Background
Vardy, Alexander was born on November 12, 1963 in Moscow. Son of Aharon Nudelman and Tanya Vardy. came to the United States, 1992.
Vardy, Alexander was born on November 12, 1963 in Moscow. Son of Aharon Nudelman and Tanya Vardy. came to the United States, 1992.
He graduated from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1985, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1991 at Tel Aviv University.
He holds the Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. The Parvaresh–Vardy codes are named after him. During his graduate studies, he also worked on electronic countermeasures for the Israeli Air Force.
He served as editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Information Theory from 1998 to 2001.
In 2004 a paper by Ralf Koetter and Vardy on decoding Reed–Solomon codes was listed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society as the best paper in information theory of the previous two years. The resulting decoding algorithm has become known as the Koetter–Vardy algorithm.
Vardy was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1999. He became the Jack Wolf Professor in 2013.
He became a researcher at the International Business Machines Corporation Almaden Research Center for two years, then became a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign before moving to University of California, San Diego in 1998.
Married Hagit Miriam Itzkowitz, March 10, 1988.