Michael Segal (
Hebrew
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: מיכאל סגל;
Russian
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: Михаил Сегал; born 1972 in
Kishinev, USSR) is a professor of Communication Systems Engineering at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...
, known for his work in ad-hoc and sensor networks.
Career
After completing his undergraduate studies at Ben-Gurion University in 1994, Segal received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University in 2000 under the supervision of
Klara Kedem
Klara Kedem (Hebrew: קלרה קדם) is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel . The topic of his PhD Dissertation was: Covering point sets and accompanying problems.
After continuing his studies with
David G. Kirkpatrick
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at University of British Columbia, and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Studies he joined the faculty at Ben-Gurion University in 2000, where he also served as the head of the Communication Systems Engineering department between 2005 and 2010.
He is known (equally with his coauthors) for being first to analyze the analytical performance of the well-known Least Cluster
Change (LCC) algorithm that is widely used in ad hoc networks for re-clustering in order to reduce the number of modifications. He also was one of the first to introduce and analyze the construction of multi-criteria spanners for ad hoc networks.
Segal has published nearly 200 scientific papers and was a recipient of the Toronto Prize for Research in 2010.
He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
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.
Currently he is heading the Engineering program studies in Eilat campus at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...
. He has served several times as a head of the University Regulations Committee and Disciplinary court.
Along with his Ben-Gurion University professorship, he held visiting professor positions at
Cambridge University
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,
University of Liverpool
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and
Lancaster University
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.
Segal is the member of the Committee for Information and Communication Technology Standards of
Standards Institute of Israel
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.
References
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1972 births
Living people
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms