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Assaf Schuster

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Assaf Schuster
Born1958
Givat Brenner, Israel
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forCloud computing, dynamic configuration of communication networks
AwardsFellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorEli Shamir

Assaf Schuster is an Israeli entrepreneur and professor of computer science whose works have been published in such journals as Computer Aided Verification and Journal of Systems and Software.[1]

Biography

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Schuster was born in 1958 in the Israeli kibbutz Givat Brenner to Tzipora and Yochanan Schuster. His family is of Ashkenazi-Jewish origin.

Schuster began his academic studies at the Hebrew University in 1981, and graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. After receiving his degree, Schuster worked as a teacher at Ort College in Givat Ram, Jerusalem. In 1991 Schuster received a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer science. His PhD topic dealt with the dynamic configuration of communication networks for parallel computation, under the guidance of Eli Shamir.[2] He then started working at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 2000, he became an associate professor and in 2007, he became a professor.[3]

In 2015 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to cloud computing.[4]

In 2016, Schuster co-founded a startup called Cy-oT (Cyber of Things), along with Natan Bandler and Daniel Moscovici.[5] Schuster served as the CTO until the company was sold to Verint in 2019.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Assaf Schuster".
  2. ^ Assaf Schuster at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Assaf Schuster". Google Scholar. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
  4. ^ ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, 2015, archived from the original on 2015-12-09, retrieved 2015-12-10.
  5. ^ a b "RESUME - Assaf Schuster" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-11-29.