Bruce Hajek

Bruce Edward Hajek is the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Hoeft Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).[2] His research spans communication networks, auction theory, stochastic analysis, combinatorial optimization, machine learning, information theory, as well as bioinformatics.

He graduated with B.S. in mathematics and M.S. in electrical engineering from UIUC.[3] He received in 1979 from the University of California, Berkeley his Ph.D. in electrical engineering with dissertation Stochastic Integration, Markov Property and Measure Transformation of Random Fields.[1]

Hajek joined the faculty of UIUC in 1979. He served as editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[3] In 1995 he was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society.[4]

Hajek was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1992–1993.[5] He was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for contributions to stochastic systems, communication networks, and control.[6]

He is the 2003 winner of the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.

He is the author of the book Random Processes for Engineers (Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 9781107100121).[7]