# Thomas Courtade

### Research Areas

- Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS)
- Theory (THY)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
- Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
- Information Theory

### Research Centers

- Berkeley Laboratory for Information and System Sciences (BLISS)
- Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics and Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB)

## Biography

Thomas Courtade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Before joining Berkeley in 2014, Thomas was at Stanford University, where he was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship through the NSF Center for Science of Information. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2007, and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Thomas' research interests lie in the intersection of information theory and computer science, and he focuses on problems and applications therein.

## Education

- 2012, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2008, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2007, B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University

## Selected Publications

- T. Courtade, "See personal webpage for up to date publication list.," Jan. 2014.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- Electrical Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2020
- Hellman Fellow, 2016