From the Back Cover
This book introduces the basic principles underlying the design and analysis of the digital communication systems that have heralded the information revolution. One major goal of the book is to demonstrate the role of the digital communication principles in a wide variety of data science applications, including community detection, computational biology, speech recognition and machine learning.
One defining feature of this book is to make an explicit connection between the communication principles and data science problems, as well as to succinctly deliver the "story" of how the communication principles play a role for trending data science applications. All the key "plots" involved in the story are coherently developed with the help of tightly coupled exercise problem sets, and the associated fundamentals are explored mostly from first principles. Another key feature is that it includes programming implementation of a variety of algorithms inspired by fundamentals, together with a brief tutorial of the used programming tools. The implementation is based on Python and TensorFlow.
This book does not follow a traditional book-style organization, but is streamlined via a series of lecture notes that are intimately related, centered around coherent storylines and themes. It serves as a textbook mainly for a junior- or senior-level undergraduate course, yet is also suitable for a first-year graduate course. Readers benefit from having a good background in probability and random processes, and basic familiarity with Python. But the background can be supplemented by almost self-contained materials, as well as by numerous exercise problems intended for elaborating on non-trivial concepts. In addition, Part III for data science applications should provide motivation and insights to students and even professional scientists who are interested in the field.
Changho Suh is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST in 2000 and 2002 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral associate in MIT. From 2002 to 2006, he was with Samsung Electronics. He is a recipient of numerous awards in research and teaching: the 2022 Google Research Award, the 2021 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the 2020 LINKGENESIS Best Teacher Award (the campus-wide Grand Prize in Teaching), the 2019 AFOSR Grant, the 2019 Google Education Grant, the 2018 IEIE/IEEE Joint Award, the 2015 IEIE Haedong Young Engineer Award, the 2015 Bell Labs Prize finalist, the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2011 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize (the best dissertation award in UC Berkeley EECS), the 2009 IEEE ISIT Best Student Paper Award, and the five Department Teaching Awards (2013, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). Dr. Suh is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2020 to 2022, the General Chair of the Inaugural IEEE East Asian School of Information Theory 2021, an Associate Head of the KAIST AI Institute from 2021 to 2022, and a Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He is also an Associate Editor of Machine Learning for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, a Guest Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN INFORMATION THEORY, the Editor for IEEE INFORMATION THEORY NEWSLETTER, an Area Editor for IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, an Area Chair of NeurIPS 2021-2022 and a Senior Program Committee of IJCAI 2019--2021.
