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Postdoctoral research positions in the broad areas of information theory and coding are available within the Information Theory and Coding group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona.
Specific topics of interest include (but not restricted to) reliable communication with uncertainty, sub-optimal decoding, universal decoding,...
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Photios Stavrou has been visiting the group from 4-14 of October. He delivered the following seminar
"Directed Information in Systems with Feedback"
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ITC members recently presented the following paper at the 2016 Information Theory Workshop (ITW), held at Robinson College of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
J. Font-Segura, A. Martinez, and A. Guillén i Fàbregas, "Asymptotics of the Random-Coding Union Bound in Quasi-Static Fading Channels".
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ITC members have recently published the following article:
G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Tauste Campo, A. Guillén i Fàbregas and A. Martinez, “Bayesian M-ary Hypothesis Testing: The Meta-Converse and Verdú-Han Bounds are Tight”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 2324-2333, May 2016.
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ITC members recently presented the following papers at the 2016 International Zurich Seminar on Communications, organized by the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, held in Zurich, Switzerland.
D. Fehr, J. Scarlett, and A. Martinez, "Fixed-Energy Random Coding with Rescaled Codewords at the Transmitter",
J. Font-Segura, A. Martinez, and A. Guillén i F...
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Jing Guo successfully defended his thesis "Polar Codes for Reliable Transmission: Theoretical Analysis and Applications" in Cambridge. Her examiners were Ramji Venkataramanan and Erdal Arikan.
Download the thesis
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ITC members recently published the following article
J. Scarlett, A. Somekh-Baruck, A. Martinez, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, “A Counter-Example to the Mismatched Decoding Converse for Binary-Input Discrete Memoryless Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 5387-5395, October 2015.
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ITC members recently presented the following paper at the 53rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computingm organized by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and held in Monticello, IL, USA.
J. Guo, J. Sayir, M. Qin, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, “An Alternative Proof of Channel Polarization for Channels with Arbitrary Input Alphabets"
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ITC members will present the following papers at the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong, June 2015:
J. Scarlett, A. Martinez and A. Guillén i Fàbregas, “The Likelihood Decoder: Error Exponents and Mismatch”
J. Scarlett, A. Martinez and A. Guillén i Fàbregas, “Refinements of the Third-Order Term in the Fixed...
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ITC members recently published the following article
J. Scarlett, A. Martinez, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, “Second-Order Rate Region of Constant Composition Codes for the Multiple-Access Channel”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 157-172, January 2015
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Josep Font-Segura and Mehdi Molkaraie join ITC. Josep finished his PhD in signal processing and communications at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya before joining ITC, while Mehdi was a Lecturer in the Mathematics Faculty at the University of Waterloo. Welcome!
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ITC members have been invited to the 2014 Joint Workshop on Coding and Communications in Barcelona, November 2014. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas gave the talk "Error Probability and Hypothesis Testing" based on work with G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Tauste and A. Martinez.
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