A.J. Han Vinck

A.J. Han Vinck
Born	Adrianus Johannes Vinck (1949-05-15) 15 May 1949 (age 72) Breda, Netherland
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Eindhoven University of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of Duisburg

Adrianus Johannes "Han" Vinck (born 15 May 1949, in Breda)^[1] is a senior professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, since September 2014. He is a member of the Digital Signal Processing group at the Electrical Engineering Department. His interest is in Information and Communication theory, Coding and Network aspects in digital communications. He is the author of the textbook Coding Concepts and Reed-Solomon Codes.^[2]

Brief outline of academic positions[]

- 1980 PhD, Eindhoven University, the Netherlands (Syndrome Decoding of Convolutional Codes, supervisor: J.P.M. Schalkwijk).^[1]
- 1986 visiting scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
- 1990-2014 Full professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Institute for Experimental Mathematics)
- director (1997-1999) of the Post-Graduate School on Networking, "CINEMA".
- chairman (1998-2001) of the Benelux Information and Communication Society (WIC).
- From 2000 to 2004 he was the chairman for the communication division of the Institute for Critical Infrastructures, CRIS.
- In 2003 Vinck was an adjoint professor at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- visiting professor (2010-2012) at the South Africa.
- Vinck was invited (2011) to be consultant professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
- Vinck was a director of the Institute for Experimental Mathematics in Essen - From 2014 to 2015 he was adjunct professor at the National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan.
- From 2014 to 2015 he was honorary professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
- From 2014 he is president of the Leibniz foundation. This foundation supports research and education in the field of Information theory, Neurosciences and Biology.

Professional activities[]

- In 1990 Vinck organized the IEEE Information Theory workshop in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
- served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 1997 until 2006.
- Vinck is the founding Chairman (1995-1998) of the IEEE German Information theory chapter.
- In 1997 Vinck acted as Co-chairman for the 1997 IEEE Information Theory symposium in Ulm, Germany.
- In 2003 Vinck was elected president of the IEEE Information theory Society.
- 2008, Vinck was a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society.

Founded conferences
- Vinck is the initiator (1990) and organizer of the Japan-Benelux workshops on Information theory (now Asia-Europe workshop on "Concepts in Information Theory")
- the International Winterschool on Coding, Cryptography and Information theory in Europe (Essen, 1991 and 1993).
- Vinck started (Essen, 1997) and still supports the organization of the series of IEEE conferences on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC (the 20th ISPLC2016 will be in Bottrop).

Awards[]

- In 2006 Vinck received the IEEE - ISPLC2006 Achievement award in Orlando (FL, USA) for his contributions to Power Line Communications and for facilitating the transition of ISPLC to a fully financially and technically sponsored IEEE Communications Society conference.
- IEEE elected Vinck in 2006 as a fellow for his "Contributions to Coding Techniques"
- The SA-IEE annual award was presented to Vinck for the best paper published in the SA-IEE Africa Research Journal in the year 2008.
- best paper award at Chinacom 2013.
- Vinck received the Aaron Wyner distinguished service award in 2015 from the IEEE Information theory society.^[3]

See also[]

• https://web.archive.org/web/20150205002723/http://www.martinvinck.com/page3/assets/bookHan.pdf
• http://www.itsoc.org/
• https://www.uni-due.de/dc/vinck-main.php

External links[]

• IEEE ICCT 2011 speakers

References[]