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Professional Biography

Igal Sason received the B.Sc., Master, and Ph.D. degree 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. Since October 2021, he has a secondary affiliation with the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. His research interests are in information theory, coding, and more recently also in graph theory.

He served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for overall ten years as an Associate Editor for Coding Theory (2008-2011), an Associate Editor at Large (2014-2017), the Executive Editor (July 2018 - Dec. 2019), and the Editor in Chief (January 2020 - June 2021). He also served three times as a Guest Editor in special issues of the Entropy journal. He is an IEEE member (since 1998), and an IEEE Fellow of the Information Theory Society (since 2019).