Dr. Yonatan Yehezkeally

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsMathematical information and communication theory, circuits,Communication Technology and Networks, High-Frequency Technology and Photonic Systems, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Information Technology
KeywordsDNA-based storage, string-duplication systems, error-correcting codes, reconstruction codes, multiset codes
Honours and awards

2020: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for postdoctoral researchers

2020: Dr. Max Fogiel and Helen J. Kaufmann Award for Highest Student Achievment in Electrical Engineering

2020: Minerva Fellowship (Declined due to conflict with Humboldt Research Fellowship)

2017: Dean of Engineering’s list for exceptional academic achievements in the course of M.Sc. program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2017: Negev–Faran scholarship from the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2008: Intel Prize (Israel) for excellent B.Sc. students in relevant fields of study

2008: Rector of the University’s list for outstanding academic achievements, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityNewcastle Upon Tyne
InstitutionNewcastle University
InstituteSchool of Computing

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonia Wachter-ZehFakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Technische Universität München, München
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Banerjee, Anisha and Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Wachter-Zeh, Antonia and Yaakobi, Eitan: Error-Correcting Codes for Nanopore Sequencing. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 70, 2024, 4956--4967
2024Banerjee, Anisha and Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Wachter-Zeh, Antonia and Yaakobi, Eitan: Fundamental Limits of Multiple Sequence Reconstruction from Substrings. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Athens, Greece: 2024. 103--108
2024Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Polyanskii, Nikita: On Codes for the Noisy Substring Channel. In: IEEE Trans. Mol., Bio. and Multi-Scale Commun., 10, 2024, 368--381
2023Bar-Lev, Daniella and Marcovich, Sagi and Yaakobi, Eitan and Yehezkeally, Yonatan: Adversarial Torn-paper Codes. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 69, 2023, 6414--6427
2023Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Al Kim, Haider and Puchinger, Sven and Wachter-Zeh, Antonia: Bounds on Mixed Codes with Finite Alphabets. Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW). Saint-Malo, France: 2023.
2023Banerjee, Anisha and Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Wachter-Zeh, Antonia and Yaakobi, Eitan: Error-Correcting Codes for Nanopore Sequencing. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Taipei, Taiwan: 2023. 364--369
2023Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Bar-Lev, Daniella and Marcovich, Sagi and Yaakobi, Eitan: Generalized Unique Reconstruction from Substrings. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 69, 2023, 5648--5659
2022Bar-Lev, Daniella and Marcovich, Sagi and Yaakobi, Eitan and Yehezkeally, Yonatan: Adversarial Torn-paper Codes. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Espoo, Finland: 2022. 2934--2939
2022Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Bar-Lev, Daniella and Marcovich, Sagi and Yaakobi, Eitan: Reconstruction from Substrings with Partial Overlap. "Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT)"A. Tsukuba, Japan: 2022. 113--117
2021Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Marcovich, Sagi and Yaakobi, Eitan: Multi-strand Reconstruction from Substrings. Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW). Kanazawa, Japan: 2021.
2021Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Polyanskii, Nikita: On Codes for the Noisy Substring Channel. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 2021. 1700--1705
2021Yonatan {Yehezkeally} and Moshe {Schwartz}: Uncertainty of Reconstruction with List-Decoding from Uniform-Tandem-Duplication Noise. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 67, 2021, 4276--4287
2020Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Reconstruction Codes for DNA Sequences with Uniform Tandem-Duplication Errors. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 66, 2020, 2658--2668
2020Tang, Yuanyuan and Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe and Farnoud, Farzad: Single-Error Detection and Correction for Duplication and Substitution Channels. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 66, 2020, 6908--6919
2020Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Uncertainty of Reconstructing Multiple Messages from Uniform-Tandem-Duplication Noise. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Los Angeles, CA, USA: 2020. 126--131
2019Tang, Yuanyuan and Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe and Farnoud (Hassanzadeh), Farzad: Single-Error Detection and Correction for Duplication and Substitution Channels. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Paris, France: 2019. 300--304
2018Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Reconstruction Codes for DNA Sequences with Uniform Tandem-Duplication Errors. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Vail, CO, US: 2018. 2535--2539
2017Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Limited-Magnitude Error-Correcting Gray Codes for Rank Modulation. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 63, 2017, 5774--5792
2016Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Limited-Magnitude Error-correcting Gray Codes for Rank Modulation. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Barcelona, Spain: 2016. 2829--2833
2012Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Snake-in-the-Box Codes for Rank Modulation. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Cambridge, MA, USA: 2012. 2983--2987
2012Yehezkeally, Yonatan and Schwartz, Moshe: Snake-in-the-Box Codes for Rank Modulation. In: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 58, 2012, 5471--5483