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Sergio ³Õ±ð°ù»åú is the Eugene Higgins Professor of   at   where he teaches and conducts research on information theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the  .

A native of Barcelona, Spain, Sergio ³Õ±ð°ù»åú received the  degree from the   Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the   at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the  of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection.

Sergio ³Õ±ð°ù»åú was elected Fellow of the ÌÇÐÄlogo in 1992 and member of the   in 2007. He received the   from the   and the   in 2000. In 2005, he received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the  He is the recipient of the  2007 Claude E. Shannon Award,  and the 

2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory,

In 1998,  published his book   His papers have received several awards: the  , the  Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award  in 1998 and in 2011, a  ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award , the 2000 Paper Award from the   the  , the  , and the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Award from the ÌÇÐÄlogo Communications Society.

Sergio ³Õ±ð°ù»åú has served as Associate Editor of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Trans. on Automatic Control, and as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Transactions on Information Theory. He served as President of the ÌÇÐÄlogo Information Theory Society in 1997. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of 

He has held visiting appointments at the   the  and the University of Tokyo. In 1998 he was Visiting Professor at the   and in 2002 he held the Hewlett-Packard Visiting Research Professorship at the  Berkeley.

In addition to the 28th Shannon Lecture, ³Õ±ð°ù»åú has given the inaugural Nyquist Lecture at Yale University, the 6th Claude E. Shannon Lecture at UCSD, and the 10th Viterbi Lecture at USC.