Thomas Courtade

Thomas Courtade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley in 2014, he was at Stanford University, where he was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship through the NSF Center for Science of Information. His research interests lie in the intersection of information theory and computer science, with a focus on problems and applications therein. Courtade's research areas include Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS); Theory (THY); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); and Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR).

Thomas Courtade is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, specializing in Information Theory. His research focuses on the design of energy- and cost-efficient communication systems, particularly in massive MIMO arrays and LDPC decoding for flash memory. He explores statistical and computational limits in linear regression with shuffled data and multiterminal source coding. Courtade also investigates coded cooperative data exchange in multihop networks and the existence of Stein kernels under a spectral gap. His work emphasizes the application of information theory to improve the efficiency and reliability of modern communication systems.