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Prof. Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE has been named the 2018 recipient of the Information Theory Society James L. Massey award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community based on the impact of their research in the field of Information Theory as well as their teaching contributions. The award is named in honor of James L. Massey, who was "an internationally acclaimed pioneer in digital communications and a revered teacher and mentor to an entire generation of communications engineers."

Prof. Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE will be one of the three keynote speakers at the 15th Canadian Workshop on Information theory to be held in Quebec City, Canada, June 11-14th. 

Student Harpreet Dhillon and former visiting researcher Ralph Tanbourgi receive Best Student Paper Award in the 20th European Wireless Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Their paper was chosen from among 180 papers presented at the conference. Dhillon, advisded by Prof. Jeffrey Andrews, will join Virginia Tech this fall as an Assistant Professor.