Keynote Speakers

Max H. M. Costa graduated as an Electrical Engineer at the University of Brasília in 1974. He received his Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 1977, the Master in Statistics from Stanford University in 1979, the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1983, and the “Livre Docência” in Electrical Engineering from Unicamp in 1998. He was a Researcher at the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research (INPE), in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, from 1983 to 1988 and at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, in Schenectady, NY, USA, from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994 he was a Senior Research Associate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, CA, USA. Since 1995 he has been a Faculty Member at Unicamp, where he is currently an Associate Professor. From April 2007 to April 2011 he was the Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) of Unicamp. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Senior Member of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT). In the period 2010-2012 he will be a member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is currently a member of the External Nominations Committee and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Information Theory Society. His research interests lie in Shannon theory, information geometry, source and channel coding, and digital television. He is better known for his paper “Writing on dirty paper”, published in 1983, a recipient of over 2300 citations according to Google Scholar.