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Faculty Profile - Steven W McLaughlin

Vice Provost for International Initiatives; Ken Byers Professor
Telecommunications

Phone: 404.385.3383
Fax: 404.894.7883
Office: Cent 5172

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~swm

Biography

Dr. McLaughlin received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northwestern University in 1985, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992. He has held positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Co., and Booz, Allen and Hamilton.

From 1992-1996 he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech in September 1996 where he is now Byers Professor of ECE. He holds 26 US patents and has more than a dozen pending and has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences in the general area of communications and information theory.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Communications and Information Theory
  • Error control coding: iterative decoding, turbo codes, graphical codes
  • Coding and signal processing for magnetic/optical storage and fiber optic transmission systems
  • Quantum key distribution
Distinctions
  • President, IEEE Information Theory Society (2005)
  • National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  • NSF Career Award
  • NSF Research Initiation Award
  • Technical Achievement Award, Information Storage Industries Consortium, INSIC
  • Georgia Tech Graduate Student Association "Friend of the Graduate Student Award"

Last revised on July 25, 2006.