Regular biography
Amin Shokrollahi is a Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the CS department. He holds the title of Professor Honoraire and is associated with the IC-DO BC 320 (Bâtiment BC) at Station 14, 1015 Lausanne. His research interests include algorithmic and information theory, as evidenced by his supervision of several PhD theses at EPFL. He has directed theses of Lorenz Minder, Mehdi Molkaraie, Andrew Brown, Bertrand Ndzana Ndzana, Mahdi Cheraghchi Bashi Astaneh, Masoud Alipour Babaei, Ghid Maatouk, and Amir Hesam Salavati. He has also co-directed the thesis of Lyudmila Yartseva.
Scholar-generated biography
Amin Shokrollahi is a researcher specializing in Coding Theory and Computational Mathematics. His work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient error-correcting codes, including low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, Raptor codes, and capacity-approaching codes. He has contributed to the development of practical loss-resilient codes and explored their applications in data transmission and storage. His research also extends to algebraic complexity theory, cryptographic applications of coding, and the analysis of random processes. Shokrollahi's publications highlight his expertise in improving code performance through irregular graph structures and irregular low-density parity-check code designs.