Meir Feder is a Chaired Professor, holder of the Information Theory Chair, at the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. He is also the head of the newly established Tel-Aviv university center for Artificial intelligence and Data science (TAD). In addition, he is a Visiting Professorship appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in information theory, signal processing communication and learning.
Parallel to his academic career, he is closely involved with the high-tech industry. He founded 5 companies, among them Peach Networks (Acq: MSFT) and Amimon (Acq:LON.VTC). Recently, with his renewed interest in machine learning and AI, he co-founded Run:ai, a virtualization, orchestration, and acceleration platform for AI infrastructure.
Prof. Feder is an IEEE Life fellow. He received several academic and professional awards including the IEEE Information Theory Society best paper award for his work on universal prediction, the “creative thinking” award of the Israeli Defense Forces, and the Research Prize of the Israeli Electronic Industry, awarded by the President of Israel. For the development of Amimon’s chip-set, that uses a unique MIMO implementation of joint source-channel coding for wireless video transmission he is a co-recipient of the 2020 Scientific and Engineering Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is also the principal inventor of the technology behind the product Teradek Bolt 4K that attained the 73rd Engineering Emmy Award of the Television Academy.
