Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University where he teaches and conducts research in the Information Sciences and Systems Group.

Sergio Verdú was the recipient of the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book ``Multiuser Detection.'' His papers have received several awards: the D. Fink Paper Award from the IEEE, the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award, a Golden Jubilee Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the 2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications  Advancement Foundation, and the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award from the IEEE  Communications Society.

Sergio Verdú has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and of information theory." He served as an elected member of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors in 1989-1999, and was President of the IEEE Information  Theory Society in 1997. He is a member of the Technion Center for Communication and Information Technology, and the Technical Advisory Board of Flarion Technologies.