Christian Schlegel (Draft Profile)

Dr. Schlegel received the Dipl. El. Ing. ETH degree from the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. He currently holds an NSERC Industrial Research Chair at Dalhousie University. From 2002-2012, Dr. Schlegel was iCORE Chair for Digital Communications at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Prior to that, he held academic appointments at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (visiting), the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and from 1996-2002 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. From 2004-2008 he was CTO of Aquantia Corporation, Milpitas, CA, a start-up company building 10Gbit/s Ethernet transceivers. Professor Schlegel is the author of "Trellis Coding'' (1997, IEEE Press), "Trellis and Turbo Coding,'' (2004 Wiley/IEEE), and "Coordinated Multiple User Communications,'' (2006 Springer). Dr. Schlegel received a US National Science Foundation Career Award in 1997, a Canada Research Chair in 2001, and a Province of Alberta iCORE Chair in 2001 and 2006. He was named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2007 and 2011, and is an IEEE Fellow.