Short Biography
Alex Dimakis is an Assistant Professor at the Viterbi School of
Engineering, University of Southern California since 2009.
He currently holds the Colleen and Roberto Padovani Early Career Chair in
Electrical Engineering.
He received his
Ph.D. in 2008 and M.S. degree in 2005 in electrical engineering and
computer sciences from UC Berkeley and the Diploma degree in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens
in 2003. During 2009 he was a postdoctoral scholar at the CMI center at
Caltech.
He received the NSF Career award in 2011, the Eli Jury
dissertation award in 2008 and IEEE ComSoc Data Storage committee best
paper award in 2010. He served as the chair of the Data Storage track at
Globecom and was a keynote speaker at the Int. Symposium on Network Coding
(NetCod).
His research interests include communications, coding theory,
signal processing, and networking, with a current focus on distributed
storage, network coding, distributed inference and message passing
algorithms.
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