Uzi Vishkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University Technion |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | parallel algorithms |
| Institutions | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center New York University Tel Aviv University University of Maryland, College Park |
| Doctoral advisor | Yossi Shiloach |
Uzi Vishkin (born 1953) is a computer scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Uzi Vishkin is known for his work in the field of parallel computing. In 1996, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, with the following citation: "One of the pioneers of parallel algorithms research, Dr. Vishkin's seminal contributions played a leading role in forming and shaping what thinking in parallel has come to mean in the fundamental theory of Computer Science."[1]