Danny Raz (born 1959; Hebrew: דני רז) is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor at the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering.[1]

Since January 2023, Raz has served as the Dean of the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion. His research focuses on applying theoretical analysis to develop practical and efficient tools for network and system management.[2][1][3]

Academic career

Raz holds a B.Sc in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988). He then obtained both his M.Sc. (1990) and his Ph.D. (1996) from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. David Harel.[4]

Raz was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), in Berkeley California, during the years 1995-97.[5]

Raz joined the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion in 2000, and became an associate professor in 2005. He was promoted to full professor in 2013.[5]

In 2020 he became the incumbent of the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering, and in 2023 Raz was appointed as Dean of the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion.[1]

Raz has supervised 30 graduate students and authored over 150 scientific publications and 8 patents.[6]

Research

Raz's research focuses on the theory and application of efficient network and system management.[7] His key areas of expertise include: theory of network and system management, resource management in cloud computing, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN), network-aware services and programmable networks, traffic engineering (TE) and network-related optimization problems.[5]

Professional activities

Raz was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) and The Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). He was also a member of the editorial advisory board at The International Journal of Network Management.[8][9][10]

Raz was a visiting scientist at Google, Mountain view, California, and from 2017 he is a visiting scientist at Google, Israel.[11]

In 2014 Raz founded the first branch of Bell Labs in Israel, and was its first director until 2017.[12][13]

Publications

Books

  • Cheng Jin, Sugih Jamin, D. Raz, and Yuval Shavitt, "Building Scalable Internet Services: Theory and Practice", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003.
  • D. Raz, Arto Tapani Juhola, Joan Serrat-Fernandez, and Alex Galis, "Fast and Efficient Context-Aware services", WILEY, 2006.[14]
  • Dilip Krishnaswamy, Tom Pfeifer, D. Raz (editors), "Real-Time Mobile Multimedia Services: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management, of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2007", Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007.
  • Dongsu Han, Danny Raz (editors) Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, HotMiddlebox@SIGCOMM 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil, August, 2016.
  • Bruno Wassermann, Michal Malka, Vijay Chidambaram, Danny Raz: SYSTOR '21: The 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, Haifa, Israel, June 14-16, 2021. ACM 2021.

Selected articles

  • P. Krishnan, D. Raz, Y. Shavitt, 2000. "The cache location problem". IEEE/ACM transactions on networking 8 (5), 568-582.
  • S. Pilosof, R. Ramjee, D. Raz, Y. Shavitt, P. Sinha, 2003. "Understanding TCP fairness over wireless LAN". IEEE INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, 863-872.
  • R. Cohen, L. Katzir, D. Raz, 2006. "An efficient approximation for the generalized assignment problem". Information Processing Letters 100 (4), 162-166.
  • R. Cohen, L. Lewin-Eytan, JS. Naor, D. Raz, 2014. "On the effect of forwarding table size on SDN network utilization". IEEE INFOCOM 2014-IEEE conference on computer communications, 1734-1742.
  • R. Cohen, L. Lewin-Eytan, JS. Naor, D. Raz, 2015. "Near optimal placement of virtual network functions". 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 1346-1354.
  • A. Nahir, A. Orda, D. Raz, 2015. "Replication-based load balancing". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 27 (2), 494-507.
  • D. Harris, J. Naor, D. Raz, 2018. "Latency aware placement in multi-access edge computing". 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft), 132-140.
  • H. Kaplan, D. Naori, D. Raz, 2020. "Competitive analysis with a sample and the secretary problem". Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2082-2095.[15]

Honors and awards

In 1998, Raz received the Michael Landau Award (Mifal Hapayis Fund) for Young Scientist, and in 2016 he won the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education from the Technion.[16] He has also received several IBM Faculty and Best Paper awards.[12]

Personal life

Raz is married to Orit; they live in Timrat and have four children.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Danny Raz". American Technion Society. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Israeli Technion prof. wins prestigious, $1 million Turing Award". The Jerusalem Post. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  3. ^ אורבך, מאיר (20 May 2014). "Bell Labs של אלקטל-לוסנט פותחת משרדים בישראל". כלכליסט - www.calcalist.co.il. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Prof. David Harel". weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  5. ^ a b c "Data Center Networking in the Cloud Era". research.ibm.com. 6 February 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Google Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  7. ^ Shamah, David. "Bell Labs plans Israeli branch of its 'idea factory'". Times of Israel. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Distributed Council Election" (PDF). Tel Aviv University.
  9. ^ "Towards Unbiased End-to-End Network Diagnosis" (PDF). Computer Science at Cornell University.
  10. ^ "International Journal of Network Management Editorial Board". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  11. ^ "PANELS | IEEE IM 2015". im2015.ieee-im.org. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  12. ^ a b Shamah, David. "Bell Labs head hopes to turn brain drain into gain". Times of Israel. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Technion: Danny Raz named new head of Bell Labs Tel Aviv office. Researchers co-located with Alcatel-Lucent cloudband team," Science Info.
  14. ^ Raz, Danny; Juhola, Arto Tapani; Serrat-Fernandez, Joan; Galis, Alex (1 May 2006). Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-02868-1.
  15. ^ Kaplan, Haim; Naori, David; Raz, Danny (28 January 2020). "Competitive analysis with a sample and the secretary problem". Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. SODA '20. USA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: 2082–2095. arXiv:1907.05350.
  16. ^ ynet (25 February 2016). "11 פרופסורים זכו בפרס ינאי למצוינות בטכניון". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 8 January 2025.



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