Dr. Aditya Ramamoorthy is the Northrop Grumman Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) of Mathematics at Iowa
State University. He received his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He served as an editor
for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2016–2019 and the IEEE
Transactions on Communications from 2011–2015. He is the recipient of the 2020
Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award, the 2019 Boast-Nilsson Educational
Impact Award, the 2012 Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award from
Iowa State University, the 2012 NSF CAREER award, and the Harpole-Pentair
professorship in 2009 and 2010. He is a senior member of the IEEE. His research
interests are in the areas of classical/quantum information theory and coding
techniques with applications to distributed computation, content distribution
networks, and machine learning.
