December 8, 2021
Madhu Sudan wins 2022 IEEE Hamming Medal
2003 Distinguished CS Alumnus Madhu Sudan (Ph.D. ’92, advisor: Umesh Vazirani) has won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hamming Medal. This award recognizes “exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology.” Sudan was cited “for fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.” …