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 \title{List-based Optimization of Proximal Decoding for LDPC Codes }%Linear Block Codes}
 
 %\author{Author 1, Author 2, Author 3}
-\author{Andreas Tsouchlos, Holger Jäkel, and Laurent Schmalen
+\author{Andreas Tsouchlos, Holger Jäkel, and Laurent Schmalen, \IEEEmembership{Fellow, IEEE}
 \thanks{The authors are with the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), corresponding author: \texttt{holger.jaekel@kit.edu}
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 This work has received funding in part from the European Research Council