Zvi Galil
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zvi Galil (Hebrew: צבי גליל; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician. He has served as the dean of the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science and as the president of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing.[3]
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Born | (1947-06-26) June 26, 1947 (age 76)[1] |
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Doctoral advisor | John Hopcroft[2] |
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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.[4][5] He has published over 200 scientific papers[6] and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[7]