AJ. Han Vinck is a full professor in
Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany,
since 1990.
His interest is in Information and Communication
theory, Coding and Network aspects in digital communications.
In 2003 he was elected president of the IEEE
Information Theory Society.
IEEE elected him in 2006 as a fellow for his
“Contributions to Coding Techniques”.
In 2006 he received the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement
award for his contributions to Power Line Communications.
A.J. Han Vinck is a full professor in Digital
Communications at the University of Essen, Essen, Germany, since 1990.
He studied electrical engineering at the
University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1980.
He accepted the position of visiting
professor (2010-2012) at the University of
Johannesburg, South Africa.
He was invited (2011) to be consultant professor at the
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
In 2003 he was an adjoint
professor at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung,
Taiwan.
In 1986 he was a visiting scientist at the
German space Agency in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
His interest is in Information and Communication
theory, Coding and Network aspects in digital communications.
From 1991-1993, 1998-2000, 2006-2008, he was
the director of the Institute for Experimental Mathematics in
Professor Vinck was the director (1997-1999)
of the
From 2000-2004 he was the chairman for the communication division of the Institute for
Critical Infrastructures, CRIS.
Professor Vinck served on the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from1997 until 2006.
In 2003 he was elected president
of the IEEE Information theory Society.
He served as Member-at-Large 2001-2002 in the
Meetings and Services Committee for the IEEE
In 1999 he was the Program Chairman for the
IEEE IT workshop in
In 1997 he acted as Co-chairman for the 1997 IEEE
Information Theory symposium in Ulm, Germany (704 participants).
Professor Vinck was founding Chairman
(1995-1998) of the IEEE German Information Theory chapter.
In 1990 he organized the IEEE Information
Theory workshop in Veldhoven, the
IEEE elected him in 2006 as a fellow for his
“Contributions to Coding Techniques”.
He is a distinguished lecturer for the
Information theory as well as for the Communications society of the IEEE
Professor Vinck is the initiator and organizer
of the Japan-Benelux workshops on Information theory
( now Asia-Europe workshop on “Concepts in
Information Theory”)
and the International Winterschool on
Coding, Cryptography and Information theory in
He started (
Power Line Communications and its
Applications, ISPLC (the 16th
ISPLC2012 will be in Beijing).
In 2006 he received the IEEE
ISPLC2006 Achievement award in Orlando (FL,
for his contributions to Power Line Communications and for facilitating
the transition of ISPLC
to a fully financially and technically sponsored IEEE Communications
Society conference.
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He is co-founder and president of the Shannon and the Gauß foundations. These foundations stimulate
research and help young scientists
in the field of Information theory and Digital Communications.
From 1999-2000 he was elected
chairman of the Benelux Information and Communication Theory Society.
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