Yury Polyanskiy

9.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
125 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Yury Polyanskiy is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Yury Polyanskiy has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 67 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Yury Polyanskiy's work include Wireless Communication Security Techniques (54 papers), Error Correcting Code Techniques (34 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (28 papers). Yury Polyanskiy is often cited by papers focused on Wireless Communication Security Techniques (54 papers), Error Correcting Code Techniques (34 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (28 papers). Yury Polyanskiy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Israel. Yury Polyanskiy's co-authors include Sergio Verdú, H. Vincent Poor, Wei Yang, Giuseppe Durisi, Tobias Koch, Yin Sun, Elif Uysal‐Biyikoglu, Or Ordentlich, Yihong Wu and Giuseppe Caire and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yury Polyanskiy

114 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Channel Coding Rate in the Finite Blocklength Regime 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2014 2017 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Channel Coding Rate in the Finite Blocklength Regime
    2010 2.4k citations Yury Polyanskiy, H. Vincent Poor et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
  2. Quasi-Static Multiple-Antenna Fading Channels at Finite Blocklength
    2014 433 citations Wei Yang, Giuseppe Durisi et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
  3. A perspective on massive random-access
    2017 303 citations Yury Polyanskiy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yury Polyanskiy United States 26 4.4k 3.1k 724 440 402 125 5.5k
Şennur Ulukuş United States 41 7.1k 1.6× 4.6k 1.5× 1.4k 1.9× 280 0.6× 190 0.5× 397 8.6k
Haris Vikalo United States 25 2.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 856 1.2× 118 0.3× 342 0.9× 154 3.4k
Suhas Diggavi United States 35 3.7k 0.8× 4.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 315 0.7× 362 0.9× 300 6.0k
Emre Telatar Switzerland 20 8.7k 2.0× 7.1k 2.3× 727 1.0× 189 0.4× 444 1.1× 78 9.5k
Mikael Skoglund Sweden 34 4.2k 0.9× 3.7k 1.2× 956 1.3× 244 0.6× 155 0.4× 557 5.7k
E. Biglieri Italy 40 11.0k 2.5× 8.2k 2.7× 1.6k 2.2× 429 1.0× 196 0.5× 277 12.3k
Young-Han Kim United States 27 3.3k 0.8× 2.6k 0.8× 576 0.8× 315 0.7× 329 0.8× 155 4.2k
Amos Lapidoth Switzerland 31 3.7k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 474 0.7× 384 0.9× 304 0.8× 158 4.3k
Tom Richardson United States 19 8.7k 2.0× 8.5k 2.8× 1.4k 1.9× 594 1.4× 795 2.0× 40 10.3k
Yingbin Liang United States 27 3.5k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 897 1.2× 264 0.6× 210 0.5× 187 4.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yury Polyanskiy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lancho, Alejandro, et al.. (2025). RF Challenge: The Data-Driven Radio Frequency Signal Separation Challenge. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 6. 4083–4100.
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Lancho, Alejandro, et al.. (2024). The Data-Driven Radio Frequency Signal Separation Challenge. 53–54. 8 indexed citations
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Liva, Gianluigi & Yury Polyanskiy. (2024). Unsourced Multiple Access: A Coding Paradigm for Massive Random Access. Proceedings of the IEEE. 112(9). 1214–1229. 9 indexed citations
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Liva, Gianluigi & Yury Polyanskiy. (2021). On Coding Techniques for Unsourced Multiple-Access. 2021 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. 1507–1514. 10 indexed citations
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Polyanskiy, Yury, et al.. (2021). Quantization of Random Distributions under KL Divergence. 2762–2767. 7 indexed citations
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Polyanskiy, Yury & Yihong Wu. (2020). Application of the information-percolation method to reconstruction problems on graphs. 2(1). 1–24. 3 indexed citations
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Frolov, Alexey, et al.. (2019). Low Complexity Energy Efficient Random Access Scheme for the Asynchronous Fading MAC. 1–5. 12 indexed citations
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Sun, Yin, Yury Polyanskiy, & Elif Uysal‐Biyikoglu. (2019). Sampling of the Wiener Process for Remote Estimation Over a Channel With Random Delay. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66(2). 1118–1135. 142 indexed citations
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Huleihel, Wasim, Yury Polyanskiy, & Ofer Shayevitz. (2019). Relaying One Bit Across a Tandem of Binary-Symmetric Channels. 2928–2932. 9 indexed citations
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Polyanskiy, Yury, et al.. (2019). Quasi-static fading MAC with many users and finite payload. 440–444. 18 indexed citations
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Hadar, Uri, Jingbo Liu, Yury Polyanskiy, & Ofer Shayevitz. (2019). Error Exponents in Distributed Hypothesis Testing of Correlations. 2674–2678. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Wei, et al.. (2018). Beta–Beta Bounds: Finite-Blocklength Analog of the Golden Formula. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64(9). 6236–6256. 10 indexed citations
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Ordentlich, Or & Yury Polyanskiy. (2017). Low complexity schemes for the random access Gaussian channel. 2528–2532. 129 indexed citations
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Sun, Yin, Yury Polyanskiy, & Elif Uysal‐Biyikoglu. (2017). Remote estimation of the Wiener process over a channel with random delay. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 321–325. 124 indexed citations
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Polyanskiy, Yury, Ananda Theertha Suresh, & Yihong Wu. (2017). Sample complexity of population recovery. Conference on Learning Theory. 1589–1618. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Yin, Yury Polyanskiy, & Elif Uysal‐Biyikoglu. (2017). Optimal Sampling and Remote Estimation of the Wiener Process over a Channel with Random Delay. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Polyanskiy, Yury, et al.. (2014). Algebraic methods of classifying directed graphical models. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Wei, Giuseppe Durisi, Tobias Koch, & Yury Polyanskiy. (2013). Block-fading channels at finite blocklength. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1–4. 21 indexed citations
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Mazumdar, Arya, Yury Polyanskiy, & Barna Saha. (2013). On Chebyshev radius of a set in Hamming space and the closest string problem. 1401–1405. 4 indexed citations
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Polyanskiy, Yury, H. Vincent Poor, & Sergio Verdú. (2008). New channel coding achievability bounds. 1763–1767. 17 indexed citations

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