Zvi Galil
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Zvi Galil (born 1947) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is currently serving as the Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University as well as a professor there of engineering and computer science. His stated research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity and cryptography. In November 2006, he announced he would be leaving Columbia in order to become the next president of Tel Aviv University.
His formal titles at Columbia currently include Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Engineering and Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science.
[edit] Biography
Zvi Galil was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He completed both his B.Sc. (1970) and his M.Sc. (1971) in Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University before earning his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1975. He then spent a year working 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. From 1982 on he also worked at Columbia, ending his association with Tel Aviv University only in 1995, when he was named to the deanship of the engineering school. In this position he has overseen the renaming of the school in honor of Chinese businessman Z. Y. Fu after a large donation was given in his name. In 1995 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
