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= Erdal Arıkan
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Erdal Arıkan is a prominent Turkish electrical engineer, known primarily for his contributions to the fields of information theory and communications. He is notably recognized for his work on polar codes, a type of error-correcting code that has gained significant attention in the context of achieving the capacity of communication channels. Polar codes were first introduced by Arıkan in a seminal paper published in 2009.