Igal Sason was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1969. He is an alumni of the
Hebrew Reali School of Haifa (1987). He received the B.Sc., Master, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
in 1992, 1999, and 2001, respectively.
During 1993-1997, he was an electrical engineer at the Government Defense Laboratories.
During 2001-2003, he was a scientific collaborator at
the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL -
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Since October 2003, he has been a faculty member at the
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
of the Technion, where he is currently a professor. He received several awards such as the Alon fellowship
and Horev fellowship for Leaders in Science and Technology (2004-2006), and he was a co-recipient of the
2003 IEEE Information Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society joint paper award (with Shlomo Shamai).
Since October 2021, he has a secondary appointment as a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion.
His research focuses on information theory, coding theory, and combinatorics.