Ron Shamir

Ron Shamir
רון שמיר
Born (1953-11-29) 29 November 1953 (age 70)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc)
Tel-Aviv University (MSc)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics
Design and analysis of algorithms
Algorithmic graph theory
InstitutionsTel Aviv University
Blavatnik School of Computer Science
Doctoral advisorRichard M. Karp
Ilan Adler[2]
Websitewww.cs.tau.ac.il/~rshamir/

Ron Shamir (Hebrew: רון שמיר; born 29 November 1953) is an Israeli professor of computer science known for his work in graph theory and in computational biology. He holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics, and is the founder and former head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University.

  1. ^ Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20.
  2. ^ Ron Shamir at the Mathematics Genealogy Project