Assaf Schuster is an Israeli entrepreneur and professor of

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whose works have been published in such journals as ''

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'' and '' Journal of Systems and Software''.

Biography

Schuster was born in 1958 in the Israeli

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to Tzipora and Yochanan Schuster. His family is of Ashkenazi-Jewish origin. Schuster began his academic studies at the Hebrew University in 1981, and graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. After receiving his degree, Schuster worked as a teacher at Ort College in

Givat Ram Givat Ram ( he, גִּבְעַת רָם) is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem. It is the site of Kiryat HaMemshala (Hebrew: קריית הממשלה, ''lit.'' Government complex), which includes many of Israel's most important national instituti ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. In 1991 Schuster received a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in computer science. His

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topic dealt with the dynamic configuration of communication networks for parallel computation, under the guidance of

Eli Shamir Eliahu (Eli) Shamir ( he, אליהו שמיר) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

. He then started working at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 2000, he became an associate professor and in 2007, he became a professor. In 2015 he was named a

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for his contributions to cloud computing.. In 2016, Schuster co-founded a startup called Cy-oT (Cyber of Things), along with Natan Bandler and Daniel Moscovici. Schuster served as the CTO until the company was sold to Verint in 2019.

References

Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Living people 20th-century births Israeli computer scientists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Israel-scientist-stub