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Elza Erkip is an Institute Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Her research interests include information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications. She received her B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Erkip is a member of the Science Academy of Turkey and a Fellow of the IEEE. She has received several awards, including the NSF CAREER award in 2001, the IEEE Communications Society WICE Outstanding Achievement Award in 2016, and the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 2021. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory and the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee.