Assaf Schuster

Assaf Schuster
אסף שוסטר
Born1958 (age 67–68)
Givat Brenner, Israel
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forCloud computing, dynamic configuration of communication networks
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
WorkplacesTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Eli Shamir

Assaf Schuster (Hebrew: אסף שוסטר) 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

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 from 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

  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. 1 2 "RESUME - Assaf Schuster" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-11-29.