Curriculum Vitae
Employment
Feb 2024 - Full professor at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Haifa
May 2021 - Feb. 2024 CNRS senior researcher (DR2) located at FILOFOCS, Israel - a joint laboratory of CNRS, the University of Paris,
Tel-Aviv University, the Hebrew University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Oct. 2017 - April 2021 CNRS senior researcher DR2 at Univ. Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France.
Nov 2011 - Sep. 2017 CNRS researcher CR1 at Univ. Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France.
Nov 2007 - Oct. 2011 CNRS researcher CR2 at Univ. Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France.
Dec. 2005 - Nov. 2007 Postdoc at the Technion, Israel.
Education
Nov. 2015
Habilitation à diriger des recherches. Paris Diderot University
Title: "Distributed Decision and Distributed Biological Algorithms"
Referees: Yehuda Afek, Frederic Magniez, and Roger Wattenhofer
Jury: Olivier Bournez, Benjamin Doerr, Christoph Durr, Cyril Gavoille, Frederic Magniez, and Claire Mathieu
2000 - 2005
Direct Ph.D. in Computer Science. The Weizmann Institute of Science.
Thesis Advisor: Prof. David Peleg
Title: Static and Dynamic Labeling Schemes
Won the Dean's Prize for Ph.D. Students. Ph.D. Thesis approved on May 8, 2006
1998 - 1999
M.Sc. in Mathematics. Stanford University
1995 - 1997
B.Sc. in Mathematics. Hebrew University
Grants and Fellowships
Principle Investigator of the ISF grant “An Algorithmic Perspective to Group Foraging“, Oct. 2024 - Sep 2028, with a budget of roughly 1M NIS.
Principle Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant "Distributed Biological Algorithms" (DBA), May 2015 - April 2020, with a budget of roughly 2M Euros
Member of the ANR Blanc grant DISPLEXITY, 2012 - 2015
Member of the ANR Blanc grant ALADDIN, 2007-2011
Member of the French-Israeli Mamonide grant 2013 - 2015
Recipient of an Aly Kaufman fellowship, 2006-2007
Received the Vatat scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. students 2002-2005
Awards
ICDCN 2009's best paper award
Dean's Prize for Ph.D. Students at the Weizmann Institute of Science
DISC 2005's best student paper award
Graduated at the Hebrew University with exceptional honors: Magna Cum Lauda
Dean's list in 1995, 1997
Editorial Board Membership
Steering Committee Membership
Chair Positions
BDA 2018 (co-chair)
Program Committee Memberships
Creating Workshops
Organizing Workshops
Keynote Talks at Conferences
Some Invited Talks at Workshops
Journées nationales 2017 GDR Informatique Mathématique, Montpellier, France, 2017
Nexus of Information and Computation Theories, Paris, France, 2016
Natural Algorithms and the Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2013
Ph.D Students
Robin Vacus, co-advised with Pierre Fraigniaud. Dec. 2020 - Dec. 2023
Brieuc Guinard. Oct 2016 - Nov 2020
Lucas Boczkowski, co-advised with Iordanis Kerenidis. Oct. 2015 - Nov. 2018
Simon Collet, co-advised with Pierre Fraigniaud. Oct. 2015 - Dec. 2019
Jury Memberships
PhD defense of Shimon Bitton, Technion.
PhD defense of Jara Uitto, ETH Zurich
Master defense of Roman Kecher, Tel-Aviv University