Greetings.
Aaron B. Wagner
Assistant Professor
331 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-1017
(607) 255-9072 (fax)
Administrative Assistant
Karen Crane
314 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
(607) 255-4643
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. During the 2005-2006 academic year, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. I did my graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
I research information theory, networking, communications, and compression. My current interests include the information-theoretic limits of distributed compression, network information theory, connections between information theory and statistics, the role of feedback in communications, and applications of information theory to artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
I have received a number of awards for my research including the NSF CAREER award (2007), the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize from the U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept. (2006), and the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics from the U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Mathematics (2005). To quote one of my collaborators, "some of our recent research resolves decades-long open problems in optimal network information compression."