Amin Shokrollahi

Who is Amin Shokrollahi?

Amin is Digital Fountain's Chief Scientist. He came to Digital Fountain from the Department of Fundamental

Mathematics Research at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories. He is

one of the world's leading experts in low-density parity check codes.

He has also worked in complexity theory, computational and applied

number theory, signal processing, and multiple antenna wireless

networks. Amin worked with Michael Luby at Berkeley's International

Computer Science Institute from 1995-98 where he collaborated on the

invention of Tornado codes. He received his MS in Mathematics from

Karlsruhe University in 1988 and a PhD in Computer Science and

Mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1991