Alexander Vardy (Russian: Александр Варды; Hebrew: אלכסנדר וארדי) (12 November 1963 - 11 March 2022) was a Russian-born and Israeli-educated electrical engineer known for his expertise in coding theory.
[1] He held the Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
[1][4] He graduated from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1985,[4] and completed his Ph.D. in 1991 at Tel Aviv University.
[1][5] During his graduate studies, he also worked on electronic countermeasures for the Israeli Air Force, attaining the rank of Seren (Captain).
[1][6] In 2004 a paper by Ralf Koetter and Vardy on decoding Reed–Solomon codes was listed by the IEEE Information Theory Society as the best paper in information theory of the previous two years; the resulting decoding algorithm has become known as the Koetter–Vardy algorithm.