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

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

Sergio ³Õ±ð°ù»åú was elected Fellow of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ in 1992 and member of theÌý Ìýin 2007. He received theÌý Ìýfrom theÌý Ìýand theÌý Ìýin 2000. In 2005, he received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from theÌý He is the recipient of theÌý 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award, Ìýand theÌý

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

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In 1998,Ìý published his bookÌý ÌýHis papers have received several awards: theÌý , theÌý Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award Ìýin 1998 and in 2011,ÌýaÌý Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award , the 2000 Paper Award from theÌý ÌýtheÌý ,ÌýtheÌý , and the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Award from the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Communications Society.

Sergio ³Õ±ð°ù»åú has served as Associate Editor of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Trans. on Automatic Control, and as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Transactions on Information Theory. He served as President of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society in 1997. He is currently Editor-in-Chief ofÌý

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

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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.

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