He is an IEEE Fellow, and has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. He received the 2011 IEEE Abraham Prize, the 2012 IEEE Ellersick Prize, and the 2012 IEEE Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory. He has been the Chair (2002–2004) of the Radio Communications Committee of IEEE CommSoc.

His research interests are in the areas of information theory, wireless systems, statistical signal processing and quantum information. His contributions include also exponential bounds for the Gaussian error function, and the statistical distribution of the eigenvalues of random matrices.