Professor Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

email: sshlomo@ee.technion.ac.il

Short Biography:

Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.

During 1975-1985 he was with the Signal Corps Research Labs (Israel Defense Forces) in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now the William Fondiller Professor of Telecommunications. He is the recepient of the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal, and a co-recepient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Paper Award. He is also the recepient of the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research.

Research Interests:

Topics in information theory and digital and analog statistical communications.

Specific interests include theoretical limits in communication with practical constraints, multiterminal information theory, information theoretic models for multi-user cellular radio systems and magnetic recording, spread spectrum communications, multi-user processing, channel coding, combined modulation and coding, turbo coding, iterative detection/estimation techniques, digital spectrally efficient modulation methods employing coherent and noncoherent detection and information theoretic aspects of optical channels.

International Professional Activities:

Program Committee Member of the 1994 and the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.

Co-organizer of the 'Multiple Access' Session. 1995 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 25-29 June, 1995, Rydzyna, Poland.

Co-organizer of the 'Turbo Coding' Session. Mediterranean Workshop on Coding and Information Integrity, Palma-de-Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 1996.

Chair and Co-organizer of the 1996 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 9-13 June, 1996, Haifa, Israel.

Co-organizer of the 'Shannon Theory' Session at the 1998 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, June 1998, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

Co-organizer of the International Technion Communication Day - in Honor of Israel Bar-David, 25 March 1999, Haifa, Israel.

Program Committee Cochair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'2001), Washington, DC, USA, June 24-29, 2001.

Organizer of the "Signals and Systems" Session at the URSI Annual Meeting, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 15 December, 1998 and February 15, 2000.

Co-organizer of the "Fading Channels" Session at the 34th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'00), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, March 15-17, 2000.

Scientific Committee of the 2001 Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2001) Spring, Tel Aviv, Israel, 6-9 May, 2001.

Shannon Theory Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Information Theory. 1996-2000.

Board of Governors Member (1995-2000), (2002-2005) of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Guest co-editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory dedicated to A.D. Wyner: "Shannon Theory: Perspective, Trends and Applications", June 2002.

Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Computer Science and the Communication Systems Departments at (EPFL) - the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2001.

Program Committee Member of the 2003 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, "La Sorbonne'', Paris, France, March 31-April 4, 2003.

Program Committee Member of the 2003 International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics, Brest, France, 1-5, September 2003.

Fellow of IEEE

Member of AEAI

Member of URSI

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