Biography

Eirik Rosnes (S'01--M'04--SM'11) was born in Stavanger, Norway, in 1975. He received the Cand. Scient. degree in physics and the Dr. Scient. degree in informatics from the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. 

From 2003 to 2011, he was with the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, first as a Postdoctoral Researcher and then as a Senior Researcher. From September 2001 to March 2002 and from March 2005 to September 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. From October 2011 to August 2013, he was a Senior Engineer with Ceragon Networks, and since August 2013, he has been with both Simula Research Laboratory / Simula UiB as a Senior Researcher (from 2020 as a Chief Research Scientist) and Head of Department and the University of Bergen (until August 2017) as an Adjunct Associate Professor. His research interests are in the areas of communication theory and information theory and include classical error-control coding, quantum error-correction, coding for privacy and security, and distributed computing and learning.

Dr. Rosnes was a Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2009 International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Ullensvang, Norway, and served as Area Editor for the AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications from October 2014 to January 2020. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.