Yaakov (Jonathan) Stein

 

Positions

 

1999-now: Chief Scientist, and Head of DSP Department,

                  RAD Data Communications, Tel Aviv, Israel http://www.rad.com/

          As Chief Scientist: Responsible for fundamental scientific issues in R&D

                                         Evaluation of new technologies and innovations

                                         Formalization of communications protocols

                                         Participation in standards committees (ITU-T, IETF, MEF, etc.)

                                                        Drafting patents and handling IPR portfolio

                                         Training courses (see http://www.dspcsp.com/lectures)

          DSP Development: xDSL modem technology

                                          Voice processing for IP, ATM, and frame relay systems

                                          Fax, modem, tone and signaling relays

                                          Audio watermarking, echo cancellation, etc.

          DSP Research:        Packet Loss Concealment for packet networks

                                          Audio compression robust to delay variation and packet loss

                                          Timing recovery over packet networks

 

1995-1998: Advanced Technology Manager

1997-1998: Digital Signal Processing Manager, Comverse Information Systems

                   (Now Verint Systems) Woodbury, New York  http://www.verintsystems.com

Responsible for the development of advanced modem intercept and speech processing

DSP for law enforcement and call center applications.

Developed web-based highly compressed multimedia archive server.

 

1998: Scientific consultant, Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, NY   http://www.symbol.com

          Developed prototype neural network for classification of bar-code images.

 

1989-1995:  Neural Network Applications Team-Leader, Efrat Future Technology Ltd.

                    (Now Comverse Technology) Tel Aviv, Israel http://www.comverse.com

Developed state-of-the-art OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) applications based on neural network and artificial intelligence technologies.

 

1986-1995:  Consultant to the Israel Ministry of Defense

Advised in the fields of digital signal processing, pattern recognition and applications of artificial neural networks.

Received Israel Defense Award (ôøñ áèçåï éùøàì) Israel's highest award for defense-related research (see http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/otot/otot03.htm - Otot16)

 

1980-1985:  Officer in the Israel Defense Forces (rank: Major)

Research scientist specializing in the exploitation of artificial intelligence techniques in digital signal processing. Participated in a large number of projects that were operationally deployed.

 

 

Academic

 

 

Author: Digital Signal Processing: A Computer Science Perspective

          Published by John Wiley and Sons, August 2000

          http://www.dspcsp.com/   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471295469

 

2002-now: Lecturer, Jerusalem College of Engineering, Computer Engineering Department

                  http://www.jce.ac.il ,  http://www.dspcsp.com/jce

          Responsible for the following course:

·         10049: Digital Signal Processing for Software Engineering students

 

1999-now: Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Computer Science Department

                  http://www.tau.ac.il/ ,   http://www.dspcsp.com/tau

Responsible for the following courses:

·           0368.3464.01: Digital Signal Processing Algorithms and Applications (1st degree)

·           0368.4136.01: Digital Signal Processing for Computer Science Students (2nd degree)

·           0368.4338.01: Advanced Seminar in DSP

 

1995-1998:  Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Polytechnic University,

                    Farmingdale, New York.  http://rama.poly.edu

Responsible for the following courses:

                     ·           CS392: DSP for Computer Science students http://www.dspcsp.com/poly/cs392.html

                     ·           CS661: Artificial Intelligence http://www.dspcsp.com/poly/cs661.html

                     ·           CS662: Advanced AI http://www.dspcsp.com/poly/cs662.html

                     ·           CS667: Neural Networks http://www.dspcsp.com/poly/cs667.html

Developed AI and NN specialties for MSc. students.

Lectured to industry on uses of AI and neural networks.

 

1986-1989: PhD. theoretical physics -- Hebrew University of Jerusalem http://www.huji.ac.il/

          Thesis: Capacity of Neural Network Models 

 

1978-1979: MSc. theoretical physics - Hebrew University of Jerusalem

          Thesis: Critical Temperature for Superconductivity in the Transition metals

 

1974-1977: BSc. physics, math and computer science - Hebrew University of Jerusalem

                 

 

Talks and Conferences

2008-: Co-chair of IETF TICTOC WG sessions

2008: Speaker TI Worldwide Developer Conference

2007: Speaker: ITSF-2007

2004: Invited speaker: Communications Design Conference (San Francisco, California)

         http://www.commdesignconference.com/archive/papers/2004/P826.htm

2002: Lecturer: Minicourses on XML, Voice-over-Packet, and xDSL (Tel Aviv)

2001: Chair and speaker: Seminar on Access Networks (Kfar HaMaccabiah, Tel Aviv)

2001: Invited speaker: R&D-2001 [mark-up languages] (Tel Aviv)

2000: xDSL track chair and 1/2-day tutorial: DesignCon2000 (Santa Clara, California)

2000: Invited speaker: DSP-2000 [xDSL] (Tel Aviv)

2000: Invited speaker: Telecommunications-2000 [perceptual speech quality] (Tel Aviv)

1995: Invited speaker: 18th Convention IEEE Israel [Advances in Speech Recognition]

1994: OCR session chair at the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition

1993: Co-chair and organizer of the 10th annual Israel AICVNN  conference

          (Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Neural Networks)

 

 

Standardization Efforts

 

Regularly participates in IETF and ITU-T meetings

Co-chair of IETF TICTOC Working Group

Has participated in ETSI, IP/MPLS (was MFA) Forum, MEF, DSL-forum, T1E1, activities.

