Tamar Eilam () is an Israeli-American computer scientist at IBM's

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whose work for IBM centers around

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and

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. Eilam completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at the

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. Her dissertation, ''Cost versus Quality: Tradeoffs in Communication Networks'', was jointly supervised by

Shlomo Moran Shlomo Moran (; born 1947) is an Israeli computer scientist, the Bernard Elkin Chair in Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. Moran received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the Technion, under the supervisi ...

and

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. She immigrated to the US in 2000, after completing her Ph.D., to join IBM Research. In 2014 IBM named her as an

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. In 2016, ''

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'' magazine named her as one of their Working Mothers of the Year.

Selected publications

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eilam, Tamar Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Israeli computer scientists American computer scientists American women computer scientists Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni IBM Fellows 21st-century American women