Shlomo Shamai
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) | |
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שלמה שמאי (שיץ) | |
Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
Known for | Shannon Theory, Communication Channels |
Awards | Shannon Award (2011), van der Pol Gold Medal (1999), IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (2000), Rothschild Prize (2014), IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information Theory, Electrical Engineering |
Institutions | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
Professor Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Hebrew: שלמה שמאי (שיץ) ) is a distinguished professor at the Department of Electrical engineering at the Technion − Israel Institute of Technology. Professor Shamai is an information theorist and winner of the 2011 Shannon Award.[citation needed]
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.
During 1975-1985 he was with the Israeli Communications Research Labs. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now the William Fondiller Professor of Telecommunications.
His research areas cover a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications.
Prof. Shamai is an IEEE Fellow for contribution to Shannon theory as applied to the evaluation of the reliability of communication channels[1] and a member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).
Awards
- 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of URSI
- 2000 co-recipient of the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award[2]
- 2003 Joint IT/COM Societies Paper Award
- 2004 Joint IT/COM Societies Paper Award
- 2007 Information Theory Society Paper Award
- 2009 The European Commission FP7, Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications (NEWCOM++) Best Paper Award
- 2010 Thomson Reuters Award for International Excellence in Scientific Research
- 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society[3]
- 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering
- 2017 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal[4]
He is also the recipient of the 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research. He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and has also served on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society.
In 2013, Shamai was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to information theory for wireless communication technology.
References
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 1994 | IEEE Communications Society".
- ^ "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "IEEE Hamming Medal" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2011. Retrieved May 22, 2017.
External links
- Shlomo Shamai's Webpage in the Technion Website
- Shlomo Shamai's List of publications
- Citation for Shannon Award
- Shlomo Shamai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 1972 Claude E. Shannon
- 1973
- 1974 David S. Slepian
- 1975
- 1976 Robert M. Fano
- 1977 Peter Elias
- 1978 Mark Semenovich Pinsker
- 1979 Jacob Wolfowitz
- 1980
- 1981 W. Wesley Peterson
- 1982 Irving S. Reed
- 1983 Robert G. Gallager
- 1984
- 1985 Solomon W. Golomb
- 1986 William Lucas Root
- 1987
- 1988 James Massey
- 1989
- 1990 Thomas M. Cover
- 1991 Andrew Viterbi
- 1992
- 1993 Elwyn Berlekamp
- 1994 Aaron D. Wyner
- 1995 George David Forney
- 1996 Imre Csiszár
- 1997 Jacob Ziv
- 1998 Neil Sloane
- 1999 Tadao Kasami
- 2000 Thomas Kailath
- 2001 Jack Keil Wolf
- 2002 Toby Berger
- 2003 Lloyd R. Welch
- 2004 Robert McEliece
- 2005 Richard Blahut
- 2006 Rudolf Ahlswede
- 2007 Sergio Verdú
- 2008 Robert M. Gray
- 2009 Jorma Rissanen
- 2010 Te Sun Han
- 2011 Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
- 2012 Abbas El Gamal
- 2013 Katalin Marton
- 2014 János Körner
- 2015 Robert Calderbank
- 2016 Alexander Holevo
- 2017 David Tse
- 2018 Gottfried Ungerboeck
- 2019 Erdal Arıkan
- 2020 Charles Bennett
- 2021 Alon Orlitsky
- 2022 Raymond W. Yeung
- 2023 Rüdiger Urbanke
- 2024 Andrew Barron