Lenore Zuck

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Lenore D. Zuck
Born1958
Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Known forFormal methods in software engineering, Information privacy
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois Chicago
Doctoral advisor Amir Pnueli

Lenore D. Zuck (born 1958) is an Israeli-American computer scientist whose research involves formal methods in software engineering, as well as information privacy. [1] She is a research professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago. [2]

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Education and career

Zuck was born in Tel Aviv in 1958, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1979 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She went to the Weizmann Institute of Science for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1983 [3] and a Ph.D. in 1987. [4] Her doctoral dissertation, Past Temporal Logic, concerned temporal logic, and was supervised by Amir Pnueli. [5]

She was an associate professor of computer science at Yale University, [4] and then at New York University, before moving to the University of Illinois Chicago in the early 2000s. [6]

Selected publications

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References

  1. "Privacy in the Era of Big Data", Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois, retrieved 2023-03-21
  2. "Lenore Zuck", Profiles, University of Illinois Chicago Computer Science, retrieved 2023-03-21
  3. Author biography from Pnueli, Amir; Zuck, Lenore (March 1986), "Verification of multiprocess probabilistic protocols", Distributed Computing, 1 (1): 53–72, doi:10.1007/bf01843570, S2CID   1317942
  4. 1 2 Graduate handbook: Faculty, Yale Computer Science, 1997–1998, retrieved 2023-03-21
  5. Lenore Zuck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Lenore Zuck: Microcode Verification", Talk announcement, Carnegie Mellon University, October 21, 2005, retrieved 2023-03-21