The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Emre Telatar of EPFL has been named the 2025 Padovani Lecturer. The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift by Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The award provides for an outstanding member of the information theory community to deliver a lecture at one of the Society’s Schools of Information Theory for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
I. Emre Telatar received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1986. He received the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1988 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the Communications Analysis Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories (later Lucent Technologies), Murray Hill, NJ. He has been at the EPFL since 2000. Emre Telatar was the recipient of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2001. He was a program co-chair for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» International Symposium on Information Theory in 2002, and associate editor for Shannon Theory for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Transactions from 2001 to 2004. He was awarded the EPFL Agepoly teaching prize in 2005. Emre Telatar's research interests are in communication and information theories.