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Moshe Sidi

Moshe Sidi is an Israeli electrical engineer and professor emeritus at the Technion, where he served as Senior Executive Vice President.

born 1953Research on communication networksSenior Technion leadership rolesDirecting the Neaman Institute

Occupation: researcher
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Moshe Sidi was born in 1953 in Ramla

Moshe Sidi was born in Ramla in 1953. He had polio as a child. He went to the Ramla-Lod high school.

He studied electrical engineering at the Technion, earning a B.Sc. in 1975 and an M.Sc. in 1979. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1982 under Prof. Adrian Segall, with a thesis on queues in packet radio networks.

Sidi joined the Technion faculty as a lecturer in 1982 and became a full professor in 1997. His research covers wireless networks, queuing models and the performance of computer communication networks. He was a founding editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and chief scientist of Viola Networks from 1999 to 2007.

At the Technion he served as dean of electrical engineering, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Senior Executive Vice President. From 2017 to 2020 he directed the Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. He retired as professor emeritus in 2021 and lives in Haifa with his wife Yaffa.