Post Docs:
Dr. Diab Abuaiadh (PhD from University of Sydney, Australia), 1995.
Dr. Stephane Messika (PhD from Ecole Normal Superieure de Cachan, France), 2005.
Dr. Guy Leshem (PhD from Hebrew University), 2007.
Dr. Olivier Peres (PhD from LRI Paris 11, France), 2008.
Dr. Niv Gilboa, (PhD from Technion), 2009-11.
Dr. Andrei Dolgin (with Michael Segal and Ohad Ben-Shahar, PhD from Technion), PhD
Technion, 2009.
Dr. Ximing Li (PhD from South China Agricultural University, China), 2012-3.
Dr. Shimrit Tzur (PhD from Hebrew University), 2013-5.
Dr. Alexander Binun (PhD Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn), 2013-present.
Dr. Hillel Avni (PhD from Tel-Aviv University), 2014.
Dr. Yin Li (PhD Shanghai Jiaotong University), 2014-2015.
Dr. Muni Venkateswarlu K. (PhD National Institute of Technology Karnataka), 2015-
2017.
PhD Students:
Elad Schiller, Ph.D., (M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidacy exam, 2001) \Self-Stabilizing Group Com-
munication," (published 3 articles for the PhD), received Kreitman and The Council for Higher
Education fellowships, submitted thesis August 2004. Post doc with Nancy Lynch, Paul Spirakis,
Sandor Fekete from September 2004. Now faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineer-
ing Department of Chalmers University, Sweden.
Yinnon A. Haviv, Ph.D., \Self-Stabilizing Embedded Systems," (published 3 articles for the
PhD), received Intel award, best teaching awards, and The Council for Higher Education fellowship,
submitted thesis October 2006. Now with Google.
Ronen Kat, Ph.D., \Self-Stabilizing Distributed Storage Systems," (published 3 articles
for the PhD), received Intel award, submitted thesis March 2007. Now with IBM research center.
Reuven Yagel, Ph.D., (Ph.D. candidacy exam, May 2004) \Self-Stabilizing Operating Sys-
tems," supported by Microsoft (published 4 articles for the PhD), submitted thesis September 2007.
Now with Jerusalem College of Engineering.
Limor Lahiani, Ph.D, \Polygon Based Schemes for Sensor Networks," received Intel award,
(published 3 articles for the PhD), submitted thesis April 2008. Now with Microsoft research.
Nir Tzachar, Ph.D, \Self-Stabilizing and Self-Organizing Distributed Algorithms," received
support from Israeli Grid organization and received Intel award (published 3 articles submitted 1
article for the PhD), submitted thesis 2008. Now with computer science industry.
Olga Brukman, Ph.D., \Autonomic Recoverer," (published 3 articles for the PhD), received
EuroSys support, 2005, and SOSP support 2007, submitted thesis 2008. Now with computer sci-
ence industry.
Rami Puzis, \Optimization of Deployment Strategy for Distributed Electronic Threat De-
tection and Prevention Systems," (together with Yuval Elovici, published 5 articles for the PhD),
supported by Deutsche Telekom, submitted thesis, July 2009, now a faculty member at Ben-Gurion
University.
Ofer Hermoni, (Ph.D candidacy exam, June 2008) \Anonymous Communication Networks,"
(together with Eyal Felstaine/Yuval Elovici, published 3 articles for the PhD), got Intel and Eshkol
fellowships, submitted thesis, December 2013, now in computer science industry.
Polina Zilberman, \Securing an Organization from External and Internal Cyber Attacks,"
(together with Yuval Elovici, published 4 article), supported by Deutsche Telekom, submitted the-
sis November 2014, now in computer science industry.
Eyal Cohen \Nanothechnlogy Based Optical Computing," (published 3 papers) submitted
thesis May 2015. Supported by the Ministry of Science.
Ariel Hanemann \Synthesized Holographic \Brain" Memory," (published 3 papers for
the PhD, submitted 1) submitted thesis November 2015, now in computer science industry. Sup-
ported by Kreitman scholarship for excellent PhD students.
Hadassa Daltrophe (with Zvi Lotker) \Big Data Abstraction: Exploration, Interpola-
tion and Extrapolation," (published 3 papers for the PhD) submitted thesis November 2015, now
postdoc at BGU. Partially supported by ISF and Ministry of Economy.
Shantanu Sharma \Replication Aspects in Distributed Computing," (Published 5 pa-
pers for the PhD) submitted thesis February 2016, now postdoc at UC Irvine. Partially supported
by Kreitman scholarship and EMC.
Nisha Panwar (with Michael Segal) \Security Aspects in Vehicle Networks," (Published
5 papers for the PhD) submitted thesis September 2016, now postdoc at UC Irvine. Partially
supported by Israeli Ministry of Economy.
Dan Brownstein (with Niv Gilboa) \Security Techniques for Online and Broadcast Ser-
vices," (published 2 articles submitted 1 for the PhD), supported by ministry of Science. Submitted
thesis November 2018.
