I received my engineering diploma (Dipl. El. Ing. ETH) in 1991 and doctorate (Dr. Sc. Techn.) in 1999, both from the  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ) . From 1991 until 1993, I worked as a development engineer for  Motorola Communications  in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the design and quality assurance of a digital mobile radio system. From 1993 until 1999, I worked as a research and teaching assistant under the supervision of  Prof. James L. Massey  while writing my dissertation "On Coding by Probability Transformation".  From 2000 until 2009, I was a senior researcher at the  Telecommunications Research Center in Vienna, Austria (ftw.)  and managed part of the centre's strategic research activities from 2002 until 2008. Since June 2009, I have been with the  Department of Engineering  at the  University of Cambridge  on an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship that lasted until November 2011. In September 2011, I was appointed as a fixed-term lecturer in Communications and I am now an affiliated lecturer at the department. I also served on the executive board of the European  FP7 Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications (NEWCOM++)  and chaired the EC concertation cluster "Radio Access and Spectrum" (RAS) that included 30 EC projects with a consolidated budget of approximately EUR200m. My research interests include information theory, iterative decoding, low complexity and quantized decoders. I have served on the organization and technical committees of several international conferences and workshops, most recently as Technical Program co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Information Theory and as General co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop.