R.Zamir's Curriculum Vitae


Name: Ram Zamir

Address: (h) 6 Moshe Zakut St., Tel Aviv 69707 Israel

(w) Deprt. of Electrical Engineering - Systems

Tel Aviv University,

Tel Aviv 69978

Telephone: (w) 03-6406273,

fax: 6407095

E-mail: zamir@eng.tau.ac.il

Date of Birth: 20 February 1961.

Marital status: Married + 3.

Military service: 1983~-~1989


Education:

Dec. 1994 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Tel-Aviv University, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems.

Advisor: Prof Meir Feder.

Research topics:

·         Entropy Coded Dithered Quantization for Universal Coding of Signals.

·         Information Theoretic Inequalities.

Jan. 1991 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Tel-Aviv University. Thesis topic: Randomized Uniform (Lattice) Quantization for Universal Coding with Distortion. Advisor: Prof. Meir Feder.

June 1983 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Tel-Aviv University.

Experience

1996 - ...... Member of the Staff, Tel Aviv University

·         research on information theory, source coding, communication and bounds on statistical signal processing

·         teaching information theory, digital communications.

2002-2003 Visiting Researcher (Sabbatical), Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

·         Dirty-paper coding, rate-distortion for networks.

1995 - 1996 Visiting Researcher, University of California at Santa Barbara My activity included research on:

·         universal lossy compression, joint source/channel co= ding

·         applications of rate-distortion theory in speech and= video compression.

1994 - 1995 Research Associate, Cornell University.

·         research in multi-user and universal source coding

·         lectures in information theory and spread-spectrum.

1989 - 1994 Research and teaching assistant, Tel-Aviv University.

1989 - .... Consultant. Main areas:

·         advanced digital communication

·         radar systems

·         data compression algorithms.

1984 - 1989 Technical officer and researcher, Israeli Air Force


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