Baruch Awerbuch
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Baruch Awerbuch | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 (age 67–68) |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Research in distributed computing |
| Awards | Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, Distributed computing |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor | Shimon Even |
| Doctoral students | George Varghese |
Baruch Awerbuch (born 1958) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his research on distributed computing.
Awerbuch was educated at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978, a master's degree in 1982, and a Ph.D. in 1984 under the supervision of Shimon Even.[1][2] He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, faculty member in applied mathematics, and research associate in computer science from 1984 until 1994, when he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty.[3]
Awerbuch's former doctoral students include UCSD professor George Varghese.[1]
Research contributions
Awerbuch has published many highly cited research papers on topics including
- Cryptographic primitives for verifiable secret sharing and fault tolerant broadcasting[4]
- Synchronization of asynchronous distributed systems[5]
- Network routing methods that are both fault-tolerant[6] and have a highly competitive throughput[7]
