Scholar
Stark Draper
Google Scholar ID: xbXtit8AAAAJ
Professor of ECE, University of Toronto
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,578
H-index
19
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- NSF CAREER grant; 2010 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) President’s Award; Teaching Awards: U of T ECE Departmental Award, UW ECE Gerald Holdridge Award, MIT EECS Carlton E. Tucker Award; Post-doc fellowships: UofT, UC Berkeley; Graduate fellowships: Intel Graduate Fellowship, C.S. Draper Lab Graduate Fellowship; U.S. State Department Fulbright Fellowship; Memberships: Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi; Stanford Frederick E. Terman Award in Engineering; Stanford James Weter Prize in History — best undergraduate history thesis.
Research Experience
- Leads his research team in collaborations with Mitsubishi Electric, Huawei Technologies, Disney Research, Bell Labs, HP Labs, ADI, and AMD, among others. Spent the 2019-20 academic year on sabbatical visiting the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China, and visiting the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Hawai’i, USA.
Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford; B.A. in History, Stanford.
Background
- Research interests include information theory, optimization, error-correction coding, security, and the application of tools and perspectives from these fields to problems in communications, computing, and learning. Has held academic, industrial, and consulting roles with Arraycomm Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), UC Berkeley, and UW-Madison.
Miscellany
- Member of the Board of Governors for IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc); Chair, ITSoc Committee on Diversity & Inclusion (2020-22); Chair, ITSoc Schools Committee (2018-20); Board Secretary (2016-18).
