Shlomo Shamai

Shlomo Shamai ( Shitz ), Hebrew שלמה שמאי ( שיץ, (* November 4, 1953 in the Soviet Union) is an Israeli engineer who deals with information theory.

Shamai came to Israel in 1960 and studied electrical engineering at the Technion with a bachelor 's degree in 1975, her Master's degree in 1981 and doctorate in 1986. In 1975 to 1986 he was in the research laboratories of Communications of the Israeli army. He is since 1978 Professor ( William Fondiller Professor ) for telecommunications at the Technion.

It deals with information rates in restricted channels, multi- user information theory and systems with frequency spread combination of coding and modulation, optical coding, space-time coding.

Since 2010 he has been researching in the consortium CORNET ( Cognitive Radio ).

In 2011 he received the Claude E. Shannon Award. He is IEEE Fellow and received the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale ( URSI ) and in 2000 the Henry Taub Prize of the Technion. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences.