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Neri Merhav publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Neri Merhav sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 368 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Neri Merhav D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Neri Merhav sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to universal methods of prediction and data compression.

Overview

Neri Merhav is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields within computer science and engineering, with significant contributions in areas such as wireless communication security techniques and DNA and biological computing.

Their work crosses several subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and computational theory and mathematics. They have contributed extensively to topics related to cellular automata and applications, algorithms and data compression, error correcting code techniques, cooperative communication and network coding, as well as advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Merhav has published in prominent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Entropy
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine

Some of their recent publications include:

  • The DNA Storage Channel: Capacity and Error Probability Bounds, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Large Deviations Behavior of the Logarithmic Error Probability of Random Codes, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • The MMI Decoder is Asymptotically Optimal for the Typical Random Code and for the Expurgated Code, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optimal work extraction and the minimum description length principle, 2020, Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
  • Trade-offs between Error Exponents and Excess-Rate Exponents of Typical Slepian-Wolf Codes, 2021, Entropy

Merhav frequently collaborates with co-authors such as Ran Tamir, Nir Weinberger, Asaf Cohen, Sergey Loyka, and Anatoly Khina.

The scientist was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 1999 for contributions to universal methods of prediction and data compression.

Best Publications

  • Hidden Markov processes

    Y. Ephraim;N. Merhav

  • On information rates for mismatched decoders

    N. Merhav;G. Kaplan;A. Lapidoth;S. Shamai Shitz

  • Universal prediction

    N. Merhav;M. Feder

  • Universal prediction of individual sequences

    M. Feder;N. Merhav;M. Gutman

  • Relations between entropy and error probability

    M. Feder;N. Merhav

  • Fast algorithms for DCT-domain image downsampling and for inverse motion compensation

    N. Merhav;V. Bhaskaran

  • When is the generalized likelihood ratio test optimal

    O. Zeitouni;J. Ziv;N. Merhav

  • A measure of relative entropy between individual sequences with application to universal classification

    J. Ziv;N. Merhav

  • A competitive minimax approach to robust estimation of random parameters

    Y.C. Eldar;N. Merhav

  • Guessing subject to distortion

    E. Arikan;N. Merhav

  • On successive refinement for the Wyner-Ziv problem

    Y. Steinberg;N. Merhav

  • Channel Coding in the Presence of Side Information

    Guy Keshet;Yossef Steinberg;Neri Merhav

  • On the estimation of the order of a Markov chain and universal data compression

    N. Merhav;M. Gutman;J. Ziv

  • The Shannon cipher system with a guessing wiretapper

    N. Merhav;E. Arikan

  • Universal schemes for sequential decision from individual data sequences

    N. Merhav;M. Feder

  • Optimal sequential probability assignment for individual sequences

    M.J. Weinberger;N. Merhav;M. Feder

  • A strong version of the redundancy-capacity theorem of universal coding

    N. Merhav;M. Feder

  • Optimal prefix codes for sources with two-sided geometric distributions

    N. Merhav;G. Seroussi;M.J. Weinberger

  • Identification in the presence of side information with application to watermarking

    Y. Steinberg;N. Merhav

  • Low complexity sequential lossless coding for piecewise stationary memoryless sources

    G.I. Shamir;N. Merhav

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsachy Weissman
Tsachy Weissman Stanford University
Meir Feder
Meir Feder Tel Aviv University
Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Gadiel Seroussi
Gadiel Seroussi University of the Republic
Mauro Barni
Mauro Barni University of Siena
Shlomo Shamai
Shlomo Shamai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yariv Ephraim
Yariv Ephraim George Mason University
Igal Sason
Igal Sason Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yonina C. Eldar
Yonina C. Eldar Weizmann Institute of Science

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