Marina Sadetsky (with Danny Hendler) \Paging for Multi-Server Multi-Level Shared
Caches," (Published 2 articles submitted 1 for the PhD), supported by EMC. Submitted thesis
November 2018.
Daniel Khankin \Algorithms, Techniques and Applications for Virtual Networks," (Pub-
lished 3 articles for the PhD), supported by ministry of economy. Submitted thesis November 2018.
MSc Students:
Dmitry Yukelson, M.Sc. \Guessing Games for Saving Energy in Mobile Environment,"
January 1998. (published 1 article) Received Intel award, Now in Computer Science Industry.
Alexander Kesselman, M.Sc. \Non-Preemptive Real-Time Scheduling of Multimedia Tasks,"
(published 2 articles) May 1998. Received Intel award. PhD in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv
University, post-doc Max-Planck, and Industry.
Olga Tubman , M.Sc. \Smooth and Adaptive Forward Erasure Correcting," (published
1 article) July 2000. Now in Computer Science Industry.
Galit Uzan, M.Sc. Internship, (ESIM), Ecole Superieure des Ingenieurs de Marseilles and
Luminy Technologies and Sciences University, \Magnifying Computing Gaps," (published 1 arti-
cle), 2003.
Lior Davidovitch, M.Sc., \Stability of Multi-value Long Lived Consensus," (published 1
article), May 2004. PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Technion.
Ori Gersten, M.Sc., \Self-Stabilizing Active Tier Systems," (published 1 article), January
2005. Now in Computer Science Industry.
Noam Singer, (with Amos Beimel), \Real-Time Oblivious Forward Erasure Correcting,"
(published 1 article), May 2005. Now in Computer Science Industry.
Ronen Kat, (M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidacy exam, 2002) \Self-Stabilizing Distributed Storage
Systems," received Intel award, 2002.
Marina Sadetsky, \Approximation Certicates for Hurestics," (published one article), June
2007. Now in Computer Science Industry.
Hen Fitoussi, \Optical Solutions for Bounded NP Problems," (published 1 article), re-
ceived support from the Summer School on Algorithmic Data Analysis, November 2007. Now with
Microsoft.
Limor Lahiani, (M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidacy exam, June 2004), \Polygon Based Schemes
for Sensor Networks," received Intel award.
Nir Tzachar, (M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidacy exam, December 2005) \Self-Stabilizing and
Self-Organizing Distributed Algorithms," received support from Israeli Grid organization.
Olga Brukman, (M.Sc and Ph.D. candidacy exam, March 2004) \Autonomic Recoverer,"
received support from Deutsche Telekom.
Rami Puzis, \Optimization of Deployment Strategy for Distributed Electronic Threat
Detection and Prevention Systems," (M.Sc and Ph.D. candidacy exam, September 2007) received
support from Deutsche Telekom.
Jonathan Goldfeld, \Ecient On Line Detection of Temporal Patterns," July 2012, (pub-
lished 1 article), received support from Deutsche Telekom.
Nova Fandina, \Beyond NP Hard on Average Instances and their Optical Solutions,"
(published 3 articles) MSc exam February 2012, supported by the Ministry of Science.
Polina Zilberman, \User Dened Firewall Filtering," (together with Yuval Elovici, pub-
lished 1 article until exam), MSc and PhD candidacy exam March 2010, supported by Deutsche
Telekom.
Martin Kahil, \Stateless Stabilization Bootstrap," (Published 2 articles), MSc exam Febru-
ary 2015, Supported by Orange France.
Dan Brownstein (with Niv Gilboa) \Security Techniques for Online and Broadcast Ser-
vices," (published 1 article until exam), MSc and PhD candidacy exam June 2015, supported by
Ministry of Science.
Amir Anter, \Optical Energy Ecient Asynchronous Automata and Circuits," (published
2 articles), MSc exam July 2016.
Dor Bitan (with Dani Berend) \Statistically Secure Additions and Restricted Multipli-
cations of Secret Shares," (Presented 1 article in a conference until the exam) received Philippe
Chaim Zebey prize for excellent research work, MSc and PhD candidacy exam March 2017.
Amit Rokach (with Roman Manevich) \Programming Reexes," (Published poster in
HVC and patent with IBM), Supported by IBM, exam August 2017.
Leonid Yankulin (with Ehud Gudes) \Self-Stabilizing Methods for Cloud Computing Com-
ponents," (Published 1 article), Supported by Orange, exam April 2018.
Amitay Shaer, \Bee's Strategy Against Byzantines Replacing Byzantine Participants,"
(Published 1 article), Supported by Ministry of Science, exam August 2018.
Maxim Amelchenko, \Blockchain Abbreviation, Implementing by Message Passing and
Virtual Shared Memory," (Published 1 article), exam November 2018.
Mohammad Ghanayim, \Relationship of Jaccard and Edit Distance in Malware Clustering
and Online Identication," (Published 1 article)i, Dean of natural science prize for excellence in
research and studies, Supported by the ministry of science, exam December 2018.
