Biography

Tamás Linder received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in electrical engineering in 1992. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hawaii in 1992, and a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993–94.

From 1994 to 1998 he was a faculty member of the Technical University of Budapest in the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory. He was a visiting research scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he joined Queen's University, where he is now a Professor of Mathematics and Engineering in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

His research interests include communications and information theory, source coding and vector quantization, machine learning, and statistical pattern recognition.

Dr. Linder is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the Premier's Research Excellence Award of the Province of Ontario in 2002 and the Chancellor's Research Award of Queen's University in 2003. He was an Associate Editor for Source Coding of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in 2003–2004.