Professor Si-Hyeon Lee has been appointed as an Associate Editorof IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the most prestigious journal in the field of information theory. Founded in 1953, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is one of the oldest journals in the IEEE and serves as a leading platform for theoretical research on the representation, storage, transmission, processing, and learning of information. The journal particularly focuses on publishing research that explores fundamental principles and applications across various domains, including communications, compression, security, machine learning, and quantum information. As an Associate Editor, Professor Lee will play a pivotal role inmanaging the peer review process and shaping the academic direction of the journal, making significant contributions to the advancement of the field. Notably, this appointment marks only the fourth time in over 70 years since the journal’s inception that a researcher affiliated with a Korean university has been selected for this role, highlighting Professor Lee’s outstanding research achievements and international academic contributions.
Professor Lee’s primary research areas include the study of information-theoretic performance limits and the development of optimal schemes in communication, statistical inference, and machine learning, contributing to the theoretical foundations of next-generation communication and intelligent systems. Additionally, Professor Lee has served as a Technical Program Chairfor the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, a major international conference in information theory, and has been actively engaged as an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer, disseminating the latest research trends to the academic community.
