Prof. Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

Shlomo Shamai is now a Technion Distinguished Professor and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. He received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in 1975, 1981 and 1986, respectively. From 1975 to 1985, he was with the Communications Research Labs in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, a URSI Fellow, a Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award, the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering and the 2017 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. He is a co-recipient of the 2018 Third Bell Labs Prize for Shaping the Future of Information and Communications Technology. He was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (Computer Science) from 2013 to 2018. 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.