About the Authors
Benny Applebaum
Benny Applebaum
Associate professor
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Benny Applebaum is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. He received his B.Sc. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002, and his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of the Technion in 2007 under the supervision of Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz. Before joining Tel-Aviv he was a postdoc at Princeton University and Weizmann Institute of Science. He is interested in the theory of computation, mainly in cryptography and computational complexity. He enjoys spending time with his family and playing the guitar.
Liron David
Liron David
Ph.D. candidate
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Liron David is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Avishai Wool. She received a Weinstein paper prize in 2018 and a Weinstein award for excellence in studies in 2017. She got a Rector's award for excellence in teaching for the academic year 2015-2016. She completed her M.Sc. in 2014 under the supervision of Benny Applebaum and Guy Even in the Electrical Engineering Department at Tel-Aviv University. She owes much of her interest in research to her M.Sc. advisors. She obtained her B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University in 2011. Liron's hobby is playing the piano. She completed four years of piano studies at the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv.
Guy Even
Guy Even
Professor
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Guy Even received his B.Sc. degree in 1988 in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University. Received his M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Guy spent his post-doctorate in the University of the Saarland during 1995-1997 with Wolfgang Paul. Since 1997, he has been a faculty member in the School of Electrical Engineering in Tel-Aviv University. He is interested in algorithms and their applications in various fields. He has published papers on the theory of VLSI, approximation algorithms, computer arithmetic, online algorithms, frequency assignment, scheduling, packet-routing, linear-programming decoding of LDPC codes, and rateless codes. He is on the editorial board of “Theory of Computing Systems.” Together with Moti Medina, Guy wrote a digital hardware textbook titled “Digital Logic Design: A Rigorous Approach” published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press.