Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ir. Kees A. Schouhamer Immink
Curriculum Vitae of Kees A. Schouhamer Immink
| 1946 | Born in Rotterdam. |
| 1976 | Master of Electrical Engineering (Ir), University of Eindhoven of Technology. |
| 1984 | Doctorate, University of Eindhoven of Technology. |
| 1968-1998 | Researcher, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven. |
| 1994-2014 | Adjunct professor, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Duisburg-Essen University. |
| 1998 | President and founder, Turing Machines Inc. |
| 2000-2005 | Distinguished visiting professor, National University of Singapore. |
| 2003-2004 | President, Audio Engineering Society (AES), New York. |
| 2005-2008 | Visiting research fellow, Data Storage Institute, Singapore. |
| 2008-2011 | Visiting professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
Awards
| 2014 | Honorary doctorate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| 2004 | Progress Medal, Society of Motion Pictures Engineers (SMPTE). |
| 2004 | IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award. |
| 2003 | Personal Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, USA. |
| 2003 | Inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, Consumer Electronics Association, USA. |
| 2000 | IEEE Millennium Medal. |
| 2000 | Knighthood in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, Beatrix, Queen of The Netherlands. |
| 1999 | AES Gold Medal, Audio Engineering Society, New York. |
| 1999 | IEEE Edison Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. |
| 1998 | Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation, IEEE Information Theory Society. |
| 1998 | AES 50th Anniversary Commemorative Medal, Audio Engineering Society. |
| 1996 | IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. |
| 1994 | SMPTE Alexander Poniatoff Gold Medal. |
| 1993 | J.J. Thomson Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers, London. |
| 1992 | AES Silver Medal, Audio Engineering Society, New York. |
Honorary memberships
| 2008 | Elected member, Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, Haarlem. |
| 2007 | Foreign associate, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, USA. |
| 2006 | Elected member, Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy, Rotterdam. |
| 2000 | Honorary member, Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society. |
| 1996 | Elected member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam. |
| 1996 | Fellow, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. |
| 1990 | Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. |
| 1987 | Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers, London. |
| 1985 | Fellow, Audio Engineering Society, New York. |
Patents and Publications
Around 1100 international and US patents, and around 200 articles primarily on coding technologies for digital storage media, including:
| 2000 | Codes for Mass Data Storage Systems. |
| 2009 | Chester Sall Best Paper Award in Consumer Electronics for “DC-free Multimode Code Design Using Novel Selection Criteria for Optical Recording Systems“ (with Jun Lee). |
| 2009 | Best Paper Award for “A general construction of constrained parity-check codes for optical recording“, IEEE Communications Society (with Kui Cai). |