Mike Luby

Mike earned a BSc in Applied Math from MIT and a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He founded Digital Fountain Inc. in 1999, and served as CTO until acquired by Qualcomm Inc. in 2009, where he was a VP of Technology for ten years.

Mike has received numerous IEEE, ACM awards, and medals for research and practice in coding theory, transport technologies, distributed computing, information theory, and cryptography. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow.

Program Visits

Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society, Fall 2019, Visiting Scientist

Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications, Spring 2019, Visiting Scientist

Foundations of Data Science, Fall 2018, Visiting Scientist

Real-Time Decision Making, Spring 2018, Visiting Scientist

Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Fall 2017, Visiting Scientist

Foundations of Machine Learning, Spring 2017, Visiting Scientist

Cryptography, Summer 2015, Visiting Scientist

Information Theory, Spring 2015, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer