Igal Sason received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
in 1992 and 2001, respectively.
From 1993 to 1997, he worked as an electrical engineer in Israel.
Between 2001 and 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 of the
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the Technion, where he is currently a professor
and holds the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Academic Chair.
Since October 2021, he has also held a secondary appointment as a Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion.
His research focuses on information theory, coding theory, combinatorics, and graph theory.
Sason served on the editorial board of the
IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory for a total of ten years in several roles, including Associate Editor for Coding Theory,
Associate Editor at Large, Executive Editor, and
Editor-in-Chief. He also served as the Guest Editor of
special issues on the mathematical foundations of information theory for the journals
the Entropy and the
AIMS Mathematics.
He has been an IEEE Fellow of the Information Theory Society since 2019,
and a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics
and its Applications since 2024.