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Professor Anuran Makur receives IEEE Dissertation Award
Assistant Professor Anuran Makur has received the IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award. Makur’s thesis, “Information Contraction and Decomposition” was completed in June 2019 in the EECS Department at MIT.
Purdue CS senior, Esteban Vicente-Paulino Richey, has built Purdue’s campus inside of the popular video game Minecraft. First starting his passion project in 2019, 300 hours later and 3 million blocks placed, Richey has 52% of campus built within the game.
Szpankowski elected to Academia Europaea
Professor Wojciech Szpankowski has been elected as a foreign member of the Academia Europaea for outstanding achievements and international scholarship as a researcher. He is one of 366 international scholars to be invited to accept membership this year. As a member of the Academia Europaea.
Purdue to lead Indiana coalition to develop quantum technologies
Sabre Kais, Professor of Chemical Physics with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science will be the lead director of the new Center for Quantum Technologies at Purdue. The center will be established through the NSF’s Industry-University Cooperative Research program with Purdue as the lead institution.