Biography
Dr. Jossy Sayir received his engineering diploma (Dipl. El. Ing. ETH) in 1991
and doctorate (Dr. Sc. Techn.) in 1999, both from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ).
From 1991 until 1993, he worked as a development engineer for
Motorola Communications in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the design and quality
assurance of a digital mobile radio system. From 1993 until 1999, he
worked as a research and teaching assistant under the supervision of
Prof. James L. Massey
while writing his dissertation "On Coding by Probability Transformation".
In 1999, he worked as a concept engineer for
Supercomputing Systems AG
in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2000 until 2009, he was a senior researcher
at the
Telecommunications Research Center in Vienna, Austria (ftw.)
and managed part of the centre's strategic research activities from
2002 until 2008. Since June 2009, he has been with the
Department of Engineering
at the
University of Cambridge
on an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship that lasted until November 2011.
In September 2011, he was appointed as a fixed-term lecturer in Communications
at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge for the
academic year 2011/12 (until August 2012).
He also served on the executive board of the European
FP7 Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications (NEWCOM++)
and chaired the
EC concertation cluster "Radio Access and Spectrum" (RAS)
that includes 30 EC projects with a consolidated budget of approximately
EUR200m. His research interests include information theory,
iterative decoding, sub-optimal and quantized decoders.
He has taught
courses on Turbo and related codes
at
Vienna University of Technology,
at the University of Aalborg,
Denmark, and a course organised by the
Institute for Telecommunications Research
in Adelaide, South Australia. He has served on the organization and
technical committees of several international conferences and workshops.
He lives in London with his wife Keren and children Mia, Eden and Eitan.
In his spare time, he plays the alto saxophone with pianist
Mike
and enjoys cooking and roasting coffee.
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