People

Gadiel Seroussi
Information Theory Research Group

Biography:
Gadiel Seroussi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in computer science from Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1977, 1979, and 1981, respectively.

From 1981 to 1987, he was with the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Technion. During the 1982–1983 academic year, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM T. J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. From 1986 to 1988, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Cyclotomics Inc., Berkeley, CA. Since 1988, he has been with Hewlett–Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, where he founded the Information Theory Research Group and was its director until 2005. During the 2005–2006 academic year, he was an Associate Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California. Since 2004, he has held a joint appointment in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Universidad de la República, Montevideo. He is a coauthor of the book Elliptic Curves in Cryptography (1999), and a coeditor of Advances in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2005), both published by Cambridge University Press. His research interests include the mathematical foundations and practical applications of information theory, error correcting codes, data compression, image processing, and cryptography.

Dr. Seroussi served as an Associate Editor for Coding Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2006 to 2009. He is a corecipient of the 2006 IEEE Joint Communications/Information Theory Paper Award.