__NOTOC__ Eli Upfal () is a

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

researcher, currently the Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Computer Science at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and statistics at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

in 1978, received an M.Sc. in computer science from the Feinberg Graduate School of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...

, Israel in 1980, and completed his PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University in 1983 under Eli Shamir. He has made contributions in a variety of areas. Most of his work involves randomized and/or online algorithms, stochastic processes, or the probabilistic analysis of deterministic algorithms. Particular applications include routing and communications networks,

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, and

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. He is responsible for a large body of work, including, as of May 2012, more than 150 publications in journals and conferences as well as many patents. He has won several prizes, including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and the Levinson Prize in Mathematical Sciences. In 2002, Eli Upfal, was inducted as a Fellow of the

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, and in 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the

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. He received, together with Yossi Azar, Andrei Broder, Anna Karlin, and Michael Mitzenmacher, the 2020 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award. Eli is a coauthor of the book

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External links

Eli Upfal's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Upfal, Eli Living people Theoretical computer scientists 2005 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE Israeli computer scientists Brown University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)