Vishkin, Uzi
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
UMIACS
UMIACS
5216 Iribe Center
EDUCATION
- B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, 1974
- M.Sc in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusaleme, Israel,1975
- D.Sc. in Computer Science from the Tecnion--Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel,1981
BACKGROUND
Uzi Vishkin is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Maryland, College Park and at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1981-2 and on the faculty of the Courant Institute, NYU, first full time and later part-time, from 1982 to 1988. From 1984 to 1997 he was on the faculty of Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he was Chair of Computer Science in 1987-8 and Professor of Computer Science since 1988. He was Professor of Computer Science at the Technion in 2000-2001. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1988.
He has served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Algorithms and Parallel Processing Letters, was on the editorial board IEEE Transactions on Computers and is the Program Chair for the 18 th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). He has authored, or co-authored more than 130 publications. He was elected Fellow of the ACM in 1996 and is on the ISI list of most cited researchers in Computer Science.
HONORS AND AWARDS
• IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (2026)
ACM SPAA Parallel Computing Award (2025)
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2024)
• Maryland Daily Record Innovator of the Year Award (2007)
• ACM Fellow (1996)
• Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Algorithms and Parallel Processing Letters
• Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Computers
• ISI Most Cited Researchers in Computer Science
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Fellow of the ACM