Venkatachalam Anantharam     University of California Username: ananth         Home page: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ananth

Bio:   Venkat Anantharam is on the faculty of the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He is a recipient of the Philips India Medal and the President of India Gold Med al from IIT Madras, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Development award. He is a co-recipient of the 1998 Prize Paper award of the IEEE Information Theory Society and a co-recipient of the 2000 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper award of the IEEE Communications Theory Society. He is a past associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and for the Annals of Applied Probability. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.