Yuval Emek
Professor
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Biography
Yuval Emek graduated summa cum laude from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a bachelor degree in computer science (2000) and completed his master studies (2003) and Ph.D. (2008) in computer science and applied mathematics at Weizmann Institute of Science under the advise of David Peleg. Following that, he held post-doc positions at Tel Aviv University (2008-2009, Boaz Patt-Shamir’s group), Microsoft (2009-2010, Moshe Tennenholtz’s group), and ETH Zurich (2010-2013, Roger Wattenhofer’s group). In 2013, Yuval joined the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management in Technion as an assistant professor. Yuval Emek graduated summa cum laude from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a bachelor degree in computer science (2000) and completed his master studies (2003) and Ph.D. (2008) in computer science and applied mathematics at Weizmann Institute of Science under the advise of David Peleg. Following that, he held post-doc positions at Tel Aviv University (2008-2009, Boaz Patt-Shamir’s group), Microsoft (2009-2010, Moshe Tennenholtz’s group), and ETH Zurich (2010-2013, Roger Wattenhofer’s group). In 2013, Yuval joined the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management in Technion as an assistant professor.
Research Interest
Discrete algorithms for decision makers that cannot see the whole picture, e.g., because it is too big (the streaming model), too far (distributed computing), too early (online algorithms), or too private (algorithmic game theory)
