{\bf Tuvi Etzion} was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1956. He
received the B.A., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees from the Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1980, 1982, and
1984, respectively.

From 1984 he held a position in the department of Computer Science
at the Technion, where he has a Professor position. During the
years 1986-1987 he was Visiting Research Professor with the
Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at the University
of Southern California, Los Angeles. During the summers of 1990
and 1991 he was visiting Bellcore in Morristown, New Jersey.
During the years 1994-1996 he was a Visiting Research Fellow in
the Computer Science Department at Royal Holloway College, Egham,
England. He also had several visits to the Coordinated Science
Laboratory at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign during
the years 1995-1998, two visits to HP Bristol during the summers
of 1996, 2000,  a few visits to the department of Electrical
Engineering, University of California at San Diego during the
years 2000-2008, and several visits to the Mathematics department
at Royal Holloway College, Egham, England, during the years
2007-2008.

His research interests include applications of discrete
mathematics to problems in computer science and information
theory, coding theory, and combinatorial designs.

Dr. Etzion is currently an Associate Editor for Coding Theory of
the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.