His research interests include information and coding theory with several applications for non-volatile memories, associative memories, DNA storage, data storage and retrieval, and more. His current work on advancing coding solutions for memories and systems and their application in state-of-the-art storage systems includes a focus on the theory and practicality of DNA storage systems.

Prof. Yaakobi received bachelor’s degrees in computer science and mathematics, as well as his master’s degree in computer science, from the Technion, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego. From 2011 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology and at UC San Diego. He returned to the Technion as a faculty member in 2014.

Prof. Yaakobi has received multiple awards and grants including the Marconi Society Young Scholar (2009), the Intel Ph.D. Fellowship (2010-2011), the ERC Consolidator Grant, and the EIC Pathfinder Challenge Grant. Between 2020 and 2023, he was associate editor for coding and decoding for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is affiliated with the Center for Memory and Recording Research at UC San Diego, and with the Institute of Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich.