Professor Neri Merhav

The Irving Shepard Academic Chair

Contact Information

Local Address

Room 659, A. Meyer Building, X4737 (merhav@ee)

Snail-Mail Address

Professor Neri Merhav
Department of Electrical Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel

Phone: +972-(4)-829-4737
Fax: +972-(4)-829-5757
Email: merhav AT ee DOT technion DOT ac DOT il

Office Hours

Spring Semester 2012:

Monday, 13:30-14:30, 16:30-17:30.

Biosketch

I 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). From 1996 until 1999 I served as an Associate Editor for Source Coding in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. I also served as a co-chairman of the Program Committee of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. Currently, I am on the Editorial Board of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory. My complete CV can be found here.

Areas of Interest

My 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. Yet another recent research interest of mine concerns relationships between information theory and statistical physics.

Teaching

Courses I have been teaching:

Undergraduate Studies

044198 - Introduction to Digital Signal Processing

044202 - Random Signals

046201 - Introduction to Random-Signal Processing

046205 - Introduction to Coding Theory

046206 - Introduction to Digital Communications

046733 - Information Theory

Graduate Studies

048934 - Coded Communications

049043 - Universal Lossless Data Compression

049044 - Rate Distortion Theory, Lossy Compression, and Quantization

049054 - Statistical Physics and Information Theory (see also here.)

Publications ( copyright note)

My articles are in the following problem areas (some articles appear under more than one category):

Lossless Source Coding

Lossy Source Coding and Rate-Distortion Theory

Information-Theoretic Aspects of Digital Watermarking

Prediction and Sequential Decision Making

Universal Hypothesis Testing and Universal Decoding

Shannon Theory (General)

Shannon-Theoretic Secrecy

Information-Theoretic Aspects of Universal Simulation of Random Processes

Estimation Theory and Other Topics in Statistical Signal Processing

Exponential Error Bounds and Reliability Functions of Source Coding and Channel Coding

Information Theory and Statistical Physics

Data Processing in the Compressed Domain

Tutorials

Other

Selected Talks

Graduate Students

Hilla, Roy, and Reut Merhav - triplets, 18 years young.