Steven W. McLaughlin教授现为美国Georgia Institute of Technology－电子与计算机工程学院的首席教授，现任Georgia Tech国际研究中心主任和IEEE信息理论协会（Information Theory Society）主席。Steven W. McLaughlin教授因其在“信息论与存储技术领域的贡献”被评IEEE Fellow。

Steven W. McLaughlin教授是“大容量、多阶光存储研究的领导者”（美，克林顿总统语）。他曾在1999至2003年间作为美国Calimetrics公司的首席科学家对多阶光存储技术进行了研究，并首次实现了多阶光存储的商业化。McLaughlin教授在多阶存储领域的杰出贡献为其赢得了美国总统青年成就奖，美国国家科学基金会CAREER奖以及信息存储工业联盟的技术成就奖。

Steven W. McLaughlin教授的研究方向涵盖了通讯与信息论的广大领域，包括用于光/磁存储的Turbo码、LDPC码和受限码的研究，用于无限通讯和光网络的前向纠错与均衡技术，量子密钥传输与数据安全，以及信道编码理论等。McLaughlin教授发表了180多篇高质量文章并拥有26项美国专利。

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Steven W. McLaughlin received the B.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1985, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992, all in electrical engineering. From 1992-1996 he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech in September 1996 where is now Ken Byers Professor of ECE. Since 2003 he has been the Director of Research at Georgia Tech Lorraine – the European Campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology – in Metz, France where shares his time

between the Atlanta and Metz campuses. He is currently President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. His research interests are in the general area of communications and information theory. His research group has on-going projects in the areas of turbo, LDPC, and constrained codes for magnetic and optical recording; FEC and equalization for wireless and optical networks, quantum key distribution and data security; and theory of error control coding. He has published more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conferences and holds 26 US patents in these areas.

He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1997 where he was cited by President Clinton "for leadership in the development of high-capacity, nonbinary optical recording formats" at a White House ceremony. He also received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for this work. He received (with Dr. David Warland at UC-Davis) the Information Storage Industries Consortium Technical Achievement Award in 2002 for "pioneering work in the development of multilevel optical disk storage technology". From 1999-2003 he was also a Principal Scientist for Calimetrics where this work was commercialized. He received the Friend of the Graduate Student Award in 2002 from the GT Graduate Student Association.

He served as the Publications Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1995-1999. He co-developed (with Ramesh Rao at UCSD) the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Digital Library. He co-edited (with Sergio Verdu) Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1999). He is a senior member of the IEEE. He has also served on the IEEE Publications Activities Board (1998-2001) and is a former Secretary of the IEEE Atlanta Section (2000).