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Erez Petrank |
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Erez Petrank is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Technion. Erez's main research contributions are in the area of systems, with a focus on memory management and in the area of cryptography, with a focus on theoretical foundations. He has been involved in the construction of practical systems at IBM and at Microsoft, and has also contributed algorithms for various memory management components (including drastic improvements to the classic reference counting algorithm, state-of-the-art algorithms for compaction, and the introduction of realistic lock-free real-time concurrent garbage collection). He was awarded the IBM Research Division Award (twice), the Salomon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Rothschild Post-Doctoral fellowship, the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirt Special Scholarship, and the Technion Award for High Excellence in Teaching (5 times). Erez holds 9 patents, one of which was listed among the 10% most profitable IBM patents for 2002. His research has been funded by Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and the Israel Science Foundation. Erez is serving on the ACM SIGPLAN Executive Committee, he was the general chair of ISMM 2006 and VEE 2011, and has served on the program committees of PLDI, ECOOP, PODC, CRYPTO, PACT, ISMM, VEE, MSP, MSPC, AsiaCrypt, and TCC. | ||||||||||||||