Professor Ephraim Zehavi () is an Israeli researcher in communication theory and coding theory. He was one of the founders of th
Faculty of Engineering
at Bar-Ilan University and later served as its dean (2014-2019). He was one of the inventors of

CDMA Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...

alongside

Andrew Viterbi Andrew James Viterbi (born Andrea Giacomo Viterbi, March 9, 1935) is an electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at th ...

and Jack Wolf. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University.

Biography career

Ephraim Zehavi received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, in 1977 and 1981, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

in 1987. Ephi worked at RAFAEL as a communication researcher until 1982, when he left Israel to pursue his studies. In 1985, he joined

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and took part in developing high-speed Viterbi/Trellis Decoders and conducting R&D on satellite communication systems. In his 12 years at Qualcomm, he contributed to the company’s leading projects, including CDMA, 3G cellular technology, and Globalstar. His last position there was General Manager of Qualcomm Israel. He left Qualcomm to found
Mobilian
in 1998, a communications startup solving Bluetooth and WLAN coexistence issues. Mobilian was acquired by Intel in 2003. In 2003, he returned to academia to help build the School of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, serving as vice-head before being appointed dean in 2014.

Professional Recognition

* IEEE Stephen O. Rice Award (1994): Co-recipient of this prestigious award in telecommunications engineering. *

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

of the IEEE Communications Society (2013): Elected for significant contributions to pragmatic coding techniques and bit-interleaving methodologies.

Patents

Prof. Zehavi has been granted over 4
patents
in specialized areas of telecommunications and coding, including: * Coding technologies * CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology * Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technologies * Coexistence strategies for multiple wireless networks {{DEFAULTSORT:Zehavi, Ephraim Fellows of the IEEE Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Israeli electrical engineers