Devroye elected second vice president of IEEE Information Theory Society
Devroye elected second vice president of IEEE Information Theory Society
Richard and Loan Hill Professor Natasha Devroye was elected second vice president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society.
The society’s mission is to “support the open exchange of ideas in information theory, broadly construed, through publications, communications, meetings, outreach, education, mentoring, and recognition of excellence.” There are about 5,000 members of IEEE Information Theory Societyworldwide.
Devroye joined UIC in January 2009. Her research focuses on multi-user information theory, spectrum sharing, wireless communications, and applications of information theory including statistical analysis of hardware security primitives and interpreting learned error correcting codes.
Devroye’s term with the society begins in 2027 and is a five-year commitment. This year, she will serve as second vice president, in 2027 she will serve as vice president, in 2028 as president, in 2029 as junior past president, and in 2030 as senior past president.
“This election reflects the high regard in which Natasha is held by her peers within the IEEE Information Theory community, and recognizes her leadership and service to the field,” said Daniela Tuninetti, professor and ECE department head.
Devroye has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
She co-chaired the Women in Information Theory Society from 2015-2018, was an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2019-2021, is an IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors member (2021-2026) and was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2023.
At UIC, she was named a Researcher of the Year in the Rising Star category in 2012, and a University Scholar in 2023. Devroye is a co-PI of the Chicagoland area multi-institution NSF funded Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning Institute.