Zvi Lotker () is an Israeli computer scientist and communications systems engineer who works in the fields of

digital humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

distributed computing Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system commu ...

, network algorithms, and

communication networks A telecommunications network is a group of nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. The links may use a variety of technologies based on the methodologies of circuit switching, messag ...

. He is an associate professor in the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

. In 2018, Lotker was awarded the SIROCCO

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SIROCCO award) is an award presented annually at the conference International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) to a living individual (or ind ...

for his contributions to network algorithms, but especially for his contributions to the field of

social network A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of Dyad (sociology), dyadic ties, and other Social relation, social interactions between actors. The social network per ...

s. Lotker is the author of the book ''Analyzing Narratives in Social Networks'' (Springer, 2021). He is the son of the Israeli painter .

Education

Lotker obtained his Ph.D. from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

in 2003, writing his thesis "Algorithms in Networks" under the supervision of Boaz Patt-Shamir.

Research

After receiving his doctorate, Lotker worked as a postdoctoral researcher at

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

in Sophia Antipolis Mascot,

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. During this time he also worked in the same capacity at the

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik'', abbreviated ''MPI-INF'' or ''MPII'') is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It host ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. From 2004 to 2006, Lotker worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the

Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica The (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Cou ...

research group in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. He joined the

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 ...

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

as a lecturer in 2006 before becoming an associate professor in 2012. In 2014, Lotker took a sabbatical and worked as a visiting professor in the

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...

Selected publications

* Lotker, Z. (2021). ''Analyzing Narratives in Social Networks: Taking Turing to the Arts''.

Springer Nature Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macm ...

. * Avin, C., Keller, B., Lotker, Z., Mathieu, C., Peleg, D., & Pignolet, Y. A. (2015, January). Homophily and the glass ceiling effect in social networks. In
Proceedings of the 2015 conference on innovations in theoretical computer science
' (pp. 41–50). * Alon, N., Avin, C., Koucký, M., Kozma, G., Lotker, Z., & Tuttle, M. R. (2011). Many random walks are faster than one. ''

Combinatorics, Probability and Computing ''Combinatorics, Probability and Computing'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in mathematics published by Cambridge University Press. Its editor-in-chief is Béla Bollobás ( DPMMS and University of Memphis). History The journal was estab ...

'', ''20''(4), 481–502. * Avin, C., Koucký, M., & Lotker, Z. (2008, July). How to explore a fast-changing world (cover time of a simple random walk on evolving graphs). In '' International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming'' (pp. 121–132). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. * Lotker, Z., Patt-Shamir, B., Pavlov, E., & Peleg, D. (2005). Minimum-weight spanning tree construction in O (log log n) communication rounds. ''

SIAM Journal on Computing The ''SIAM Journal on Computing'' is a scientific journal focusing on the mathematical and formal aspects of computer science. It is published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Although its official ISO abbreviation i ...

'', ''35''(1), 120–131. * Kesselman, A., Lotker, Z., Mansour, Y., Patt-Shamir, B., Schieber, B., & Sviridenko, M. (2004). Buffer overflow management in QoS switches. ''

'', ''33''(3), 563–583.

References

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