Professor Ellis Wins NSA Grant

Congratulations to Robert Ellis, who was recently awarded a research grant. The grant is a $25K National Security Agency Young Investigators Grant to study error-correcting and covering codes with linear error rates and noiseless feedback, closely related to so-called Renyi-Ulam liar games. These are information theoretic problems with application to data transmission and compression, fault testing, and batch testing.

Robert Ellis came to IIT in Fall 2005 after completing his Ph.D. at UC San Diego, then doing a postdoc at Texas A&M University. His primary research interests are in discrete applied mathematics.