- Punya Thitimajshima
Punya Thitimajshima (1955 - 9 May 2006), a Thai professor in the department of
telecommunications engineering atKing Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang , is the co-inventor withClaude Berrou andAlain Glavieux of a groundbreaking coding scheme calledturbo code s.Thitimajshima was educated at
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang , where he earned his Bachelor's degree incontrol engineering and Master's degree inelectrical engineering . Later he went toÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne and Universite de Bretagne Occidentale inFrance , where he studiedtelecommunications engineering and received a doctoral degree in 1993 for a dissertation titled "Systematic recursiveconvolutional code s and their application to parallel concatenation." Thitimajshima joined the faculty ofKMITL in 1995 as a lecturer, and became associate professor.He was the recipient of the 1998
IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award. In 2003 he received the Outstanding Technologist Award presented by the Foundation for Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand. He died on 9 May 2006 at the age of 51 from illness.External links
* [http://www.itsoc.org/society/goldjub_tech.htm The IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation]
* [http://www.kmitl.ac.th King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang]
* [http://www.kmitl.ac.th/dslabs/TurboCodes/index.html]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
