Tsachy (Itschak) Weissman- צחי (יצחק) ויסמן

Tsachy Weissman Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor in the School of Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering Founding Director, Stanford Compression Forum Stanford University

Photo courtesy of Hector Garcia-Molina

Please note: Regretfully, I cannot respond to most inquiries regarding openings for graduate and postdoctoral positions in my group.

Teaching Overview

Course Announcement!!!

EE 376C: Universal Information Processing, Autumn 2024

• EE 274: Data Compression, Theory and Applications, Autumn 2023

• EE 25N: The Science of Information, Autumn 2020

• ENGR 76: Information Science and Engineering, Spring 2021

• EE 276: Information Theory, Winter 2021

• EE 378C: Information-theoretic Lower Bounds in Data Science, Spring 2021

• CS 349T / EE 192T: Video and Audio Technology for Live Theater in the Age of COVID, Autumn 2020

Academic Community Events/Outreach

• Stanford Compression Workshop 2021

• STEM to SHTEM summer internship for high schoolers:
  [Website] [2020 projects]

• Outreach: Ravenswood middle school [Youtube playlist]

• Podcast

• Humans Are Awesome

Recent Press

• StageCast: Experiments in Performance and Technology
  

• Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?
  

• Siemens Inventors of the year 2020: Data Compression for Industries
  

• High school interns inspire new research paths at Stanford
  

• People Outperform Programs for Generating Appealing Squeezed Pix
  

• Information Science and Engineering Night at Elementary
  

• Reddit ask-us-anything session on Genomic Data Compression
  

• The Quest to Save Genomics
  

• Yanjun Han and Jiantao Jiao awarded the ISITA 2016 Student Paper Award

• Thomas M. Cover Award to Kartik Venkat

• Jiantao Jiao and Yanjun Han Finalists for the 2016 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

• Marconi Society Award to Kartik Venkat

• Making personalized medicine practical

• EE information theory is guiding improved ways to model and compress data

• Marconi Society Award to Himanshu Asnani

• HBO's ‘‘Silicon Valley’’

• Quantitative Approach to Information Processing

• Thomas Courtade and Kartik Venkat awarded the ISIT 2012 Student Paper Awards

Contact

Packard Building, Room No. 256
350 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305

Email: tsachy [at] stanford [dot] edu
Tel: (650) 736-1418

Assistant

Suzanne Sims

Packard Building, Room No. 259
350 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305

Email: suzanne [dot] sims [at] stanford [dot] edu
Tel: (650) 721-2273