Career
He is one of the inventors of a modern class of practical erasure codes known as tornado codes, and the principal developer of raptor codes, which belong to a class of rateless erasure codes known as Fountain codes. He is the principal inventor of Chordal Codes, a new class of codes specifically designed for communication on electrical wires between chips. In 2011 he founded the company Kandou Business dedicated to commercialization of the concept of Chordal Codes.
The first implementation, transmitting data on 8 correlated wires and implemented in a 40nm process, received the January Van Vessem Award for best European Paper at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2014.
