Ziv Aharoni

About

Information theory across learning and communication.

I am a postdoctoral associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, working with Prof. Henry D. Pfister. My research combines information theory, statistics, machine learning, and reinforcement learning.

I received my Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. My Ph.D. and M.Sc. research was advised by Prof. Haim H. Permuter.

Appointments and education

  1. Postdoctoral Associate Duke University · 2025–present · Advisor: Henry D. Pfister
  2. Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Ben-Gurion University · 2020–2024 · Advisor: Haim H. Permuter
  3. M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering Ben-Gurion University · 2018–2020 · Advisor: Haim H. Permuter
  4. B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering Ben-Gurion University · 2013–2017

Honors and awards

  • ACC Feder Family Award — First Place Best Student Work in Communications, 2025 · Official winners list
  • Dean Award for Academic Excellence 2021
  • Darom-Lachish Fellowship 2018–2023
  • Jack Keil Wolf Best Paper Award Finalist IEEE ISIT 2019 · Award-session program

Professional service

Reviewer for:

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
  • IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
  • IEEE GLOBECOM

Contact

Duke email
ziv.aharoni@duke.edu
Profiles
Google Scholar · GitHub · DBLP · Duke ECE
Curriculum vitae
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