A.J. Han Vinck
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A.J. Han Vinck is a professor in Digital Communications at the University of Essen since 1990.
He studied electrical engineering at the University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1980.

From 1991-1993, 1998–2000, 2006–2008, he was the director of the Institute for Experimental Mathematics in Essen.
Vinck was the director (1997–1999) of the Post-Graduate School on Networking, "CINEMA".
From 2000-2004 he was the chairman for the communication division of the Institute for Critical Infrastructures (CRIS).

He currently holds a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics
Institute for Experimental Mathematics
The Institute for Experimental Mathematics was founded, with the support of the VolkswagenFoundation, as a central scientific facility of the former University of Essen, now University of Duisburg-Essen in 1989. With the addition of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Chair on 1...

 at the University of Duisburg-Essen
University of Duisburg-Essen
The University Duisburg-Essen is a public university in Duisburg and Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a member of the new founded University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr....

, campus Essen.

IEEE

He started (Essen, 1997) and still supports the organization of the series of conferences on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC.
In 2006 he 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
IEEE Communications Society
The IEEE Communications Society is a professional society of the IEEE. It is also known by the abbreviation ComSoc. The Society focuses on two principal areas: the science of, and education about, communications engineering with the goal of advancing the state of the field; and professional...

 conference.
The SA-IEE annual award was presented to him for the best paper published in the SA-IEE Africa Research Journal in the year 2008.

Professor Vinck served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society
IEEE Information Theory Society
The IEEE Information Theory Society , formerly the IEEE Information Theory Group, is a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers focused on several aspects of information: its processing, transmission, storage, and usage; and the "foundations of the...

 from 1997 until 2006. In 2003 he was elected president of the IEEE Information theory Society.

Vinck was founding Chairman (1995–1998) of the IEEE German Information Theory chapter. IEEE elected him in 2006 as a fellow for his “Contributions to Coding Techniques”. He is co-founder and president of the Shannon Foundation and the Gauß Foundation . These foundations stimulate research and help young scientists in the field of Information theory and Digital Communications.
He is a distinguished lecturer for the Information theory
Information theory
Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...

as well as for the Communications society of the IEEE.

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