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.
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 |
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.
Awards and honors
editIn 2008, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing along with Baruch Awerbuch for their 1990 paper “Sparse partitions.”[2]
In 2011, he won the SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.
In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[3]
Since 2020, Peleg is editor-in-chief of the journal Information and Computation.
Selected publications
edit- Awerbuch, Baruch; Peleg, David (1990), "Sparse partitions", Proceedings of the 31st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 1990), pp. 503–513, doi:10.1109/FSCS.1990.89571, ISBN 978-0-8186-2082-9, S2CID 2138822. Dijkstra Prize 2008.
- Peleg, David (2000), Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach, SIAM, ISBN 978-0-89871-464-7, MR 1790362, archived from the original on 2009-08-06, retrieved 2009-05-25
Notes
edit- ^ Scientific Activities 2008: Weizmann Professorial Chairs, CDC's and Fellowships.
- ^ Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing: 2008.
- ^ Cacm Staff (March 2017), "ACM Recognizes New Fellows", Communications of the ACM, 60 (3): 23, doi:10.1145/3039921, S2CID 31701275.
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