Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

Employment

May 2021 - Now 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 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

  • 2020 Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing

  • 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

Program Committee Memberships

Creating Workshops

Organizing Workshops

Keynote Talks at Conferences

Some Invited Talks at Workshops

Ph.D Students

  • Robin Vacus, co-advised with Pierre Fraigniaud. Dec. 2021 -

  • 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