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.
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", Approved on May 8, 2006
Thesis Advisor: Prof. David Peleg
Won the Dean's Prize for Ph.D. Students.
1998 - 1999 M.Sc. in Mathematics. Stanford University
1995 - 1997 B.Sc. in Mathematics. Hebrew University
Graduated at the Hebrew University with exceptional honors: Magna Cum Lauda
PI of the ISF grant "An Algorithmic Perspective to Group Foraging", Oct. 2024 - Sep 2028.
Total budget of approximately 1 million NIS.
PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant "Distributed Biological Algorithms" (DBA), May 2015 - April 2020.
Total budget of approximately 1.9 million Euros.
Member of the ANR Blanc grants DISPLEXITY, 2012 - 2015 and 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
Distributed Computing
BDA 2018 (co-chair)
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.
ICDCN 2025 (co-general chair)
PhD defense of Shimon Bitton, Technion.
PhD defense of Jara Uitto, ETH Zurich
Master defense of Roman Kecher, Tel-Aviv University