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Evangelos Eleftheriou

IBM Fellow, manager of storage technologies group

Evangelos Eleftheriou joined IBM Research in 1986. Over the years, his research has covered a wide variety of subjects, ranging from communications and information theory to signal processing and coding for transmission and recording systems. He is most noted for his work on the Noise-Predictive Maximum Likelihood (NPML) architecture for the read channel of hard-disk drives (HDD). His current research is focused on advanced signal processing, coding, and servo control techniques for improving the reliability and performance of tape systems, as well as for increasing their area density and storage capacity. He and his team are also exploring alternative storage technologies based on nanotechnology. Specifically, these novel storage technologies are atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based probe-storage techniques, better known as Millipede.

He has published more than 90 papers and four book chapters, and holds 25 US patents. His work has received numerous IBM technical awards, and he is member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

For his pioneering role in the introduction of innovative signal-processing, detection, and coding techniques into hard disk drive, he was co-recipient of the prestigious Technology Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation in 2005, one of Europe's most prestigious IT prizes. In 2003, he was co-recipient of the prestigious 2003 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communications Systems, and in 2001, he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

He was editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of equalization and coding, as well as guest editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications of the special issues on The Turbo Principle: From Theory to Practice I and II, and is guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology of the special issue on Dynamics & Control of Micro- and Nano-scale Systems. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras in Greece in 1979, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees, also in electrical engineering, from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.

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