Eitan Yaakobi

Eitan Yaakobi is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Technion's Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. He received the BA degrees in computer science and mathematics, and the MSc degree in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2011. Between 2011-2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and at the Center for Memory and Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include information and coding theory with applications to non-volatile memories, associative memories, DNA storage, data storage and retrieval, and private information retrieval. He received the Marconi Society Young Scholar in 2009 and the Intel PhD Fellowship in 2010-2011. Since 2020, he serves as an Associate Editor for Coding snd Decoding for the \textsc{IEEE Transactions on Information Theory}. Since 2016, he is affiliated with the Center for Memory and Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego, and since 2018, he is affiliated with the Institute of Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich, where he holds a four-year Hans Fischer Fellowship, funded by the German Excellence Initiative and the EU 7th Framework Program. He is a recipient of several grants, including the ERC Consolidator Grant.