Shlomo Karni

1932

Shlomo Karni was born in 1932 in Lodz, Poland. In 1936, his parents and he moved to Israel (Palestine at the time). In 1956, he graduated from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, with a B.S. (magna cum laude) degree; in 1957, a Master's degree from Yale University, and in 1960 a PhD degree from the Univ. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign -- all in Electrical Engineering. At the University of Illinois, he met and married his wife, Michaela. In 1961, he joined the faculty of UNM in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, from which he retired in 1999 as the G