I received my engineering diploma (Dipl. El.-Ing. / MSc ETH) in 1991 and doctorate (Dr. Sc.-Techn.) in 1999, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). From 1991 until 1993, I worked as a development engineer for Motorola Communications in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the design and quality assurance of a digital mobile radio system.

From 1993 until 1999, I worked as a research and teaching assistant under the supervision of Prof. James L. Massey while writing my dissertation "On Coding by Probability Transformation". From 2000 until 2009, I was a senior researcher at the Telecommunications Research Center in Vienna (ftw.) and managed part of the centre's strategic research activities from 2002 until 2008.

Since June 2009, I have been with the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, initially on an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship (until November 2011), then as a fixed-term lecturer in Communications (from September 2011), and now as an Associate Teaching Professor. I am a Fellow, Director of Studies, Tutor and Wine Steward at Robinson College.

From 2015 to 2018, I worked partially at the European Bioinformatics Institute on a project aiming to store data on DNA. I have served on the organisation and technical committees of several international conferences, notably as Technical Program co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and General co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Cambridge.

In 2024, the department nominated me for a Pilkington Prize — Cambridge's annual award recognising excellence in teaching.