data-driven Graphical Models at ASU
Postdoctoral position at Arizona State University in using information sciences to model and learn graph-based representations of high-fidelity electric grid sychrophasor data in a data-driven fashion
Apr 6, 2020
Open Faculty position on Quantum Information Processing with Photons at Télécom Paris
Télécom Paris, one of the top French Graduate Schools of Engineering, offers a full-time tenured academic position as
Associate Professor in the area of Quantum Information Processing, with of focus of quantum computing and experimental quantum optics.
Mar 11, 2020
Postdoc Positions at Northwestern and TTIChicago
The Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL)
invites applications for two postdoctoral fellowships starting Fall of
2020, to conduct inter-disciplinary research that focuses on the
theoretical foundations of data science. One fellowship is based at
the Toyota Technology Institute at Chicago (TTIC) and one fellowship
is based at Northwestern University.
Feb 13, 2020
Tenured Faculty Position in Cryptograph at Télécom Paris
Télécom Paris, one of the top four engineering schools in France for training general engineers and PhDs, invites application for a tenured position of Professor in Cryptography.
Feb 12, 2020
Postdoctoral Position at the Ohio State University
A postdoctoral scholar position is available in The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at the Ohio State University, under the direction of Prof. Hesham El Gamal and Prof. Aylin Yener.
Jan 27, 2020
Tenure-Track Position in Information and Data Science at the University of Cambridge
University Lectureship in Information and Data Science at the University of Cambridge
Jan 3, 2020
Post Doc in High-Throughput Coding at DTU
A postdoctoral position on high-throughput error-correcting coding is available in the coding group in the Communication Technology Section at DTU Fotonik.
Dec 11, 2019
Research Assistant Professor in the Foundations of Data Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Assistant Professor, Data Science, Information Theory, UIC, Chicago
Nov 21, 2019
Tenure-Track Position in the Mathematics of Information and Learning at Cambridge University
University Lecturer in the Mathematics of Information and Learning at Cambridge University
Nov 19, 2019
Faculty positions at University of Michigan IOE Deparment
The Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for faculty positions beginning September 2020.
Sep 14, 2019
Assistant Professor position at Princeton University
The Department of Electrical Engineering seeks applications in all areas of Electrical Engineering for a tenure-track assistant professor faculty position. Candidates should have a commitment to teaching and a demonstrated ability to pursue a high impact research program. A start date of September 1, 2020 is preferred.
Sep 5, 2019
Postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge
There is a postdoctoral position available in information theory and communications at the University of Cambridge.
Sep 2, 2019
Two-year Postdoctoral Researcher Position at Rutgers University
A two-year position in signal processing and machine learning for scientific applications is available in the ECE Department at Rutgers University under Prof. Waheed Bajwa.
Sep 2, 2019
PhD Student/Postdoc Position in Information Theory at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
A PhD student/Postdoc position is available in information theory at the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Zaidel
Aug 6, 2019
Postdoctoral position at Tufts University
A postdoctoral position is available in the area of machine learning and data analytics for human performance understanding and prediction.
Aug 5, 2019
Technical University of Munich Seeks Doctoral student; Postdoctoral Student
Technical University of Munich seeks Doctoral student; Postdoctoral student: Information and Communication Theory for Post Shannon Communication Systems
Jul 18, 2019
PhD Positions in Coding Theory/Communication Theory in Karlsruhe, Germany
We have open vacancies for PhD students at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany in coding theory, communication theory and the application of machine learning in communications. Potential applications include optical fiber communications, wireless communications and data storage. Candidates seeking Postdoc positions are encouraged to apply as well.
Jul 16, 2019
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
Videos and Lecture Material for 2021 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory Now Available
The 2021 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory was held in August 2021 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Videos and lecture material are now available at
http://cscit.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/CSCIT2021/program.html
Nov 3, 2021
Reminder: Call for Nominations: Goldsmith Lecturer, Padovani Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2022 class of Lecturers. Nomination deadline is November 1, 2021.
Oct 22, 2021
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by October 31st.
Oct 17, 2021
ITW2021 Event Platform is Now Online
ITW2021 starts on October 17 as a virtual event, and the event platform is now online. There is still time to register for ITW2021 and get access to to papers, videos, presentation files, and of course participation in the live Zoom sessions. Plenaries, tutorials and technical presentations are described in the Technical Program.
Oct 11, 2021
Call for Papers:Â Coding and Information Theory for Data Storage at ICC2022
The Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage track at ICC2022 seeks original contributions in coding and information theory for data storage, and related topical areas.
Oct 1, 2021
Call for Nominations: Goldsmith Lecturer, Padovani Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2022 class of Lecturers. Nomination deadline is November 1, 2021.
Sep 29, 2021
Next JSAIT Special Issue will be on Distributed Coding and Computation
JSAIT Call for Papers: This special issue will focus on information theoretic aspects of distributed coding and computing. Deadline for papers is December 15, 2021.
Sep 29, 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher Positions Available
Postdoctoral Researcher Positions at AI-Edge Institute
Sep 17, 2021
Early Registration and Technical Program for ITW 2021
Early registration to ITW 2021 is open for one more day! Discounts are available for students, ÌÇÐÄlogo members and IT Society members. Check out the technical program as well.
Sep 16, 2021
ITW 2021 Early Registration Now Open
ITW 2021 will be held as a virtual event from October 17 to October 21, 2021. Registration is now open. IT Society student members can register for free before September 21.
Aug 24, 2021
Deadline Extension: JSAIT Special Issue on Information Theoretic Foundations of Future Communication Systems
The deadline for JSAIT Special Issue on Information Theoretic Foundations of Future Communication Systems is extended to September 15. That is a hard deadline.
Aug 22, 2021
ISIT 2021 Post-Symposium Summary and Thanks
ISIT 2021, the longest ISIT ever, is now completed. We thank all participants for contributing to the success of this virtual conference. Read on to see a summary of the statistics.
Jul 22, 2021
Raymond W. Yeung Named Recipient of 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Raymond W. Yeung is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. He will deliver his Shannon Lecture at ISIT 2022.
Jul 20, 2021
2021 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award Recipients Announced
Two recipients have been announced for the 2021 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
Jul 20, 2021
2021 Information Theory Society Paper Award Recipients Named
2021 Information Theory Society Paper Award recipients named
Jul 13, 2021
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by July 31st.
Jul 13, 2021
ITSoc Diversity and Inclusion Survey
As part of efforts to improve inclusivity in the information theory community, if you have participated in the information theory community in any way, please fill out this demographics and inclusion survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ITSoc
Jul 12, 2021
Survey on the Possible Format of Future ISITs
Please let us know what you think about the format of future of ISITs by taking this survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHSZ29L With ISIT now running, it is a great time to let us know what you think.
Jul 12, 2021
ISIT 2021 - Virtual Mentorship Event
The Student and Outreach Subcommittee and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the ÌÇÐÄlogo IT society are organizing a virtual mentorship event during the ISIT 2021 conference, on topics relevant to the student, postdoc and young faculty community of the IT society.
Jul 8, 2021
Q&A Session with Shannon Award Recipient Alon Orlitsky
The IT Society's Student and Outreach subcommittee is excited to announce a live Q&A session with this year’s Shannon Award recipient Alon Orlitsky. Register by July 16 at https://2021.ieee-isit.org/MeetShannonLecturer.asp
Jul 7, 2021
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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Aug
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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03
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Sydney, Australia
Deadline:
2025 ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
The ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Otc. 3, 2025.