Yonina Eldar#
Photo: Ohad Herches
| Membership Number: | 6452 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/math/yonina/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4358-5304 |
Present and Previous Positions
- March 2019 - pßresent Professor in the Math and Computer Science Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
- January 2010 - February 2019: Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- 2020 - present Advisory Professor of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- 2020 - present Fellow of the 8400 Health Network.
- 2018 - present Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2018 - present Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2016 - present Adjunct Professor at Duke University, Durham, USA
- August 2009 - 2014 Visiting Professor at the Statistics and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford
- July 2002 - 2008 Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- June 2005 - January 2010 Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Signal processing for optics and biology
- Communications and radar
- Signal processing
- Sampling and ADC design
- Machine learning theory and algorithms
- Medical imaging
- Ultrasound technologies
- Machine learning and technology for healthcare
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Amazon Research Award
- 2022 Elected as a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- 2021, 2015 ERC Grant
- 2018 - 2021 Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science
- 2020,2010 Google Research Faculty Award
- 2018 Selected as one of 50 Distinguished Women Scientists in Asia
- 2017 Elected as a member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2017 Elected an EURASIP Fellow, "For Groundbreaking Contributions to Sub-Nyquist and Compressed Sampling, Convex Optimization and Statistical Signal Processing”
- 2016 The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, "For Development of the Theory and Implementation of Sub-Nyquist Sampling with Applications to Radar, Communications and Ultrasound"
- 2015 The Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence
- 2014 IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, "For Contribution to Sub-Nyquist Sampling Theory with Application to Radar and Array Processing"
- 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, "For Fundamental Contributions to Sub-Nyquist and Compressed Sampling, Convex Optimization and Statistical Signal Processing"
- 2012 Elected an IEEE Fellow, "For Contributions to Compressed Sampling, Generalized Sampling and Convex Optimization".
- 2012 Selected to the Young Israel Academy of Science
- 2011 Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences
- 2011 Selected as One of the 50 Most Influential Women in Israel
- 2010 Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation
- 2004 Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Research
- 2003 Alon Fellow
- 2002 Horev Fellow in the Leaders of Science and Technology Program at the Technion
