Yury Polyanskiy

Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 And William King Cutten ’39 Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Yury Polyanskiy is the Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 And William King Cutten ’39 Professor and
Education Officer for AI+D in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He is also a principal investigator with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS); the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and the Statistics and Data Science Center. His research focuses on questions in information theory, statistics, error-correcting codes, wireless communication and fault-tolerant circuits. Polyanskiy has received an NSF Career Award and an IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award. He earned an MS in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University.

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