Short Bio

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.

     My “scientific” genealogy

PERSONAL DATA (April 2010)

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 Essen.

Professor Vinck was the director (1997-1999) of the Post-Graduate School on Networking, "CINEMA".

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 Kruger Park, South Africa(175 participants).

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 Netherlands(125 participants).

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 Europe.

 

He started (Essen, 1997) and still supports the organization of the series of conferences on

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, USA)

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.

 

The SA-IEE annual award was presented to him for the best paper published

in the SA-IEE Africa Research Journal in the year 2008.


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.

           

 

            My friends of “Kaffee-Haus” music group “Contour”

last modified: January 2012