IBM Research Announces Recipient of the 2006 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
IBM Research is pleased to announce that Jun Chen of Cornell University is the recipient of the 2006 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Chen's dissertation is entitled "Network Source coding: Fundamental Limits and Practical Schemes" and was supervised by Prof. Toby Berger. Jun Chen is currently a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has chosen to spend his postdoctoral year at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he will be working with the Multimedia Technologies Group.
This year, the review committee (researchers from the IBM Almaden, Tokyo, Watson and Zurich labs) received 42 applications from around the world. The high quality of these applications made the selection process a difficult one, and all the applicants should be congratulated for the exciting research they have done and propose to do. The committee would like to thank all the applicants and the many others who wrote letters of support.
Background:
The Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Computer Engineering is in memory of Dr. Raviv, the founder and director of IBM's Haifa Research Laboratory. Dr. Raviv had a distinguished research career in Information Theory and was a pioneer in the Israeli high-tech industry.
IBM has long pursued major research programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. More than 1,200 CS/CE researchers work in IBM Research labs in six countries, pursuing topics in almost all disciplines of computer science. Last year, these researchers published more than 1,000 journal, conference, and workshop papers.
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