{"680541":{"#nid":"680541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bloch Receives Inaugural IEEE Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/matthieu-ratoslav-bloch\u0022\u003EMatthieu Bloch\u003C\/a\u003E received the IEEE Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe and his co-authors were recognized for their paper, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9380147\u0022\u003EAn Overview of Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy: Metrics, Limits and Applications\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d which provides a comprehensive tutorial on foundational contributions to information-theoretic security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper adopts an integrative perspective, detailing key security metrics such as secrecy and privacy, the methodology behind information-theoretic approaches, and the system design principles that emerge from them. It also explores the techniques that enable information-theoretic security to be applied in communication and computing systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, the authors emphasize the dual importance of fundamental limits and coding techniques in the design of secure communication systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBloch, who also serves as the College of Engineer\u2019s associate dean for Academic Affairs, is the inaugural winner of the award alongside his co-authors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.itsoc.org\/honors\/thomas-tutorial-award\u0022\u003EJoy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award\u003C\/a\u003E recognizes publications that expose subjects in information theory to a broad audience and stimulate interest and engagement in them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBloch came to Georgia Tech as a graduate student, earning his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering in 2003, and later a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech ECE in 2008. He joined Georgia Tech as faculty at the Lorraine campus in Metz, France in 2009, and in 2013, he moved to the main campus in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to that he received the engineering degree from Sup\u00e9lec. In 2006, he received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the Universit\u00e9 de Franche-Comt\u00e9. Bloch spent a year as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame before returning to Georgia Tech in 2009. From January 2021 to January 2024, \u0026nbsp;Bloch was \u0026nbsp;the associate chair for Graduate Affairs in ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe ECE professor and his co-authors team the award for their published review of information-theoretic security and privacy.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ECE professor and his co-authors team the award for their published review of information-theoretic security and privacy."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2025-02-17 19:27:24","changed_gmt":"2025-02-17 19:33:14","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676316":{"id":"676316","type":"image","title":"Bloch.jpg","body":null,"created":"1739820462","gmt_created":"2025-02-17 19:27:42","changed":"1739820462","gmt_changed":"2025-02-17 19:27:42","alt":"Matthieu Bloch","file":{"fid":"260079","name":"Bloch.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/02\/17\/Bloch.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/02\/17\/Bloch.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1793417,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/02\/17\/Bloch.jpg?itok=X0DisLVm"}}},"media_ids":["676316"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"175215","name":"information theory"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}