Yonina C. Eldar ( he, יונינה חנה אלדר; born 25 January 1973) is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering at the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

, known for her pioneering work on sub-Nyquist sampling.

Early life and education

Eldar was born in

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. She is the third daughter of Rabbi Meyer and Vicky Berglas. She moved with her family to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

in 1979. She received her

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degree in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

and the B.Sc. degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

both from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

(TAU),

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

, Israel, in 1995 and 1996, respectively. Her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and

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was received from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT),

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, in 2002. Eldar authored the thesis ''Quantum Signal Processing'' under the supervision of Alan V. Oppenheim. Her

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research was completed in 2002 at the Digital Signal Processing Group at MIT.

Career

Eldar moved back to Israel in 2002 and became a senior lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion,

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

. In 2005 she became an associate professor at that department, and in 2010, a full professor, holding the Edwards Chair in Engineering. From March 2019 Eldar is a professor in the Math and Computer Science Department at the

Rehovot Rehovot ( he, רְחוֹבוֹת ''Rəḥōvōt'', ar, رحوڤوت ''Reḥūfūt'') is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of . Etymology Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu movement, ...

. She is also a visiting professor at MIT and a visiting scientist at the

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, and was a visiting professor at

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. She is also an adjunct professor at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. Eldar is a member of the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on re ...

, an

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Fellow and a

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Fellow.

Work

Her research interests include sampling methods and A/D design,

compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a Signal (electronics), signal, by finding solutions to Underdetermined ...

detection {{Unreferenced, date=March 2018 In general, detection is the action of accessing information without specific cooperation from with the sender. In the history of radio communications, the term "detector" was first used for a device that detected t ...

and

estimation theory Estimation theory is a branch of statistics that deals with estimating the values of parameters based on measured empirical data that has a random component. The parameters describe an underlying physical setting in such a way that their valu ...

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

for

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to rev ...

, signal processing and optimization for

communication systems A communications system or communication system is a collection of individual telecommunications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and terminal equipment usually capable of interconnection and interoperatio ...

, signal and

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

for

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

deep learning Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. De ...

and graphs,

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

. Upon receiving the

IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award is a Technical Field Award established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2001. It is an institute level award, not a society level award. It is presented for outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technolog ...

(2016), her research work and its implications were described by the award committee:

Publications

Eldar is the author of the book ''Sampling Theory: Beyond Bandlimited Systems'' (2015) and co-author of ''Compressed Sensing'' (2012) and ''Convex Optimization Methods in Signal Processing and Communications'' (2010), all published by

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. She has more than 300 published journal articles and has registered more than 20 patents.

Honors and awards

Eldar has received dozens of awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2013), the IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award (2014), and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2016). She was a Horev Fellow of the Leaders in Science and Technology program at the Technion (2002) and an Alon Fellow (2003). She received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation(2010), the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences (2011), the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research (2004), the Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research (twice: 2015 and 2007), the Hershel Rich Innovation Award (three times: 2015, 2013 and 2008), the Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship (2005), the Career Development Chair at the Technion, the Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008), and the Technion’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (two times: 2013 and 2009). She received several best paper awards and best demo awards together with her research students and colleagues, and was selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel (2011) and one of the 50 leading and influential academic women in Asia. She was also a member of the Israel Committee for Higher Education. She is the Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing and a member of several IEEE Technical Committees and Award Committees.

Personal life

Eldar is married to Rabbi Shalomi. They have 5 children and live in Rehovot.

External links

Yonina Eldar's page
Weizmann Institute of Science
Author Yonina C. Eldar
IEEE
Eldar's Lecture on Sub-Nyquist Sampling
Technion, 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eldar, Yonina Living people Israeli electrical engineers Israeli women engineers 1973 births Weizmann Institute of Science Engineers from Toronto Scientists from Toronto Tel Aviv University alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Fellow Members of the IEEE Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Canadian emigrants to Israel Canadian people of Israeli descent Israeli expatriates in the United States