Name Zvi Galil Role Computer scientist | ||
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Institutions IBM Thomas J. Watson Research CenterTel Aviv UniversityColumbia UniversityGeorgia Institute of Technology Alma mater Tel Aviv UniversityCornell Doctoral students Mordechai Ben-Ari, Moti Yung, Stuart Haber, David Eppstein, Raffaele Giancarlo, Kunsoo Park, Giuseppe Italiano, Matthew K. Franklin, Amir Ben-Amram, Alain Mayer, Jonathan Katz, Sabah Al-Binali, Amir Averbuch, Dany Breslauer, Oded Margalit, Adam Young, Xiangdong Yu Notable students David Eppstein, Moti Yung, Jonathan Katz Similar People David Eppstein, John Hopcroft, Moti Yung, Robert Tarjan, Jonathan Katz | ||
Zvi galil on the 6 600 full quality masters in computer science
Zvi Galil (Hebrew: צבי גליל; born 1947) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity and cryptography. He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 170 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
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- Zvi galil on the 6 600 full quality masters in computer science
- Greetings prof zvi galil president tel aviv university
- Early life and education
- Academic administrator
- Research
- Awards and honors
- References
Greetings prof zvi galil president tel aviv university
Early life and education
Zvi Galil was born in Tel Aviv in 1947. He completed both his B.Sc. (1970) and his M.Sc. (1971) in Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University before earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell in 1975 under the supervision of John Hopcroft. He then spent a year working as a post-doctorate researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Academic administrator
From 1976 until 1995 he worked in the computer science department of Tel Aviv University, serving as its chair from 1979 to 1982. In 1982 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, serving as the chair of the Computer Science Department from 1989-1994. From 1995-2007, he served as the dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science. In this position he oversaw the renaming of the school in honor of Chinese businessman Z. Y. Fu after a large donation was given in his name. At Columbia, he was appointed the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science in 1987, and the Morris and Alma A. Schapiro Dean of Engineering in 1995.
From 1983 to 1987, Galil served as the chairman of ACM SIGACT, an organization that promotes research in theoretical computer science.
Galil served as the President of Tel Aviv University starting in 2007, but resigned and returned to the faculty in 2009. He was named as the dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing on April 9, 2010.
Research
Galil's research is in the areas of algorithms, particularly string and graph algorithms, complexity, cryptography and experimental design. Among his most highly cited work are the following:
Awards and honors
In 1995, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, for "fundamental contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms and outstanding service to the theoretical computer science community," and in 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms and for leadership in computer science and engineering." In 2005 he was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009 the Columbia Society of Graduates awarded him the Great Teacher Award. In 2012, The University of Waterloo awarded Galil with an honorary Doctor of Mathematics degree for his "fundamental contributions in the areas of graph algorithms and string matching."