Degrees

M.Sc. Electronic Devices 1976

Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology

Ph.D.  Information Theory 1981

Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russian Academy of Sciences

Awards

• IEEE Fellow, 2007
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Essen, Germany, 1993-1994
• Royal Society Guest Research Fellow, Manchester, UK, 1992-1993
 

Research Area

Error-correcting codes, nonbinary coding, decoding algorithms.
Research Specialization: Error-correcting coding and information theory.

Publications

I. Dumer, “Nonbinary double-error-correcting codes designed by means of algebraic varieties,” IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 41, pp. 1550-1560, 1995.

I. Dumer, “Soft decision decoding using punctured codes," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 47, pp. 59-72, 2001.

I. Dumer, D. Micciancio, and M. Sudan, “Hardness of Approximating the Minimum Distance of a Linear Code,” IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, Vol. 49, pp. 22-37, 2003.

I. Dumer, “Recursive decoding and its performance for low-rate Reed-Muller codes,” IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 50, pp. 811-823, 2004.

I. Dumer, “Soft decision decoding of Reed-Muller codes: a simplified algorithm,'' IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 52, 954-963, 2006.

I. Dumer, “Covering spheres with spheres,'' Discrete and Computational Geometry, vol. 38, no. 4, 3–18, 2007.

For additional information, please see Professor Dumer's faculty webpage.

http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~dumer
 

Former Institution

Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russian Academy of Sciences

Biography

Professor Ilya Dumer received his M.S. (summa cum laude) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1976 and the Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1981.