Micha Sharir

Professor
Micha Sharir
Micha Sharir in 2004
Born (1950-06-08) 8 June 1950 (age 74)
CitizenshipIsrael
EducationTel Aviv University
Courant Institute, New York University
Known forComputational geometry
Combinatorial geometry
AwardsIsrael Defense Prize (1975)
Doctorate, honorary, Utrecht University (1996)
Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (1997)
Feher Foundation Prize in Computer Science (1999)
Landau Prize for Science and Research (2002)
The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Mathematics
InstitutionsNew York University
Tel Aviv University
Thesis Extreme Operators Between Banach Spaces  (1976)
Doctoral advisorAldo Lazar
Doctoral students

Micha Sharir (Hebrew: מיכה שריר; born 8 June 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor at Tel Aviv University, notable for his contributions to computational geometry and combinatorial geometry, having authored hundreds of papers.