Igal Sason received his B.Sc., Master, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
in 1992, 1999, 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 at the
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
of the Technion, where he is currently a professor
and holds the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Academic Chair.
He has received several academic awards.
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, and graph theory.