Yonina Chana Eldar (; ''née'' Berglas; born 25 January 1973) is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering at the

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, known for her pioneering work on sub-Nyquist sampling. Eldar is the recipient of the

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for Engineering Research and Engineering Sciences for 2025.

Early life and education

Eldar was born in

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, Canada. She is the third daughter of Rabbi Meyer and Vicky Berglas. She moved with her family to Israel in 1979. She received her B.Sc. degrees in physics and

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both from

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

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was received from the

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(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,

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. 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

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. 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

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. Eldar is a member of the

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, an

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Fellow and a

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Fellow.

Work

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

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and

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

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

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, Scalar potential, potential fields, Seismic tomograph ...

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 revea ...

, signal processing and optimization for

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, signal and

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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 optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

deep learning Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...

and graphs,

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. Upon receiving the

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(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 has 5 children with her ex-husband

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Shalomi Eldarhttps://www.academy.ac.il/SystemFiles/23282.pdf and lives 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 Fellows 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