 

IETF: Coauthor of RFCs 4553, 5087, 5287, and numerous Internet Drafts

 

ITU-T Editor of Y.1413, Y.1414, Y.1418, Y.1452, Y.1453; major contributor to Y.1415 and many other Recommendations

 

Significant contributions can be found at: http://www.dspcsp.com/tdmoip/

 

 

Patents

 

US 6,829,246 System and Method for Extending the Range of XDSL Services

US Application: High Quality Timing Distribution over DSL without NTR Support

US Application: A Small Form-factor Device Implementing Protocol Conversion

US Application: Method for Low Bit Rate Compression of Combined Speech and Music

US Application: Asynchronous Audio Compression robust to packet network impairments

Selected Publications (see also http://www.dspcsp.com/pubs)

 

A. Vainshtein and YJ. Stein (August 2008)
Control Protocol Extensions for the Setup of TDM Pseudowires in MPLS Networks
RFC 5287

 

Yaakov Stein (editor) (02/2008)
Pseudowire layer network
ITU-T Recommendation Y.1418

 

Yaakov (J) Stein (February 2008)
Cellular Backhaul Optimization: Cost effective approaches for Base Station Backhaul
TI Worldwide Developer Conference (Dallas, TX) slides

 

Y(J). Stein, R. Shashoua, R. Insler, and M. Anavi (December 2007)
Time Division Multiplexing over IP (TDMoIP)
RFC 5087

 

Yaakov (J) Stein, Alon Geva, and Gabriel Zigelboim (November 2007)
Delivering Better Time-of-Day Using Synchronous Ethernet and 1588
ITSF-2007 (London) slides

 

A. Vainshtein and YJ. Stein (June 2006)
Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)
RFC 4553

 

Yaakov Stein (editor) (03/2006)
TDM-IP interworking - User plane interworking
ITU-T Recommendation Y.1453

 

Yaakov Stein (editor) (03/2006)
Voice trunking over IP networks
ITU-T Recommendation Y.1452

 

Yaakov Stein and Brian Stroehlein (2006)
Using Synchronization over PSN – Does IEEE 1588 Really Make a Difference?

NIST-ATIS Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunication Systems (WSTS '06)

 

Yaakov Stein (editor) (03/2004)
TDM-MPLS network interworking - User plane interworking
ITU-T Recommendation Y.1413

 

Yaakov Stein (2004)

The Wonders of Digital Processing (in Hebrew)

Galileo, vol 66, Feb 2004

 

Yaakov Stein and Eitan Schwartz (2001)

An Evolutionary Approach to Transporting Voice and Legacy Data over IP Networks

Carriers world, 16/03/2001

 

Yaakov Stein and Eitan Schwartz (2000)

Ever thought about extending circuits over IP?

Telecommunications, Nov 2000 pp 89-94

 

Yaakov Stein and Eitan Schwartz (2000)

TDMoIP: An Evolutionary Approach to Transporting Voice over IP Networks  (in Russian)

Networks and Communications Systems, Sept 2000 pp 96-101 http://ccc.ru/magazine

 

J. Y. Stein (2000)

Digital Signal Processing - a Computer Science Perspective

John Wiley and Sons, NY, ISBN 0471295469

http://www.dspcsp.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471295469/

 

J. Y. Stein (2000)

TecForum - Tutorial on xDSL

DesignCon2000, Santa Clara, California

http://www.designcon.com/2000/tecforum.html - TFA6

 

Y. Stein (1993)

False Alarm Reduction for ASR and OCR

Proc. 10th IAICVNN, 195-200. http://www.ibiblio.org

 

Y. Stein (1993)

Hyperplane Training of a Hypersphere Classifier

Proc. 10th IAICVNN, 291-296.  http://www.ibiblio.org

 

R. Aloni-Lavi, Y. Metzger and Y. Stein (1992)

A BP Variant with Improved Convergence an Generalization

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Baltimore) I-932 - I-937 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org

 

Y. Stein (Dec 1990)

Storage Capacity for Neural Network Models  (in Hebrew)

PhD. Thesis, Hebrew University - Theoretical Physics

 

H. Gutfreund and Y. Stein (1990)

Capacity of Neural Networks with Discrete Synaptic Couplings

J. Phys. A (Math. Gen.) 23, 2613-2630.

 

H. Gutfreund and Y. Stein (1989)

Neural Networks with Discrete Synaptic Couplings

STATPHYS 17 (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

 

H.J. Sommers, A. Crisanti, H. Sompolinsky and Y. Stein (1988)

Spectrum of Large Random Asymmetric Matrices

Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1895-1898.

 

Y. Stein (1983)

Two Dimensional Euclidean Regression

Conference on Computer Mapping (Herzelia, Israel)

 

Y. Stein (1981)

A Short Note Concerning Planiversal Solid State Physics

First Symposium on Two-Dimensional Science and Technology (ed. AK Dewdney) 90-91.

 

Y. Stein (1981)

Maxwell's Equations in Two Dimensions

First Symposium on Two-Dimensional Science and Technology (ed. AK Dewdney) 28-33.

 

Y. Stein (June 1979)

Critical Temperature for the Onset of Superconductivity in the Transition Metals (in Hebrew)

MSc. Thesis, Hebrew University - Theoretical Physics