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Awards

Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.

Events

Conferences, Workshops & Meetings
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Information Theory Workshop 2026

The 2026 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Workshop will be held in the beautiful desert city of Tempe, Arizona, USA between November 1–4, 2026. We welcome original contributions across all areas of information theory.

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91³Ô¹ÏÍø Globecom 2025 Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G: Call for Papers

Workshop on Channel Coding beyond 5G (in conjunction with 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Globecom 2025) is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 15 July 2025.

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BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan

This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.

Conferences

Jun 22, 2025
Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, 2nd Floor, Room: Vandenberg
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan

This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.

27-29 Jul, 2025
Guangzhou, China
2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications and Information Theory (AICIT2025)

The 2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications…

03-08 Aug, 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)

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Job list

Simons Postdoc Opening at UT Austin
The ECE department at The University of Texas at Austin seeks highly qualified candidates for postdoctoral fellowship positions, lasting up to two years, in the information sciences, broadly defined. Applicants should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in ECE, CS, Math, Statistics or related fields.
Mar 25, 2014
Postdoctoral position at Telecom ParisTech and Supelec, France
A postdoctoral position is available in the area of large random matrix theory.
Mar 13, 2014
Faculty positions at Imperial College London
Imperial College is seeking to make up to four faculty appointments in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The appointments will be at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level, although an appointment at Reader will be considered for an exceptional candidate
Feb 26, 2014
Postdoc Position Available in the National University of Singapore
There is a postdoc position available at the National University of Singapore in most aspects of information theory and signal processing.
Feb 19, 2014
PhD position at TU Dresden
The Cluster of Excellence ‘Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden’ at TU Dresden offers a fixed-term PhD position in the area of information theory and biology
Feb 13, 2014
Postdoc Position Available at NJIT’s Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research
NJIT offers a postdoc position in the broad areas of graph-based coding theory, polar codes, their applications (e.g., in coding for control or storage), and network information theory.
Feb 6, 2014
Data Scientist Research Position at Saffrontech
Saffron Technology in Silicon Valley has an open position for a data scientist with an information theory background.
Feb 4, 2014
CSoI Research Fellows Program 2014/2015 - Deadline extended
The Center for Science of Information (CSoI) invites nominations and applications for its CSoI Research Fellows program. The Fellows program seeks to identify and groom intellectual leaders to shape the emerging field of Science of Information and its diverse applications. Application deadline is February 28, 2014
Jan 27, 2014
Faculty Position: UC Irvine
Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California Irvine
Jan 27, 2014
Tenure-track Positions in Electrical Engineering at Harvard
The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks applicants for tenure-track positions in Electrical Engineering, in the broad area of Emerging Topics in Electrical Engineering Systems. The expected start date is July 1, 2014.
Jan 18, 2014
Postdoctoral research fellowship in network coding
Postdoctoral positions available, Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dec 15, 2013
Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship
Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship | Call for applications | Information Theory Program in Spring 2015
Dec 11, 2013
Research Fellow in Coding Theory
The Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu, Estonia, is looking for a research fellow for a project on design and decoding of LDPC codes.
Dec 10, 2013
Multiple EECS Faculty Positions at Northwestern University
The EECS Department at Northwestern University invites applications for multiple positions to start in Fall 2014
Dec 5, 2013
Tenure-track position at Caltech
The Department of Electrical Engineering within the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Caltech invites applications for an untenured tenure-track position at the assistant or associate professor level.
Dec 2, 2013
Faculty positions at Washington University in St. Louis
The Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is inviting applications for faculty positions.
Nov 25, 2013
Faculty Position (including Information Theory) at Penn State
Open Faculty Position (including Information Theory) at the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Nov 8, 2013
Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Program at University of Notre Dame
The Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Program seeks scholars.
Oct 19, 2013
Post-doc Opening at Rice University
A new post-doctoral position is open at Rice University's Center for Multimedia Communications.
Jul 19, 2013
PhD Scholarships (The University of Newcastle)
The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is offering multiple full PhD scholarships to both domestic and international applicants.
Jul 5, 2013

Jobs Board

Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Machine Learning
Simula UiB

We are seeking a candidate with a PhD degree to work in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of…

Jun 19, 2025
Postdoc Positions in Communication, Quantum, Security, & ML
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)

Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are looking for…

May 29, 2025
Research Assistant in Information Theory x 3
University of Cambridge

Up to three Research Assistant positions to work on Shannon Theory at the University of Cambridge.

