Robert Calderbank

Robert Calderbank
Robert Calderbank in 1986 (photo from MFO)
Born	1954 (age 62–63)
Nationality	American
Fields	Applied and Computational Mathematics
Institutions	Duke University Princeton University
Alma mater	University of Warwick University of Oxford Caltech
Doctoral advisor	Marshall Hall
Doctoral students	Vaneet Aggarwal Dustin Mixon
Notable awards	IEEE Hamming Medal (2013) IEEE Shannon Award (2015)

Robert Calderbank (born 1954) is a professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a PhD from Caltech, all in mathematics. He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems. He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences.

His contributions to coding and information theory won the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 1995 and 1999. While at Bell Labs, he co-discovered space–time coding. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005, became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and won the 2013 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award.