Tami Tamir

Tamar (Tami) Tamir
תמי תמיר
Born1968 (age 57–58)
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Known forApproximation algorithms, algorithmic mechanism design
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsReichman University
Doctoral advisorHadas Shachnai

Tamar (Tami) Tamir (Hebrew: תמר (תמי) תמיר; born 1968) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in approximation algorithms and algorithmic mechanism design, especially for problems in resource allocation, scheduling, and packing problems. She is a professor in the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science of Reichman University.[1]

Education and career

Tamir was born in 1968 and graduated in 1992 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She continued at the Technion for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Class-Constrained Resource Allocation Problems, was supervised by Hadas Shachnai.[2][3]

While still a graduate student, Tamir worked at Intel, in the Israel Software Lab, from 1994 to 1997, and had a summer position at Hewlett-Packard. After postdoctoral research at the Technion and the University of Washington, Tamir joined the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science of Reichman University in 2004. She was vice-dean of the school from 2008 to 2012, and dean from 2012 to 2017.[2]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "Prof. Tami Tamir", Faculty, Reichman University, retrieved 2023-03-22
  2. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2023-03-22
  3. ^ Tami Tamir at the Mathematics Genealogy Project