Martin Bossert from Ulm University, Ulm, Germany was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 [1] for contributions to reliable data transmission including code constructions and soft decision decoding.
Bossert received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany in 1987. [2]