Prof. Igal Sason

Prof. Igal Sason received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in 1992, 1999, and 2001, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he worked as an electrical engineer in Israel. Between 2001 and 2003, he was a scientific collaborator at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL—Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Since October 2003, he has been a faculty member in the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion, where he is currently a professor and holds the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Academic Chair. Since October 2021, he also holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. His research focuses on information theory, coding theory, and graph theory. Sason served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in various roles, including as an Editor-in-Chief. He also served as a Guest Editor in Entropy (MDPI) and AIMS Mathematics. He is an IEEE Fellow of the Information Theory Society (since 2019) and a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (since 2024).