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Victoria Kostina is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. She serves as the Graduate Option Representative for Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include information theory, coding, and wireless communications, with a focus on the nonasymptotic regime. She leverages tools from the theory of random processes and concentration of measure to explore modern delay-constrained communication systems. Kostina teaches courses on information theory, coding theory, communications, and control. She is affiliated with the Electrical Engineering department at Caltech.
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Victoria Kostina is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on information theory, control, learning, and communications. She investigates nonasymptotic limits in information theory, particularly in lossy compression, joint source-channel coding, and finite blocklength analysis. Her work explores rate-cost tradeoffs in control systems and the performance of communication channels under various constraints. Kostina also examines data compression with low distortion and the error rates of detectors in noisy environments. Her research bridges theoretical foundations with practical applications in signal processing and networked control systems.