Yonina Eldar

Yonina Eldar was born in 1973 in Toronto

Eldar was born in Toronto, Canada, to Meyer and Vicky Berglas, the third of eight children. Her family moved to Israel in 1979 and lived in Petah Tikva and later in Ginot Shomron. She attended a Bnei Akiva girls' school in Tel Aviv and did 2 years of national service.

She earned bachelor's degrees in physics in 1995 and in electrical engineering in 1996 at Tel Aviv University. She completed a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, with a thesis on quantum signal processing supervised by Alan Oppenheim. She finished postdoctoral research at MIT in 2002.

In 2002 she returned to Israel and joined the Technion's electrical engineering faculty as a senior lecturer. She became an associate professor in 2005 and a full professor in 2010. In 2019 she moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she founded a center for biomedical engineering.

Her research covers sampling methods, compressed sensing, medical imaging and model-based artificial intelligence. She developed the Xampling concept for sub-Nyquist sampling and built hardware prototypes for it. In 2025 she joined Northeastern University in Boston and received the Israel Prize in engineering research.