Short Biography of Joachim Rosenthal

Joachim Rosenthal is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Zürich and Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame.
He received the Diplom in Mathematics from the University of Basel in 1986 and the Ph.D. in Mathematics from Arizona State University in 1990.

During the academic year 1989/1990 he was a Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis.

From 1990 until 2006 he has been with the Department of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, where he has been last "The Notre Dame Chair in Applied Mathematics" and Concurrent Professor of Electrical Engineering.

In the academic year 1994/1995 he spent a sabbatical year at CWI the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During the academic year 1999/2000 he was a Guest Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, affiliated with the School of Computer & Communication Sciences .

His current research interests are in coding theory and cryptography. In coding theory he is interested in convolutional codes, LDPC codes and more general codes on graphs. In cryptography his main interest lies in the construction of new oneway trapdoor functions.

He is or has been on the editorial board of Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), Journal of Algebra and Its Applications (JAA), Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Systems and Control Letters, and
In August 2002 he served as the Symposium Chair of the International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS).

My family:
I am married to Rebekka Rosenthal-Graber and we have 4 children.

Current Ph.D. Students:

Former Ph.D. Students:

• Eric York.
  PhD thesis: Algebraic Description and Construction of Error Correcting Codes, a Systems Theory Point of View.
  University of Notre Dame, 1997.
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• Paul Weiner.
  PhD thesis: Multidimensional Convolutional Codes.
  University of Notre Dame, 1998.
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• Brian Allen.
  PhD thesis: Linear Systems Analysis and Decoding of Convolutional Codes.
  University of Notre Dame, 1999.
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• Roxana Smarandache,
  PhD thesis: Maximum Distance Separable Convolutional Codes, Construction and Decoding.
  University of Notre Dame, 2001.
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• Christopher Monico,
  PhD thesis: Semirings and Semigroup Actions in Public-Key Cryptography.
  University of Notre Dame, 2002.
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• Gerard Maze,
  PhD thesis: Algebraic Methods for Constructing One-Way Trapdoor Functions.
  University of Notre Dame, 2003.
  
• Guangyue Han,
  PhD thesis: Space Time Coding with Multiple Antenna Systems. University of Notre Dame, 2004.
  
• Carmelo Interlando, University of Notre Dame, 2005.
• Christine Kelley, University of Notre Dame, 2006.
• Ryan Hutchinson, University of Notre Dame, 2006.
• Jens Zumbrägel, University of Zurich, 2008.
• Felix Fontein, University of Zurich, 2009.

Former Masters Students:

• Changyan Di. MS Degree University of Notre Dame, 2000.
• Marylee Ruehle. MS Degree University of Notre Dame, 2001.
• Thomas Doherty. MS Degree University of Notre Dame, 2001.
• Ali Pusane. MS Degree University of Notre Dame, 2006.
• Ariel Amir. Diplom University Zurich, 2006.
• Helen Stassen. Diplom University Zurich, 2006.
• Wufei Zhang. MS Degree University of Notre Dame, 2007.
• Andres Gentzen. MS Degree University Zurich, 2007.
• Richard Koeppel. Diplom University Zurich, 2007.
• Michele Casartelli. Diplom University Zurich, 2007.
• Marion Wimmer, Diplom University Zurich, 2008.
• Urs Wagner, MS Degree University Zurich, 2008.

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