Zvi Galil
| Zvi Galil | |
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| Born |
June 26, 1947 Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
| Fields | Computer science, mathematics |
| Institutions |
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Tel Aviv University Columbia University Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Tel Aviv University Cornell |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hopcroft |
| Doctoral students | Mordechai Ben-Ari, Moti Yung, Stuart Haber, David Eppstein, Raffaele Giancarlo, Kunsoo Park, Giuseppe F. 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 awards | ACM Fellow, NAE Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow |
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.
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.
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.
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