 | Erdal Arıkan Bilkent University, Turkey Talk Title: Polar codes for terabit/s data rates Biography |
 | Jean-Claude Belfiore Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Paris, France; and Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France Tentative Talk Title: Advanced concepts in polar code design Biography |
 | Richard Blahut University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Talk Title: The Lightwave Channel: Particles or Waves? Abstract & Biography |
 | Stephan ten Brink University of Stuttgart, Germany Talk Title: Near Gaussian Multiple Access Channel Capacity Detection and Decoding Biography |
 | Daniel J. Costello, Jr. University of Notre Dame, USA Talk Title: Spatially Coupled Generalized LDPC Codes – Introduction and Overview Biography |
 | Lara Dolecek University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA Talk Title: Finite-length spatial coupled codes: explicit constructions and applications in data storage Abstract & Biography |
 | Yoshiyuki Kabashima Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Talk Title: Semi-Analytic Resampling in Lasso Biography |
 | Michael Lentmaier Lund University, Sweden Talk Title: Design criteria for spatially coupled turbo-like codes Biography |
 | Shu Lin University of California at Davis, USA Talk Title: Collective Encoding and Soft-Decision Decoding of Cyclic Codes in Galois-Fourier Transform Domain Abstract & Biography |
 | Urbashi Mitra University of Southern California, USA Talk Title: Increasing Robustness to Synchronization Errors in Molecular Communications Abstract & Biography |
 | Robert Schober Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany Talk Title: Synthetic Molecular Communication: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges Abstract & Biography |
 | Rüdiger Urbanke EPFL, Swizerland Talk Title: To be announced Biography |
 | Norbert Wehn University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Talk Title: When Channel Coding hits the Implementation Wall Abstract & Biography |
 | Raymond W. Yeung The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China Talk Title: BATS: Network Coding in Action Abstract & Biography |
 | Yifei Yuan ZTE, China Talk Title:NOMA Study in 3GPP for 5G Biography |