Giuseppe Caire

Giuseppe Caire was born in Torino in 1965. He received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1990, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992, and a Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He hs been a postdoctoral research fellow with the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands) in 1994–1995, Assistant Professor in Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino, Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy, Professor with the Department of Mobile Communications at the Eurecom Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France, and Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003; the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2004, 2011, and 2025; the Okawa Research Award in 2006; the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2014; the Vodafone Innovation Prize in 2015; an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018; the Leonard G. Abraham Prize for best IEEE JSAC paper in 2019; the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 2020; the 2021 Leibniz Prize of the German National Science Foundation (DFG); and the CTTC Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society in 2023. Giuseppe Caire has been a Fellow of IEEE since 2005. He has served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007, and as an officer from 2008 to 2013. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2011. His main research interests are in the field of communications theory, information theory, channel and source coding, with particular focus on wireless communications.