1977 - 1980    | B.Sc., | Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University |
1977 - 1981 | B.Sc., | Electrical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University |
1981 - 1982 | M.Sc., | Electrical Engineering, Stanford University |
1982 - 1986 | Ph.D., | Electrical Engineering, Stanford University |
1986 - 1996 | Member of Tech. Staff,
Mathematical Sciences Research Center,
AT&T Bell Laboratories |
1996 - 1997 | Quantitative Analyst, D. E. Shaw and Company |
1997 - present |
Professor, Departments of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
and
Computer Science and Engineering,
UCSD |
2007 - present |
Qualcomm Professor for Information Theory and its Applications,
UCSD |
1982 |
ITT International Fellowship |
1992 |
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award |
2005 |
Fellow,
IEEE (for contributions to zero-error information theory) |
2006 | IEEE Information Theory Paper Award (with Santhanam and Zhang) |
2007 | Qualcomm Chair for Information Theory and its Applications |
2009 | Distinguished Lecturer, Information Theory Society |
(Student awards for coauthored papers)
2003 | Capocelli Prize to Prasad Santhanam for Performance of universal codes over infinite alphabets | 2010   | ISIT Student Paper Award to Jayadev Acharya for On Reconstructing a Sequence from its Subsequence Compositions |