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Aaron B. Wagner is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He joined as an assistant professor in 2006 and was promoted to full professor in 2018. Wagner previously held postdoctoral and visiting positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell, respectively.
- Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering (University of Michigan, 1999), M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2005)
Wagner's research focuses on information theory at the intersection of networking, statistics, quantum communication, and security. His work particularly explores feedback communication, rate-distortion theory, and quantum information processing. Recent publications examine advanced coding strategies like timid/bold coding and Wasserstein distortion metrics.
His accolades include:
- 2025 - Merrill Presidential Teacher, IEEE Information Theory Society President
- 2024 - Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
- 2020 - IEEE Fellow, James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award
- 2017 - Douglas Whitney '61 Teaching Award, NSF CAREER award
Wagner has mentored numerous Ph.D. students who have received awards, including 2025 Outstanding Thesis Research Award (A. Mahmood) and 2024 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award (S. Sriramu). He contributes to major conferences like ISIT and NeurIPS while leading the FIND research group at Cornell.
