Rate My Professor Margreta Kuijper

Margreta Kuijper is a Professor and Reader in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Her primary research interest is error-correcting codes. Her main research interests are in the interplay between systems theory and communications, in particular realization theory, polynomial matrix theory, linear systems over rings and fields, decoding methods for error-correcting codes, and security aspects of linear systems. She has made contributions to areas such as list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes, algebraic-geometric codes, distributed massive MIMO architectures, and adversarial attack detection and correction in control systems.

Kuijper received her Master's degree cum laude from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and her PhD from the Center of Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, with a thesis titled First-order representations of linear systems in 1994. She has been at the University of Melbourne for over 25 years, receiving the UoM Service Recognition 25 Year Bronze award in 2020. Key publications include 'Lee-metric decoding of BCH and Reed-Solomon codes' in Electronics Letters (2003), 'A Unifying System-Theoretic Framework for Errors-and-Erasures Decoding' (2001), 'A Parametric Approach to List Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes using Sums of Exponentials' in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2012), 'Linear system security: Detection and correction of adversarial attacks on a Quanser AERO system' in Automatica (2019), 'Lightweight Conceptual Dictionary Learning for Text Classification Using Compression-Based Dissimilarity Measures' in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2024), 'Zeroing Unknown Terms: A Novel Clustering Architecture for Low Network Overhead in Distributed Massive MIMO' (2024), 'A Novel Partial Joint Processing Architecture for distributed Massive MIMO' (recent), 'Joint Coherent/Non-Coherent Detection for Distributed Massive MIMO' in Sensors (2025), and 'Lower bound on minimum Lee distance of algebraic-geometric codes over finite fields'. Her work has appeared in prestigious venues and influenced advancements in coding theory and systems applications.