Sergio Verdu

Known for pioneering the field of multiuser detection, Verdú has served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he has taught and conducted research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He has also been affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection.