David Peleg | |
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דוד פלג | |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Known for | Sparse partitions |
| Awards | Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing (2008), SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (2011), Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algorithms, Computer Networks, Distributed Computing |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Doctoral advisor | David Harel |
David Peleg (Hebrew: דוד פלג) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences, and the present dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute. [1] His main research interests are algorithms, computer networks, and distributed computing. Many of his papers deal with a combination of all three.
He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of David Harel. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals.