Neri MerhavProfessor

Areas of Interest
My general research interests include information theory, statistical communications, and statistical signal processing. In particular, I am interested in the areas of lossless and lossy source coding, sequential prediction of time-series, relationships between information theory and statistics, most notably, estimation, hypothesis testing, and universal decoding in situations of channel uncertainty. The latter includes also some work on error exponents. Other problem areas which I find interesting include Shannon Theory, in particular, Shannon-theoretic secrecy, joint source-channel coding, source/channel simulation, and coding with side information with applications to information hiding and watermarking systems as well as to biometric security. Some of these topics are also handled using the individual-sequence approach in information theory. Yet another recent research interest of mine concerns relationships between information theory and statistical physics.