Last update: July 16, 2023
Contact InformationLocal Address
Room 670, A. Meyer Building, X4737 (merhav@ee)
The Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 3200003, IsraelPhone: +972-(4)-829-4737
Fax: +972-(4)-829-5757
Email: merhav AT ee DOT technion DOT ac DOT il
BiosketchI received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1982, 1985, and 1988, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1988 to 1990 I was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. Since 1990 I have been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technion. During 1994-2000, I was also serving as a consultant to the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Israel (HPL-I). During 1996-1999 and 2017-2020 I served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in the areas of Source Coding and Shannon Theory, respectively. Since 2004, I am also on the Editorial Board of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory. My complete CV can be found here.
Areas of InterestMy general research interests include information theory, statistical communications, and statistical signal processing. In particular, I am interested in the areas of lossless and lossy source coding, sequential prediction of time-series, relationships between information theory and statistics, most notably, estimation, hypothesis testing, and universal decoding in situations of channel uncertainty. The latter includes also some work on error exponents. Other problem areas which I find interesting include Shannon Theory, in particular, Shannon-theoretic secrecy, joint source-channel coding, source/channel simulation, and coding with side information with applications to information hiding and watermarking systems as well as to biometric security. Some of these topics are also handled using the individual-sequence approach in information theory. Yet another recent research interest of mine concerns relationships between information theory and statistical physics.
Courses I have been teaching:
044198 - Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
My articles are in the following problem areas (some articles appear under more than one category):Lossless Source Coding
Signal Processing, Detection/Estimation Theory, and Parameter Modulation-Estimation
My main accomplishment is the following (joint work with Ilana Merhav):
Reut, Hilla, and Roy Merhav - triplets, 30 years young.