Yair Censor (; born November 29, 1943) is an Israeli

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and a professor at the

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, specializing in

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and

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...

, as well as applications of these fields, in particular to

medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to revea ...

and

radiation therapy Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a therapy, treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of treatment of cancer, cancer therapy to either kill or control the growth of malignancy, malignant cell (biology), ...

treatment planning.

Biography

Yair Censor was born in

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. After serving in the IDF, he studied at the Technion in Haifa, where he earned his

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in 1975 under the supervision of Professor Adi Ben-Israel.

Academic career

Censor joined the department of mathematics at the University of Haifa in 1979, and became

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in 1989. His research focuses on mathematical aspects of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (

IMRT Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a therapy, treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of treatment of cancer, cancer therapy to either kill or control the growth of malignancy, malignant cell (biology), ...

). In 2002, he founded the Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation at the University of Haifa. In recent years he is involved with research about the Superiorization Methodology. Together with S.A. Zenios, he co-authored the book ''Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications'' (

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, New York, NY, USA, 1997), for which he received the 1999 ICS (

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Computing Society) Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science. Active in the struggle to preserve the

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of the research universities in Israel, Censor was one of the founders of the Inter-Senate Committee (ISC) of the Universities for the Protection of Academic Independence.ISC - Inter Senate Committee of the Universities for the Protection of Academic Independence
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References

External links

Yair Censor website

Convergence and Perturbation Resilience of Dynamic String-Averaging Projection Methods

An iterative approach to plan combination in radiotherapy
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Biography

Academic career

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