Implementation of Polar Decoders
Date: 2013-08-15 Add to Google CalendarTime: 1:00 pm
Location: Holmes Hall 389
Speaker: Warren J. Gross, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Polar codes are a new class of error-correcting
codes that provably achieve the capacity of memoryless channels with low
complexity encoding and decoding algorithms. However, there remain several
important practical issues to be solved before they can see widespread use. In
this talk I will review the main issues in designing decoders for polar codes
and present recent results that show promise for low-complexity and
high-throughput implementations.
Bio:
Warren J. Gross received the B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering
from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1996, and theM.A.Sc.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in
1999 and 2003, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal,
Québec, Canada. His research interests are in the design and implementation of
signal processing systems and custom computer architectures.
Dr. Gross serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing. Dr. Gross is currently Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society Technical Committee on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing
Systems. He served as Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Signal
Processing Systems (SiPS 2012) and as Chair of the IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on
Emerging Data Storage Technologies. Dr. Gross served on the Program Committees
of the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, the IEEE Symposium on
Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, the International Conference on
Field-Programmable Logic and Applications and as the General Chair of the 6th
Annual Analog Decoding Workshop. Dr. Gross is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a
licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.
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