Sergio Verdú is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton
University where he teaches and conducts research on information theory
in the Information Sciences and Systems Group.

Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from
the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and
the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated
Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research
pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection.

In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book ``Multiuser
Detection.'' His papers have received several awards: the D. Fink Paper
Award from the IEEE, the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper
Award, a Golden Jubilee Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory
Society, the 2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications
Advancement Foundation, and the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award
from the IEEE Communications Society, and the 2007 IEEE Joint
Communications/Information Theory Paper Award.

Sergio Verdú was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1993 for "contributions
to multiuser communications and to information theory."
He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997 and
is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in
Communications and Information Theory.

He received the  2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American
Society for Engineering Education, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal
in 2000. In 2005, he was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and has been named the recipient
of the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society.