Sergio Verdú (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he taught and conducted research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group.
He was also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.
He was dismissed from the faculty as of September 22, 2018, following a University investigation into his conduct in relation to University policies that prohibit consensual relations with students and require honesty and cooperation in University matters.Verdu received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 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.
In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection.