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Eitan Yaakobi is a Professor at the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he also holds a courtesy appointment at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include information and coding theory with applications to non-volatile memories, associative memories, data storage and retrieval, voting theory, and DNA data storage. Eitan received several recognitions for his work, including the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for “Coding for DNA Storage” (2022–2027). Additional honors include membership in the Israeli Young Academy (2024), the Morton and Beverley Rechler Prize for Excellence in Research (2024), the Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence (2020), the Hans Fischer Fellowship at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (2019), the Intel Ph.D. Fellowship, and the Marconi Society Young Scholar Award. He has also received multiple best paper and memorable paper awards, as well as several Technion Excellence Teaching Awards. Beyond research, he has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2020–2023) and, since 2025, for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications. Since 2022, he is also the head of the Technion-Decart Excellence Program.
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