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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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Tuvi Etzion is a Professor at the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
He received the B.A., M.Sc, and D.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1980, 1982, and 1984, respectively. From 1984 he held a position in the Department of Computer Science at the Technion, where he has a Professor position. During the years 1985-1987 he was Visiting Research Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. During the summers of 1990 and 1991 he was visiting Bellcore in Morristown, New Jersey. During the years 1994-1996 he was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Royal Holloway College, Egham, England. He also had several visits to the Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign during the years 1995-1998, two visits to HP Bristol during the summers of 1996, 2000, a few visits to the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at San Diego during the years 2000-2015, and several visits to the Mathematics Department at Royal Holloway College, Egham, England, during the years 2007-2009.
His research interests include applications of discrete mathematics to problems in computer science and information theory, coding theory, network coding, coding for memories, and combinatorial designs.
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