David Peleg (computer scientist)

David Peleg (Hebrew: דוד פלג‎‎) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences, and the present dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute. ^[1]

He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of David Harel. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals.

In 2008, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing along with Baruch Awerbuch for their 1990 paper “Sparse partitions.”^[2]

In 2011, he won the SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.

Selected publications

• Awerbuch, Baruch; Peleg, David (1990), "Sparse partitions", Proceedings of the 31st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 1990), pp. 503–513, doi:10.1109/FSCS.1990.89571. Dijkstra Prize 2008.
• Peleg, David (2000), Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach, SIAM, ISBN 0-89871-464-8, MR 1790362

Notes

1. Scientific Activities 2008: Weizmann Professorial Chairs, CDC's and Fellowships.
2. Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing: 2008.

References

• David Peleg's home page.