Gerhard Kramer is Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Head of the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technische Universität München (TUM). He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and the Dr. sc. techn. (Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften) degree from the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was with Endora Tech AG, Basel, Switzerland, as a communications engineering consultant. From 2000 to 2008 he was with the Math Center, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff. He joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. He joined TUM in 2010.

Awards and Recognition

• Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, 2012
• Vodafone Innovations Prize, 2011
• Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, 2010
• IEEE Fellow, 2010
• IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award, 2005
• Bell Labs President's Gold Award, 2003
• ETH Medal, 1999

Service Highlights 

• President, IEEE Information Theory Society, 2013
• Board of Governors, IEEE Information Theory Society, 2009-
• Founding Co-chair, 1st-3rd Annual Schools of Information Theory, 2008-2010
• Associate Editor for Shannon Theory, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2006-2008
• TPC Co-chair, IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2008, 2014
• TPC Co-chair, Int. Symp. Wireless Commun. Sys. (ISWCS), 2011
• Emerging Technologies Committee , IEEE Communications Society, 2009-2011

Curriculum Vitae [ pdf file ]

• Coding and Modulation
• Coding for Relaying and Network Coding
• Cooperative Communications
• Multi-User Information Theory
• Fiber-Optic Channels and Capacity

• Vodafone Innovations Prize: Video 1 (in german), Video 2 (in german)
• Alexander von Humboldt Professorship