Punya Thitimajshima
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Punya Thitimajshima a Thai professor in the department of telecommunications engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, is the co-inventor with Claude Berrou
and Alain Glavieux
of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo code
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Thitimajshima was educated at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in control engineering
and Master's degree in electrical engineering
. Later he went to École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
and Universite de Bretagne Occidentale in France
, where he studied telecommunications engineering and received a doctoral degree in 1993 for a dissertation titled "Systematic recursive convolutional code
s and their application to parallel concatenation." Thitimajshima joined the faculty of KMITL in 1995 as a lecturer, and became associate professor.
He was the recipient of the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society
together with Berrou and Glavieux. In 2003 he received the Outstanding Technologist Award presented by the Foundation for Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand. He died on 9 May 2006 at the age of 51 from illness.
Claude Berrou
Claude Berrou is a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, now Telecom-Bretagne...
and Alain Glavieux
Alain Glavieux
Alain Glavieux , was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne...
of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo code
Turbo code
In information theory, turbo codes are a class of high-performance forward error correction codes developed in 1993, which were the first practical codes to closely approach the channel capacity, a theoretical maximum for the code rate at which reliable communication is still possible given a...
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Thitimajshima was educated at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in control engineering
Control engineering
Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...
and Master's degree in electrical engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
. Later he went to École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
Telecom Bretagne is one of the top French grande école and a high standard research centre providing high level training in Information Technologies and telecommunications...
and Universite de Bretagne Occidentale in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where he studied telecommunications engineering and received a doctoral degree in 1993 for a dissertation titled "Systematic recursive convolutional code
Convolutional code
In telecommunication, a convolutional code is a type of error-correcting code in which* each m-bit information symbol to be encoded is transformed into an n-bit symbol, where m/n is the code rate and...
s and their application to parallel concatenation." Thitimajshima joined the faculty of KMITL in 1995 as a lecturer, and became associate professor.
He was the recipient of the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from 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...
together with Berrou and Glavieux. In 2003 he received the Outstanding Technologist Award presented by the Foundation for Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand. He died on 9 May 2006 at the age of 51 from illness.