CV

• Ph.D., 1975, Electrical Engineering/Telecommunication theory, “Topics in probabilistic coding and modulation”. Advisors: James L. Massey and Göran Einarsson.
• Docent, 1975
• Professor in Information Theory since 1986.
• University lecturer, 1976–85.
• Department chairman, 1976–2002.
• Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 1988–93.

Distinctions

• Fellow of the IEEE, 1998.
• Professor, honoris causa, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000.
• In 2005, the book “Understanding Information Transmission” by John B. Anderson
  and Rolf Johannesson was chosen by the American Library Association’s
  Choice Editors as “Outstanding Academic Title – The Best of the Best in Published Scholarship”.
• Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2006.

Principle supervisor for the following Ph.D. students

• Bertil Svensson 1983
• Christer Fernström 1983
• Ivan Kruzela 1983
• Mats Cedervall 1983
• Ben Smeets 1987
• Harro Osthoff 1993
• Johan Nyström 1993
• Gunilla Bratt 1994
• Joakim Persson 1996
• Emma Wittenmark 1998
• Stefan Höst 1999
• Per Ståhl 2001
• Marc Handlery 2002
• Victor Pavlushkov 2005
• Maja Lončar 2007