Yaakov (Jonathan) Stein obtained his BSc (1977), MSc (1979) and PhD (1989) degrees in theoretical physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

From 1980 to1989 Dr. Stein worked as a research scientist for the Israel Ministry of Defense, and received the Israel Defense Award, Israel's highest award for defense-related research. He was employed by Comverse Technology from 1989 to 1998, first as Neural Network Applications Team Leader in Tel Aviv, and then as DSP and Advanced Technology Manager, stationed in New York. Between 1995 and 1998 he served as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Polytechnic University, New York and has served in a similar capacity at Tel Aviv University since 1998.

In 1999 he was named Chief Scientist at RAD Data Communications in Tel Aviv.

Dr. Stein has authored numerous papers, standardization contributions and patent
applications. He has chaired and given invited lectures at international conferences and is
an active participant in several telecommunication industry standardization forums. He
has coauthored and contributed to numerous IETF RFCs, ITU-T Recommendations
and MPLS Forum Implementation Agreements 4.1 and 5.1. He presently co-chairs the IETF’s Timing over IP Connection and Transfer of Clock (TICTOC) working group

His book, Digital Signal Processing - A Computer Science Perspective, was published by John Wiley and Sons in 2000.