Shlomo Shamai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shlomo Shamai

Israeli information theorist

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1953

Place of Birth: Soviet Union

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, university teacher

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Professor Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Hebrew: ???? ???? (???) ?) 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. 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 and a member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).