Professor of Communications and Information Theory
Academic Division: Information Engineering
Research group: Signal Processing and Communications
Telephone: +44 1223 7 68447
Email: albert.guillen@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
The main theme of my research activities is the mathematical foundations of communications and data compression, spanning the fields of Information Theory, Coding Theory, Communications Theory and Signal Processing. Its aim is to study the fundamental limits of reliable communication and data compression, along with schemes and processing algorithms that allow us to achieve them.
Research projects
- ERC Advanced Grant: Scaling and Concentration Laws in Information Theory
- ERC Consolidator Grant: Information Theory with Uncertain Laws
- ERC Starting Grant: Finite-Length Information Theory
Teaching activity
- Communications (IB Paper 6)
- Data Transmission (3F4)
- Statistical Signal Processing (3F3)
- Advanced Information Theory and Coding (4F5)
Other positions
- Member Young Academy of Europe
- Fellow IEEE
- Fellow IMA
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2013-2020)
- Member of Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Now Publishers
- General co-Chair, 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona
- Technical Program Committee co-Chair, 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taiwan
Biography
Albert Guillén i Fàbregas is a Professor iof Communications and Information Theory at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He received the Telecommunication Engineering Degree and the Electronics Engineering Degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Politecnico di Torino, respectively in 1999, and the PhD in Communication Systems from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004. He has held appointments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia, European Space Agency, Institut Eurécom, University of South Australia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ICREA) and the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Proof of Concepts Grants from the European Research Council. He is a member of the Young Academy of Europe, Fellow of the IEEE and of the IMA, Editor of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory and previously of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was a General co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, July 2016 and a Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair of the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Sevilla, Sept. 2013 and the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taiwan.
Department role and responsibilities
Deputy Head of Division (Information Engineering) for Graduate Admissions