Background
Tishby was born in 1953. His father is a researcher of Kabbalah and Jewish thought Yeshaya Tishby.
Tishby was born in 1953. His father is a researcher of Kabbalah and Jewish thought Yeshaya Tishby.
In 1971 he graduated the Hebrew University Secondary School, joined the academic Atuda in the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Israel Defense Forces until 1980. In 1974 he graduated Bachelor of Science In 1980 he graduated Master of Science
Cum laude in Mathematics in Physics in the Hebrew University. cum laude in Theoretical Physics in the Tel Aviv University. His Master of Science thesis topic was "Spallation nuclear reactions in the galactic cosmic rays". In 1985 he completed Doctor of Philosophy studies in the Hebrew University, publishing the thesis "Reduced Dynamical Description: An Information Theoretic Approach".
He did his post-doctoral studies in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985-1986.
From 1986 until 1991 he worked in Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1992 he became a senior lecturer in the Computer science faculty in the Hebrew University, in 1997 - an associate professor
In 1998 he founded and chaired the Computer engineering program He works on the mathematical and statistical theory of learning and biological adaptation.