Full Name
Vince Poor
Job Title
Michael Henry Strater University Professor
Company
Princeton University
Speaker Bio
Vince Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor at Princeton University, where his interests include information theory, machine learning and network science, and their applications in wireless networks, energy systems and related fields. Before moving to Princeton in 1990, he was a colleague of Andrew’s at the University of Illinois. He has also held visiting positions at a several other universities, including most recently at Berkeley and Cambridge. Among his publications is the recent book Machine Learning and Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press, 2022). A Fellow of the IEEE and the IMS, he is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the Royal Society and other national and international academies. Recognition of his work includes the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and honorary doctorates from a number of universities in Asia, Europe and North America.
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Abstract
Andrew began his career in 1985 at the University of Illinois, where he was on the faculty until he joined Yale in 1992. These were very fruitful years for him, as began the research agenda of bringing information theoretic ideas into statistics that has been one of the hallmarks of his career. Moreover, he exhibited significant versatility in his work there, addressing a number of other problems in probability and statistics, information theory, machine learning, etc. This talk will provide an impressionistic view of some of his “greatest hits” from that era.
