Yonatan Yehezkeally

About

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Computing with the ICOS Research Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University (UK). From 2020 to 2025, I was a senior researcher with the Associate Professorship of Coding and Cryptography (Prof. Wachter-Zeh), School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. From 2021 to 2024, I was hosted at TUM as a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. I received the B.Sc. degree (cum laude) in mathematics and the M.Sc. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, in 2013, 2017, and 2020 respectively. My area of expertise is Coding Theory and algorithms for error c

Education

• B.Sc. Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2013
• M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2017
• Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2020

Selected publications

• Yehezkeally Y, Polyanskii N. On codes for the noisy substring channel. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications 2024
• Banerjee A, Yehezkeally Y, Wachter-Zeh A, Yaakobi E. Error-Correcting Codes for Nanopore Sequencing. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2024
• Yehezkeally Y, Bar-Lev D, Marcovich S, Yaakobi E. Generalized Unique Reconstruction From Substrings. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2023
• Bar-Lev D, Marcovich S, Yaakobi E, Yehezkeally Y. Adversarial Torn-Paper Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2023
• Yehezkeally Y, Schwartz M. Uncertainty of Reconstruction With List-Decoding From Uniform-Tandem-Duplication Noise. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2021
• Banerjee A, Yehezkeally Y, Wachter-Zeh A, Yaakobi E. Correcting Multiple Substitutions in Nanopore-Sequencing Reads. In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2025)
• Walter F, Yehezkeally Y. Coding for Strand Breaks in Composite DNA. In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2025)
• Banerjee A, Yehezkeally Y, Wachter-Zeh A, Yaakobi E. Correcting a Single Deletion in Reads from a Nanopore Sequencer. In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2024)
• Banerjee A, Yehezkeally Y, Zeh-Wachter A, Yaakobi E. Error-Correcting Codes for Nanopore Sequencing. In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2003)
• Yehezkeally Y, Al Kim H, Puchinger S, Wachter-Zeh A. Bounds on Mixed Codes with Finite Alphabets. In: IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2023)