Mordechai "Moti" Segev is the Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel. He received his BSc and PhD from the Technion in 1985-1990. After his postdoc at Caltech, he joined Princeton University as assistant professor (1994), becoming associate professor in 1997 and professor in 1999. Subsequently, Segev went back to Israel and was appointed as distinguished professor in 2009.

Segev's interests are mainly in photonics, solitons, lasers and quantum optics. He won numerous international awards, among them the 2007 Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physics Society, the 2009 Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America and the 2014 Arthur Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Society. In 2011, he was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences, in 2015 to the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and in 2021 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014, Segev won the Israel Prize (highest honor in Israel), and in 2019 he won the EMET Prize.

Above all his achievements, Segev takes pride in the success of his graduate students and postdocs, among them are currently 23 professors in the USA, Germany, Taiwan, Croatia, Italy, India, China and Israel and many hold senior R&D positions in the industry.