Jos Weber
Intro
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Affiliation:
dr.ir. Jos H. Weber, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Fac. EEMCS,
Building 36 (Office HB04.040), Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD
Delft, The Netherlands, tel. +31-15-2781698, e-mail J.H.Weber@tudelft.nl, http://staff.tudelft.nl/J.H.Weber/
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Associate
Professor @ Discrete
Mathematics & Optimization Group, Dept.
Applied Mathematics (DIAM), Fac.
EEMCS, TU Delft
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Honorary
Member of the WIC
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Secretary
of the IEEE
Benelux Chapter on Information Theory
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Senior
Member of the IEEE
Current teaching related activities @ TU Delft
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Master
Coordinator Applied Mathematics
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Instructor
BSc course AM1030 Linear Algebra 1
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Co-lecturer
BSc course AM2560 Applied Algebra: Codes and Crypto Systems
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Lecturer
MSc course ET4030 Error-Correcting Codes
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Lecturer
MSc course EE4560 Information Theory
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Lecturer
MSc course ET4358 Wireless Communications
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Lecturer
MSc course QIST4100 Information Theory for QIST
Recent/Current research subjects/projects
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“Detection
and (de)coding methods for channels with unknown gain and/or offset”, in
collaboration with Renfei Bu (PhD student at TU Delft, thesis defence December
6, 2021), Kees Schouhamer Immink (Turing Machines Inc), Cai Kui (Singapore
University of Technology and Design), and Theo Swart (University of
Johannesburg).
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“Balanced
and/or runlength-limited coding schemes, in
particular extensions of the Knuth balancing algorithm”, in collaboration with Kees Schouhamer Immink
(Turing Machines Inc) and the Telecommunications Research Group at the
University of Johannesburg.
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“Coding
for distributed storage”, in collaboration with Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar (UC Davis)
and students.
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“Codes
for DNA-based data storage”, in collaboration with Joost de Groot and students.
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“Codes
correcting insertion, deletion, and substitution errors”, in collaboration with
Ward Spee.
Publications
See here.
Some special activities
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Organizer
(with Richard Heusdens) of the 2017
Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux
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Organizer
(with Han Vinck and Peter de With) of a Seminar (Rotterdam, June
16, 2017) in honor of Kees Schouhamer Immink, the
recipient of the 2017 IEEE Medal of Honor; see also interview
in IEEE Spectrum
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Co-Chairman
of AEW10
(10th Asia-Europe Workshop on Concepts in Information Theory, June 2017)
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Visiting
Researcher (hosted by Hendrik Ferreira) at the University
of Johannesburg (Nov 2017)
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Visiting
Researcher (hosted by Cai Kui) at the Singapore
University of Technology and Design (Oct-Nov 2018)
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Keynote
speaker at SITB2019
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Invited
speaker at the 3rd African Winter School on Information Theory and
Communications, Hartbeespoort, South Africa, August 27-29, 2019.
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Visiting
Researcher (hosted by Theo Swart) at the University
of Johannesburg (Sept 2019)
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Organizer
(with Alberto Ravagnani et al.) of the workshop “Combinatorics in Digital
Communication”, Eindhoven, April 19-21, 2023.
Brief professional biography
Jos H. Weber was born in
Schiedam, The Netherlands, in 1961. He received the M.Sc. (in mathematics, with
honors), Ph.D., and MBT (Master of Business
Telecommunications) degrees from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The
Netherlands, in 1985, 1989, and 1996, respectively. He is a senior member of
IEEE.
Since 1985 he has been
with the Delft University of Technology. Currently, he is an associate
professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics. He was the chairman of the Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie
from 2006 until 2021. He is the secretary of the IEEE Benelux Chapter on
Information Theory since 2008. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University
of California (Davis, CA, USA), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), the
University of Johannesburg (South Africa), EPFL (Switzerland), and SUTD
(Singapore). His main research interests are in the area of channel coding.