# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shlomo-shamai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:37:27.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shlomo-shamai"
name: "Shlomo Shamai"
slug: "shlomo-shamai"
description: "Shlomo Shamai is an Israeli information theorist who is a distinguished professor at the Department of Electrical engineering at the Technion − Israel Institute of Technology. Professor Shamai is an information theorist and winner of the 2011 Shannon Award."
tagline: "Israeli information theorist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.33
  momentum:             0.2409638554216868
  historical:           5.672786666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%99"
    title: "שלמה שמאי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Shamai"
    title: "Shlomo Shamai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Shamai"
    title: "Shlomo Shamai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Шломо Шамай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Shamai"
    title: "Shlomo Shamai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Shamai"
    title: "Shlomo Shamai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4798587"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump