Prof. Moshe Sidi appointed as Senior Executive Vice President

Prof. Moshe Sidi has been appointed as the new Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion, replacing Prof. Paul Feigin, who has completed his six-year term.

Prof. Sidi has been a faculty member at Technion’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering since 1982. He received all his degrees from the Technion and, during 1983-84, he completed his postdoctoral studies at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). For his research work during these years, he received the Fulbright Award and the Rothschild Fellowship. Over the years, he was a visiting scientist at IBM, served as an editor for a number of IEEE publications and co-authored a book entitled “Multiple Access Protocols: Performance and Analysis” published at 1990 by Springer Verlag.

Prof. Sidi’s research interests are in wireless networks and multiple access protocols; traffic characterization and guaranteed grade of service in high-speed networks; queuing modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication networks. He has published more than 165 papers in these areas in leading journals and conferences.

Prof. Sidi has previously served in senior administrative positions, among them as Dean of Electrical Engineering (2003-2004) and most recently as the Technion Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (2006 – 2012).

Photo: Prof. Moshe Sidi