Jan 17, 2025
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award 2025
As co-author of the tutorial paper An Overview of Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy: Metrics, Limits and Applications Rafael F. Schaefer is the winner of the Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award 2025 of the IEEE Information Theory Society together with Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology), Onur Günlü (Linköping University), Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University), Frédérique Oggier (Nanyang Technological University), Lalitha Sankar (Arizona State University) und Vincent Poor (Princeton University).
The prize, which will be awarded for the first time in 2025, is sponsored by the Joy Thomas Foundation and recognizes publications that expose subjects in information theory to a broad audience and stimulate interest in them.