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Shlomo Shamai

Shlomo Shamai is an Israeli information theorist and professor of electrical engineering at the Technion, known for winning the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award.

born 1953Research in information theoryThe 2011 Claude E. Shannon AwardProfessorship at the Technion

Born: 4 November 1953, Lviv
Occupation: computer scientist, university teacher, electrical engineer, scientist
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Shlomo Shamai was born in 1953 in Lviv

Shlomo Shamai was born on November 4, 1953, in Lviv in the Soviet Union. He immigrated to Israel in 1960.

He earned a B.Sc. in 1975, an M.Sc. in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1986, all in electrical engineering from the Technion. He was part of the academic reserve program.

From 1975 to 1985 he served in the Signal Corps and worked with the Israeli Communications Research Labs.

In 1986 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where he holds the William Fondiller Professorship of Telecommunications. He was named a research professor in 2012. His work covers information theory and statistical communications, including channel coding, turbo codes and spread spectrum systems.

He has published over 300 scientific papers, written 4 books and edited 2. He has supervised more than 40 graduate students and was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and to the US National Academy of Engineering.