Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir | |
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| רון שמיר | |
| Born | 29 November 1953 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc) Tel-Aviv University (MSc) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics Design and analysis of algorithms Algorithmic graph theory |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University Blavatnik School of Computer Science |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard M. Karp Ilan Adler |
| Website | www |
Ron Shamir (Hebrew: רון שמיר; born 29 November 1953) is an Israeli professor of computer science known for his work in graph theory and in computational biology. He holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics, and is the founder and former head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University.