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Activities and Awards

Membership in Editorial Boards

Endowed Chair:

  • Chair of Statistical Signal Processing and Assimilative Teaching (2023-prsnt.)

Membership in Organizing Committees of International Conferences:

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas & Electronic Systems (COMCAS 2023), Tel-Aviv, Israel, November 2023;

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas & Electronic Systems (COMCAS 2021), Tel-Aviv, Israel, November 2021;

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas & Electronic Systems (COMCAS 2019), Tel-Aviv, Israel, November 2019;

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2018 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2018), Freiburg, Germany, June 2018;

  • Program Co-Chair of the 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2015), Liberec, Czech republic, August 2015;

  • Program Co-Chair of the 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2015), Liberec, Czech republic, August 2015;

  • General Co-Chair of the 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2012), Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2012;

  • Local Arrangements Chair and Chair of the Best Student Paper Awards committee for the 6th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2010), Ma'ale Hahamisha, Israel, October 2010;

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the Third International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP'2009), Aruba, Dutch Antilles, Dec. 2009;

  • Organizer of an invited session on "Approximate Joint Diagonalization" at the Third International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP'2009), Aruba, Dutch Antilles, Dec. 2009;

Membership in Program Committees of International Conferences:

  • "Area Chair" (for Signal Processing Theory and Methods), at the 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'2015), Nice, France, August-September 2015;

  • ITG International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA'15), Ilmenau, Germany, March 2015;

  • IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP'13), Southampton, UK, September 2013;

  • "Area Chair" (for Signal Processing Theory, Detection and Estimation), at the 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'2011), Barcelona, Spain, August 2011;

  • IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'11), Nice, France, June 2011;

  • 8th international conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA’2009), Paraty, Brazil, March 2009;

  • "Area Chair" (for "Detection and Estimation Theory and Methods" and for "Independent Component Analysis") at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech And Signal Processing (ICASSP'2008), Las Vegas, NE, USA, March 2008;

  • 7th international conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA’2007), London, UK, September 2007;

  • IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'07), Madison, WI, USA, August 2007;

  • 6th international conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA’2006), Charleston, SC, USA, March 2006;

  • IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'05), Bordeaux, France, July 2005;

  • 5th international conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA’2004), Granada, Spain, September 2004;

  • 4th international symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA’2003), Nara, Japan, April 2003;

Membership in Technical Committees:

  • Chair of the International LVA/ICA Steering Committee (2019-prsnt.);

  • Member of the IEEE Data Science Initiative (DSI) Steering Committee (2021-2022);

  • Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2005-2010, 2016-2021);

  • Member of the International LVA/ICA Steering Committee (2010-prsnt.);

  • Chair of the IEEE Israel Signal Processing Chapter (2010-prsnt.);

Membership in Faculty and University Committees:

  • Member of the University's Committee for Exceptional Admission (2018-prsnt.)

  • Head of the Yitzhak and Chaya Weinstein Institute for Signal Processing Research (2018-prsnt.)

  • Head of the Faculty of Engineering's Undergraduate Students Affairs and Curriculum Committee (2018-2022)

  • Head of the Faculty of Engineering's Mathematics Committee (2017-2018)

  • Head of the University's Undergraduate Admissions Committee (2013-2015);

  • Member of the Univeristy's Undergraduate Studies Committee (2013-2015);

  • Head of the Faculty of Engineering's Undergraduate Admissions Committee (2010-2012);

  • Member of the School of Electrical Engineering’s Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2003-2015);

  • Member of the Univeristy's Undergraduate Admissions Committee (2010-2015);

  • Member of the University Committee for Revision of Disciplinary Procedures (2004-5);

Scholarships and Awards:

  • 2022: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2021: ICASSP'2021 Outstanding Paper Award (co-author), for the paper: Amir Weiss and Arie Yeredor, "Non-Iterative Blind Calibration of Nested Arrays with Asymptotically Optimal Weighting"; 

  • 2021: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2020: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2019: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2019: Rector's Award for Outstanding Teaching for 2017-18; 

  • 2018: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2018: IEEE Signal Processing Society's Certificate of Merit "for outstanding editorial board service for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing"; 

  • 2016: Dean's Special Monetary Award for Outstanding Teaching at the Faculty of Engineering; 

  • 2015: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2014: IEEEI'2014 Best Student Paper Award (co-author), awarded to my MSc Student Mor Cohen for the paper: Mor Cohen, Yoel Skolnisky and Arie Yeredor, "Collaborative Detection of Common Lines in Cryo EM Images Using Maximum Likelihood".; 

  • 2014: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2013: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2012: Rector's "Top 100" list of outstanding lecturers at TAU; 

  • 2012: Dean's Award (followed by Rector's Award) for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 2010-2011;

  • 2010: EUSIPCO'2010 Best Student Paper Award (co-author), awarded to my MSc Student Ron Shiff for the paper: Ron Shiff and Arie Yeredor, "Sparsity-Based Single-Channel Blind Separation of Superimposed AR Processes";

  • 2010: Dean's Award for Persistent Outstanding Teaching at the Faculty of Engineering;

  • 2007: Dean's Award for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 2005-2006;

  • 2006: Dean's Award (followed by Rector's Award) for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 2004-2005;

  • 2003: Dean's Award (followed by Rector's Award) for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 2001-2002;

  • 2002: Dean's Award for Best Teacher in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering program for 2000-2001;

  • 2001: Dean's Award (followed by Rector's Award) for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 1999-2000;

  • 2000: Dean's Award for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 1998-1999;

  • 1999: Dean's Award for Best Teacher of the Faculty of Engineering for 1997-1998;

  • 1998: Dean's Citation for an outstanding teacher at the Faculty of Engineering for 1996-1997;

  • 1992: The Uzi Yairi Creativity Award;

  • 1991, 1992, 1993: The Miriam Neveran Scholarship for distinguished graduate and research students, Tel Aviv University;

  • 1981, 1982, 1984: Dean's list of distinguished undergraduate students, Tel-Aviv University;

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