2025 IEEE European School of Information Theory (ESIT)

Antonia Maria Tulino (Fellow, IEEE) received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, in 1999. She has held research positions at the Center for Wireless Communications, Princeton University; in Oulu, Finland; and at the Università degli Studi del Sannio, Benevento, Italy. From 2002 to 2016, she served as an Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, where she has been a Full Professor since 2017. Since 2002, she has also collaborated with Nokia Bell Labs, serving as a Senior Researcher and leading the Network Information Flow group. Since October 2019, she has been a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, USA. In September 2020, she was appointed Teaching Director of the 5G Academy, a joint initiative of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and several global leaders in digital transformation, including Capgemini, TIM, Nokia, Fastweb, and PagoPA. In her research, Prof. Tulino has made groundbreaking contributions to key areas such as multi-antenna systems, random matrix theory, free probability theory, cache-aided content distribution, and cloud network control. She has been invited to speak as a tutorial presenter, keynote speaker, and plenary speaker at various prestigious international conferences. Her publication record includes over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, 160 conference papers, 10 book chapters, and a seminal book on random matrices and wireless communications. Additionally, she holds more than 20 granted patents, with an equal number currently pending. Prof. Tulino has also led numerous high-impact research projects funded by the European Union and the Italian National Research Council. From 2011 to 2013, she served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In 2013, she was elevated to IEEE Fellow, and since 2019, she has chaired the IEEE Information Theory Society Fellows Committee. Prof. Tulino has received numerous awards, including the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. She was also awarded the UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence (2018–2019), the 1000 Talent Program Award, and was selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the Frontiers of Engineering program in 2013.

Jaime Llorca is an Associate Professor at the University of Trento, Department of Information Science and Engineering, and a Research Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He also serves as Director of Strategy at the 5G Academy, Italy, and Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He previously held a Senior Research Scientist position with the Network Algorithms Group at Nokia Bell Labs, NJ, a Research Scientist position with the Wireless Networking Group at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, NJ, and a postdoctoral position with the Center for Networking of Infrastructure Sensors, MD. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests lie in the field of network algorithms, optimization, machine learning, and distributed control, with applications to next-generation communication networks, mobile/edge/cloud computing, end-to-end service orchestration, and content distribution. Jaime has made fundamental contributions to the mathematics of content delivery and distributed cloud networks, including pioneering cooperative caching, network coding, and cloud network control algorithms, with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and 20 patents. He is recipient of the 2007 IEEE ISSNIP Best Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, and the 2015 Jimmy H.C. Lin Award for Innovation.

Holger Boche (Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering, the bachelor’s degree in mathematics, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively, the master’s degree from Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany, in 1997, and the Dr.rer.nat. degree in pure mathematics from Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1998. In 1997, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI), Berlin. From 2002 to 2010, he was a Full Professor of mobile communication networks with the Institute for Communications Systems, Technische Universit ́’at Berlin. In 2003, he became the Director of the Fraunhofer German-Sino Laboratory for Mobile Communications, Berlin. In 2004, he became the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (HHI). He was a Visiting Professor with ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, from 2004 and 2006 (Winter), and KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2005 (Summer). In October 2010, he joined the Institute of Theoretical Information Technology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has published the book Information Theoretic Security and Privacy of Information Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Since 2014, Prof. Boche has been a member and an Honorary Fellow of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Munich, and the Founding Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering, Technische Universität München, since 2018. Since 2021, he has been leading jointly with Frank Fitzek the Research Hub 6G-Life. He is a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM and the SPTM Technical Committees. He was an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) in 2008 and the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2009. He was a recipient of the Research Award Technische Kommunikation from the Alcatel SEL Foundation in October 2003, the Innovation Award from the Vodafone Foundation in June 2006 and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) in 2008. He was a co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award and the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He was the General Chair of the Symposium on Information Theoretic Approaches to Security and Privacy at the 2016 IEEE GlobalSIP.

Mary Wootters is an associate professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2014, and a BA in math and computer science from Swarthmore College in 2008; she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University from 2014 to 2016. She works in information theory, theoretical computer science, and applied math; her research interests include error correcting codes and randomized algorithms for dealing with high dimensional data.  Her Ph.D. thesis received the Sumner B. Myers Memorial Prize from the UMich Math Department and and the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation award.  She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2019 and a Google Research Scholar in 2021; she was awarded the IEEE Information Theory Society James L. Massey award in 2022, and named the IEEE Information Theory Society Goldsmith Lecturer for 2024.