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Employment

Feb 2024 - Full professor at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Haifa.

May 2021 - Feb. 2024 CNRS senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche) located at FILOFOCS, Israel - a joint laboratory of CNRS, University of Paris, Tel-Aviv University, the Hebrew University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Oct. 2017 - April 2021 CNRS senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche) 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

2000 - 2005 Direct Ph.D. in Computer Science. The Weizmann Institute of Science.
Title: Static and Dynamic Labeling Schemes
Thesis Advisor: Prof. David Peleg
Won the Dean's Prize for Ph.D. Students. Ph.D. Received 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.
Total budget of approximately 1 million NIS.
Principle Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant "Distributed Biological Algorithms" (DBA), May 2015 - April 2020.
Total budget of approximately 2 million 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

Distributed Computing

Steering Committee Membership

2012 - now Workshop on Advances on Distributed Graph Algorithms (ADGA)

PC Chair Positions

PC Membership

Creating Workshops

Founder of the workshop on Advances in Distributed Graph Algorithms (ADGA). Satellite workshop of DISC, organized annually since 2012.
Co-founder of the workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA). Satellite workshop of PODC,
organized annually since 2013.

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