Vitaly Skachek received the B.A. (Cum Laude), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 1994, 1998 and 2007, respectively.

Since 2012, Dr. Skachek is employed by the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, where he is an Associate Professor. He held visiting positions with the Mathematics of Communications Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, with the Claude Shannon Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, with the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, and with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal. He is a member of the editorial board for the Advances in Mathematics of Communications. He served as a guest editor for the special issues of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and Cryptography and Communications — Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences.

Dr. Skachek is a recipient of the Permanent Excellent Faculty Instructor award, given by Technion.