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Biography

Tobias Koch is an Associate Professor with the Signal Theory and Communications Department of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (with distinction) in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2009, both from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. From June 2010 until May 2012, he was a Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow with the University of Cambridge, UK. He was also a research intern at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, in 2004 and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain, in 2007. He joined UC3M in 2012.

Dr. Koch received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellowship, a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, and a Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He further received a medal of the 2018 Young Researchers Award “Agustín de Betancourt y Molina" by the Real Academia de Ingeniería. He served as Vice Chair of the Spain Chapter of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society in 2013–2016 and as the chapter’s Chair in 2020–2023. Since 2020, he is also serving as Associate Editor for Communications for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Transactions on Information Theory.

Participation & Position
Contact Information

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Department of Signal Processing and Communications

Avenida de la Universidad, 30

28911 Leganés, Spain

Research interests
Communications
Shannon theory
Source coding