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2026

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Computer Science

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98
Citations
51422
World Ranking
396
National Ranking
8

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
98
Citations
50938
World Ranking
202
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2017 - IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal “For fundamental contributions to information theory and wireless communications.”
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to information theory for wireless communication technology.
  • 2011 - IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award
  • 1994 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to Shannon theory as applied to the evaluation of reliability of communication channels.

Overview

Shlomo Shamai is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research spans across the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. The scientist's work also touches on Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics Shlomo Shamai has worked on include:

  • Wireless Communication Security Techniques
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms
  • Error Correcting Code Techniques
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shamai include:

  • Osvaldo Simeone
  • Michèle Wigger
  • H. Vincent Poor
  • Ivana Marić
  • Michael Dikshtein

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Entropy
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications

Selected recent papers by Shlomo Shamai include:

  • "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison," 2020, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • "Rate Splitting for Multi-Antenna Downlink: Precoder Design and Practical Implementation," 2020, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • "Collaborative Cloud and Edge Mobile Computing in C-RAN Systems With Minimal End-to-End Latency," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
  • "Impact of Action-Dependent State and Channel Feedback on Gaussian Wiretap Channels," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • "On Linearly Precoded Rate Splitting for Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channels," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Throughout their career, Shlomo Shamai has received several awards, including the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2017 for fundamental contributions to information theory and wireless communications.

Shamai became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for contributions to information theory for wireless communication technology. Earlier recognitions include the IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award in 2011 and IEEE Fellow status in 1994 due to contributions to Shannon theory applied to the evaluation of communication channel reliability.

Best Publications

  • On the achievable throughput of a multiantenna Gaussian broadcast channel

    G. Caire;S. Shamai

  • Fading channels: information-theoretic and communications aspects

    E. Biglieri;J. Proakis;S. Shamai

  • Multi-Cell MIMO Cooperative Networks: A New Look at Interference

    D Gesbert;S Hanly;H Huang;S Shamai Shitz

  • The Capacity Region of the Gaussian Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Broadcast Channel

    H. Weingarten;Y. Steinberg;S. Shamai

  • Information theoretic considerations for cellular mobile radio

    L.H. Ozarow;S. Shamai;A.D. Wyner

  • Mutual information and minimum mean-square error in Gaussian channels

    Dongning Guo;S. Shamai;S. Verdu

  • Spectral efficiency of CDMA with random spreading

    S. Verdu;S. Shamai

  • Secure Communication Over Fading Channels

    Yingbin Liang;H.V. Poor;S. Shamai

  • Linear precoding via conic optimization for fixed MIMO receivers

    A. Wiesel;Y.C. Eldar;S. Shamai

  • Nested linear/lattice codes for structured multiterminal binning

    R. Zamir;S. Shamai;U. Erez

  • Information Theoretic Security

    Yingbin Liang;H. Vincent Poor;Shlomo Shamai

  • Degrees of Freedom Region of the MIMO $X$ Channel

    S.A. Jafar;S. Shamai

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison

    Marco Di Renzo;Konstantinos Ntontin;Jian Song;Fadil Habibi Danufane

  • On the capacity of some channels with channel state information

    G. Caire;S. Shamai

  • Zero-Forcing Precoding and Generalized Inverses

    A. Wiesel;Y.C. Eldar;S. Shamai

  • Fading channels: how perfect need "perfect side information" be?

    A. Lapidoth;S. Shamai

  • The capacity region of the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel

    H. Weingarten;Y. Steinberg;S. Shamai

  • Capacity and lattice strategies for canceling known interference

    U. Erez;S. Shamai;R. Zamir

  • On information rates for mismatched decoders

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

  • A Note on the Secrecy Capacity of the Multiple-Antenna Wiretap Channel

    Tie Liu;S. Shamai

  • Secure Communication over Fading Channels

    Yingbin Liang;H. Vincent Poor;Shlomo Shamai

Frequent Co-Authors

Osvaldo Simeone
Osvaldo Simeone Northeastern University
H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor Princeton University
Sergio Verdu
Sergio Verdu Princeton University
Yingbin Liang
Yingbin Liang The Ohio State University
Igal Sason
Igal Sason Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Chao Tian
Chao Tian Texas A&M University
Gerhard Kramer
Gerhard Kramer Technical University of Munich
Giuseppe Caire
Giuseppe Caire Technical University of Berlin
Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith Stony Brook University
Syed A. Jafar
Syed A. Jafar University of California, Irvine

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