Litsyn, Simon

Dr Simon Litsyn received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1982. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering Systems at the Tel-Aviv University, where he has been since 1991. From 2000 to 2003 he served as an Associate Editor for Coding Theory in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research interests include coding theory, communications and applications of discrete mathematics. He is the author of more than 150 journal articles.