May 21, 2025

News

Live-Stream of Peter Shor's Shannon Lecture

This year's Shannon Lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom.

Jun 19, 2025
Matt LaFleur is back!

The Society welcomes Matt LaFleur as its new Business Operations Manager.

Jun 5, 2025
2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium,…

Jun 3, 2025
2025 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Peter Kairouz

The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…

May 26, 2025

News

ISIT Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Jan 15
The ISIT Paper Submission Deadline is extended to Wednesday, January 15, 11:59PM Eastern Time.
Jan 12, 2020
ISIT deadline extended to 1/15/2020 11:59pm EST
The ISIT deadline has been extended to 1/15/2020 11:59pm EST
Jan 12, 2020
Paper Submissions for ISIT 2020 Due Jan 12
The deadline for paper submission is Sunday, January 12, 2020, at 11:59 PM, Eastern Time (New York, USA).
Jan 4, 2020
Class of 2020-21 Distinguished Lecturers
The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society names the Class of 2020-21 Distinguished Lecturers
Jan 2, 2020
Ayfer Özgür named the ITSoc 2020 Goldsmith Lecturer
Ayfer Özgür named the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society 2020 Goldsmith Lecturer
Jan 2, 2020
David Tse named the ITSoc 2020 Padovani Lecturer
David Tse named the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society 2020 Padovani Lecturer
Jan 2, 2020
Post-Doctoral Vacancies at ITCSC, CUHK, Hong Kong
Post-doctoral vacancies at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dec 21, 2019
Submission open for ISIT 2020
The paper submission portal is now open for ISIT 2020: https://2020.ieee-isit.org/Papers.asp
Dec 20, 2019
JSAIT Updates
Updates on ITSoc's new journal JSAIT
Dec 18, 2019
Report on the 8th Van der Meulen Seminar
The 8th Van der Meulen Seminar was held on December 13, 2019
Dec 18, 2019
Katalin Marton Has Passed Away
Katalin Marton was a giant of our field. She also made remarkable contributions to measure concentration with applications to probability theory and ergodic theory. She received the Shannon Award and was the only woman to do so.
Dec 18, 2019
PhD and Postdocs Positions in Communication Theory at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
We have open vacancies for PhD students and Postdocs in communication theory and the application of machine learning in reliable communications at the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL, Prof. Laurent Schmalen) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.
Dec 17, 2019
NVMW 2020 Call for Presentations
The 11th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2020) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories, including devices, error coding, architectures, systems, and applications. Submissions to the workshops are 2-page extended abstracts. They are due December 11th, 2019.
Dec 4, 2019
Postdoc in Privacy and Fairness at Arizona State University
Lalitha Sankar and Oliver Kosut at Arizona State University are looking for a postdoc to work on privacy and fairness in the context of learning.
Dec 2, 2019
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor at UC Irvine in Theory and Applications of Data-Driven Systems
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate/Full Professor (tenured) position.
Nov 14, 2019
Postdocs at EURECOM in Coded Caching and Distributed Computing
We are looking for postdocs at EURECOM who have worked on coded caching and/or distributed computing. Planned research includes coded caching, distributed computing, data shuffling, as well as a variety of other applications in the area of communications and computing. The duration can be 1.5, or up to 3-4 years.
Nov 12, 2019
Jørn Justesen Has Passed Away
Jørn Justesen, a well-known expert in coding theory, communications, and data compression, passed away on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC, USA at the age of 75. His notable results include the construction of low-complexity, asymptotically good error-correcting codes (1972), a discovery of fast decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon and algebraic-geometric codes, as well as research into construction and properties of convolutional codes.
Oct 31, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp Has Passed Away
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
Oct 31, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp Has Passed Away
Shannon Award winner Elwyn Berlekamp passed away on April 9, 2019 at the age of 78.
Oct 31, 2019

Past meeting

BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ University of Toronto
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on Zoom.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BoG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BoG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - June 2021
The second BoG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.

Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences

Upcoming Events

The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools