Tsachy (Itschak) Weissman is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.Stanford profile, Itschak Weissman He is the founding director of the Stanford Compression Forum. His research interests include information theory, statistical signal processing, their applications, with recent emphasis on biological applications, in genomics in particular, lossless compression, lossy compression, delay-constrained and complexity-constrained compression and communication, network information theory, feedback communications, directed information, the interplay between estimation theory and information theory, entropy, noise reduction (denoising), filtering, prediction, sequential decision making, learning, and connections with probability, statistics, and computer science.
He was the senior technical advisor to HBO's Silicon Valley, and namesake of the Weissman score therein.IEEE Spectrum, "A Made-For-TV Compression Algorithm", 25 July 2014
On his personal website, Weissman has spoken out against intimidation and sexual harassment in the information theory community.FAQs
Education Weissman received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) in 1997, and his Ph.D. (2001) from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.Stanford University profile, Tsachy Weissman
Career In 2002, Weissman joined Hewlett-Packard (HP) laboratories as a researcher; in 2003, he became a visiting scientist at HP.HP Labs, People At HP, he was co-inventor of a denoising algorithm named the Discrete Universal Denoiser (DUDE).HP Labs, Discrete Universal Denoiser (DUDE)
Weissman became assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in 2003.Stanford Report, President's Report to the Board of Trustees, 2003Stanford Report, Diverse backgrounds, interests distinguish new faculty on campus, 2004Stanford Report, Report of the President to the Board of Trustees, 2009 He was promoted to associate professor in 2010,Stanford Report, Report of the President: Academic Council professoriate appointments, 2010 and professor in 2015.Stanford Report, Report of the President: Academic Council Professoriate appointments, 2015 He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE in 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Fellows for contributions to information theory and its applications in signal processing. Publications B. Marcus, K. Petersen and T. Weissman (eds.), Entropy of Hidden Markov Processes and Connections to Dynamical Systems, Cambridge University Press, July 2011.
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External links Profile page at Stanford Google Scholar, Tsachy Weissman The Informaticists