Biography
| 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 best paper award |
| 2005 |
Fellow,
IEEE (for contributions to zero-error information theory) |
| 2006 |
IEEE Information Theory Paper Award (with Santhanam and Zhang) |