Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.
During 1975-1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs, in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now a Technion Distinguished Professor, and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications.
His research interests encompasses a wide spectrum of topics in information theory, communications and networking.
Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is an IEEE Life Fellow, an 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 has been awarded the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI), and is a co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2003, and the 2004 joint IT/COM societies paper award, the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2009 and 2015 European Commission FP7, Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications (NEWCOM++, NEWCOM#) Best Paper Awards, the 2010 Thomson Reuters Award for International Excellence in Scientific Research, the 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award (for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking), the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award.
Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (Computer Science) for the years 2013/4/5/6/7/8.
He is also the recipient of 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research.
He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and has also served twice on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society.
He has also served on the Executive Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, on the IEEE Information Theory Society Nominations and Appointments Committee and on the IEEE Information Theory Society, Shannon Award Committee.
