Research Fields - Systems

Electronic communications lie at the core of electrical engineering. Since the invention of the telephone around 1860, and the subsequent technological and social revolution it sparked, this field has been a driving force behind modern technology. Many fundamental advancements, including the Internet, cellular communications, and the AI revolution, as well as data centers, are rooted in developments within the realm of communications. 

A prime example highlighting the importance of the communication field is the smartphone. It integrates virtually every aspect of electronics: hardware, software, waves, energy, and signal processing. However, to truly grasp the essence of this field, one must be acquainted with communication principles: digitization (the conversion of analog signals to digital format), data compression, modulation, coding and decoding, and, importantly, the concept of "information". 

Modern research in communications has centered on two main objectives: leveraging physical phenomena for communication and optimizing the efficient use of channel 

resources, which includes power consumption, information rate, and latency. Some research activities in this field include: 

• Communication networks 

• Optimizing communication networks using classic methods and using AI, and on the other hand optimizing communication to meet computational needs in the AI world. 

• Mobile/cellular, WIFI and network applications 

• Integrated encoding modulation in time, frequency and space 

• Optical communications 

• Satellite communications 

• Advanced codes for information storage systems 

• Error correction codes for quantum computing 

• AI-based video and audio compression 

• Bioinformatics: genome compression, DNA storage 

• Communication integration and channel estimation 

• Machine learning-assisted channel code decoding 

• Universal data compression and machine learning.