Nir Shavit
Israeli computer scientist
Biography
Nir Shavit (Hebrew: ניר שביט, born 1959) is an Israeli computer scientist. He was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nir Shavit received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. In 2008, he published the textbook The Art of Multiprocessor Programming along with Maurice Herlihy. Since 2011, he has been a professor at MIT, where he leads the Computational Connectomics Group, focusing on techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and for the design of concurrent data structures.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tel Aviv University
Family
- Spouse(s)
- Shafrira Goldwasser
Awards & honours (3)
- Dijkstra Prize
- Gödel Prize
- ACM Fellow
Quick answers about Nir Shavit
- How old is Nir Shavit?
- Nir Shavit is 66 years old (born October 18, 1959).
- When is Nir Shavit's birthday?
- Nir Shavit was born on October 18, 1959.
- What is Nir Shavit's zodiac sign?
- Nir Shavit's zodiac sign is Libra.
- What is Nir Shavit's nationality?
- Nir Shavit is a citizen of Israel.
- What does Nir Shavit do?
- Nir Shavit is known as computer scientist, engineer, university teacher.
- Who has Nir Shavit been married to?
- According to Wikidata, Nir Shavit's spouse is or was Shafrira Goldwasser.
